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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

106.0. "Highway Icons" by STAR::CALLAS () Thu Oct 17 1985 14:35

Speaking of icons, I rather like the highway icons that one sees. Ones like:

	Warning: Trucks on cheese wedges.
	Caution: matador ahead.
	Telephone off the hook.
	Don't P here.

		Jon
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106.1NUHAVN::CANTORSun Oct 20 1985 15:213
Hmm.  Trucks on cheese wedges.  I thought that was "Beware of sliding trucks."

Dave C.
106.2SPAGS::GRIFFINSun Oct 20 1985 20:4017
There *were* a classic set of icons used in airports:

Departure areas were marked by a drawing of an aircraft pointing upwards
(at about 45�) over a solid line (the ground).  

So far, so good.

Arrival areas were marked with a similar drawing, a picture of a plane
about the ground, pointing down at about 45�!!!

I believe arrivals are marked differently..

- dave

p.s.  I tried to depict this with ASCII graphics, but they are too crude
for iconography of the required detail.)

106.3VIRTUE::RAVANTue Oct 22 1985 17:144
Saw a cute picto-sign in Canada; I think it's their version of "Men Working,"
but what it looks like is "Man standing hip-deep in horse manure."

-b
106.4O Xmas tree...SERF::EPSTEINBruce EpsteinTue Jun 17 1986 13:569
It's been a while since the last reply, but...

I always liked the signs with the reference to an old 
SNL skit; that is, 

"Be careful if you picnic here, there are killer trees in the area."


bme
106.5not a highway iconMYCRFT::PARODIJohn H. ParodiTue Feb 10 1987 16:3213
  Today my LN03+ became distressed and began displaying the following
  icon (in blinking red, no less):


                                    O
                                   O O
                                  O O O

  I figured that it had to mean "LN03+ out of cannonballs" but all the
  printer wanted was a toner cartridge...

  JP
106.6It could just have been whining?PASTIS::MONAHANTue Feb 10 1987 16:572
    	Re : .5   .... now I learn. Being in the S. of France I always
    thought it was a bunch of grapes. No wonder it rejected the juice!
106.7LN03+WOODRO::ABBOTTSat Nov 19 1988 06:122
    those are not cannonballs. The flashing lights mean that the printer
    has "gone bowling".
106.9SPUD::SCHARMANNComputer Freek - BewareMon Nov 21 1988 18:429
    
    I hate to tell you but, you're all wrong
    
    What those cannon balls actually mean is
    
    that your LN03 has suffered a severe hit from the rear (your RS232)
    and that you need to place the LN03 in your arms and comfort it
    till it recovers.