I read in the recent Saturday’s Age newspaper section of Your Week about a sign at the Fitzroy Baths that read “Dangerous Deep Water” and under that was written “Aqua Profonda” According to the article the sign was created in 1953 by Fitzroy pool manager James Murphy who ‘was regulary pulling ‘new Australians’ out of […]
Stable Manure
I was driving along the Maroondah Highway heading out towards Healesville and spotted a wooden sign, nailed high up on a tree. It read ‘Stable Manure.’ My first thoughts were ‘stable manure? As opposed to unstable manure? How dangerous or explosive is this manure?’ Sometimes signs can mean something different from what was intended. And […]
