{"id":5891,"date":"2009-08-07T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=5891"},"modified":"2009-08-06T11:49:16","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T15:49:16","slug":"dept-of-funny-signs-signspotting-exhibition-copenhagen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/08\/07\/dept-of-funny-signs-signspotting-exhibition-copenhagen\/","title":{"rendered":"Dept. of Funny Signs: Signspotting exhibition, Copenhagen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5898\" title=\"Signspotting\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/08\/cimg1581.jpg\" alt=\"Signspotting\" width=\"500\" height=\"343\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Imagine my delight when, wandering around Copenhagen on vacation, I came across an entire exhibit of funny signs in one of the main squares. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signspotting.com\/community\/signspotting_event.html\" target=\"_blank\">Signspotting exhibition<\/a> was organized by <a href=\"http:\/\/signspotting.com\" target=\"_blank\">signspotting.com<\/a> (source of all the funny signs one could want), and I took a few pics of some of the classic signs they had reproduced.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5899\" title=\"cimg15831\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/08\/cimg15831.jpg\" alt=\"cimg15831\" width=\"500\" height=\"290\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The British were never very good at keeping military secrets &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5894\" title=\"cimg1582\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/08\/cimg1582.jpg\" alt=\"cimg1582\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You may get molested by the chairlift.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5897\" title=\"cimg1584\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/08\/cimg1584.jpg\" alt=\"cimg1584\" width=\"177\" height=\"166\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Somehow this experiment doesn&#8217;t inspire me with confidence.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5895\" title=\"cimg1582b\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/08\/cimg1582b.jpg\" alt=\"cimg1582b\" width=\"234\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5892\" title=\"cimg1584b\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/08\/cimg1584b.jpg\" alt=\"cimg1584b\" width=\"250\" height=\"405\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine my delight when, wandering around Copenhagen on vacation, I came across an entire exhibit of funny signs in one of the main squares. 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