October 16, 2008 by Colin
I present a non-smoking sign found in several places in the hallways of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.
There are 47 different member nations in the Council, and many of them have found different ways of drawing a cigarette with a circle through it – including some squares.
The guy second from the right looks like he’s going through withdrawal shakes.
And … I swear I see a Barbapapa in one of those signs.
Blood Stains from the slaine Monks of Lindisfarne in the Viking attack of 793AD. Folios 191v and 192r of the Lindisfarne Gospels - written and illuminated by the Anglo-Saxon Bishop Eadfrith in 698AD.
Liber generationis Jesu Christi
“Lo, it is nearly 350 years that we and our fathers have inhabited this most lovely land, and never before has such terror appeared in Britain as we have now suffered from a pagan race, nor was it thought that such an inroad from the sea could be made. Behold, the church of St. Cuthbert spattered with the blood of the priests of God, despoiled of all its ornaments; a place more venerable than all in Britain is given as a prey to pagan peoples.”
Alcuin, Letter to Ethelred, King of Northumbria
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I see him too! Clickety click—Barba trick!
And the common point between all these signs?
…
None of them is really respected!
I’m a smoker and an ex-European.
Well at least the EU makes sure to spread their work amongst many design companies. How lovely.
And that 2nd guy from the left is dying for a toke, clearly.