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On Wolverhampton station there is a facility where, if you have dog, you can fill a dog bowl with water so that your pet doesn't go thirsty. That's fine. What confuses me is the sign above it which reads This facility is for the use of our four-legged friends. Please quench your thirst with our best wishes. Even in Wolverhampton most of the dogs are unable to read so what I want to know is this... who exactly does the "your" in the second sentence refer to? "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson. | ||
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who exactly does the "your" in the second sentence refer to? Well, technically, they are (y)our friends either. I think the you refers to (y)our four-legged friends. People speak with their pets as though they can understand English, and some even go far enough to assert that they do. —Ceci n'est pas un seing. | |||
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Nah. I think they think dogs can read. | |||
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There's a sign in most London buses that reads in part: How does one talk to the driver's vision?  Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. | |||
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By getting right in his face as you natter on and on? WM | |||
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Quoth arnie: "How does one talk to the driver's vision?" It might be possible, based on some recent research! http://www.wesleyan.edu/psyc/m...lume02/article03.pdf and http://www.scientificamerican....ind-see-with-tongues It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -J. Krishnamurti | |||
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