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Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Snapshots from Home


From a New York Times obituary of a New Yorker magazine cartoonist:

On at least one occasion, Mr. Reilly's work influenced public policy, albeit briefly. In 1984, the town council of Garrett Park, Md., voted to install a traffic sign at a troublesome intersection. The sign, taken straight from one of Mr. Reilly's New Yorker cartoons, read: "At Least Slow Down (formerly STOP)."

It was too good to last. "It's been gone some time," Ted Pratt, the town administrator of Garrett Park, said in an interview yesterday. "It got stolen so many times, they gave up."


I remember those signs fondly. They were indeed always stolen. We have the same trouble with our NUCLEAR FREE ZONE signs.