Comments on: Human Billboards http://laura.moncur.org/archives/2004/05/06/2004-05-06-05-00/ The personal blog of Laura Moncur Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:29:25 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: CTP http://laura.moncur.org/archives/2004/05/06/2004-05-06-05-00/#comment-199782 CTP Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:00:46 +0000 /?p=2193#comment-199782 <p>A few days ago I saw a guy by the road outside of IHOP. He was dressed like a pancake with blue legs. There was traffic and I was in the far lane but when I finally noticed him between the cars as the light changed, I smiled immediately. The pancake had this hugely happy face and the guy was waving. I can't help wondering if he was as happy as the costume made it seem, but he at least delighted me for that brief moment. There was a girl next to him and she may've had a sign, I noticed that SHE was smiling... So maybe the pancake man wasn't too unhappy either. </p> <p>This is isn't much of a response to what you wrote I guess, but you brought this memory straight to mind so I felt suddenly like I had to tell someone about it. Anyway... I like the way you wrote about the movements of the billboard guys being "hypontic." I could actually imagine it that way before you even used the word! Also, I love the fact that there seems to be a kind of rivalry going on between the two of them. "If eye contact is made, do human billboards fight?" That is so amusing! For some reason it reminds me of Adrian Monk and that other OCD guy he's always fighting with. xD And I can just SEE these two human billboards running across the street and diving onto each other. Did they have the boards on the front and back of them or were they just holding the signs? It's so funny to imagine them dive-bombing onto each other with those signs hanging off their shoulders, all in the way...</p> A few days ago I saw a guy by the road outside of IHOP. He was dressed like a pancake with blue legs. There was traffic and I was in the far lane but when I finally noticed him between the cars as the light changed, I smiled immediately. The pancake had this hugely happy face and the guy was waving. I can’t help wondering if he was as happy as the costume made it seem, but he at least delighted me for that brief moment. There was a girl next to him and she may’ve had a sign, I noticed that SHE was smiling… So maybe the pancake man wasn’t too unhappy either.

This is isn’t much of a response to what you wrote I guess, but you brought this memory straight to mind so I felt suddenly like I had to tell someone about it. Anyway… I like the way you wrote about the movements of the billboard guys being “hypontic.” I could actually imagine it that way before you even used the word! Also, I love the fact that there seems to be a kind of rivalry going on between the two of them. “If eye contact is made, do human billboards fight?” That is so amusing! For some reason it reminds me of Adrian Monk and that other OCD guy he’s always fighting with. xD And I can just SEE these two human billboards running across the street and diving onto each other. Did they have the boards on the front and back of them or were they just holding the signs? It’s so funny to imagine them dive-bombing onto each other with those signs hanging off their shoulders, all in the way…

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