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Think Don’t Phone

A funny bit in the New Scientist:

A SIGN on an overhead gantry on the M1 motorway near Leeds in the north of England reads “THINK DON’T PHONE”. Rowan Brown is willing to do his best to obey this exhortation to use telepathy, but he is concerned that the effort involved would be even more distracting to his driving than using his phone would. He wants to be sure that the transport authorities who erected the sign are sure that “driving while engaged in telepathy” is safe and not an offence.

By the way, if anyone has a photo of that I’d love to see…

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  1. Tim Beadle Says:
    April 9th, 2009 at 8:04 am

    It’s just badly punctuated. The ongoing THINK! campaign here in the UK suggests that the sign should read: “THINK! Don’t phone” (to go with “THINK! Don’t drink & drive”, “THINK! Don’t drive while tired” and others.

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