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More signs

Last week, I gave you a collection of unusual, incomprehensible, and just interesting signs from Vienna. This week, some more, starting with the fabulous Ashtray Pig of Westbanhopf. Smokers stub out their last cigarette here before descending into the train station, the only smokeless place I found in the city.

Update: Nikita points to those wonderful rendundant clocks on the building-side. So I decided I'd show just how redundant they are. No, I don't know why this (Hungarian) building has four similar-not-identical clocks showing almost-the-same time. Or why these are on the bottom of one larger, also nearly identical clock.

Warning! Well-muscled Socialist realist men at work!

All sorts of people may cross--men with hats, men with bags.

Even little grey aliens.

Some places, men with children may go, others they may not.

Some places, children may play, others they may not.

Exercise: Putting together what you have learned from previous images, what does this one mean? Does the red X at the bottom negate the rest?

Exercise 2: What about this one? (I think it is "Caution! Gas may be found 50 meters to your right, day and night, although you may not park.")

Is this a warchalker sign? Are Hungarian hoboes this formal in their work? What does this mean?

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