B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for February 10, 2023

Just hate when that happens…

I like that! You only need to look out for the stuff that’s in front of you and not what might fall on top of you. Because it’s already fallen. Unlike the ‘falling rock zone’. Cool!

In the 60’s, we were enjoying our travels along Canada’s Gaspe Peninsula Highway that runs between the foot of the cliffs and the ocean. Some signs read ‘ebouli.’ Not being readers of French, it took a while to translate that to ‘scree,’ then realize it warned of rocks falling onto the highway. As the only escape from actual falling boulders would have been a quick right turn into the ocean, we slowed down and spent more time watching the cliffs than the other scenery.

Reminds me of a tale my grandfather told us when we were young: the ghost of an Indian Chief was known the haunt the highways that now ran through his beloved mountains. They put up signs to warn drivers to be on the lookout for the ghost. “Watch For Falling Rocks”

Rock on.

Having a difficult time reading the sign, perhaps?

A rocky s̶t̶a̶r̶t̶ stop

It’s hard to legitimately say that you ran into the rock because you couldn’t read the sign. The rock itself, because of its size, should have been enough of a sign. (If you didn’t notice the rock in your way, you also wouldn’t have been able to read the sign.)

That sign signed off….

One rock, all by itself, and he can’t avoid it? Maybe he should try Clumsy’s glasses.

Forgot to wear glasses while riding the perpetual motion wheel. Yip yip yip yip yip

Steering needs to be invented.

Don’t take the road for granted. It has been ten years since part of Arizona highway 89 south of Page slid away. The highway had to be reconstructed more firmly on the hillside, sixty feet further east of the original location. IIRC one person was hurt and another killed when it let go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPrm7FrZrwM

Southern Californians scoffed, “you call that a landslide?”

Ouch. That had to hurt.

definitive proof that aliens were among us and left material that was so strong it could withstand the impact of a stone weighing 2 tons . piercing through it and only becoming slightly dented .

The inspiration for the orange traffic cone. Unfortunately it would not come into common use until the first DOT was trialed.

Time to invent glasses….

He obviously was stoned.

An ancestor of Sonny Bono

“It was the best of signs; it was the worst of signs.” (apologies to Charles Dickens)

He’s got one hell of a head butt…

He’s harder than rock…

Sign, sign, everywhere a sign ….

There’s a week or so where Hart just goes nuts with the sign posts. Most hilarious one was BC walks up to one face down on the ground, picks it up, and the sign says…“Put me DOWN!”

Never even slightly amusing anymore.