Re: ODD SIGNS

[G.Lambert@unsw.edu.au (Geoff Lambert)]

David McLoughlin <davemcl@REMOVEiprolink.co.nz> wrote:

>Geoff Lambert wrote:

>> Or, in the straight-laced (?) 1950s, one I saw in the Ocean Grove
>> caravan park's amenities block  "Do not throw your cigarette butts in
>> the urinals- it makes them soggy and hard to light"

>That urban legend is so old it has grown mould. 

>David McLoughlin
>Auckland New Zealand

It might be a legend, but it also is true.... such a sign did exist.
This is a first-hand report, I saw it myself.  Not the stuff of the
usual urban legend.... always a report by someone else.  Maybe it was
the ORIGIN of the legend.... circa 1956.

GL