Seppo Down Under

Brontosaurus Repellant...

This is a blog I have been meaning to post for over a month now. While on the mining camp, I moved around a bit from one set of rooms to another. In the last set I was in way out the back 40, I was in the laundry room and noticed a rather interesting sign. Now I understand trying to make a sign more appealing by adding graphics, but do you ever get the feeling that some people get carried away with the Clip Art? Look at the top left corner of this sign...

Now I'm no expert, but I don't think there is much of a risk of attracting dinosaurs to the laundry room. When I saw this, I thought about a scene where a couple of old men are sitting playing checkers on the front porch of the local buy-it-all country store on a summer morning. One pauses for a moment after making a move and says, "I hear the dinosaurs are going to be bad this year", and the other says, "Yup, it must be all the rain we're getting".

Wouldn't it be fun, though, if we did have dinosaurs in Cannington. We could run the mine that Fred Flintstone worked in. How great would it be to hear the bird toot at knock-off time and go sliding down the tail of my bronto-loader into my foot-powered car only to be ravaged by my raptor pet upon returning home to my hot cave wife and pigmy neighbor.

So remember, turn the lights off to avoid bringing the dinosaurs back from extinction. Maybe that's why nobody's found Nessie yet...why not just build a small laundry room on the banks of loch ness and leave the lights on. Ladybugs, butterflies, dragonflies, and extinct sea monsters will all harken the call of the artificial 75 Watt yellow glow!