[Foundation-l] For your amusement

[Manchot]

Le mercredi 6 décembre 2006 12:36, Lars Aronsson a écrit :
> Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6206084.stm
>
> The Swedish traffic sign is popularly named "herr gårman" (Mr.
> Walker, but also a pun on "here you can walk") and "fru gårman" is
> simply Mrs. Walker,
> http://images.google.com/images?q=fru%20g%C3%A5rman
>
> You can get similar examples from (East) Germany by searching for
> Ampelfrau, http://images.google.com/images?q=ampelfrau
>
> See also the article http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampelfrau
>
> The category http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Crosswalk
> is clearly gender biased.  I see no women on street signs there.

<joke> Wow, those spanish traffic signs are much more realistics than the old 
ones, since most of the time, it's the man who's driving the car, and the 
woman who's walking and crossing the road, isn't it ? ;-)