SIGNS AND STUFF FROM NEW ORLEANS

Here's a few images from my trip to New Orleans last week.

This is not the sign you want to see when checking into your hotel...



Actually, that was a sign I encountered at the Audubon Insectarium. They have over 300,000 bugs and a pretty good sense of humor as evidenced by the beautiful tile work in the men's room shown here...



In case you were wondering, yes, those are dung beetles! On the bathroom walls. Perfect! Speaking of dung, here's another sign, I saw around town a lot on my first couple days in The Big Easy...



On the back of this poster was a paraphrased quote from Pulp Fiction. "And you will know we are the Saints when we lay our vengeance upon thee." I'm not sure who the Saints were avenging by slaying Favre in the NFC Championship game, but if it was Packer fans, I guess we owe them some thanks.

Saw this next sign in Jackson Square...



Just a tip, here. If you want prospective customers to believe you are an all knowing psychic, perhaps knowing how to spell psychic would help!

And finally, I saw this poster taped to the back of a street sign in the French Quarter...



'Nuff said.

-Rick-

BUD-JET TRAVEL

A new airline is launching this month. Jet America will be offering fares for as low as $9.00. Yes, $9.00!!! From places like Newark, New Jersey to Toledo, Ohio. So you see, $9.00 may actually be over-priced!

But here's our signs that you're flying a cut-rate airline!

If you're not allowed to board the flight unless you can prove you've brought enough cash for your seat belt rental...you might be flying a cut rate airline.

If your plane can't land until the "ground crew" harvests a couple more rows of corn...you might be flying a cut rate airline.

If during sudden decompression of the cabin, the masks that drop down are ones left over from last Halloween...you might be flying a cut rate airline.

If, before boarding, instead of scanning you for metallic objects with high tech magnetic imaging equipment, the security agent just whacks you several times with a rusty wrench and listens for clanking sounds...you might be flying a cut rate airline.

If they cancel the beverage service because during some turbulence the refreshment cart was rocked so hard they spilled all the Kool-ade...you might be flying a cut rate airline.

If the nuts they pass out as snacks are ones they cut off passengers on a previous $9 flight...you might be flying a cut rate airline.

If instead of offering a blockbuster movie during the flight, they just show public domain news footage from 9-11...you might be flying a cut rate airline.

If in the event of a "water landing" the plane’s only available floatation devices are the implants on the pre-op transsexual flight attendants...you’re definitely flying a cut rate airline.

THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME...AND IT SUCKS!

SIGNS YOU WERE PART OF THE WAPL INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT.

If you’ve been home for a day and a half, and still, every time your dog licks your face he starts slurring his barks…you were probably on the WAPL International Incident.

If the fuel in the jet on which you flew home was the same octane as the blood in your veins…you were probably on the WAPL International Incident.

If not only you are having trouble adjusting to the cold weather and snow, so is the howler monkey your brought home in your carry-on…you were probably on the WAPL International Incident.

If friends and family members met you at the airport…to stage an intervention…you were probably on the WAPL International Incident.

If you don’t remember who Juanita is or why her name is tattooed on your ass…you were probably on the WAPL International Incident.

If even unemployment office staffers didn’t work as hard last week as your liver…you were define on the WAPL International Incident.