Friday 29 July 2011

Misreading the signs

As I was on one of my many bike rides this week, I spotted:


Sale By Public Unction


Perchance I still had The Devils Of Loudon at the back of my mind..

2 comments:

Montag said...

Excellent.
Do it all the time. Of course, it would take me a goodish while to realize my mistake. I would spin dreams of auctioneers dressed like fat and stodgy Victorian prelates, whose preachments were so unctuous yet compelling, that they would inveigle the congregation to buy a "pig in a poke", as it were.

trousers said...

That made me smile - I love the notion that you would fall into such an outlandish reverie before considering that it was a mere misreading :)