It Must Be a Sign

In their travels, Anne and Mark have come across signs in various places.  As readers of this blog will attest, Anne and Mark are experts at interpreting what is meant by the signs, as demonstrated here and here.  But Anne and Mark are not the types to rest on their laurels.  They did more traveling, they saw more signs.  They have more expert analysis.  For example:

Interpreting this first sign, noticed at a park in Istanbul, is child's play.  The top figure is a man giving a speech at a podium, so if you want to hear the speech, come this way.  The other three figures are suggested methods to get to the speech.  First, you can drive through the park.  Second, you can ride a dog.  Third, you can trample through the flowers.  Anne and Mark chose the third option and tore up that garden real good.

That was pretty easy, let's get to something a little tougher.  This sign was spotted on the cliffs near Qumran.  It is advertising for the cliff diving that they have available at that site.

Literally: "Cliff Diving" and "Exciting!"

The only confusing part about this one was why anyone would go cliff diving in a place that did not have water.  But Anne and Mark just chalked that up to local custom.

Some of the signs were somewhat disappointing.  For example, this one:

Anne and Mark concluded that this sign indicated that this beach in Tel Aviv did not allow dogs.

If that is correct, what should Anne and Mark conclude about this sign?

This was at another beach in Tel Aviv.  It obviously bans cars and motorcycles.  That top image however, appears to be a dog wearing a yarmulke.  Apparently this beach only bans Jewish dogs.  To have such a ban in this day and age is just sad.

Most signs are in place to help individuals figure out the correct place to do a certain thing.  For example, if a person with no arms who had been severed in half was looking for the stairs, a sign like this might be helpful:

Signs that make things easier for the lives of the arm-less half people.

Similarly, if you are a man wearing a hat and need to know where to cross the street, you would look for this sign.

Men with no hats, of course, would need to cross the street somewhere else.

Other signs are put in place to commemorate important historical or cultural events, like these signs from Jerusalem, which appear to commemorate the first half hour of the movie Footloose:

Wow - that Footloose joke was a bit of a stretch, wasn't it?  Shut up - it's our blog and we'll stretch if we want!

But for all their efforts, Anne and Mark could not solve them all.  There are still a few signs out there that they did not figure out, like this one:

This could mean just about anything.