Accidentally subversive messages at CWA
Dec. 29th, 2006 04:21 pmSo as I may or may not post about later, yesterday I spent an unexpected several extra hours in CWA (Central Wisconsin Airport).
Among the other things I discovered (such as that the gift shop closes at 6 pm, and that after it closes there's nowhere to buy anything in the airport) was the fact that whoever programs the blinking sign above the baggage claim doesn't understand scare quotes. In among the standard "find this service at this location" messages and a cutesy "Happy Holidays" message, was a message presumably meant to express general patriotic support of some sort for our military.
The sign showed this:

Followed by this:

(The images were made by manipulating the output of signbot to join the message into one long banner)
Among the other things I discovered (such as that the gift shop closes at 6 pm, and that after it closes there's nowhere to buy anything in the airport) was the fact that whoever programs the blinking sign above the baggage claim doesn't understand scare quotes. In among the standard "find this service at this location" messages and a cutesy "Happy Holidays" message, was a message presumably meant to express general patriotic support of some sort for our military.
The sign showed this:

Followed by this:

(The images were made by manipulating the output of signbot to join the message into one long banner)