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Stupid Icons

Chris and I have an ongoing rant about stupid icons that you can’t understand. Someone somewhere decided that the little man/woman bathroom sign was a great idea and that whatever concept they themselves are pushing will also be identifiable from some random diagram.

I’ll be at Apple’s WWDC conference next week and we are staying in a SF business hotel in the heart of downtown. The desire to know if they have a pool resulted in an attempt to decipher all their little pictures. What do you think these mean? Our interpretation is given for each one.

	- Danger! Weightlifters in your room!
	- Obscure cult chops the lower bodies off people! - Warning! Yogic Flying!
	- Caution! Chopsticks secured by spider webs!
	- Danger! Staff with bad breath! - Smelly concierge at your service! - The captain of the Titanic as it’s burning!

The site is headlined with this great photo. Talk to your pals on cell phones… from right next to them!

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	hee! Not so sure about the first two, but: : Warning! Towers may vibrate at any time! http://www.hilton.com/en/common/media/images/icons/icon_whirlpool.gif - Caution: Cannibals in area! at 2005-6-5 12:28 by alia


	doh Huh, okay, so neither of those worked properly. Oh well. You get the idea. :) at 2005-6-5 12:29 by alia


	Number Two Warning! Holy Trinity. at 2005-6-5 17:28 by Trevor


	silly icons Well, number 4 is obviously beware of cannibals. Number 1 may offer solace to those bearing the weight of the world. Number 3 could have something to do with receiving signals from aliens. Frankly, number 2 defeats me (I can't even think of a real use for it). There is an old song from the movie Kismet that begins 'Take my hand, I'm a stranger in paradise'. It has a great line in it that goes... 'somewhere in space I hang suspended'. Perhaps this is a scene from Kismet... I still prefer the 'no arguing in the kitchen' one on my stove. at 2005-6-7 15:30 by kmh


	at 2005-12-3 21:01


	Number 1 Warning- Guy with weight will crush u at 2005-12-5 17:25 by Tiff


	I hate hippies Hippies are so annoying i just don't know why they just are! grrrr. at 2006-5-3 11:49 by Hoe

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