If I were driving along, and I saw this sign, I would have to turn left. And I would probably be bouncing in my seat with anticipation.
I wouldn’t change course even if there were another sign pointing to the right, saying “FREE ICE CREAM.”
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
In a startling moment of investigative journalism by the Mirror, of all places: http://www.mirror.co.uk/usvsth3m/calm-down-havent-really-built-5401102
I’m disappointed. A spider farm sounds like a fun place to visit.
@1 Ha! I didn’t spot it immediately, but the absent shading of the “e” in nuclear is pretty bad, even for an amateur ‘shopper.
I. too, was disappointed to learn this was not real. Spider Farm!
Spider Farm, Spider Farm… never did any spiders harm
Spin a web, any size… grow some corn, eat some flies
Look out!!! Right there’s a Spider Farm.
You could go get the free ice cream, then go visit the power plant and spider farm with your ice cream. Just saying.
Darn.
I wanted to do the first Spiderman joke.
Who needs a signpost to a nuclear plant spider farm, anyway? If there’s an 80-foot long hairy leg arcing over you, you’re there.
Only if we can get a photo of PZ riding a spider that has a saddle strapped to it.
As the mirror article points out, brown signs are for tourist attractions in the UK, nuclear power plants don’t qualify (and we don’t have any spider farms) This one is real, however: http://cdn.wanderlust.co.uk/contentimages/userimages/mreames/Kelvedon%20Hatch%20-%20Top%20Secret%20Nuclear%20Bunker%20-%2002.jpg?maxwidth=440&maxheight=262
As is this:
http://moblog.net/media/r/a/s/rassilon7/barometer-world.jpg
I was disappointed by the Mirror article debunking, but the did link me to a perfectly good real highway sign from twitter: https://twitter.com/PeterPeterro/status/579736432408969216/photo/1
Yes, there is a monkey rescue group located next door to a tank museum in Dorsett. Brings to mind a political cartoon during the invasion of Iraq about Bush. “Curious George goes to war”. Were the monkeys actually able to break out and start up an antique tank, that would just be schadenfreude at it’s best for me.
newenlightenment
Gosh! Just how does one find the Secret Nuclear Bunker? It must be nigh impossible!!!!
newenlightenment #9
What’s wrong with “Barometer World”?
I remember the university paper where I went to college once had the headline “Genetics Lab Investigates spill of Radioactive Material.”
Best. Headline. Ever.
#10, Brian Radovich
I can verify that that Monkey World is a lot of fun, that the great ape play area is awesome and that orangutans were somewhat smaller than I expected.
The fact that the monkeys might find the tank museum isn’t worth worrying about, because there’s an actual army tank training ground just down the road in the form of Bovington Camp.
#13, brucegee1962
This is one of my favourites: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/05/23/315279895/organic-kitty-litter-chief-suspect-in-nuclear-waste-accident
I’d be more worried if the nuclear power plant was near Clyde Peeling’s Reptileland myself. (Godzilla is scarier than Spider-Man).
@9: EDF has visitor centres and prearranged tours for some of their nuclear plants. I don’t think that would rate a brown sign that just said “nuclear power plant” though.
http://www.edfenergy.com/energy/education/visitor-centres
IIRC, Peter Parker was at a science museum for a public demonstration of nuclear energy, which involved creating a big radioactive zap in the open air in front of a large crowd of people, because, umm, Educational!
So it was a feisty, wild spider, not one of those placid domestic ones. That’s why spidey is such a rebel, I guess.
#14 anym
Thank you, I just snorted coffee all over my monitor while laughing.
#12
Couldn’t find the pic but there’s a brown sign for barometer world making it seem like some kind of theme park (Actually its a museum/repair shop)
Since it’s on the road between Baltimore and Buffalo, I have been there many, many times. Touched a snake, fed an emu, was attacked by a peacock.
But what if the sign pointing to the right said “FREE ICE CREAM AND SQUID AQUARIUM”?
The obvious answer is that you’ll be heading to the right on your way back, and can easily grab ice cream then. How you get the squid aquarium home is another matter.
@Excluded Layman- you load it into the back of your car, of course.
What’s the shadow? Is it a pedipalp?
newenlightenment #17
got it. thanks!
Them!
“What’s the shadow? Is it a pedipalp?”
No, that’s just the shadow of a vast cloud of flying spiders.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/98/60/f0/9860f0c9d3b19c3cc0f3d84c1fde1d03.jpg
Leading to the most alarming interpretation of “a barrel full of monkeys” ever formulated.
Or the plot for the next Donkey Kong game.
This is how horror movies start…
By a strange coincidence, I’ve just found this:
That wouldn’t happen. If you were building a nuclear power plant and a squid aquarium you’d make sure you built them right next to each other, wouldn’t you?
Filk singer Michael Longcor swears that he used to regularly pass a sign in Indiana that advertised “Bob’s Dog Obedience School and Taxidermy Shop”. He, of course, wrote a song about it.
https://youtu.be/nsORBHjNxdc
Of course it was “Incurious George Goes To WAR!”.