Universal Symbols Are Often Hilarious
by Vince?Daliessio
Bureaucrats (here, the Department of Homeland Security) often try to use pictographs, simple pictorial representations without words to illustrate complex concepts. This is in case you find yourself in an emergency situation and you are, say, ?scared, illiterate, or an illegal alien (or even all of the above). You may have seen these symbols on the passenger safety card on the seatback in front of you on an airplane. That is an example of these symbols working fairly well, even though the airline was required to print and distribute those cards by law.
This does not always work, particularly if a concept is complex enough, or a bureaucrat is dense enough, for a one-panel pictogram to produce a completely obscure meaning. Here is a site?(warning: socialist peacenik rhetoric ahead) that has a little fun with the idea;
After exposure to radiation it is important to consider that you may have mutated to gigantic dimensions : watch your head.
