Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Monday, December 29, 2014

You Can't Judge a Book by its Cover

Especially when the designers are morons.

This is the cover of the latest Sara Paretsky book:


As you might gather from the title, the book has something to do with nuclear physics. But the symbol for radiation hazard is this:


This is the symbol that is on the cover, which is the symbol for a biological hazard, not a radiological one:


I'd guess that this is what happens when everyone involved majored in English or art design; they likely took a basic science survey class in college and since most science classes are held in the morning, they likely slept through most of the lectures.

3 comments:

Old NFO said...

Yeah, missed the boat on that one... Problem is, how many readers will even notice?

Expatriate Owl said...

No less likely anymore is that their liberal arts program was too politically-correct to offer such Eurocentric courses.

Joe said...

High probability that they did it because the biohazard symbol looks awesome.

I love Paretsky, but I hate what happens to nuclear physics in the hands of a novelist. Haven't yet decided whether to read this one.