Posts Tagged ‘pandhandle’

Fell and Masonic Update: Drivers Still Oblivious to Recent Changes

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Well this is how it’s going at the infamous intersection of Fell and Masonic these days. Drivers who should know better, just keep trucking on through their red no left turn light.

Like this fellow, for instance. You’d think the driver from the five-star-rated UCSF shuttle van / bus / limousine / whatever-you-call-it service would get used to the changes after encountering them multiple times a day. But he appeared to be oblivious.

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Now it might be different in other parts of the world, like in Germany or wherever, but in California driving effectively is a right, not a privilege. The architects of this intersection appear to expect too much from the addled, already-overworked minds of typical drivers.

Isn’t there a way to make things simpler for drivers?

The British Overseas Airways Corporation is Back, Baby

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

That’s the only reasonable conclusion one can reach after seeing these new red and white BOAC stickers all over the Haights near San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park Panhandle. BOAC, after being saddled with some clunker aircraft, became British Airways in the 1970’s but people still seem to love the brand.

Why? Well, the stewardess uniforms, for example. They had “fab” designs, complete with “cute hats.” And people still collect cool BOAC souvenirs like currency converters, matchbook covers, and related ephemera.

Or maybe it’s the opening track of the Beatles’ White Album that some folks are thinking about. Back then, people had to worry about the Russians annexing neighbouring countries and stuff.

Thank goodness that’s all in the past.

Flew in from Miami Beach BOAC
Didn’t get to bed last night
Oh, the way the paper bag was on my knee
Man, I had a dreadful flight
I’m back in the USSR
You don’t know how lucky you are, boy
Back in the USSR, yeah

Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out
They leave the west behind
And Moscow girls make me sing and shout
And that Georgia’s always on my my my my my my my my my mind

Godspeed, little Georgia.

[Could BOAC be a Hip Hop artist? Signs point to Yes.]