Wednesday, May 16, 2007

don't point. it's not polite.


Even if you are Lewis and Clark and Explored Everything West of The Mississippi, or something like that, because I can't remember fifth grade history properly and need to learn about the United States from billboards place in public rest stops.

Observations:

Every state I've driven through west of Kentucky claims Lewis and Clark as their own.

But that's not what I'm worried about:

Good Lord, doctor, where are their legs?!

P.S. Free car-lint to the blog-reader that correctly identifies both the multicolored objects and the historical/cultural significance/relevance to South Dakota--if any--to the thing or things above and slightly to the right of Pointing Explorer's (Lewis's?) head?

I vote for mini rubberbands stuck there randomly by the "pop machine" sign creator.

1 comment:

mam said...

I've been working on this all night. I don't know about the beads, but the coin-esque thing is a "peace medal" designed by Thomas Jefferson (one hand is a white guy; the other is a Native American) and given to Indian Chiefs, which they apparently had to bring with them if they wanted to go to Washington and see him..

Read more about it here:
http://lewisandclarktrail.com/legacy/peacemedals.htm

mmr