In past articles in which your participation was not only requested but also helpful and humorous, I did not give the answers to questions which I have posed to you; so this article contains the answers to past articles — Part 48 — along with links to the aforementioned articles…
Answers to Past Articles — Part 48: Reader Edition
…and the links are embedded in the titles of each section as well as within the sections themselves; so please click on the links in each section to take you to the original article — and this edition is entirely comprised of photographs which were contributed by readers of The Gate With Brian Cohen.
The Favorite Answer will usually be the correct answer by a reader of The Gate With Brian Cohen — along with a Favorite Comment from the same article which I found to be funny or informative.
What is Wrong With This Photograph? Part 236: Reader Edition
While the ambient temperature of the air was approximately -8 degrees Fahrenheit or -22 degrees Celsius at Lheidli T’enneh Memorial Park in Prince George in the province of British Columbia in Canada, derek photographed a scene in which he found at least one thing to be odd:
- Park doesn’t really close at 11 pm, only like 11 pm. Example of quotation mark use: https://style.mla.org/
quotes-when-nothing-is-being- quoted/ Authors often use quotation marks when nothing is being quoted. The marks may indicate irony, skepticism, derision—as such, they are sometimes called scare quotes. They distance an author from a term: “Others say this, but I wouldn’t.” Example: “Bob experienced the ‘catastrophe’ of having his tooth pulled.” Bob may have thought it was a catastrophe, but the author of the sentence is letting us know that she does not. - Odd thing: No stopping after 10 pm but the park is still open for another hour.
- Uncertain interpretation: No parking because of handicapped space sort of conflicts with no stopping sign
- Bad thing: The snow bank makes handicapped parking at the curb impractical
Favorite answer by Ford: “Quotes instead of asterixes should be puninshable by stockades. A car rental place near an old job had a stop sign with “STOP” near their customer lot gate, another favorite was a marijuana dispensary on my morning commute that had “Taxes Included” on their main street sign…wonder if the revenue bureau ever investigated them”
Favorite comment by Jim F.: “So…between 10pm and 11pm, one can be towed even though the park isn’t closed? And, shouldn’t it be ‘closes’ rather than ‘closed’? The ‘is closed’ sign would most often be read when the park actually isn’t closed.”
What is Wrong With This Photograph? Part 237: Reader Edition
Someone was paid for creating the pricing structure for parking at Northside Hospital of Gwinnett County in Georgia, as the posted rates are quite bizarre: NB_ga was parking a car in the parking garage, which charges a fee depending on how long one stays…
…but if parking is three dollars per day, why would a day pass cost eight dollars — and why would a lost ticket cost ten dollars?!?
Favorite answer by Thomas Richard Potter.: “as Derek mentioned I believe that the rate is 3 per hour. But why would you tell them you lost your ticket and not just buy a day pass?”
Favorite comment by J.: “Maybe the day pass lets you leave and enter”
What is Wrong With This Photograph? Part 238: Reader Edition
An anonymous reader of The Gate With Brian Cohen was in Mississippi and spotted this plaque, which was posted to the wall of a casino in Biloxi. The word wages on the plaque is supposed to be the word wagers. Perhaps people bet their entire salaries instead of placing wagers?
Favorite answer by derek: “Likely, the sign was supposed to say ‘wagers’, not ‘wages’. However, the overall message is weird if taken literally. Mississippi law prevents playing? So playing chess or playing the piano is illegal? Ha ha, no.”
Favorite comment by Jim F.: “Well…wagers are often paid with wages…so how wrong is it? Autocorrect strikes again!”
What is Wrong With This Photograph? Part 239: Reader Edition
While at an Ikea furniture store, Mi Rojo Muerta noticed that Peachtree City in Georgia was spelled Peachree City on the television screen.
Favorite answer by GUWonder: “It should be Peachtree city. Instead, the T is missing.”
Favorite comment by Tom: “It’s swedish meat-eor ball showers”
What is Wrong With This Photograph? Part 240: Reader Edition
While perusing airfares from the official Internet web site of Air Canada, derek provided a screen shot of at least one thing that he thought was wrong:
- See where it says “Taipei, Taiwan, China” but it doesn’t say “San Francisco, China” or “Toronto, China”.
- A country is shown after the city only for Taipei. The truth of the matter is the People’s Republic of China threatened to punish airlines which did not say Taipei is China. Taipei is no more China as Paris or Stockholm should be China. Air Canada caved in but United compromised and did not list a country, listing it only as “Taipei”.
Favorite answer by Tom B: “Air Canada forgot to put the name of the countries for these airports. Specifically, New York, China and Las Vegas, China. It’s not Miami, Cuba because Cuba doesn’t claim it so maybe Miami, China.
“Another error is that I am looking at the airfare now (0 minutes ago), not 2 hours ago SFO-YYZ but SFO-YVR 2 minutes ago.
“Another mis-step is that people can figure what city pairs don’t attract much interest. For example, NYC to Bangkok was last looked at 8 hours ago (not including me looking at them now, which is 0 minutes ago)”
Favorite comment by chris: “Flight dates that are in the past?”
Access to Past Articles in the What is Wrong With This Photograph? Series
You can refer to this definitive list of past articles of the What is Wrong With This Photograph? series of articles — which also includes articles which reveal the answers — and that list will be continuously updated as additional articles are written and posted here at The Gate With Brian Cohen. This is to ensure that future articles in this series are not encumbered with a long list of links — especially when viewing and reading them from a portable electronic device.
Your constructive input as a reader of The Gate With Brian Cohen is always appreciated.
Final Boarding Call
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