Monday, March 12, 2007


Above are three objects that I found on the sidewalks of London this week. Do you know what they are? (If you have ever lived in Britain, please don't answer until others have had a chance to play.)

Bonus points available for assigning names to the colors.

2 Comments:

At 4:11 PM, Blogger Unknown said...

They look an awful lot like pens.

Colors: Red, cyan, chartreuse?

 
At 4:46 PM, Blogger Bruce Holland Rogers said...

They are indeed pens, but there's more to the story than that. Each one comes from a different business establishment: red for one company, blue for a second, and green for the third.

Next to red rubber bands (which I'll discuss in a future blog), these pens constitute some of the distinctive street litter of London. I encountered more than a dozen such pens on the sidewalk as I was walking home from dinner a few nights ago.

 

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