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Signspotting: Not In, Shanghai
by Mike Richard
![\"Not In\" sign in Shanghai, China](/wp-content/uploads/sign-not-in-china.jpg "Sign: \\"Not In\\" (Shanghai)")
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That’s fine. I’ll check back later.
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Vagabondish editor, Mike Richard, lives in Rhode Island - a spit of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats, small, declarative sentences and speaking in the third person.
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June 11th, 2008
It’d be funny if that sign was found inside a memorial park. And disturbing.
June 11th, 2008
I don’t really get it…
June 11th, 2008
I don’t either. It doesn’t make sense, which is why it’s funny.
June 11th, 2008
That is the dumbest reason for something to be funny, ever.
June 11th, 2008
the translation must be a literal one. I understand it and respect the translation. We would normally expect ‘Keep off’ but not in China.
June 11th, 2008
Ohhhhhhh that makes sense now…