traveling is funny!

Posted by christolles | Filed under Switzerland

So yeah yeah yeah we’re safe and all that stuff.

 

A shot from Lufthansa’s corporate statement about the environment etc. etc. Pretty nice (bilingual!) layout, no?  You really got to give them credit for pulling off the gold/grey combo.

 

Somebody in the EU Parliament missed the memo about politically motivated intentional subtlety on cigarette warning ads. “Wait, smoking does what?!”  Doesn’t seem to be working, though.

 

So can marauding porcupines.

 

Leave it to the Germans to name a shopping plaza after a poet/philosopher (taken while on layover in Frankfurt).  Oh, and nice skirt on the girl.

 

You finally get to Geneva, Switzerland.  What do you see above your head?  COMIC SANS.  I am totally not making this up people.

Permalink | July 30th, 2008

14 Responses to “traveling is funny!”

  1. alli coate Says:
    July 30th, 2008 at 4:01 pm

    glad you’re safe!

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  2. Christian Says:
    July 30th, 2008 at 9:15 pm

    so much for swiss design.

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  3. Nate Says:
    July 30th, 2008 at 9:48 pm

    I’m glad you guys made it
    I miss you already

    Chris, I say the hair’s gotta go…Bic…all of it

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  4. Able Says:
    July 31st, 2008 at 12:27 am

    Thanks for the design commentary, I enjoyed it! Glad you are safe and looking cute and what not.

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  5. Brooke Says:
    July 31st, 2008 at 9:01 am

    I know you’re in Switzerland and all, but just in case you wanted to keep up with the problems that overactive zooplankton are causing in the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico:
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/07/31/ST2008073100349.html?hpid=moreheadlines
    hugs. :)

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  6. Ayako Maruyama Says:
    July 31st, 2008 at 10:15 am

    Comic Sans- no way! hahaha Man this blog’s great! You don’t miss a beat! Chus!

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  7. Miranda Says:
    July 31st, 2008 at 3:20 pm

    were all the welcome signs in comic sans? or just the english one? perhaps they are trying to appeal to american tourists.

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  8. rachael Says:
    July 31st, 2008 at 3:39 pm

    hahaha, I love it.
    I love it all.
    And I love you!
    how long are you going to be in Geneva? We should get together! btw, you guys pretty much took the exact same route on the same airlines that I did on Sunday to get to Rome. I made the same comment about the skirts on the girls bathroom signs in Frankfurt airporT!

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  9. tom Says:
    July 31st, 2008 at 11:23 pm

    cool pics…

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  10. Emma Says:
    July 31st, 2008 at 11:23 pm

    Comique-Sans.

    Almost makes it better! Almost!

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  11. Joe Says:
    August 1st, 2008 at 9:55 am

    It looks like this is a job for …. Serious Sans

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  12. dory Says:
    August 2nd, 2008 at 12:59 am

    thats because they outsourced all airport design to india.

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  13. dory Says:
    August 2nd, 2008 at 1:02 am

    also try some swiss hot chocolate. best ive ever had.

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  14. jbetz Says:
    August 3rd, 2008 at 6:35 am

    Definitely one ups the smoking packages in Jordan. They just had gray bleeding lungs on them….and I thought THAT was a little bit too far…

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