There is a rather old joke involving a misunderstanding of that kind of signage (and based on a now-possibly-objectionable euphemistic term) — but wait!, it turns out this Crabgrass is not using that joke, but rather one based on a different misunderstanding of it.
Picked up from Counterpoint
Is that an electric plug in her hand, at the end of a wire? So she has unplugged a phonograph from playing one of the objectionable original versions?
It’s very simple, but (therefore?) almost perfect.
(it was established in the previous days that these are temporary tattoos)
Comics I Don't Understand 
Huh, this may be the rare moment when the Lard comic (at the top) is the best word play of the bunch.
Another variation of the “Slow” road sign joke comes from the Three Stooges, when they ask Curley to go check the sign to see where they are, and he comes back and says they’re in “Goslow” (he pronounces it Gahslow).
Also, I think Irene Krenshaw is holding an old-timey microphone.
Miss Kranshaw is holding a badly drawn corded microphone.
No one will ever top the ‘slow down’ joke from Taxi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HvmtbZzA40
Miss Kranshaw is holding a badly drawn corded microphone.
Thanks, dvandom, and Paul. I missed that the line for the cord terminated at the mic (and her hand) — some stray lines fooled my eyes into thinking her right forearm was crossed in front of her.
I guess you have to be a geezer to remember stage microphones with cords.
I am a geezer, and back in grammar school the teachers really did complain about the grammar in popular songs, including (I Can’t Get Any) Satisfaction. And cigarette commercials: Winston tastes good as a cigarette should. And that the cigarette commercial announcer pronounced “Pall Mall” as “Pell Mell.”
The Winston thing was really big for quite a while!
MiB (6): Actually, I will be using a corded mike tomorrow (Sunday). (And okay, I am a geezer and so are most of the audience.)
Corded microphones are still a thing. 🙂
It seems just a few days ago I was pondering grammatically-correct pop music.
Driving around, I think the “Slow Children” joke works best when the letter weight is the same, rather then when the “SLOW” is in larger text. I’ve seen various kinds of signs around here.
It’s funny to note that there are still some SLOW CHILDREN signs around using mid-20th Century style graphics, boys wearing britches and girls wearing skirts.
My 8th grade English teacher, Mrs Norwalk, would bristle at #4. She’d go further: “It doesn’t mean a thing if it hasn’t that swing.” She corrected anyone who said “I’ve got …” in her classroom: “No, ‘you have.'”
I have rhythm. I have music. I have my gal (strikeout) girl (strikeout) woman (strikeout) significant other, who could ask for anything more?
To add to my last comment, I was reminded of a sign that reads SLOW BLIND PERSON all in same-weight text. I guess driving would be less hazardous there if that blind person had been speedier.
Fozzy don’t got rhythm.
The slow children are playing $6 million man and bionic woman.
I went to a family deal at my brother’s, out in a subdivision in the farmlands kind of deal. On the way past some of the farms, I saw a sign something like
FREE
Range Eggs
Imagine the “free” much larger then the other words, and in red. I dunno what range eggs are, but if they’re free maybe I should get some.
Oh. No. I typed “then” instead of “than”. I hate myself.
Although, the sentence is technically correct. The best kind of correct. The word “free” was much larger, then the other words came. But it’s not what I intended.
Don’t kick yourself too hard, Brian — blame it on the device! Anyhow, I liked the story and am planning to cook a couple range eggs this morning. In a pan, on the…. stove top.
Ogden Nash – related to a school cross walk sign showing 2 children with school books waiting to cross the street – “Cross children walk. Cheerful children ride.”
(Note – I remember this as “Happy Children ride” but when I looked it up online to double check my memory of this poem all versions shown in search use cheerful instead of happy.)
My dad loved Ogden Nash poems.