"I'm glad you have a sense of humor, but could you please not bring it to work with you?"

[larryhammer]

Remember how I sometimes assert that the dominant rhetorical device of Wikipedia is the anticlimax? I present further evidence:

The article on the Rashômon Gate, the main south gate of the ancient city of Heian Kyoto, gives pictures first of a reconstruction of what it used to look like, then of the modern stone marker of its former location.

Which is in the middle of a playground.

It is protected by a tiny iron railing.

I giggle with delight -- in multiple directions.

---L.

Comments

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Seems to be next to the playground, but the picture is inconclusive.

I wonder what's more likely — whether a kid would climb the marker and fall off, or whether a kid would climb the railing and fall off.

[larryhammer]

Meh -- the railing is just another set of (slightly more boring) monkey bars. No real challenge to the determined climber.

---L.

[alpha-strike.livejournal.com]

The fence exists so that savvy toddlers can sell tickets to the monument to unwary tourists. Successful children are whisked away to business school where they are trained to be CEOs of mega corporations.

[larryhammer]

A superficially plausible theory, but apparently it's in a quiet residential neighborhood with no real tourist trade.

---L.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Oh dear.

[larryhammer]

Why -- are there cherry blossoms blowing through it now?

---L.