I've often thought it would be worth making up stickers for public responses. "(Bedsit)" for all the various euphamisms used on estate agents signs, "Why?", "No", "Who gave you this authority?" "whose security?", and "This is not a legal requirement" for regulatiory signs. "Was it all worth it?", "Doesn't it inspire despair?" and "This is a fake stone facade" for public buildings. Also, it would be fun to print out laminated maps to put on lampposts demarkating an area as one where laws of karmic payback apply, or [verbatim] the wrath of an implausibly literal old testament deity, on the authority of some portentous sounding body, in the style of police ASBO areas, or whatever they're called.

Your stickers I'd find really annoying, because I'd have to have my own made up asking what exactly you meant by =>, how you justified assigning linguistic assertions to boolean variables, the basis on which falsity of superficial meaning negates a communication's purpose, etc. But, it would probably be not nearly as annoying as the original, :).

Oh, and I've often been tempted to attach an essay on the ethical and hedonic basis for actions to that annoying sign about not feeding the ducks on Jesus Green!

I often think this too. I want to go around the tube with stickers that have your "Help help if I stop grinning they will shoot me" on to all the grinning-moron adverts, and "You're beautiful just as you are" to the cosmetic surgery ones.

The ducks, however, die a painful constipated death if they eat bread instead of more unprocessed plant parts.

But why start with ducks, and not with McDonalds?

We do have public health campaigns. Perhaps the problem would be ok if there had been signs at all major ports saying "please do not feed the British people fibre-free food, it is not good for them" around the time when McDonalds imported itself here.

I guess that's fair enough. I guess I anthropomorphise them too much, but I always think "let 'em choose" or "live and let live". I guess I should think a bit more that the ducks don't actually choose, and are more automatic than that.