Makes you want to think

I noticed this sign a few months ago on my way to my weekly duplicate bridge session. It is at the corner of Pitt and Water streets, on the corner of Cornwall Square Shopping Centre. I am not certain whether the "curtsey" has to have thirty points to it, or the inspection of the "curtsey" has thirty points.

Either case makes me think. A thirty point "curtsey" would have to be a sort of Silly Walk, and how someone would inspect thirty points of said "curtsey" makes you wonder how intimate this inspection process is. I leave the rest to your own volatile imagination: things like whom would you permit to perform a thirty point inspection of anything you did . . . .

Which brings us to the old chestnut about the drunk who, upon being arrested, was informed that anything he said could be held against him. He immediately yelled, "Marilyn Monroe!"