Seriously, the more you look at this, the weirder the use of the word ‘albino’ gets.
Telling my friends, as the sign requests. pic.twitter.com/doNDExrbRu
— Fade (@fadeaccompli) July 6, 2017
I mean, the basic concept is easy enough to grasp – squirrels get sick when they eat cigarette butts, so please don’t smoke on campus (I make no judgement on smokers, because I used to smoke*). But… why single out ‘albino’ squirrels? Are they dumber than regular ones? More valuable to the campus? Are regular squirrels able to digest the cigarette butts, or does UT-Austin not care if non-albino squirrels live or die? Is there a campus political aspect to this that I’m missing? Are there squirrel factions on that campus?
It’s all genuinely interesting to me.
Moe Lane
*I know that most ex-smokers take their status as an opportunity to shake fingers and whatnot, sure. I choose not to.
For the lulz.
People make up official looking signs that are “off” somewhere between “slightly” and “bizzarely”, and watch the reactions.
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Some of my friends (ok, I might have been involved as well) used to do this twenty-some years ago, and the advance of technology has only made it easier.
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My favorite that I wasn’t involved in was a sign in a zoo:
Did you know?
Flamingos are monogamous and mate for life.
Except for Phil, that cheating bastard.
Remembering my law school days at UT Austin, there was a population (perhaps as small as one) of albino squirrels on campus that granted you good luck if you saw one on exam days. So, while the sign seems odd, there’s a good chance the student body is more interested in saving the album’s than the normal variety of tree rats.
*albinos, not album’s