Friday foolishness: foreign words

[Laurence Horn]

Danger of earthquake and/or avalanche?
Warning: no comfort stations on this road?

larry

At 3:17 PM -0400 9/15/00, Sallie Lemons wrote:
>Just guessing: It's a long way down if you jump????
>
>Jessie Emerson wrote:
>
>>  This question doesn't involve words on signs, but I've been puzzled by it
>>  for years, so I'll ask you folks:
>>
>>  In Japan in about 1991/2, I was driving to a ryokan located off of a
>>  mountain road.  There was a sign that looked like a man jumping up and down.
>>  Both feet appeared to be off the ground, and there were little "movement"
>>  slashes by his hands and feet.
>>
>>  Anybody know?
>>
>>  Jessie Emerson