Saw a guy picketing on a street corner. He was wearing khakis and one of those explorer hats, with a khaki safari scarf. That’s for context, but it’s the sign I’m on about.
One side said:
Dante
St[sub]ate[/sub]
Darwin
and the other said
Noble
Me[sub]dial[/sub]
Lotto
The letters in sub were actually angled down, with a caret between the angled and non-angled letters. Each word had a different color background. White, red and yellow, but I forget in what order. Anyway, I was stuck at a fairly long red light, with plenty of time to absorb this. So I thought I’d share.
Well, I know Dante State ain’t in the SEC, and that has to be embarrassing to any fans of any sports teams they may have, but other than that, I got nothing.
Could be a reference to something, but it could very well be just good old fashioned mental illness. In my old neighborhood we had a guy who liked to stand on the street corner wearing a sandwich board sign with incoherent ranting about the evils of Jews and Catholics on it.
Yeah, I figured mental illness. Thing is, though, what registered first was just a guy with a picket sign, so I immediately thought it must be a healthcare protest. “Darwin” sort of pointed me in that direction at first, too.
Hey, in a roundabout way, it could be seen as a healthcare protest, regardless of his own purpose…
We recently went on an Eastern Caribbean cruise, and one of the stops was in St. Martin. On top of a hill at a scenic overlook was a diner. Well, it was a diner, now I think it’s a church. Here’s two examples of the crazy:
In Milwaukee we got this guy. That drives around all day (no idea where he gets the gas money. Not only is the car totally 100% covered in stuff (that’s an old picture), he spouts something from a bull horn mounted on top as well.
Honestly, I don’t know if the dude’s crazy. He’s got mad rhymes. Just sits out there all day, every day, on OSU’s campus, doing little rhyme couplets that end with “help is on the way.” Probably the most successful panhandler I’ve ever seen, and never, ever pushy or an asshole. Just sitting there rhyming, all the time.
Unsurprisingly, there’s a Facebook page devoted to him. For a random homeless guy hitting up students for spare change, he’s pretty beloved.
My guess is St. Darwin is meant to suggest that scientists (or, at least, “evolutionists”) have supplanted god with Darwin and/or the State. Not sure where “Dante” comes from. My best guess is that he’s heard the name Dante in connection with Hell (Dante’s Inferno) and is assuming that Dante is a pseudonym for the devil. So, the scientists who place science and secularism about God are doing the work of the devil.
For the second side, I’m guessing it’s a jab at Obama. Noble Med*al refers to his Noble Peace prize. Me+Lotto equals “mulatto.” Not sure about the “I” in medial. Could be a typo, could be an attempt to suggest that Obama isn’t so smart, and needs to take remedial courses in something.
