When this task went up I spent several days looking at signage and mentally changing letters to see if I could come up with something that both made sense and was amusing. I came up with a good one for a Dental Office, but I couldn't find a reachable sign to change.

I was on my way to PT one afternoon when I stopped to have a cigarette in the designated smoking area (which is also where the bike racks are) when it hit me, I could change the smoking signs!

I have been a smoker for too long now, but even when I didn't smoke the strident No Smoking signs always annoyed me. Both before and after I started smoking upon observing these signs I would always be seized with a desire to light one up and stand right by the sign whilst blowing smoke at it. Even non-smoker friends of mine have expressed similar sentiments. So what better sign to mess with?

I stopped after one PT appointment long enough to take tracings of the letters so as to get proper font and size. Then I went back and played around with Word until closeness was achieved. I then took my supplies and went to PT. Afterward, I snuck into the area under the cover of broad daylight to change the signs.



But what to change it to? I was reading an old praxis for Player Kill Zones when it struck me, I should change the signs to designate player kill areas, or even just areas of allowed wrath. According to Websters Dictionary, smoting is defines thusly:

smote (smt)
v.
Past tense and a past participle of smite.

smite
Verb
[smiting, smote; smitten] or smit Archaic biblical
1. to strike with a heavy blow
2. to affect severely: hunger smites him again
3. to burden with an affliction in order to punish: God smote the enemies of the righteous
4. smite on to strike abruptly and with force: the sun smote down on him [Old English smītan]

Ok, so I played a little fast and loose with past participles, but I have seen 'smoting' used in the Bible and other Middle English texts. If it was good enough for Shakespeare, it's good enough for me.



As it is always important to be in the proper area for striking down thine enemies with righteous indignation, the arrows are helpful.



Ah, getting closer to being able to be wrathful.



And here we are. LET THE KILLING BEGIN!!!!!

Edited note: As of today (10/16/08) all of the signs were unchanged from when I changed them. I guess no one has noticed. Although, there was an elderly couple (mid-late70's) leaning up against one of them making out like they were teenagers. I didn't have the heart to ask them to move.