I saw a young girl of about 10 today wearing a t-shirt with the letters E-G-G-S spelled out in mirror image form. I aksked her and her parents if there was an interesting story behind the shirt. The parents asked the girl to tell it. The young lady got a big grin on her face and told me that during the summer her camp had visited a local farm that sold eggs among other items. The farmer was made to remove a sign advertising his eggs by the local government on the basis of sight polution.
The farmer being no fool and perhaps even a student of first amendment law had the sign stencilled in backwards and claimed that the result was "art". The town worthies left him alone after that.
I told the family that the story had warmed my libertarian heart and thanked them heartily.
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