Any one who has observed trucks,in India,cannot miss the ubiquitous Horn OK Please scrawled across the rear bumpers of most trucks.This phase is so visible on commercial vehicles that it even has a Wikipedia entry.
So well known is this phase Horn OK Please that it even inspired a Bollywood movie by the same name.
Truckers have popularized slogans like "Hum Do,Hamare Do" (We Two,Ours Two),"Bure Nazar Lagane Wala,Tera Muh Kala" or even the more positive version of this "Dekho Magar Pyar Se".
However,the truck below (click on image to enlarge) had, in addition to the mandatory Horn OK Please, the intriguing "Save Rainwater Wear Helmet".
Save Rainwater Wear Helmet,is an intriguing statement to say the least.How does one save rainwater by wearing a helmet? The only way,I can think of, by which a helmet can be used for saving rainwater is to use it to collect rainwater and then pour it into the rainwater harvesting pit.
If you can think of any other way of saving rainwater by wearing a helmet, please let me know.
14th June,2008
Mighty Eve left this comment on the origin of OK in Horn OK Please.Thanks Mighty Eve.
HORN OK, OK TATA...dates back to pre independance era where trucks were manufactured with kerosene engines...OK means On Kerosene, however the kerosene engines are gone but the sign remains!
OK TATA
MightyEve
2 comments:
maybe he meant, that if you wear a helmet, your hair wont get dirty, therefore, you dont need to wash it on that particular day; indirectly saving rainwater????
Beats me though!
-- V
HORN OK, OK TATA...dates back to pre independance era where trucks were manufactured with kerosene engines...OK means On Kerosene, however the kerosene engines are gone but the sign remains!
OK TATA
MightyEve
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