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My experience from DC escalators suggests that even to nowhere, this one will break down.
Posted by: Cheesewiz | December 23, 2011 at 12:47 PM
i would poop on it.
Posted by: mudstuffin in klumbus | December 23, 2011 at 12:53 PM
brilliant!
Posted by: queensbee | December 23, 2011 at 01:01 PM
"Nowhere" is actually a code-word for "Portal of call". One walks up the steps,touches the activation white wall, recites the secret password, and is transported instantiai, instuntan, really fast into the future to 340 St. Ann’s Dr., Laguna Beach, Christmas Eve.
Posted by: Carroll Stewart | December 23, 2011 at 01:17 PM
Another way to look at this is that the French noun for nowhere is cambrousse which yields the anagram scam be ours.
So apparently there was plenty of warning.
Posted by: Cheesewiz | December 23, 2011 at 01:32 PM
Stick a sign in front of it and call it art. Maybe call it, "An Impressionists View Of Life".
Posted by: nursecindy | December 23, 2011 at 01:55 PM
This could be used in a Channel perfume add. Of course you'd need a half clothed lady on the escalator.
Posted by: LeDud | December 23, 2011 at 02:23 PM
♫ And she's buying a stairway to Nowhere ♫
What'd be more impressive, Cindy, is if you got a group of maybe 8 people who've agreed to stand in line there for a couple of hours, and direct newcomers to the end of the line. Then film it and see how long they would stand there...
Kind like how banks and doctors offices work....
Posted by: funny man | December 23, 2011 at 03:17 PM
P.S.: Not to mention the Post Office....
The nine steps of the escalator are located inside a bus terminal that UQAM had planned to turn into a campus space, student residence and mall.
if I only had a dime for every time I've heard that...
Posted by: funny man | December 23, 2011 at 03:19 PM
Painting a mural that looks like the person would be going into the next space would be way too much fun.
Impressionist or Absurdist?
Posted by: Not My Usual Alias | December 23, 2011 at 03:23 PM
Speaking of escalator art....
Posted by: Ralph | December 23, 2011 at 04:53 PM
How long before some street musician sets up at the bottom playing "Escalator to Heaven"?
Posted by: max | December 23, 2011 at 05:12 PM
I feel like I've been on that escalator all day today. Sigh.
Posted by: Guin | December 23, 2011 at 06:12 PM
Kind like how banks and doctors offices work....,
Or like the lines at Walmart, funny man, which I was stupid enough to visit today. The grocery store was worse. Next year I'm going to Hawaii for Christmas. I'm going to send my friends and family a lovely postcard while I sip Mai Tai's on the beach and ogle lifeguards. I mentioned this already on my Facebook page and not surprisingly a lot of people think it's a great idea.
Posted by: nursecindy | December 23, 2011 at 07:22 PM
Available for weddings?
Posted by: Bernard Scooper | December 23, 2011 at 07:24 PM
The eternal treadmill of pointlessness.
Posted by: Loudmouth | December 23, 2011 at 07:32 PM
We've got that beat; Minneapolis has a skyway to nowhere.
http://kstp.com/news/stories/s2411904.shtml
Posted by: Clankie | December 23, 2011 at 08:00 PM
Notice there is no down escalator?
That's why they call it "higher education"!
Posted by: PirateBoy | December 23, 2011 at 10:15 PM
They should paint a background on there and video tape all the drunken idjits slamming into the wall ;)
Posted by: Siouxie | December 23, 2011 at 10:19 PM
Magritte. Ceci n'est pas un escalier.
Posted by: Omniskeptic | December 24, 2011 at 12:34 AM
This wouldn't be news except that an American got on the escalator before he realized it wasn't moving.
He starved to death before a rescue team could get there.
Posted by: Steve | December 24, 2011 at 10:34 AM
Oh, it gets better:
o_OPosted by: Spiny Norman | December 24, 2011 at 11:24 AM
It's for mime practice.
Posted by: ferj064 | December 24, 2011 at 12:00 PM
That's nothing, they had one of those in Brussels a few years back already: http://unexpectedtraveller.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/the-road-to-nowhere/
Posted by: The Unexpected Traveller | December 24, 2011 at 02:13 PM
Unlike in the USA where we spend millions on jet fighters to nowhere...
Posted by: Just Me | December 25, 2011 at 05:52 AM
I would have guessed it was some Americans with Disabilities Act requirement. Even if it goes nowhere, you have to provide access to it.
Posted by: wanderer2575 | December 25, 2011 at 10:20 AM
Oh, there's no shortage of access to nowhere for the disabled. It's access to somewhere that's sometimes an issue.
Posted by: Omniskeptic | December 25, 2011 at 04:55 PM
Mon dieu! Sacre bleu! You people who blaspheme our sacred seven steps to Quebec independence! I fart in your general direction!!
Posted by: Curtis E Flush | December 26, 2011 at 07:20 AM