Inscription
One report claims that the name was first painted on the lamp-post by students from CCAT (now Anglia Ruskin University) under the guidance of one of their teachers.
It has been repeatedly repainted since then in response to removal by Cambridge City Council or obliteration by graffiti. For the first half of 1998 the lamp-post carried an unofficial plaque bearing its name, until removed by the council.
Comedian Ben Miller featured the lamppost in his BBC Two physics documentary 'What Is One Degree?' for the science series Horizon. At that time the lamppost had the words 'Reality Checkpoint' scratched into its paintwork in at least two places.
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Famous quotes containing the word inscription:
““I love you” is the inscription on Pandora’s box.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“In the graveyard, which was crowded with graves, and overrun with weeds, I noticed an inscription in Indian, painted on a wooden grave-board. There was a large wooden cross on the island.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The oft-repeated Roman story is written in still legible characters in every quarter of the Old World, and but today, perchance, a new coin is dug up whose inscription repeats and confirms their fame. Some “Judæa Capta,” with a woman mourning under a palm tree, with silent argument and demonstration confirms the pages of history.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)