This building at 500 Dorch W., corner Beaver Hall Hill contains a buncha provincial government offices, from the labour board, to the rental board and many other such places.
Anybody riding the elevator gets treated to an audio recording of a woman saying "nous montons" which means, "we're going up." But the semi homophonous "nous mentons" means "we lie." Those working in the building find this chuckleworthy, but we wonder if it's not making a bit of a bad suggestion to lie before various judges.
This ranks number two on the list of bad subliminal messages in Montreal. The Meldrum sign at Walkley and Sherbrooke is the worst. It's an area which has seen many murders in past years, possibly because Meldrum spelled backwards suggests homicide.
heh
ReplyDeleteMany government buildings have talking elevators to accommodate blind passengers.
ReplyDeleteWait, murdlem? really?
ReplyDeleteI'm calling Webster on this one.
is walkley still that bad? i remember it being being rough in the 70's and 80's but would have thought gentrification and yuppies would have pushed the public housing and drug-dealers out of there by now.
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500 Dorchester has been a building full of liars since it was originally opened as Air Canada's HQ...it was from here that Claude Taylor would stroll down Beaver Hall Hill to dine at the Victory Hot Dog.
ReplyDeleteI was on Walkley in April, during clear sunny Friday afternoon, and was able to view a clearly agitated blonde in tight jean shorts wandering around asking some brothers about crack and oxycontin.
REDRUM: like in Shining???
ReplyDeleteWalkley's not too bad down by Sherbrooke where this sign is. Go up a few blocks around Somerled, Fielding and Chester, and it's a bit grim, similar housing to Barclay in Cote-des-Neiges, low ugly post-WWII apartment blocks in rows. I don't know what the crime stats are like, though.
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