I think we’ve hit upon a variant of “crash blossoms” – aka ambiguous newspaper headlines. One of my all-time favorites of those was “British left waffles on Falklands” [no mention in the article about syrup]. English is a fun language with the ability to use verbs as nouns and vice versa. Most of the highway signs seem to suffer from a lack of prepositions. Some enterprising English/linguistics major might make a fun thesis out of this. I should actually post it at the Reed site, come to think of it.