In an attempt to reduce noise pollution, Madrid, Spain is employing mimes to encourage people to “Shhhh” as they go about their business. The mimes will be hanging around on various busy and noisy streets doing what mimes do best, silently sending the word that silence is truly golden.

You might just say they’ll be trying to get people to mime their own business…

Ah yes, and who was it that said, “the pun is the guano of the winged mind?”