THE TOYNBEE TILES CONSPIRACY...um, I guess?

So, you're walking down the street in St. Louis and you see this weird plaque, kind of embedded in the pavement. It's a small plaque maybe 6 inches tall by a foot wide and it reads:

TOyNBEE IDEA
IN KUbricK's 2001
RESURRECT DEAD
ON PLANET JUPiTER.

Turns out St. Louis isn't the only city these odd little plaques, known as Toynbee Tiles, show up in. Toynbee.net lists several across the country and even a few down in South America.

But what do they mean?

Nobody knows... though you can read more about them at Toynbee.net and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toynbee_tiles

In a nutshell, here's what is known about them:

1) Toynbee was a historian who lived to 1975.
2) Kubrick's 2001 is a reference to director Stanley Kubrick's film
3) That's about it.

Everything else is all conjecture. Check out the above links for more on this bizarre story.