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This reminds me of the shelving cart at the library when I was in undergrad. It had a sign taped to it that said "I AM THE SHELVING CART" and I used to puzzle for entire afternoons over whether that sign had truth value.
Related humorous anecdote: I attended a conference and everyone put on name tags. I idly wondered whether name tags had truth value; someone replied with the rather snappy, "Yes, but only if they start with "Hello, My Name Is"."
Edit: I seem to be getting downvoted a lot today. Have I earned someone's animosity? Is there something wrong with a couple of brief, mildly entertaining anecdotes as a response to a post that consists entirely of a related cartoon? Help me out here.
In a somewhat similar vein, a friend of mine has this t-shirt (For anyone not hip to René Magritte, the text translates as "This is not a pipe").
I've tried to think of ways to make similarly confusing statements applied to objects without relying on references to "this" or "I" or such, but haven't found anything satisfying thus far. Certainly nothing with the same elegance as "'Yields falsehood when preceeded by its quotation' yields falsehood when preceeded by its quotation".