BS: No folk and good....

Subject: No folk and good....
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 14 Feb 01 - 04:06 AM

Drove through Glossop, UK yesterday. The big pub in the centre is usualy called The Norfolk Arms but I noticed the "R" had fell off the sign! On the side you can see coming from the Snake if anyone wants to check.

It now reads "The No folk Arms"..... Has this got anything to do with the thread about UK sessions under threat???

Best thing I have seen since the advert in the Daily Mirror for a hair remover where the "E" had been missed off "Ears". It read "Remove unwanted hair from nose and ars..."

LOL

Dave the Gnome

Subject: RE: BS: No folk and good....
From: Lady McMoo
Date: 14 Feb 01 - 04:53 AM

Here is Brussels we have a ladies secondhand clothes shop named "Look 50". Always amuses me when I walk by!

mcmoo

Subject: RE: BS: No folk and good....
From: Jim the Bart
Date: 14 Feb 01 - 02:03 PM

Thanks for the laugh
BART

Subject: RE: BS: No folk and good....
From: MARINER
Date: 15 Feb 01 - 02:02 PM

A local paper here published an obituary to a recently deceased lady which dropped an "r" and instead of reading "she was a friend to all, actually read "she was a fiend to all"

Subject: RE: BS: No folk and good....
From: GUEST,Midchuck upstairs
Date: 15 Feb 01 - 05:10 PM

It disappointed me when I found that the singer-songwriter, Bruce Cochburn, pronounced the name "Coburn."

I was thinking of a headline that the society page of a newspaper published many years ago about the honeymoon of a newlywed couple of the same name:

"Cockburns off on wedding trip."

Peter.

Subject: RE: BS: No folk and good....
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Feb 01 - 05:13 PM

Imagine going into the pub and telling them that their R's dropped off.... 'Ere mate, your R's fallen off'..

'Bugger, how'm I going to keep me legs on.....?'

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: No folk and good....
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Feb 01 - 05:36 PM

not as bad as the Essex House hotel when the first two letters of their neon sign burned out...

Subject: RE: BS: No folk and good....
From: Burke
Date: 15 Feb 01 - 05:46 PM

We used to have a fabric store named Sewer's Delight.

Subject: RE: BS: No folk and good....
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Feb 01 - 06:04 PM

There's a shop just down from the London Hospital called Butt's wholesale......

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: No folk and good....
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Feb 01 - 06:06 PM

We recently had new service booklets made, which have Communion and Eucharist written on them. It also had Mass written up it with the M at the bottom, in shading, same general colour as the base colour. The title texts were written across this so that when you photocopied it, all you could see was 'ass'......

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: No folk and good....
From: Hawker
Date: 15 Feb 01 - 07:04 PM

I don't have any funny sign additions but this is a funny thread, GOOD ONE! Keep em coming!

Subject: RE: BS: No folk and good....
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 15 Feb 01 - 07:11 PM

At a fun fair some years ago I came across signs for 'backed potatoes' and 'fried champions' (instead of 'champignons', as mushrooms are called in Germany). There was a third one, equally apt, which unfortunately has slipped my mind.

Subject: RE: BS: No folk and good....
From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)
Date: 15 Feb 01 - 07:35 PM

In a West Virginia roadstop the menu offered, "Roast beef in it's own au jus."

Subject: RE: BS: No folk and good....
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 15 Feb 01 - 07:45 PM

There was the classic (and I beluieve genuine) wartime headline:

British Push Bottles Up German Rear

So far as Norfolk goes - anyone remember how Sid Kipper's song with the chorus about being "Norfolk And Good" goes?

Subject: RE: BS: No folk and good....
From: bill\sables
Date: 15 Feb 01 - 07:58 PM

There is a solicitors in Garforth West Yorkshire called Godloves. The Sign above the office Reads "Godloves Solicitors" quite often some wag has chalked beneath "Good job somebody does".
I once passed a church in the days when Sunday trading was just starting in supermarkets and the sign on the wayside pulpit read "St Michaels Anglican Church, Now open on Sundays"
and finaly a sign in Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles above a chemists shop "Fook Ing Chemists"
Bill

Subject: RE: BS: No folk and good....
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 15 Feb 01 - 07:59 PM

When I was in high school, back in the late Pleistocene, a church across the street from the school had an electrically lit sign on top that said "Jesus Saves". The electricity was on a timer that turned the lights off at midnight.

What did we say? "Jesus saves till midnight; after that you're on your own!"

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: No folk and good....
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 04:12 AM

Certainly remember the Sid K song - hence the thread title. Don't know any more genuine accidental 'funnies' but I remember someone buying a "Free Nelson Mandela" T-shirt 2 days before he was actualy freed. Bit of fabric paint changed it to "He's Free, Nelson Mandela is!"

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: No folk and good....
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 04:50 AM

And just remembered as well - I have been in the No folk arms. Me and Spot were off on a ramble when we were 'caught short' in Glossop. Stopped in said pub to use the conveniences and had to have a pint of course.

Because it was persisting down we decided to call it a day and rambled in and out of local pubs all day in our hiking gear but that's another story...

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: No folk and good....
From: Michael in Swansea
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 08:39 AM

Pub in Swansea used to be called the Builder's Arms until the M fell off

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: No folk and good....
From: KitKat
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 08:45 AM

I still wish I had taken a photo of an eatery sign I saw in Spain - the Can Fart Restaurant! I reckon that would have been worth ten quid to Private Eye!

Subject: RE: BS: No folk and good....
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 09:02 AM

Just been reminded of another - Some wag had removed the "C" and the "S" from Canal Street in Manchester and it was left uncensored for years!

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: No folk and good....
From: Hawker
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 09:41 AM

Whe I used to work for the local paper, typesetting, the chap who typed the sports page did a classic.....

And Treolars FANTASTIC shit in the back of the goal from the halfway line clinched the game!!!

The there was the bride who wore a sik dress and a boquet of red toses..... \Lucy

Subject: RE: BS: No folk and good....
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 11:56 AM

Our local market is forever offering rolls of a delicate fabric known as crap de chin.....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: No folk and good....
From: campfire
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 07:44 PM

When I was in New York City, there was a Chinese Restaurant across the street from the hotel called - really - Foo King. They were good, and cheap, so we ate there for many of our meals. But now, what we remember most about the trip was the Foo King restaurant.

campfire