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Subject: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Charcloth Date: 10 May 02 - 09:21 PM Click for the 'PermaThread™: List of all joke threads'
Ok tis ain't exactly related to music but most musicians travel to their gigs so.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: khandu Date: 10 May 02 - 11:43 PM I guess this one isn't funny unless you have a perverse sense of humor. I drove past a restaurant that had one of those changeable signs that read: "Today-Smothered Chicken". I had to pull over, because I could not drive and laugh so hard. I had a mental image of someone approaching a panic-stricken chicken with a pillow. I guess you had to be there(sigh)! khandu |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Celtic Soul Date: 10 May 02 - 11:50 PM Though this is not something I saw on the road, I have always loved the opening to "Fawlty Towers" where they play scrabble with the letters. There is a bar in Baltimore, MD. called "Berthas". They have a famous slogan (there's a song about it as well) that is printed on bumper stickers. It says "Eat Berthas Mussles" (Baltimore is famous for seafood). People do much the same with the letters of the bumper stickers, and if I had any memory what so ever, I'd relate the funnier ones here. Perhaps it's time for a road trip to Berthas! |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Tweed Date: 10 May 02 - 11:52 PM The Best Road Signs Ever |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: pastorpest Date: 11 May 02 - 12:27 AM A reporter said that on the highway as one leaves the tiny community of Climax, Saskatchewan, there is a road sign reading "Come again." |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: mack/misophist Date: 11 May 02 - 01:59 AM There's supposed to be a 'frog crossing' sign in a Amsterdam park. |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: GUEST,Boab Date: 11 May 02 - 02:05 AM There are "sabreteeth" in the Scottish Highlads if the ominous road signs at the side of remote single-lane roads are to be taken seriously ---" Beware of Sheep"!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Nigel Parsons Date: 11 May 02 - 06:23 AM My favourite is the ubiquitous "lollipop" held up by school crossing patrols in this country (UK). It has the simple message "Stop Children" I'm sure Durex (or some other condom manufacturer) could sponsor these eigns! |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: van lingle Date: 11 May 02 - 07:06 AM There was a drive-in in Angola, DE that had a sign reading "Eat In Your Car" that the locals altered to "Fat In Your Car". Every time the proprietors fixed it someone changed it back to "Fat" until they just quit trying. I remember one of those Fawlty Towers signs switched to Flowery Twats. vl |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: kendall Date: 11 May 02 - 07:58 AM IF WE AINT GOT IT, YOU DON'T NEED IT. Bill Jones general store. Sign outside Eustis Maine |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Mark Cohen Date: 11 May 02 - 08:15 AM I first saw this one in central Pennsylvania, near Hershey, but have seen it elsewhere as well: Watch OurSLOWChildrenAloha, Mark |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: van lingle Date: 11 May 02 - 08:28 AM Not exactly a road sign but a trash hauling service in Maryland use to have the following emblazoned on the back of their trucks: Satisfaction guaranteed or double your garbage back.vl |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Charcloth Date: 11 May 02 - 08:32 AM A friend of mine tells the story he saw a sign at a church that read "It's appointed unto all men once to die" & accross the street read a sign at a hamburgerjoint a sign read "But Before you go try our..." |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: GUEST,Goodfellow Date: 12 May 02 - 12:02 AM Five miles northwest of Crownpoint New Mexico on the Navajo Reservation near a rodeo ground there is a sign on the highway that says "Congested Area" this is literaly in the middle of nowhere and in the middle of a weekday you may see two or three cars in an hour...perhaps you need to see it in context |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: fat B****rd Date: 12 May 02 - 06:14 AM On the A16 in Lincolnshire is a sign saying simply "BLIND PEOPLE" A man I was travelling with was so fascinated he photographed it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Banjer Date: 12 May 02 - 06:25 AM Sign out side a radiator shop in St. Petersburg, it has been their slogan for years: 'Best place in St. Pete to take a leak'.....I always have to wonder about the sign in the parking lot at a local McDonalds..'Parking for drivethru only' I always assumed the whole idea of drivethru was so you wouldn't have to park??? |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Don Firth Date: 12 May 02 - 12:44 PM Here and there around town one sees signs that say "DANGER ZONE -- IMPOUND PARKED CARS." I spotted one where someone had scrapped off the "D" and the "M" so it read, "ANGER ZONE -- I POUND PARKED CARS." Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Dave the Gnome Date: 12 May 02 - 01:39 PM In Manchster, at the heart of the Gay Village, lies 'Canal Street'. Trouble is some wag keeps whiting out the C and the S. Honest!!! When I was in Ireland a few years back it really tickled me that the speed restrction signs where still in miles per hour while the distance signs were all in kilometers. Used to take some quick mental arithmetic to figure out how long it would take to get anywhere! Is it still the same anyone know? Cheers Dave the Gnome |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: catspaw49 Date: 12 May 02 - 01:51 PM One of my favorites is still at the Drive-Thru Beer Barn joint just outside of town. Keep in mind, it's a drive-thru to pick up your beer. On the outside sign they have a large placard that says.....TANNING I guess you get it as you drive thru....one arm at a time. Great link Tweed....Always loved Burma-Shave stuff. Also the crosses posted along many southern highways. When I was in college we had a meeting at Fontana Dam and it's like midnight and I'm flying down the mountain switchbacks with 4 other folks who are white as ghosts hanging on for dear life (young and stupid and invincible I was!!), when, on a sharp hairpin with tires squealing, my headlights flash on a cross that say, "Get Right With God." Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Mrs.Duck Date: 12 May 02 - 02:02 PM The sign outside the registry office when Geoff and I got married said 'Quiet wedding in process.' With something like 150 folkies including 2 morris sides this was unlikely! |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Mrs.Duck Date: 12 May 02 - 02:07 PM Found these Roadsigns from Tanglefoot |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Peter K (Fionn) Date: 12 May 02 - 02:32 PM Many years ago, intending to reach the extreme bottom left-hand point of Ireland, and getting a bit disorientated in the usual mist, we encountered a warning sign which depicted a car going over a cliff. Below this, on the same pole, there was another sign, this one prohibiting U-turns. In the bottom right-hand corner of England there used to be s sign pointing to both Ham and Sandwich, in that order. Maybe it's still there, as the two communities are only a few miles apart. |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: GUEST,Ed Date: 12 May 02 - 02:42 PM I've always liked the signs pointing the way to the "Secret Nuclear Bunker" There are loads around Nantwich in Cheshire, UK. Also some in Essex I believe. Ed |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: sophocleese Date: 12 May 02 - 06:26 PM One warning sign I've seen a lot on the last few years that always gets me giggling is: "Warning! This door is ALARMED!" So I should stay quiet and try not to upset it any more? Also I see a lot of
Automatic Do they automatically tell you to mind the step? |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: GUEST Date: 12 May 02 - 06:38 PM Don't quite get that one, sophocleese? "Warning This door is alarmed" seems an eminently sensible thing to tell potential users
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: GUEST Date: 12 May 02 - 06:42 PM Oh, sorry sophocleese, I get it now! You didn't realise that 'alarm' is both a verb and a noun. Silly me! ROTFLMAO!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: harvey andrews Date: 12 May 02 - 08:08 PM My wife and I play a game in England where road signs often point to two villages on the same sign. Read together the village names often sound like some character from Dickens or W.C.Fields. Our favourite sign is just outside Much Wenlock and points to Homer Wigwig. You make him up! |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: DD Date: 12 May 02 - 11:01 PM There is a town called.........MORO. The kids keep adding an N While traveling through Mississippi I was reading a series of signs......which included "stay awake" and "read sings" Well, if you aren't reading that last one isn't going to help...and if you are you really don't need to be told to read them now do you. And, if you dont know to stay awake while driving...well you probably arent able to read at all, now are you. |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: GUEST,macca Date: 12 May 02 - 11:15 PM When I first came to sunny Queensland to live I was suckered in by NOTHROUGH ROAD. I readily admit I thought it was pronounced No-thruff for a little while until I realised how many of them there were. Reminds me that my wife was also puzzled in Germany by all the autobahn signs pointing to AUSFAHRT, which didn't appear anywhere on the map she was using. |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Dave Bryant Date: 13 May 02 - 05:59 AM When I was working on Teeside in the late sixties, there was a construction firm that had road signs in local dialect. Instead of "Drive Carefully" their signs read "Gan Canny". They also had a picture of a giant daisy crushing cars on their "Heavy Plant Crossing" signs. A local riding stables advertises "Do-it-yourself Manure". |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: GUEST,Jim Date: 13 May 02 - 06:00 AM Caution - Water on Road During Rain (a href="http://carcino.gen.nz/images/index.php/5922d576/1bea892e">Click here for picture) takes some beating... Jim |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: GUEST,Jim Date: 13 May 02 - 06:02 AM Bugger! Caution - Water on Road During Rain (Click here for picture) takes some beating... Jim Joeclones? Please! |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: GUEST,macca Date: 13 May 02 - 06:16 AM Do I seem to recall a sign somewhere on the Yorkshire moors and about 100 yards off the road which had been put up by the local council,in the middle of nowhere, and which read, "IT IS FORBIDDEN TO THROW STONES AT THIS NOTICE" ? |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: gnu Date: 13 May 02 - 06:18 AM FLOOR SLIPPERY WHEN WE|- For a company I worked for, I would take pictures of safety hazards at their sites and send them, anonymously, to the site managers. One was of a sign lying on the ground beside an abandoned building which read, "WARNING : Falling Debris." Another on the ground was, "CAUTION : Jet blast area." Another - "NO SMOKING" sign on a building demolition job where there was a half dozen lads cutting steel with propane torches. |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Banjer Date: 13 May 02 - 06:23 AM Jim if you will click on Mrs Duck's clickie above you will see that very sign! One that we see quite often around here due to much construction is: ROAD WORK NEXT 5 MILES I always have to wonder if that means the road doesn't work after that five miles? then there's always the one: SLOW MEN WORKING Seems the work would get done a lot faster if they got some fast men to do the job, but then for what they probably get paid, I wouldn't work fast either! |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: GUEST Date: 13 May 02 - 06:26 AM Along the lines of 'Slow Men Working' CHILDREN DRIVE SLOWLY always brings a smile |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: MudGuard Date: 13 May 02 - 06:34 AM One of my favourite roadsigns: seen near Kilronan on Inishmore in the Galway Bay, Ireland |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: madwaff Date: 13 May 02 - 07:12 AM I always liked the signs "Eggs Drive In" (how do they reach the pedals?) And "Haircuts while-u-wait"......... Then there's a place near here called "Lost". And I've often whiled away the time when driving in East Anglia wondering what Old Bolingbroke and Mavis Enderby got up to.. |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Dave the Gnome Date: 13 May 02 - 07:12 AM I've seen the 'stones' notice, Macca - I think it was on the buttertubs pass in the Dales though. Could be wrong (Usualy am!!!) DtG |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: GUEST,Geordie Date: 13 May 02 - 10:12 AM Welcome to the Head of St. Margaret. Meaning the Head of St. Margartet's Bay. |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Midchuck Date: 13 May 02 - 10:19 AM Anyone interested in a Mudcat get-together in eastern Vermont? Ticklenaked Pond seems like an ideal location. Peter. |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: DMcG Date: 13 May 02 - 10:29 AM York (UK) has a street called 'Whip-ma-whoop-ma-Gate' (I may have the spelling wrong!) Maybe the ideal place to practice fol-de-rol-de-di choruses (The background to the name is too unpleasant for this thread) |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: SharonA Date: 13 May 02 - 11:10 AM I've always liked "Slow Children at Play". In my area there are a lot of deer-crossing signs, which consist solely of a black silhouette of a leaping buck on a diamond-shaped yellow sign. On several of them, you'll find that kids have put a red bicycle reflector on the nose of the deer. Recently I saw a disturbing sign in front of a church near my home. It was one of those signs large enough for clever, pithy messages to be posted, and changed every so often. One week, the message had been changed to read, "God loves you but that's not enough" (meaning, I suppose, that one still has to be "saved" – but nevertheless it sounded as if they felt that God's love was inadequate somehow!). Evidently, some of the church's parishioners must have been disturbed by it as well, because a couple of days later the "but" and the "not" had been removed from the message! |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: JulieF Date: 13 May 02 - 12:12 PM There are several Otter Crossing signsin Shetland. Julie |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: GUEST,Lynn Date: 13 May 02 - 12:28 PM I grew up in a small town in Western NY. A prominent lawyer in our town named Moriarty was running for state Assemblyman. He went all out in his campaign, complete with bumper stickers with his name emblazened on them. There was a street sign not far from his house (Still there, I might add) which read "Slow - watch out for children." Well, you can guess where the bumper sticker ended up..."Slow - watch out for Moriarty." Apparently it worked. I don't think he was elected. Cheers Lynn |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: SharonA Date: 13 May 02 - 12:29 PM Also cow-crossing signs around Lancaster, Pennsylvania. |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: GUEST,Lynn Date: 13 May 02 - 12:43 PM Sharon A - I agree with the second version of the church sign...Since when was God's love NOT enough??? Cheers, Lynn |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: RoyH (Burl) Date: 13 May 02 - 12:47 PM I smile when I think of all the shy people who live in 'Bashful Alley', Lancaster, UK. |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Haruo Date: 16 May 02 - 01:22 AM I realize this is intended to be a "non-music" thread, but I immediately thought of Mark Cohen's Apple Maggot Quarantine Round. I'm also starting a somewhat related thread on non-road warning signs. Liland |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Haruo Date: 16 May 02 - 01:57 AM Here's a link to my new non-road ridiculous warnings thread. Liland |
