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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Callie Date: 16 May 02 - 02:22 AM AHHH!! STOP IT GUYS!! I'm sitting at my work desk in tears!! If I get caught, there'll be some explaining to do! I have two good ones to add. Someone once changed the dot-light sign on the highway to: "Police now targeting DONUT SHOPS" The other one is a huge sign outside a sleazy pub. I saw it when they first finished painting it - it read "STIPPERS STIPPERS STIPPERS" and it looked even funnier when someone added three tiny "r"s. Callie
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Haruo Date: 16 May 02 - 02:31 AM Speaking of orthographically challenged stippers: Years ago, the then First Interstate Bank (now subsumed by Wells Fargo) was putting up a big building in downtown Seattle, and all around the construction site they posted proud-parent-like signs announcing: FIRST INTESTATE CENTER I was working in a law firm kitty-corner (that's catercorner for the rest of you) from it, and the lawyers all thought it was hilarious. Liland |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: GUEST,Bud (and did I get bounced again?) Date: 16 May 02 - 08:27 PM I saw a sign in Taiwan that brought me up short, and I had to go back and photograph it: Happy VD Clinic. A Major I knew in the Army told me that a restaurant in Japan has a pool stocked with carp for decor. The sign outside invites the hungry to "Come in, have a drink, and look at the crap in the pool." A common famale name in Viet-Nam is also the name of a flower. It is pronounced "Yoom" and spelled "Dung". And in case you haven't guessed, in a village not far from Saigon is a restaurant with the appealing name of "Cafe Dung." |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: GUEST,Bud-who-has-been-demoted-to-mere-guest-again Date: 16 May 02 - 08:35 PM I just thought of something else, which isn't a sign at all. I was in Kuala Lumpur, trying to locate some family members of an Army friend whose name was Yee. I looked up the name in the phone book and found someone there whose name was--no joke--Yee Fart. I didn't call him/her up. |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Charcloth Date: 16 May 02 - 10:01 PM There was once an old barn that was bearly standing up just outside of Cincinatti. It Looked like it was gonna fall if you spit on it, well you guessed it on the side of this shack was a brand new add for a construction company. I laughed every time I drove by it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Lynn Date: 16 May 02 - 10:34 PM There's a folk festival in August in a little town in County Clare (Ire) called [no kidding] Feakle... pronounced as it's spelled. I tried to dignify it as a visitor, calling it 'FAY-cle' but was corrected by the locals. |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Haruo Date: 16 May 02 - 10:34 PM Along a similar line there is a company less than three blocks from my home named "Professional Sign and Engraving" and they advertise that name through a painted sign on a front wall that is peeling and looks like it was last painted (never mind engraved) sometime prior to World War II. Liland |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Haruo Date: 16 May 02 - 10:36 PM Sorry Lynn, didn't realize you were posting while I was typing; it was Charcloth's barn, not your Irish town, that I was comparing my signage company to. Liland |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Genie Date: 20 May 02 - 05:06 PM Then there's the provocative one that says: SLOW WHEN FLASHING (I dunno about you, but if I flashed someone, I'd wanna get the heck outa there before I got recognized or arrested!) Genie §;- )
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: SharonA Date: 21 May 02 - 09:49 AM Genie: LOL! I'm always frustrated by the electronic sign at the PA Turnpike entrance that occasionally advises motorists to tune their car-radios to a certain AM station for traffic warnings. Trouble is, I can't tune my radio to the station; that frequency isn't even on my radio's "dial" (electronic menu)! So I am forced to drive on in ignorance, hoping that the problem will be reported by the all-news station in Philadelphia before I end up in the middle of a traffic jam! |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Mr Happy Date: 21 May 02 - 01:01 PM some years ago, i was in a pub in navan, roi; and there was a sign on the wall advertising SOUP SANDWICHES an irish delicacy no doubt! mr happy |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Mr Red Date: 21 May 02 - 02:07 PM read in the readers digest near the village pond "Caution low flying duck" |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Grab Date: 21 May 02 - 02:15 PM There's a village in England called Bunny, which has a sign: "PLEASE DRIVE CAREFULLY THROUGH BUNNY". Splat... And another village called Hints, which has the sign: "HINTS - PLEASE DRIVE CAREFULLY". There's quite a few places in Britain I've seen "duck crossing" signs, a red triangle with a picture of a fat duck on it. But only in the States have I had to slow down and carefully overtake a convoy of a couple of dozen Canada geese waddling calmly along the road and taking up a whole lane! :-) Graham.
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Genie Date: 21 May 02 - 02:49 PM Careful driving isn't the law in England--just a veiled suggestion--eh, Graham? *G* Re the "crossing" signs, I knew of a guy who had one made up that said "SLUG CROSSING." The he collected a bunch of the little critters from his garden, placed them single-file across his sidewalk, and snapped a photo of them crossing in front of his sign. BTW, I think we have BEAVER CROSSING signs in appropriate places in Oregon. Do they have ARMADILLO CROSSINGsigns in Texas? |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: NightWing Date: 21 May 02 - 05:19 PM There's a Duck Crossing sign in Lakewood, Colorado (on Union between 6th and Alameda). No words. Just a mother duck followed by four or five ducklings. *G*
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Haruo Date: 21 May 02 - 07:12 PM The first time I drove through Oregon (1988) I saw quite a few signs that said "Bridge Work Ahead" (which was of course cognate with "Road Construction Ahead"); but for some reason I thought they meant dentures. The problem in this case was in my head, not the head of whoever wrote the sign. But I just couldn't shake it. All the way from Astoria to Ashland and back I kept thinking they were advertising dentists (like the "Next Exit: Gas | Lodging | Food" signs). Liland |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: GUEST,ozmacca Date: 21 May 02 - 10:13 PM There's a roadside service station and lunch spot near the NSW-Queensland border which advertises - or at any rate used to advertise the last time I saw it - two kinds of petrol (gasoline) as well as theie home made speciality. The notice read: UNLEADED SUPER PIES I always did wonder..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: JennieG Date: 22 May 02 - 07:30 AM A sign used a lot here (New South Wales, Oz) where the road is alongside a hill says: Falling Rocks Do Not Stop No, I don't suppose they do........ Cheers JennieG |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: GUEST,Davetnova Date: 22 May 02 - 08:27 AM A bit of thread creep. I remember Soup sandwiches. We used to get get them from a baker in Cadzow Place in Edinburgh when I was at school. and they were great. |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Genie Date: 22 May 02 - 01:46 PM Jennie G, Well, at least not until they hit something--such as YOU! After you get hit by one of them, you need one of Dave's really big chicken soup sandwiches! LOL Genie |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signsM From: jjmodel48 Date: 22 May 02 - 02:20 PM My favorite bumper sticker is-Horn broke, watch for finger. And the add-on to a sign saying-Shirt and shoes required to eat in cafeteria. Addition says-Socks may eat wherever they want. |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: jeffp Date: 22 May 02 - 02:33 PM We drove through a very narrow canyon near Manitou Springs, Colorado on a one-way road due to the narrowness of the canyon. Near the end of the road there was a highway bridge wayyyyyyyyyyyyy overhead. On that bridge was a sign that could only be read with binoculars - Clearance - 195 feet. I doubt that any trucks tall enough to care were ever on that road! |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: GUEST,Wavestar Date: 22 May 02 - 06:18 PM I was delighted when in York to discover Whip-ma-whop-ma-gate (You were close, DMcG.) I'm curious to know what the origin is - perhaps you could enlighten me with a PM if I ever get my cookie back. Others that amused me - this belongs in the town names thread, actually, but it was the sign for it that nearly sent my friend and I off the road in hysterics - Twatt, in the Orkneys. And in Thurso, I found a street sign I still have yet to entirely understand. It said, "Changed Priorities." -J |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Haruo Date: 22 May 02 - 06:39 PM There used to be a sign on the NE escarpment (or whatever you call it) of Seattle's Capitol Hill, when I was a kid, that read: DUMPNO GARBAGE OR RUBBISHLiland |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Genie Date: 22 May 02 - 10:32 PM Well, this is a campaign slogan, but I saw it on a signpost on a Portland street today (the election was yesterday. The candidate, of couse, is "Kane," and the sign said: KANE IS ABLE |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Charcloth Date: 22 May 02 - 10:44 PM Hey Liland, that sounds like something out of an Arlo Guthrie song |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Genie Date: 23 May 02 - 03:05 AM What about the signs that say NO ILLEGAL DUMPING ? Isn't this just like the "Tresspassing Prohibited" signs? |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Schantieman Date: 30 Sep 02 - 01:02 PM We have a sign up at our school entrance which reads: Children Take Care ...which, of course, they don't. Steve |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: PageOfCups Date: 15 Oct 02 - 06:11 PM Highway sign on Interstate 5 in San Diego: CRUISE SHIPS USE AIRPORT EXIT And my favorite when I was in college in Fort Worth: TCU - City Zoo Next Right |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: Amos Date: 15 Oct 02 - 07:16 PM There's a lomng road that runs from the highland city of Guadalajara, down hills and over lakes and past volcanoes and on and on to reach the Pacific coast and there is a stretch of that road that lasts for scores of miles with nothing built on it and no signage. It is really quite pretty. Not at all like American freeways with their overabundance of synthetic information. Anyway, you drive and drive without seeing a sign and then way up at the horizon, lo! there seems to be a sign. You can't wait to see what it could say! You drive and drive and sure enough the silhouette grows larger and it really is a traffic sign, the only one around for over fifty miles in either direction. And all it says is "Please Obey Traffic Signs". Only in Mexico. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: GUEST,Hille Date: 16 Oct 02 - 03:35 PM I drove past a "Humped Zebra Crossing" shortly after passing a "Humped Toucan Crossing" the other day .. |
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Subject: RE: BS: (Non music) Funny road signs From: InOBU Date: 16 Oct 02 - 03:41 PM Yes, I have seen the humped zebra crossing at Heathrow, but the funy one no one gets in England is "SLOW HUMP"... hmmmm Larry |