Signs of the Times

[LNBruno]

Search is broken, so I don't know if we've gone here before.

Lately, I've taken notice of some unusual and, I'm sure often, unintended phrases in signage. Here are a few. What are some of your favorites?

Sign...

...outside a chiropractor's office: "Trying to get pregnant? We can help!"

...in front of a South Florida paving company: "If you don't like the looks of your driveway, it's your own asphalt."

...in the window of a Mexican restaurant: "Children, buy one, get one free."

...at the local dry cleaners: "Drop your pants here, $2.95."

< M!ke >
I am not a hamster and life is not a wheel.

 

[rjoubert]

I received an email with several funny signs...one that I remember showed a crew painting letters on the road near a school zone. It read "SHCOOL"...oops!!!

 

[rjoubert]

Now I'm having deja vu...I remember posting this before, so maybe this question was posed before.

When I was in California, I used to pass by a particular sign that always caught my attention. It was a sign for a brand of vegetables. The name of the brand, "Topless" appeared at the top of the sign in very large letters. In small letters under that, it read "brand vegetables." Pure marketing genius, in my opinion.

 

[flapeyre]

There is this highway sign just west of Hammond, LA on Interstate 12.

Every Halloween, I wonder what they're doing (performing exorcisms on gourds)?

Solum potestis prohibere ignes silvarum.

 

[SantaMufasa]

Flapeyre,

The only sign that I see when I click on your link is:

Forbidden...You don't have permission to access /pics/signs/20031122/exit35-close.jpg on this server.

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]

 

[flapeyre]

Okay, here is another site with a picture of that same sign.



Solum potestis prohibere ignes silvarum.

 

[SantaMufasa]

Cool! And how, may I ask, does a pumpkin become Baptist...By total immersion in water, perhaps?

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]

 

[flapeyre]

Plus, you need to exorcise it by removing the seeds, I suppose .

Solum potestis prohibere ignes silvarum.

 

[thekl0wn]

Saw an ad on a bench the other day for a local moving company, which had a picture of a guy wearing his back-brace and read, "Just tell me where you want it." The graffiti was quite humorous!

 

[flapeyre]

There is a park on the lake in Mandeville, LA called Sunset Point. Below the Sunset Point sign, there used to be another sign which read, "CLOSED AT SUNSET" .

Solum potestis prohibere ignes silvarum.

 

[GlenJohnson]

Come on down here, you'll see some signs like, "No Swimming. Alligators present." Never saw that in Chicago.


Glen A. Johnson
Johnson Computer Consulting

 

[philhege]

At the semi-circle in front of the Capitol building in Washington, DC is a one-way street sign reading, appropriately, "ONE WAY".

To which some wag appended, ",A$$H*OLE".


Posted elsewhere before, but I saw a sign painted on the road before an intersection in Adelanto, CA. The sign read

"STOP AHAED".

Finally, and also posted elsewhere, a friend of mine in Angola, NY runs a construction and heavy equipment business. His sign reads

"JOHN, THE TOWN HOE".

 

[KenCunningham]

No Swimming. Alligators present

Is just crying out for alteration, say:

Go Swimming. Alligators Like presents.

I want to be good, is that not enough?

 

[SantaMufasa]

Reminds me of the story about the four beautiful young female co-workers that were out camping for the weekend. They stopped at a most pristine little off-the-beaten-path lake surrounded by lovey woods and pasture land.

They set up camp on the shore of the lake and decided to go for a swim, sans swimsuits.

Soon the old farmer that owned the property showed up to their campground and approached the lake where the women were swimming.

The women saw the old man approaching, and, of course, dunked themselves down so that their four blonde heads were the only things above the surface.

The old man noticed their alarm and said, reassuringly, I don't mind your swimming in my lake, ladies, and you don't need to mind me...I'm not here to interfere with your swim...I just came to feed my alligators...

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]

 

[LNBruno]

Saw another one:

...on a mom and pop fried chicken cafe: "If the colonel had our recipe, he’d be a general."



< M!ke >
Your right to an opinion does not obligate me to take you seriously.
- Winston Churchill

 

[thekl0wn]

Near a friend's house, in a middle-class subdivision with light traffic, there was a stop sign that had faded to where it was only a white octagon, until someone repainted it red, and then very neatly stenciled "WHOA" on it.

 

[pinkgecko]

We have one sign near my house which is regularly modified from 35 mph to 85 mph by someone with a sharpie

[blue]Never listen to your customers. They were dumb enough to buy your product, so they have no credibility. - Dogbert[/blue]

 

[thekl0wn]

An then there are the F.C. Tucker realty signs. They have the realtor's picture on them, and they say "Talk To Tucker." When I was in high school, they regularly got modified to "Talk To F****r." It was comical, because most of the modified signs looked real as can be. We were driving down the road one day, and the realtor was out putting up a modified sign... Completely oblivious as to what it said!

 

[IknowMe]

My brother works for Big-D construction here in Utah. Their golf tournament merchandise is a hot comodity as the tourney is titled "The Big D Cup"

Wow, I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.
I think I've forgotten this before.

 

[philhege]

And of course in the realm of modified signs is the infamous In-N-Out Burger bumper sticker. Simply remove the starting B and ending r in "Burger", and there you have it.