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Signs of the Times

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LNBruno

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Jan 14, 2004
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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.
 
In a bar:

"This is a high-class joint. Act respectable."

Solum potestis prohibere ignes silvarum.

 
I just saw on a truck, on the way to work today:

PENININSULA HAULING DUMPSTER SERVICE

The side of the truck properly said Peninsula. I found it quite amusing.

[COLOR=black #d0d0d0]My alarm clock causes time travel. When I hit snooze, no apparent time passes before the alarm sounds again, but the universe has in fact moved forward through time by ten minutes![/color]
 
Not sure if personalized license plates count as a "sign," but this one cracked me up (warped, sick, and twisted as I am):


< M!ke >
Your right to an opinion does not obligate me to take you seriously.
- Winston Churchill
 
The name of a new, very successful Brazilian barbeque place near us is:
Grill from Ipanema

[santa]Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]
 
There used to be an oyster bar in the One Shell Square office bulding in New Orleans. It was called Half Shell Square (of course!)

Solum potestis prohibere ignes silvarum.

 
In the town of Riverside, NJ, you can find Hooker Street. Ironically, it's One-Way.
 
I used to live near a pub called the Fainting Goat

Every 6 months or so they would repaint the sign, within an hour I would have altered it back to The Farting Goat, which is pretty much what everyone called it.
 
how about a few Chinglish ....

Membrane Supermarket
Yelling Dental Clinic
Natty's Hi-Tone Barbers
Center of Lawsuit
Advertisement for a new VIP club/disco called "buffalo": "The Shangri-la is always on your mind, but the buffalo is not".
Advertisement for a shopping mall: "large charge of capturing"
Another advertisement for a shopping mall: "pleasanty surprise of groping"
Sign for Hair Dresser (2 bald women): Hairy Fur Box by Korea
 
My all time favorite bumper sticker, seen in Sedona, AZ: "ANKH if you love ISIS"

Second place: "I am Keyser Soze"

But I must say that yesterday I saw one that is up there, the "don't taze me, bro" bumper sticker (top of page, free with any purchase).
 
Another bumper sticker like that one:

"ISIS, ISIS - RA, RA, RA!"

Solum potestis prohibere ignes silvarum.

 
Stella740pl: said:
I tend to think it was there for a good reason. They probably had a regular one, "We're open 7 days a week" before, but still got asked every day if they were open Sundays. Did you ever ask them?
Exactly right. I did once ask the store manager about the commercial and he told me of dozens of inquiries in the past, since the phrase 'open 7 days a week' wasn't clear enough, apparently. I can only speak for myself, but '7 days a week' seemed pretty unambiguous. Forgive me for the delay in replying, the past several weeks have mostly been travel for me.
 
Another of my favourite bumper snickers:
Sorry...My Karma ran over your Dogma.

[santa]Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]
 
The daily comic "Herman" had one, a guy in a sign shop working on a sign:
Key
Pout

as his boss shakes his head

DonBott

Does not play well with others
 
how about a few Chinglish ....

Is it odd that I find Chinglish more offensive than Engrish? Weird...

But, to add to your list, I've always loved the picture of the ten-year old Asian kid wearing a shirt that says "Too Drunk to F***."

-------------------------
Matt Grande
C# Master.
Ruby on Rails Admirer.
ActionScript Student.
JavaScript Hate-Monger.
 
Matt said:
...the ten-year old Asian kid wearing a shirt...
The moral to the story: don't wear a t-shirt that has foreign words or writing that you don't understand.


The turn-about-is-fair-play award goes to the Asian trickster that gave a t-shirt to an American religious volunteer who had come to Asia on a 4-week service mini-mission. The American understood no Chinese or its writing, so he received many amused looks from locals when they read the message on his shirt:
Chinese T-shirt said:
Looking for an Asian Babe to Lay.

[santa]Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]
 
By the way, flapeyre, I looked up your quote, since my Latin wasn't quite up to it. Very funny! Here's another for you: Tam exanimis quam tunica nehru fio.
 
Bob,

The second-to-last word gave that one away.

Solum potestis prohibere ignes silvarum.

 
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