Funny Billboards

Driving home to LA from San Diego up the 5 yesterday afternoon I saw an amusing billboard:

Keep taking my name in vain.
I'll make rushhour longer.
-God

I laughed out loud!

So share 'em! This is the place.

-Melin


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Phenomenal woman
Bitch Corporate Lawyer
That's me

Melin, they've got all those around here too!

here's a few I remember:

That "love thy neighorbor" thing? I meant that - God

Tell the kids I love 'em - God

What part of "Thou Shalt Not" didn't you understand - God

Don't make me come down there! - God

Quite a few more also. I wonder who's doing these. There's never any advertising on them, no denominational affiliation or anything.

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...it has never been my way to bother much about things which you can't cure.
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court-Mark Twain

I saw some sort of a news type story on these billboards.

I cannot remember who it is doing it, but they collect money from different people to put these messages all over the country.

Obviously God does not have much of a PR department, so I guess they are acting as one.

Personally, I think that sometimes it is good for us to be reminded that God is watching.

Jeffery

Those of you who make the trek down I-95, along the eastern seaboard, have no doubt encountered the billboards leading up to "South of the Border" (Mexican theme park/tourist trap, & totally tacky!), at the NC/SC border.

"You never sausage a place!" (featuring a giant 3-d hotdog), and others with similar artwork, including animated sheep and a junk car, all in day-glo colors on a black background.

If anybody remembers any of their slogans, put 'em here.

Gary

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"Basses do it lower"
Homepage: http://members.aol.com/Toymkr47/Index.htm

Someone sent me this...

These billboards are all over Fl orida,

Let's meet at my house Sunday before the game.
-God

C'mon over and bring the kids.
-God

What part of "Thou Shalt Not..." didn't you understand?
-God

We need to talk.
-God

Loved the wedding, invite me to the marriage.
-God

I love you and you and you and you and...
-God

Big bang theory, you've got to be kidding.
-God

My way is the highway.
-God

Need directions?
-God

You think it's hot here?
-God

Have you read my #1 best seller? There will be a test.
-God

Do you have any idea where you're going?
-God



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You can only be a victim once. After that you're just a volunteer.

Naomi Judd

Two come immediately to mind...

Two Marlboro-men, in a Marlboro-man setting, and in Marlboro-type, "Bob, I've got emphysema."

Bright yellow background, black Helvetica type:
CALVIN COOLIDGE
WAS THE
30TH PRESIDENT
www.calvincoolidge.com

Shame that it was just a marketing test... check it out.

And as for those "God" billboards... let God speak for himself. (and listen to the silence)

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"If A=B, B=C, and C=D, do not get a job proofreading" --Quid's Theorem

Signs along the roadway. Pardon me for some quiet nostalgia:

He lit a match
To check his tank
That's why they call him
Skinless Frank
Burma Shave

<g> I was wondering how long it would take before we got a "Burma Shave" post.

-Melin

Around the corner
Lickety-split
Beautiful car
Wasn't it?
Burma Shave


-- Sylence

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"A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, 'Wish you were here'." - Steven Wright

Empty beer cans
On the road
Are ugly, many say;
But at night
Reflecting bright
They safely guide the way!
BURMA SHAVE

Okay, okay, it wasn't really Burma Shave, it was a Mad magazine parody of Burma Shave from sometime in the early sixties. But it always stuck in my head even more than the real ones.

[AETBOND417]

North Florida, just below the border with Georgia. The billboard reads:

"Ugly Beach Towels - $5"

What a slogan.

[xizor]

Originally posted by Toymaker
Those of you who make the trek down I-95, along the eastern seaboard, have no doubt encountered the billboards leading up to "South of the Border" (Mexican theme park/tourist trap, & totally tacky!), at the NC/SC border.

Ah yes, the South of the Border signs.

You're always a weiner with Pedro(picture of giant hot dog)
(upside down SOTB sign)sign designed in Washington
Keep whining kids, they'll stop

There is like one sign every mile thru North & South Carolina along I-95

[cblackhand]

I think that I shall never see
A billboard as lovely as a tree.
Perhaps unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.

- Ogden Nash

[Kaz]

The Wolf was shaved
So neat and trim,
Red Riding Hood
Was chasing him.
Burma Shave

[waterj2]

Wow, dredged up from the very bottom of MPSIMS. I'm surprised that Melin's name wouldn't have gathered more views from curiosity alone.

[beakerxf]

I grew up in a small town called Winnemucca and they started a billboard campaign.

Winnemucca: 5 billion people haven't been here

The rest were too visual to share here.

[DeathLlama]

Ruffian and I were in southern Ohio in July and saw this sign at a cemetary between South Point and Coal Grove (not that any of you would know where that is)...

Don't drink and drive.
We can wait.