Thanks to Larry Mudd for telling me how to make a facebook album public. Heres a compilation of some funny, sign’s that I found when I was in England last, March.
http://nmt.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2001054&l=f1ea9&id=110000200
Warning: Some of the pictures on the second page of the album may be NSFW. If you don’t want to look it them at work, check them out later. They’re funny, trust me.
Mine isn’t an example of bad grammar or punctuation, but when I saw it on my drive home last night, I thought of this thread.
So I was following a truck on the highway that had on the back: Yesterday’s Meals on Wheels. Odd, I thought, but the shape of that truck looks like it could be a…nah it can’t be…
So I take my exit so I can see the side of the truck and, sure enough, it says…
Schodack Septic
::shudder::
I saw this sign in the Miami airport. I suppose I should be happy to find a restroom where I wouldn’t have any duties…
My dad tells a story of a pump truck that had the motto: “Your Shit is Our Bread and Butter.”
I love it!
'Round here, the turkey farm is back in business in anticipation of the holidays. It makes me re-notice their permanent sign again this year:
TURKEYS
“Fresh” or Frozen
:dubious:
This is too wordy. They should have said:
Outside a tailor shop in India:
“Fine Menders and Invisible Darners”
There was a church near my school that always had “Check out Jesus!” on the sign out front.
Apparently Christ has a nice ass. All that walking.
This makes me happy.
Also reminds me of the unfortunate sign posted on the door of my car insurance agency.
"CORRECT CHANGE ONLY. SORRY FOR ANY INCONTINENCE."
And directly beneath it, "NO PUBLIC BATHROOMS. SORRY FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE."
I should’ve said something but I preferred to giggle quietly to myself.
At a customs area in Port Canaveral, FL, just past the point where pictures are strictly prohibited, is a large 2x3 foot white sign with 24-point black font containing citizen re-entry instructions, as well as 5-6 blatant spelling errors. It was almost like digital camera bait. (How does someone manage to misspell the word ‘all’ anyway???)
I remember seeing a Mexican restaurant with a neon sign that read:
Taco’s
Burrito’s
and it looked like it takes special effort to make lit apostrophes in neon signs, so I was thinking “all that extra work, just to be wrong…”
It’s not that it was wrong, per se, they just didn’t include the object. It should have said:
Taco’s runs
and
Burrito’s farts
This can’t really be called “funny,” considering the tragic nature of the plane crash in Phuket on Sunday afternoon, but on the website of the airline, One-Two-Go, they’ve issued an odd statement of regret for the crash that provides phone numbers to call for, among other things, information about “responsibility of corpse transportation.”
They meant well.
This was not a neon sign, but one time in Pokhara, Nepal, we were walking down the street and passed a restaurant that catered to Westerners, and outside was a chalkboard advertising “Western breakfast’s.” And there was an old, slightly heavyset Western lady, I mean REALLY old, haranguing some poor staff member about the impropriety of the apostrophe. Must have been some sort of retired schoolmarm. He had a sheepish grin on his face and was trying to apologize for the rogue apostrophe, but she kept on about it.
But have him back in the church by Sunday or you’ll pay a late fee.
There is (or was) one in San Fran, at a church, that read exactly
Jesus Christ "Cares For You!"
Made me and my wife laugh like idiots every time…
Joe
I want to go back to Chapters today with a camera. There is an aisle of shelves, with sections helpfully marked at the top, in fancy permanent signs:
In Penn Station in NYC, where one can take -as a last resort- the Amtrak train, there are two waiting areas. One area is reserved for those that take the “High Speed” Acela train. It is labled “Acela Express Waiting”. Where I suppose you can start waiting right away, as opposed to those that take the regular train. They have to wait to wait.
My local butcher shop has a sign in the window that says:
“Students” no “loitering” in the “parking lot”. This is right next to the sign that says: “Hot” “biscuits”. Sigh.
My favorites from last time we did this are still posted online:
