# Amusing Signs **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 3, 2024, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074 "2024-02-03T19:04:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 24
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/461 "2024-04-04T03:47:54Z")
I think I would prefer the practical type [![](https://i.imgur.com/NEpIgVZ.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/NEpIgVZ.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/462 "2024-04-04T05:09:41Z")
Tehehehehe, their theory is PURE, dammit. Don’t question it. Their practice? Not so much. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/463 "2024-04-04T11:49:28Z")
I want to know why the balloons. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/464 "2024-04-04T11:57:15Z")
"A friend of mine once pointed to a WATCH FOR CARS sign and said, “boy, they’re offering a really bad trade”. A friend of mine and I were driving on the interstate and passed a sign that said END LANDSCAPING. She said, “Is that a protest sign?” ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/465 "2024-04-04T12:02:07Z")
There are signs around here that say STUMP GRINDING with a phone number to call. As we drove by one I asked my gf, “awfully open about their disability porn, aren’t they?” She groaned a good three minutes later. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/466 "2024-04-04T15:36:37Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Fun fact: Alberta Hwy 4 becomes a city street in Lethbridge: “Scenic Drive.” Scenic Drive is not far from where I live. I can get onto Scenic, and if I keep driving southbound on it, never leaving it, I’ll end up in San Diego! In the US, when state routes pass through cities, they often become city streets, too. For smaller towns with one or two state routes, that’ll often be “Main Street”, often with that name. In larger cities, many of the major throughfares will have state route numbers in addition to their names. Sometimes US routes, too. My undergraduate college, Villanova, was on “Lancaster Avenue”, which was the local name for US Route 30. One of my classmates went to grad school in Wyoming, on a street that was their local part of US 30, and joked about “just moving down the street a bit”. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/467 "2024-04-04T15:46:59Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > In the US, when state routes pass through cities, they often become city streets, too. Locally, Historic Route 66 from San Bernardino west becomes Foothill Blvd., Huntington Dr. and finally Santa Monica Blvd. before it hits ocean. ---
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/468 "2024-04-04T15:49:14Z")
AFAIK, all the US “routes” are concatenations of local roads, so both route and road names apply. The roads of the Interstate Highway System, a later (Eisenhower?) development of purpose-built roads to facilitate nationwide transportation, generally are referred to by the interstate highway number – except when a segment of the highway has a local highway name like the Massachusetts Turnpike (part of Interstate 90) or the Gov. Thomas E. Dewey Thruway (I-70, I think.) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/469 "2024-04-04T15:53:14Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Sometimes US routes, too. My undergraduate college, Villanova, was on “Lancaster Avenue”, which was the local name for US Route 30. TIL that Villanova U is in PA. Thank you, wiki. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/470 "2024-04-04T16:01:11Z")
[The true meaning of Highway numbers in Southern California.](https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/434744114_10228581748382891_8037768050004948224_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5f2048&_nc_ohc=I5zmgLnS_q4Ab4n-Bsk&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-2.xx&oh=00_AfCHxsgY7GFE31606LWfm1oGCienz9SwjsjPDhJXyWbsEg&oe=661489D8) ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/471 "2024-04-04T16:25:08Z")
The NYS Thruway is basically 87 and 90. So, 88.5? ---
**Author:** ![Orville\_mogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/aeb1de/32.png) [@Orville\_mogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orville_mogul)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/472 "2024-04-04T17:21:56Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Locally, Historic Route 66 from San Bernardino west becomes Foothill Blvd., Huntington Dr. and finally Santa Monica Blvd. before it hits ocean. And then it becomes wet? ---
**Author:** ![Orville\_mogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/aeb1de/32.png) [@Orville\_mogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orville_mogul)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/473 "2024-04-04T17:31:58Z")
In India there are lots of Sikh names that end in -inder, for example Jasbinder, Jitinder, Dalvinder, etc. When I was working in Delhi my office had a fire emergency sign above the door that read: IN CASE OF FIRE REMINDER PLEASE SHUT THE DOOR In all sincerity I asked my colleague, who is Reminder and why is it his job to shut the door? ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/474 "2024-04-04T20:06:03Z")
Not quite a “sign” but there’s an old joke in the UK Foreign Office that in the accumulation of comments on some report or other, some civil servant had written on one point “Round objects!”. The whole file went up to the Foreign Secretary, who returned it with the question “Who is Round, and to what does he object?” ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/475 "2024-04-04T22:11:00Z")
Ummm. Yeah. I don’t want any Doc/Dentist to work on me with a ‘Theory’ Umm… Am I a test case? There was a place in Denver that was something like ‘Reconstructive Surgery By Design’ Well, I hope so. If you see Pablo Picosso pictures on the wall, run. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/476 "2024-04-04T23:23:20Z")
Better than “Reconstructive Surgery by Chance,” though, no? ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/477 "2024-04-05T02:18:18Z")
> [@Quondam\_Mechanic](#): > > Yes, they have a big sign that just says “Mass Control.” Maybe it’s where they set up the standard liturgy for Catholic churches in the country? ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/478 "2024-04-05T15:37:47Z")
> [@Quondam\_Mechanic](#): > > AFAIK, all the US “routes” are concatenations of local roads, so both route and road names apply. Once upon a time USs 60, 70, and 80 were all on Main Street in Apache Junction and Mesa, and Apache Boulevard (same alignment) in Tempe. Nowadays, US 60 has been shifted to a freeway two miles south, 70 ends in Globe, and 80 in Dallas. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/479 "2024-04-05T15:44:18Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Ummm. Yeah. I don’t want any Doc/Dentist to work on me with a ‘Theory’ Umm… Am I a test case? It’s sort of related to how “experiment” has so much more negative connotations than “experimental”. Everyone wants to get the experimental new treatment, but nobody wants to be experimented upon. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/480 "2024-04-05T16:06:22Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > I don’t want any Doc/Dentist to work on me with a ‘Theory’ I know of a dental practice called “The Tooth Fairy”. I’ve never been there, but I think it’s kinda cute. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074.md?page=23) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074.md?page=25)