# 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:** 5
**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:** [February 6, 2024, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/81 "2024-02-06T11:46:04Z")
What’s so funny about a sign that says “Yard Sale”? ---
**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:** [February 6, 2024, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/82 "2024-02-06T12:45:04Z")
Kointry Kravins & Krafts…. KKK? ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/83 "2024-02-06T13:20:17Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Old name of the town, for some 200 years: **FUCKING**. > […] > New name of the town: **FUGGING**. They [Mailerized](https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/03/12/fug/) the town name! ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/84 "2024-02-06T13:41:36Z")
> [@Tatterdemalion](#): > > > [@Old\_Wench](#): > > > > Pennsylvania has the more politely-named Intercourse, which is not far from Blue Ball. > > Which, in turn, is not far from Paradise But it’s a long way from Climax. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/85 "2024-02-06T13:58:40Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > If we’re talking Intercourse, Blue Ball, and Paradise, then we cannot forget the Newfoundland town A bit shocked to not see any mischief with that arrow… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/86 "2024-02-06T18:10:03Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > ETA: Nuts. Zoom in to read the sign. Help me out here. Liquor, beer, wine, ice, beer specials, tobacco, e-cigs, cigars, CBD, vape, and kratom. Which one doesn’t belong? ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/87 "2024-02-06T18:17:58Z")
I lived near a community that had a Lois Lane and a Margo Lane. Also a community where all the streets were named after herbs and spices. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/88 "2024-02-06T18:21:07Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > I lived near a community that had a Lois Lane and a Margo Lane. Also a community where all the streets were named after herbs and spices. - There’s a Warp Drive in town along with several other ST:TNG themed streets. ---
**Author:** ![Dogginit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogginit/32/16920_2.png) [@Dogginit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogginit)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/89 "2024-02-06T18:26:52Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I recommend not ordering from this place too often … Puts me in mind of the late comedian [John Pinette](https://youtu.be/HXNXocJQJzc?feature=shared) 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/90 "2024-02-06T19:15:22Z")
In the general vicinity of Sacramento, there’s an intersection of Klingon and Romulan. Also an intersection of Disk Drive and Data Drive. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/91 "2024-02-06T19:19:31Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > In the general vicinity of Sacramento, there’s an intersection of Klingon and Romulan. Also an intersection of Disk Drive and Data Drive. - Article about that and other streets. Also mentions the same TNG streets that I did. > **[Did you know Sacramento County has a Star Trek-themed intersection?](https://fox40.com/news/california-connection/star-trek-intersection-florin-sacramento-county/)** > > (KTXL) — In Sacramento County neighborhoods, like in the neighborhoods of many other cities, street names could take on a common theme. In the Florin area of Sacramento County, there is a certain i… ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/92 "2024-02-06T19:30:37Z")
This is 100% true: A bud of mine who worked in a school district that has been notorious for being sanctioned by the state and has endured a multitude of law suits by mistreated employees, had this sign labeling a paper drawer: “Graft Paper”. Freudian slip? LOL ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/93 "2024-02-06T19:37:14Z")
Is it next to the drawer with the grift wrapping paper? ---
**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:** [February 6, 2024, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/94 "2024-02-06T19:43:17Z")
Ice is a bad habit? ---
**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:** [February 6, 2024, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/95 "2024-02-06T19:54:35Z")
It’s just come to me that somewhere (apocryphally?) there’s a Chinese restaurant called Ho Lee Fook. And there’s the (equally apocryphally?) “Ears pierced while you wait”, and one I saw myself on beachside stall in Ibiza: “We make little holes in your ears without pain”. Oh, and there was a beach shack café in Crete that advertised "Fried Squits’. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/96 "2024-02-06T20:12:04Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > It’s just come to me that somewhere (apocryphally?) there’s a Chinese restaurant called Ho Lee Fook. 🎶 _I saw werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand_ _Walking through the streets of SoHo in the rain_ _He was looking for the place called Lee Ho Fooks_ _For to get a big dish of beef chow mein_ 🎶 [Lee Ho Fook - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Ho_Fook) > **Lee Ho Fook** was a [Chinese restaurant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_restaurant) located in [Chinatown, London](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown,_London) at 15–16 [Gerrard Street](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrard_Street,_London).[[1]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Ho_Fook#cite_note-1) It was originally located at 4 Macclesfield Street and continued to operate out of that site, known as Lee Ho Fook II, as well as Gerard Street, for several decades.[[2]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Ho_Fook#cite_note-2) In 1974, it became the first Chinese restaurant in the United Kingdom to be awarded a [Michelin Star](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelin_Star).[[3]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Ho_Fook#cite_note-Guard08-3) The restaurant was referenced in the lyrics of 1978 song “[Werewolves of London](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolves_of_London)” by [Warren Zevon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Zevon).[[4]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Ho_Fook#cite_note-4) > > Lee Ho Fook closed in 2008, being replaced by another restaurant called Golden Harvest. That was then replaced by Dumplings’ Legend, which specialises in [soup-filled dumplings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaolongbao). ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/97 "2024-02-06T21:56:14Z")
Depends what (or who) you do with it. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/98 "2024-02-06T23:20:35Z")
> [@Dogginit](#): > > Puts me in mind of the late comedian [John Pinette](https://youtu.be/HXNXocJQJzc?feature=shared) 🤣 Just wanted to say thanks for that. Despite his success I had not heard of Pinette. That was very funny so I ended up watching half a dozen other YouTube clips of his standup. Very sad that he died at only 50. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/99 "2024-02-07T01:10:08Z")
Yeah. If you don’t know who Mitch Hedberg or Greg Giraldo are, you should look them up too. Not sure what it is about stand-ups, no matter how much they enjoy skiing or buffets. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2024, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/100 "2024-02-07T01:22:27Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > a sign saying something like “Moose Crossing, next 200km” on the part of the TransCanada Highway that goes north of Lake Superior. Moose Crossing signs are pretty commonplace in the northeast - they appear along I-95 approaching Portland, and we saw loads of them when visiting Quebec. I never saw a moose near any of them. I took to yelling “FALSE ADVERTISING” every time I saw a sign. Near Assateague / Chincoteague / Wallops Island, some jokester had put large red dots on the noses on the “deer crossing” signs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074.md?page=6)