Amusing Signs

In my town, you will be on a large road, and there will be a side street to the left, then a side street to the right, then a side street to the left, then a side street to the right, etc.

A few decades ago, the city decided to take pairs of side streets, and turn them into single cross streets. So now there are a bunch of places where a street will suddenly zigzag and change names.

I don’t know if this is “amusing” or not. But, I like it.
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But, this one is amusing:
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Do the fragments say something, or is the amusing aspect just the fact that there’s (effectively) so sign there? I tried zooming the image but I can’t make out anything legible.

No, the sign is completely gone. It’s more of a statement than a sign now.

Looks a lot like a Tetris screen turned 90°, though, and that’s kinda funny.

Yes, yes it does…

Seen outside Amarillo near Cadillac Ranch a few years ago:

Could be a rudimentary QR code type signaling device.

I suppose this sign in Green Bank, WV is amusing.

It’s at the entrance to the National Radio Observatory. Spark plugs cause interference with the super-sensitive radio telescopes. For getting around the (large) facility, your options are diesel cars, or bicycles (there are a bunch of communal-use vehicles of both types about the place).

This sign was posted in the bathroom at a house I rented. I think the owner was not a native English speaker. I hypothesized that a “famine napkin” is a napkin you use when you’re really really hungry.

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I always like it when I see one of those signs and a bit later down the same road a “Slow Men Working” sign.

It gives me hope the kids’ll be able to find jobs when they grow up.

I LOLed for real. Nicely played!!

Not only that, but the fedora somehow makes the man look sinister, like a 30s-era gangster. Very strange sign indeed.

They say that hunger is the best sauce. But I’m not sure I’ve ever been that hungry.

Yes I have to admit that it is nice to have one and be able to enjoy it. And it can be quite the conversation starter. A good ice breaker. I’m somewhat amazed at how reliable a car it is. I feel confident that I can hop in it in the morning and drive it across the country. And the car is 61 years old.

I have entertained thoughts of shipping it to Germany to tour there and do a road trip. That would be fun to do.

You’re lucky to have made it home! Dave Barry wrote a column about being pulled over one time when he was young and foolish, and the cop noticed a pile of municipal traffic cones in the back of his car. The cop asked him, somewhat rhetorically, if they were his. I don’t remember if poor Dave was actually arrested, but he definitely got a citation for theft. :smiley:

Interesting…I’ve been there (or at least to the museum nearby? Pretty sure we were on the radio telescope grounds, I know we got a tour that showed some) and don’t remember my very ordinary car being restricted in any way from driving to their parking lot.

Over here, the Daily Telegraph has a running collection (sadly not free):

They also produced a book, which includes such gems as

  • the road sign “Cats eyes removed”* outside a Blue Cross animal hospital.

*(This is meaningful in the UK - reflectors mounted on springs to mark the centre line on unlit roads)

  • an Australian sign “No understanding either side”

  • an American sign “Citizen Disposal Facility” on Furnace Road

  • a couple of street names “Witts End” and “Back Front Street”

  • in Hong Kong, the Wong Fook Hing Book Store

Lonely Planet has also published a number of Signspotting books. And website engrish.com is, of course, well known.

or of little boys?