SPEED LIMIT 23.
Ironically, it’s at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, on Checkered Flag Lane. I saw this last night as we drove by it.
There are two on eBay, but the cheapest one is $50 OBO.
I think it was at NAS (now MCAS) Miramar when I was a kid that they had 11 MPH signs. I think the idea was to make people notice the speed limit.
I saw this on a car. I don’t really get it, but I like it! (I’m certain that Jerry Orbach was not on board.)
This morning I saw a sporty little car with a bumper sticker that said, “Condoms prevent mini-vans.”
I saw one of those “My other car is a Porsche” stickers … in a Porsche.
There’s a sign at the corner of West Grand and 13th in Grover Beach CA that can always be counted on for a humorous saying. Here’s the most recent street view – you can click the “see more dates” option to see older sayings going back to 2008.
my money is on Nan and his books …
Obviously the usual sign would say “Baby On Board”, so it looks like the obscure connection must be
In 1987, he was featured in the hit film Dirty Dancing as Dr. Jake Houseman, the father of Jennifer Grey’s character “Baby”.
It still doesn’t really make sense, because logically it should be Jennifer Grey on board, but Orbach is intrinsically funnier I guess.
And TIL that Jerry Orbach was hella handsome as a young man.
Or in the corner.
Still doesn’t make sense.
Ok, some more detective work, if you scroll down it’s a reward from this kickstarter.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/brandonbird/the-jerry-orbach-memorial-art-car
And it looks like only 29 people qualified to receive it, so it was a rare sighting.
Wow, I’d glanced at that page earlier but hadn’t bothered to scroll down. Good detective work! Lennie Brisco would have been impressed!
Seriously! The kickstarter was in 2016. I spotted in in 2017. I wonder if any of them are still out there in the wild.
You have no idea how irrationally proud that makes me feel.
This is hilarious.
Time was, there was a furniture dealer with a billboard alongside I-90 in Boston, saying “45 Years Without a Sale.” (The number was suitably changed with time, and the evidently intended implication was that they never found it necessary to offer any discounts beyond their regular pricing.)
Unsurprisingly, eventually a smaller sign was appended, saying “Going Out Of Business.” Which proves you can only wait so long.
Heh, there is no indicator on that sign of what denominations are being measured. I figure if I’m going less than 10.5ly/sec, I’m fine.
That prompted me to search the MUTCD speed limit signs. No “mph” on those either I never noticed that before.
So, if you’re a person in an English-speaking country, who works most closely with English speakers, and your job is to translate things into English, why the Hell is your email autoreply in Welsh?
Here’s one I actually asked the Dope for help in locating.
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The transation appears to be “Caution: woman giving birth on road!” (it actually means “look out for children, they could be your own”).