# Best billboards ever - share yours! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 21, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboards-ever-share-yours/540281 "2010-05-21T17:53:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboards-ever-share-yours/540281/1 "2010-05-21T17:53:52Z")
I saw the funniest billboard on my way to work. I should’ve taken a photo. It was in Southern Illinois at a local shrine and read: Moses, the Musical - the burning within! My first thought was that most people use Vagisil to cure that. What billboards or other signs have you seen lately that have given you a chuckle? ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboards-ever-share-yours/540281/2 "2010-05-21T17:58:20Z")
Litter on a stick. Advertising in newspapers, magazines, and broadcast media help to subsidize them. Billboards contribute nothing but visual blight, something that’s been exacerbated in recent years with electronic and tri-panel billboards. They’re all equally bad. ---
**Author:** ![palindromemordnilap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboards-ever-share-yours/540281/3 "2010-05-21T18:21:03Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > Billboards contribute nothing but visual blight. I’d like to see that on a billboard. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboards-ever-share-yours/540281/4 "2010-05-22T19:57:55Z")
My wife and I mis-interpreted [post=10515228] this one[/post]. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboards-ever-share-yours/540281/5 "2010-05-22T20:11:33Z")
> [@Typo\_Knig](#): > > My wife and I mis-interpreted [post=10515228] this one[/post]. 😃 That’s a whole 'nother kind of awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboards-ever-share-yours/540281/6 "2010-05-22T20:28:05Z")
In the flat out bizzaro category, I saw the following outside a church in Louisiana. > [@](#): > > You can baptize a cat a hundred times, but it isn’t going to Heaven ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboards-ever-share-yours/540281/7 "2010-05-22T20:39:07Z")
Strangest one I’ve ever seen, apparently related to drunk driving: [“Let’s Get Ice Cream After You Paralyse Us”](http://www.flickr.com/photos/neonspecs/3802640642/) ---
**Author:** ![Caveat\_lector\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@Caveat\_lector\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caveat_lector_1)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboards-ever-share-yours/540281/8 "2010-05-22T20:45:53Z")
I’ve always been found of the one that the billboard company put up to advertise themselves during the tenure of the previous fed chairman. The advertisement consisted of a dark green background and the words “\*This \*green span generates higher interest.” I laughed. ---
**Author:** ![pudytat72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@pudytat72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pudytat72)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboards-ever-share-yours/540281/9 "2010-05-22T23:51:15Z")
Sign near a new housing development: Unique Traditional Architecture Maybe not “the Best” but sure made me go:confused: ---
**Author:** ![TheTerribleTako](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@TheTerribleTako](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheTerribleTako)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2010, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboards-ever-share-yours/540281/10 "2010-05-23T00:09:29Z")
I think this one was at the outskirts of Las Vegas: What happens in Vegas, God knows. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2010, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboards-ever-share-yours/540281/11 "2010-05-23T00:41:05Z")
Placeholders for the local billboard company in OKC - two consecutive signs. “O.M.G. Becky! Look at that board, it’s SO BIG!!!” “I like big boards and I cannot lie! (Contact number)” ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboards-ever-share-yours/540281/12 "2010-05-24T19:59:18Z")
> [@Darth\_Sensitive](#): > > Placeholders for the local billboard company in OKC - two consecutive signs. > > “O.M.G. Becky! Look at that board, it’s SO BIG!!!” > > “I like big boards and I cannot lie! (Contact number)” I would’ve loved to have seen these! ---
**Author:** ![powerjacob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@powerjacob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/powerjacob)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboards-ever-share-yours/540281/13 "2010-05-24T20:42:34Z")
There was a local bankruptcy attorney who’s slogan was “Call Sam” The billboards had this phrase on them, but no phone number. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2010, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboards-ever-share-yours/540281/14 "2010-05-24T20:48:41Z")
I like the new Union 76 billboards around here. They have a large picture of a yellow VW Beetle, with the tag line “For those of you playing Slug Bug.” ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboards-ever-share-yours/540281/15 "2010-05-24T21:24:41Z")
There used to be one something like this 'round these parts: “Thinking of molesting small children?” Presumably it was intended as support, giving someone who might have such thoughts a number to call for someone they could talk to. You know, as a public service. And that’s not a bad idea. However, the sign had the opposite effect on my husband. He saw it and yelled out, “Well, I am _now_! Thanks a lot.” ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboards-ever-share-yours/540281/16 "2010-05-24T22:44:39Z")
Back in my college ultimate frisbee days, one of our team cheers was the verbatim text from a sign in front of a store (granted, not really a billboard). It went like this (the exclamation points were on the original sign): Michael’s Jewish Deli Cold beer! Break the fast! Fish trays! ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboards-ever-share-yours/540281/17 "2010-05-24T23:12:21Z")
There have been several billboards for Western products in the Gulf that failed in the 80s or so… generally of the three panel/pictures: Leftmost: A guy dying in the sand Center: Guy finding a cold soft drink Rightmost: Happy guy Now consider the fact that Arabs read right to left. Oops. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboards-ever-share-yours/540281/18 "2010-05-25T00:29:37Z")
> [@Desert\_Nomad](#): > > There have been several billboards for Western products in the Gulf that failed in the 80s or so… generally of the three panel/pictures: > > Leftmost: A guy dying in the sand > Center: Guy finding a cold soft drink > Rightmost: Happy guy > > Now consider the fact that Arabs read right to left. Oops. Are you sure this really happened? Because it sounds very similar to some jokes and urban legends I’ve heard. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billboards-ever-share-yours/540281/19 "2010-05-25T02:20:55Z")
Glad I happened to have the camera at the ready for [this pairing](http://www.sirblah.com/photo/view.php?album=Misc&start=30&pic=Misc048.JPG&picindex=47). Hmmm…392 picture views? I must’ve started a thread about that… Edit: Why yes, [yes I did](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=448309).