Driving home to LA from San Diego up the 5 yesterday afternoon I saw an amusing billboard:
Keep taking my name in vain.
I’ll make rushhour longer.
-God
I laughed out loud!
So share 'em! This is the place.
Phenomenal woman
Bitch Corporate Lawyer
That's meMelin, they’ve got all those around here too!
here’s a few I remember:
That “love thy neighorbor” thing? I meant that - God
Tell the kids I love 'em - God
What part of “Thou Shalt Not” didn’t you understand - God
Don’t make me come down there! - God
Quite a few more also. I wonder who’s doing these. There’s never any advertising on them, no denominational affiliation or anything.
…it has never been my way to bother much about things which you can’t cure.
I saw some sort of a news type story on these billboards.
I cannot remember who it is doing it, but they collect money from different people to put these messages all over the country.
Obviously God does not have much of a PR department, so I guess they are acting as one.
Personally, I think that sometimes it is good for us to be reminded that God is watching.
Jeffery
Those of you who make the trek down I-95, along the eastern seaboard, have no doubt encountered the billboards leading up to “South of the Border” (Mexican theme park/tourist trap, & totally tacky!), at the NC/SC border.
“You never sausage a place!” (featuring a giant 3-d hotdog), and others with similar artwork, including animated sheep and a junk car, all in day-glo colors on a black background.
If anybody remembers any of their slogans, put 'em here.
Gary
“Basses do it lower”
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Someone sent me this…
These billboards are all over Fl orida,
Let’s meet at my house Sunday before the game.
-God
C’mon over and bring the kids.
-God
What part of “Thou Shalt Not…” didn’t you understand?
-God
We need to talk.
-God
Loved the wedding, invite me to the marriage.
-God
I love you and you and you and you and…
-God
Big bang theory, you’ve got to be kidding.
-God
My way is the highway.
-God
Need directions?
-God
You think it’s hot here?
-God
Have you read my #1 best seller? There will be a test.
-God
Do you have any idea where you’re going?
-God
You can only be a victim once. After that you’re just a volunteer.
Naomi Judd
Two come immediately to mind…
Two Marlboro-men, in a Marlboro-man setting, and in Marlboro-type, “Bob, I’ve got emphysema.”
Bright yellow background, black Helvetica type:
CALVIN COOLIDGE
WAS THE
30TH PRESIDENT
www.calvincoolidge.com
Shame that it was just a marketing test… check it out.
And as for those “God” billboards… let God speak for himself. (and listen to the silence)
“If A=B, B=C, and C=D, do not get a job proofreading” --Quid’s Theorem
Signs along the roadway. Pardon me for some quiet nostalgia:
He lit a match
To check his tank
That’s why they call him
Skinless Frank
Burma Shave
<g> I was wondering how long it would take before we got a “Burma Shave” post.
-Melin
Around the corner
Lickety-split
Beautiful car
Wasn’t it?
Burma Shave
– Sylence
“A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, ‘Wish you were here’.” - Steven Wright
Empty beer cans
On the road
Are ugly, many say;
But at night
Reflecting bright
They safely guide the way!
BURMA SHAVE
Okay, okay, it wasn’t really Burma Shave, it was a Mad magazine parody of Burma Shave from sometime in the early sixties. But it always stuck in my head even more than the real ones.
North Florida, just below the border with Georgia. The billboard reads:
“Ugly Beach Towels - $5”
What a slogan.
Ah yes, the South of the Border signs.
You’re always a weiner with Pedro(picture of giant hot dog)
(upside down SOTB sign)sign designed in Washington
Keep whining kids, they’ll stop
There is like one sign every mile thru North & South Carolina along I-95
I think that I shall never see
A billboard as lovely as a tree.
Perhaps unless the billboards fall,
I’ll never see a tree at all.
The Wolf was shaved
So neat and trim,
Red Riding Hood
Was chasing him.
Burma Shave
Wow, dredged up from the very bottom of MPSIMS. I’m surprised that Melin’s name wouldn’t have gathered more views from curiosity alone.
I grew up in a small town called Winnemucca and they started a billboard campaign.
Winnemucca: 5 billion people haven’t been here
The rest were too visual to share here.
Ruffian and I were in southern Ohio in July and saw this sign at a cemetary between South Point and Coal Grove (not that any of you would know where that is)…
Don’t drink and drive.
We can wait.