# Funny sign juxtapositions **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 21, 2000, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177 "2000-08-21T16:56:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/21 "2000-08-23T12:42:50Z")
In Brick, NJ, there is a sign on Brick Boulevard that originally read “Reduced Speed Ahead” Someone covered up the " uced S d" letters with stickers. It now reads “Red Pee Ahead” I now laugh every time the speed limit reduces. ---
**Author:** ![thewiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6de8d8/32.png) [@thewiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thewiz)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/22 "2000-08-23T14:50:51Z")
In Van Horn, Texas, just off I-10, there is a gas station/convience store. In big black letters on the side of the building visible from the highway is “Diesel Fried Chicken” ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/23 "2000-08-23T15:14:33Z")
A reader board in front of a convenience store just outside of Las Vegas read: WE FAX HOT DOGS And just recently, I saw this in my hometown on the front of a Baskin-Robbins, not really juxtaposition, but I thought it was funny: THEY TOLD ME TO CHANGE THE READER BOARD SO I DID ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/24 "2000-08-23T18:09:40Z")
As I was driving back home today, I saw a sign in front of Shutterbug that read: DIGITAL CAMERA SALE ONE HOUR $6.99 For a brief second, I truly believed that there was, for one hour only, digital cameras for seven bucks. I wanted to clean them out. Bastards. ---
**Author:** ![Fillet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/2acd7d/32.png) [@Fillet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fillet)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/25 "2000-08-23T19:27:50Z")
I remember driving past a mini-mall in Las Vegas that had a gun shop, a pharmacy and a liquor store. The sign read: GUNS DRUGS BOOZE. Great combo! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![mealypotaotes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/54ee81/32.png) [@mealypotaotes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mealypotaotes)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/26 "2000-08-23T19:48:14Z")
This isn’t a sign, but I once heard a radio announcer say the following after a piece on the EgyptAir crash last year: “so, a sad day for the families of the victims . . . but a great day in traffic! Over to our eye in the sky . . .” ---
**Author:** ![MagicalSilverKey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MagicalSilverKey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicalSilverKey)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/27 "2000-08-23T19:51:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Baloo \* > \*\*…there was a gas station sign sign along interstate 80 near Vallejo. It was also a sign for a restaurant. Nearly 150 feet high (or so I remember) on twin steel pillars, it declared for all to see:[ul]**FOOD > GAS**[/ul]Every time we went to see Grandma in San Jose, we’d see that sign from miles away, and joke about it for the next 20 minutes. > > Eventually, the sign came down. Maybe the restaurant finally figured out that this juxtaposition of words did not speak well of the quality of their food? > > ~~Baloo \*\* We have one of those here in Indiana except its worded: EAT HERE GET GAS ---
**Author:** ![DJScherr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@DJScherr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DJScherr)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/28 "2000-08-23T20:32:14Z")
In my town someone decided to put a sticker on a stop sign right below the word stop, it said forgetting. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/29 "2000-08-23T22:22:41Z")
> [@](#): > > EAT HERE > GET GAS In the comic-book _Mad,_ was a story about “The Shadow’!”(short for “Shadowskeedeeboomboom”) In one panel the above juxtaposition was on _one_ sign: EAT & GET GAS." Below that was a gas-station sign: “Messo.” 😃 A real juxtaposition I saw was the old RTD bus stop signs. On the signpost were two signs: RTD BUS EXCEPT BUSES ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/30 "2000-08-23T22:56:18Z")
There’s a sign painted in crude letters on a window on Kapiolani Boulevard that’s supposed to say: CONSIGN YOUR FURNITURE HERE but instead, thanks to some missing letters, it reads: SIGN YOUR FUTURE HERE Read “Anguished English” and “More Anguished English” by Richard Lederer. He’s got whole chapters dedicated to funny signs. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2000, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/31 "2000-08-24T06:07:44Z")
Sign on a liquor store marquee on the outskirts of Pittsburgh: ``` GO PENS BEER ``` ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2000, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/32 "2000-08-24T09:30:17Z")
Not a juxtaposition, but… I’ve got a photo (taken in CA) of a big, green highway direction sign that says “REMOTE” above an arrow pointing right. Now if I could just find it…I know it’s around here somewhere…hmmm… ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2000, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/33 "2000-08-24T09:40:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Baloo \* > **list]FOOD > GAS[/list]** When I unfortunately lived in Vallejo for a time, and had to commute home to San Jose, we used to see the very same sign 🙂 They finally took it down? A crying shame, it was a laugh in an otherwise un-laughable area. -Sam ---
**Author:** ![Emperor\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c2a13f/32.png) [@Emperor\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emperor_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2000, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/34 "2000-08-24T09:54:09Z")
A local motel is conveniently located next to a casket store in my town. The sign out front is one of those tall dealies with a sign for the motel and right underneath, the casket store. Pretty much reads as: Sunnyside Motel and Casket store. Parking lot always seems pretty full though. ::shudder:: ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2000, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/35 "2000-08-24T19:37:01Z")
Not a juxtapostion, but there’s a little store in the ghetto up by college that says “Git Yo Chickn, Burgers, Fish!” It appears to be a restaraunt. –Tim ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/36 "2001-02-17T22:19:54Z")
Before trading stamps went out of vogue, my parents saw a religious sign just above one for a local kind of trading stamps: JESUS SAVES BLUE CHIP STAMPS A graffito on an abutment for a freeway overpass in downtown Los Angeles had one message (shown in bold) with another appended to it: **JESUS SAVES FROM HELL** O DOLLY REVIVALS 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/37 "2001-02-17T22:39:47Z")
I have seen photos of a movie theatre marquee that was showing the following films; Erin Brockovich Screwed My Dog Skip Should she really win an Oscar for that?!? ---
**Author:** ![GrinnaGirla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@GrinnaGirla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrinnaGirla)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/38 "2001-02-17T23:00:46Z")
at the movie theatre… An American Tail: Fievel Goes Wet when we were on our way to New Orleans… Big Bear Plus with missing letters read “Big ear Pus” Waffle House missing letters read “Waffle Hose” McDonald’s sign that said Now Hiring Closers, missing the c said “Now Hiring losers”. these still give me a chuckle… ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2001, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/39 "2001-02-17T23:45:30Z")
There’s a former Grand’s Restuarant in Fort Myers that was bought by the Ft. Myers Moose Lodge. They took down the Grand’s sign, but left everything else and put up their name on the little changeable “specials” sign. So now it says FT MYERS MOOSE LODGE Drive-Thru Remind me to snap a picture of it one day. ---
**Author:** ![Holly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/48db29/32.png) [@Holly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Holly)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2001, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/40 "2001-02-18T01:00:50Z")
We went on a drive to Taos, NM and noticed a large quantity of unlikely businesses. One sign read: FRESH PRODUCE AND MATTRESSES. Later that day, we ate at a place called: CAFE AND WRECKER SERVICE. We came up with a few of our own. My favorite was: PIT BULLS FOR SALE AND CHILD CARE. LOW DAILY RATES! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177.md?page=3)