# 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:** 19\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2001, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/61 "2001-02-19T14:15:54Z")
There was the “Triangle Gym” in Myrtle Beach (logo: inverted pink triangle) that had a sign out front that said “Parking in rear.” I’d always wondered if that was intentional. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2001, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/62 "2001-02-19T17:31:28Z")
There was a home under construction in my neighborhood. In the front yard were the usual real estate signs. Also in the front yard was a port-a-potty for use by construction workers. The sign directly in front of the port-a-potty read: SPACIOUS INTERIOR! BIGGER THAN IT LOOKS! ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2001, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/63 "2001-02-19T17:35:23Z")
Also, in Georgia, “Strange” is a fairly common family name. Apparently, one such family owned a pharmacy in south Georgia. The resulting sign: STRANGE DRUGS ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2001, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/64 "2001-02-19T18:05:33Z")
Not sure if it’s really a juxtaposition, but some years ago, I was driving with some friends through Vermont. We drove over a bridge that had a sign: “Robert Frost Memorial Bridge.” Then, a little further down the road, we saw another sign: “Robert Frost Memorial Highway.” Not much farther, we saw a road sign left over from the winter that warned us of “Frost Heaves.” The last sign prompted one of my companions to remark, “What, did he barf here?” ---
**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 24, 2001, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/65 "2001-02-24T23:25:41Z")
This was in a segment of _Real People:_ ALIEN MEATBALLS ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ In _National Lampoon’s_ “True Facts” book this marquee appears: THE FLY GODS MUST BE CRAZY ALIENS The magazine commented, “I never did trust those Fly Gods.” 😃 Not a real juxtaposition, but a funny phrasing I saw on a sign at a local movie house: JAMES GARNER in TANK ---
**Author:** ![Mofo\_Rising](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mofo\_Rising](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mofo_Rising)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2001, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/66 "2001-02-25T03:25:30Z")
You can look [here](http://moforising.tripod.com/fun10.jpg) for an example of the Jesus/Duncan Donuts sign. For extra fun, you can go to [my homepage](http://moforising.tripod.com/index.html) and download the .wav file I provided to go with it. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2001, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/67 "2001-02-25T03:49:38Z")
Somewhere between Appomattox, VA and the Richmond International Raceway, there is a Quik-E-Food gas station with part of the “D” broken off. So it looks like it says Quik-E-Fool In East Greenbush, NY there is a sign in front of a CVS that says PEPSI MILK 99 It has said PEPSI MILK 99 for more than a year and a half. I still don’t know what that means. Not a juxtapositionthingy, but it amuses me: also in East Greenbush, there is some land for sale. It says to call Jeff Gordon. ---
**Author:** ![OxyMoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2001, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/68 "2001-02-25T04:21:22Z")
Two intersections in New York: In Manhattan, just a block south of the New York Stock Exchange (Wall and Broad Streets), you’ll find the corner of Beaver and Broad. I giggle. I can’t help it. Just Friday I had to messenger a package there - would you believe that the building on that corner is where the New York Unified Court System has its Continuing Legal Education board? The other was duly noted in the 92 election - it’s in Brooklyn: Bush and Clinton. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2001, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/69 "2001-02-25T05:38:03Z")
My three favorite signs of all time: 1. On a little shop near a river: Jeannie’s Bike, Bait, and Deli (I never, ever shopped there; no telling how the ingredients got mixed) 2. On the side of a building: Girl Scout Distribution Center (I could just see a new scout leader driving up to ask for a “Dozen Brownies to go, please”) 3. On the door into a stairwell: Use Stairs Between Floors Only. (This one still leaves me speechless; Wonko would love it) ---
**Author:** ![TPWombat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TPWombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TPWombat)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2001, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/70 "2001-02-25T22:00:05Z")
On holiday in Cornwall, in a small seaside town. Sign on the exterior wall of a public lavatory : \*\*“No Dumping” \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/71 "2001-02-26T02:39:39Z")
A couple of years ago I visited Big Bone State Park in Kentucky. How do you get to “Big Bone”? Well, you turn at the Beaver Lick General Store. _snicker_ ---
**Author:** ![PlanMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2bfe46/32.png) [@PlanMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlanMan)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/72 "2001-02-26T03:45:36Z")
So, **xtnjohnson** here in Jacksonville, we also have an intersection at Beaver and Broad Streets. Fav juxataposition - on US301 - between Jacksonville and Ocala - is an establishment with this sign: MOTEL TAXIDERMY … is the manager’s name Bates? … they have a REALLY strict check-out time. ---
**Author:** ![snac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@snac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snac)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/73 "2001-02-26T04:09:01Z")
A couple of old political buttons I acquired back in the early seventies, when such things were hot… A Chicago antipollution slogan reading “Don’t Do It in the Lake!” …followed by a McGovern campaign button that read “Let George Do It” Fun to wear them both to school, in that order, and watch the looks on people’s faces as they caught my drift. ---
**Author:** ![DonQuixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@DonQuixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DonQuixote)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/74 "2001-02-26T04:33:28Z")
While waiting in line for the Magnum (big rollercoaster) at Cedar Point, there is a sign warning people that their belongings may fall out while on the ride. Someone stuck their old gum on the word “glasses” so the sign reads, “Please secure your asses…” Good thing too, some people may lose control of their bodily functions on that thing. ---
**Author:** ![DonQuixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@DonQuixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DonQuixote)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/75 "2001-02-26T04:37:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by racinchikki \* > \*\*It has said PEPSI MILK 99 for more than a year and a half. I still don’t know what that means. > \*\* 99 cents maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/76 "2001-02-26T06:20:02Z")
Heh, I think he’s refering to the rare Pepsi milk. What do they do to get it, feed cows a six pack every day? ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/77 "2001-02-26T22:19:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Brood McEto \* > **As you drive west through Louisiana (LA) on I-10, the roadsigns usually have two towns listed for each exit. I can’t remember the names of the two towns, but it sounds like a guys name. I feel dumb for not remembering the name. When you go west, they are reversed, and doesn’t have the same effect.** On I-35 south of Fort Worth, we have a sign like that for “Joshua” and “Mansfield”. If I ever write a book, the hero’s name will be “Joshua Mansfield”, and he’s going to get involved with a stripper-with-a-heart-of-gold named [Lacy Lakeview](http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?Pyt=Tmap&addr=&city=Lacy-lakeview&state=TX&slt=31.629200&sln=-97.102500&name=&zip=&country=us&BFCat=&BFClient=&mag=6&desc=&cs=7&newmag=8&poititle=&poi=). As for other funny sign juxtapositions, here are a few from my collection: A “Sign of the Times”:[ul][li][at the movies](http://members.aol.com/lithonius/images/humour/great_sign_movies.jpg) (21 K)[_][on the road of life](http://members.aol.com/lithonius/images/humour/great_sign_dilemna.jpg) (49 K)[_][at the grocer’s](http://members.aol.com/lithonius/images/humour/great_sign_pot.jpg) (42 K)[at the fast food joint](http://members.aol.com/lithonius/images/humour/great_sign_losers.jpg) (31 K)[/ul][/li]— Pete Long time RGMWer and all your base are belong to us! ---
**Author:** ![OxyMoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/78 "2001-02-26T23:21:06Z")
This isn’t quite a juxtaposition but it’s pretty damn funny. A friend pointed out the sign on the microwave at the office, which I’d never really bothered to read: “This microwave is a privilege. If you’d rather not clean behind yourself, please do not use this microwave.” ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2001, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177/79 "2001-02-26T23:43:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Corvus \* > \*\*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:: \*\* You could even say people were Dying to get in there **Ducks** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-sign-juxtapositions/30177.md?page=3)