# Funny Signs **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 26, 2011, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-signs/594142 "2011-08-26T05:13:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-signs/594142/21 "2011-08-26T16:21:21Z")
Sign on the DC beltway: **Report Suspicious Activity** ---
**Author:** ![Inter\_Alia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@Inter\_Alia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inter_Alia)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-signs/594142/22 "2011-08-26T16:26:15Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > Well that part was obvious. I got the joke. I just didn’t get what the sign was supposed to be saying since “Yass” meant nothing to me. My bad. I couldn’t tell from what you wrote. I will admit that it took me a second to see it. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-signs/594142/23 "2011-08-26T16:56:26Z")
This one I have actually seen, it is a [carwash](http://www.flickr.com/photos/guidotti/159046644/), named after the little hamlet where it is to be found, not far from Big Bear Lake in the San Bernadino mountains of California. Not far from where I grew up in England, there used to be a large sign, by a major road, pointing the way to a “Secret Government Research Centre.” My google-fu has failed to find me photo of it, though. ---
**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-signs/594142/24 "2011-08-26T18:18:18Z")
Two of my favorites from years ago in the SF Bay area: A Street Downtown Caution Pedestrians Slippery When Wet ---
**Author:** ![PaulParkhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@PaulParkhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaulParkhead)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-signs/594142/25 "2011-08-26T18:25:14Z")
[This one](http://www.picturescolourlibrary.co.uk/hybrid/data.svt?viewpage=picture_details_np.jsp&pclref=2209149) in Kent, England appeals to me. In the US, the signs that always amused me were the ones outside businesses that read along the lines of “Jesus is risen, indeed He is risen! Full auto tuneup $70” ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-signs/594142/26 "2011-08-26T18:37:03Z")
I don’t have a picture, but my favorite is on a freeway (I-5? Maybe I-205?) approaching Portland, OR from the south. It highlights an exit to Boring Oregon City Yep, no argument here. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-signs/594142/27 "2011-08-26T20:24:00Z")
> [@mrklutz](#): > > Caution Pedestrians > Slippery When Wet Whenever I see a street sign that says SLOW CHILDREN I always think “Those poor kids. They must go to a special school.” And when I see Perkin’s School for the Blind, I have to wonder who the sign is for. ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-signs/594142/28 "2011-08-26T20:37:51Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > National Lampoon used to publish these kinds of pictures all the time, sent in by readers. A couple of the more memorable were: … I think it was in a book by National Lampoon that I saw one of my favorites. This was a large neon sign with some of the letters burned out, that said: UCKY FRIED ICK ---
**Author:** ![slightly\_askew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@slightly\_askew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slightly_askew)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-signs/594142/29 "2011-08-26T20:45:27Z")
I drive by a farm on my way to work that has a sign that says: ALPACA EGGS I don’t know what an alpaca egg is, but I sure want one. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-signs/594142/30 "2011-08-26T20:46:10Z")
> [@campp](#): > > We drove by an obviously dead motel in a remote NM town, and the sign in the window proudly proclaimed: NOW UNDER NEW MENEGMENT! Reminds me of one I saw years ago on a local motel: > [@](#): > > TraveLodge > Under New Management > The Sign of Quality There’s also [this sign](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rt50_termini_ca_ocmd_sign.jpg) at the western end of U.S. Highway 50, near Sacramento, California. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-signs/594142/31 "2011-08-26T20:47:36Z")
I pass [this one](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/26/52735862_d994cd6b17.jpg) on a fairly regular basis. When I was in college I has some friends get arrested there, doing what so many other people before them had probably been arrested for, recreating\* their bongs. \*hmm, I’ve never seen that typed. It’s not supposed to be re-creating, it’s rec-reating. ETA, I see I was beaten to it. Here’s another one. Driving somewhere in the south, I remember seeing either [this](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2724/4328856839_5ea039fcc9.jpg) or [this](http://funnyaussiesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/hitchhikers-400x300.jpg) one. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-signs/594142/32 "2011-08-26T20:50:33Z")
> [@loshan](#): > > :eek:😃 > > There was one outside of Ruidoso, NM that always made me laugh. Hand painted on plywood, all on a single line: > > BBQ Ice Cream –\> In Yucaipa, CA, just off of the Yucaipa Ave. exit off of I-10, on signs that are side by side: “Teriyaki Smoothies” Ulp. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-signs/594142/33 "2011-08-26T21:20:37Z")
At an autobody shop that I passed, one of the letters fell off their sign and took them months to fix. It said: SMOG CHECK ASS OR DON’T PAY! ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-signs/594142/34 "2011-08-26T21:27:19Z")
Driving to my Grandparents house in NC Arkansas, there were three family favorites: \<1\> The [water tower](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Z2wo1IA3tIk/R9eIu85muVI/AAAAAAAABBc/aSzVokl1FXA/s400/Bourbon%2BWater%2BTower.jpg) for Bourbon, MO. \<2\> The signs in Oklahoma that warned [Do not drive into smoke](http://webinarspy.com/wp-content/uploads/DoNotDriveIntoSmoke.jpg) \<3\> The one in their town, just before the Strawberry River, that warned [Road Unsafe When Under Water](http://boiseguardian.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/old/images/Unsafe%20Rd.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-signs/594142/35 "2011-08-26T21:34:25Z")
> [@Yeticus\_Rex](#): > > In Yucaipa, CA, just off of the Yucaipa Ave. exit off of I-10, on signs that are side by side: > > “Teriyaki Smoothies” > > Ulp. A gas station in our town used to have the following words emblazoned on its side, a little too close for comfort: CHICKEN DONUTS DELI Even though it’s changed owner/franchise and been remodeled and rebadged, I still call it “the chicken donuts place.” ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-signs/594142/36 "2011-08-26T22:40:34Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Here’s another one. Driving somewhere in the south, I remember seeing either [this](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2724/4328856839_5ea039fcc9.jpg) or [this](http://funnyaussiesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/hitchhikers-400x300.jpg) one. We have a state prison here in Tucson along Interstate 10. There are signs in the area similar to those warning that there is a prison nearby and advising drivers against picking up hitchhikers. Those signs are in dead earnest and probably more common than you might think. ---
**Author:** ![eclectic\_wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac91a4/32.png) [@eclectic\_wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eclectic_wench)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-signs/594142/37 "2011-08-26T22:53:09Z")
> [@FatBaldGuy](#): > > I think it was in a book by National Lampoon that I saw one of my favorites. This was a large neon sign with some of the letters burned out, that said: > > UCKY > FRIED > ICK Ow. I have a cough and when I laugh it starts me coughing. It was worth it, though. My favourite was around the corner from my first student flat. It said ‘CHANGE OF PRIORITY AHEAD’. Every time we walked home late and drunk, we considered stealing it and sticking it up on the wall of our flat. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-signs/594142/38 "2011-08-26T22:54:19Z")
A local bar here had lettering on the door that said, in arced red letters (like a frown) “No Minors”.Below that it said again,in arced red letters(like a smile) “after 9:00 PM”.Problem was in between the two arcs was a straight line in blue letters that said"NO WEAPONS ALLOWED". So it looked like it said No weapons allowed after 9pm. ---
**Author:** ![Sally\_Mander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Sally\_Mander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sally_Mander)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-signs/594142/39 "2011-08-26T22:54:53Z")
> [@Jeff\_Lichtman](#): > > There’s also [this sign](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rt50_termini_ca_ocmd_sign.jpg) at the western end of U.S. Highway 50, near Sacramento, California. There’s a matching sign on the bridge heading out of [Ocean City, MD.](http://www.google.com/imgres?q=ocean+city+sacramento+sign&hl=en&biw=1432&bih=739&gbv=2&tbm=isch&tbnid=YtdE0Zmel2Up_M:&imgrefurl=http://www.botecomm.com/bote/signs/unusual1.html&docid=Zv6rLRbC3Y4HnM&w=366&h=324&ei=ySNYTteWL8mBgAefx_mIDA&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=494&page=1&tbnh=142&tbnw=167&start=0&ndsp=24&ved=1t:429,r:14,s:0&tx=74&ty=74) ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-signs/594142/40 "2011-08-26T23:03:35Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Here’s another one. Driving somewhere in the south, I remember seeing either [this](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2724/4328856839_5ea039fcc9.jpg) or [this](http://funnyaussiesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/hitchhikers-400x300.jpg) one. That second one’s on Highway 69 near Stringtown, OK. There’s a maximum security prison visible from the highway there, so it really makes perfect sense. Doesn’t say much for their security, though. Also down the road is the now closed “69 Cafe”, which was all kinds of hilarious to High School me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-signs/594142.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-signs/594142.md?page=3)