# Humorous signs and warnings **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comedian-jokes\ **Created:** [March 6, 2022, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-signs-and-warnings/960564 "2022-03-06T15:16:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2022, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-signs-and-warnings/960564/161 "2022-03-24T15:12:35Z")
“General Ordering and Distribution”, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2022, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-signs-and-warnings/960564/162 "2022-03-24T17:57:26Z")
In Louisville there was a music store called “ear X-tacy”. They had bumper stickers with “ear X-tacy” in a distinctive font. A thing was to get a bumper sticker, cut it up to individual letters and rearrange the letters for a creative message. One I remember was “aX yer cat” ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2022, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-signs-and-warnings/960564/163 "2022-03-24T19:23:48Z")
Not a physical sign, but… About thirty years ago, there had been a bad airliner crash, which turned out to have been caused by failure to de-ice the plane’s wings. A week or two later, a friend of mine was on an airline flight that was getting ready to depart after a stop. It was slightly behind schedule. The pilot informed the frazzled passengers that they would be taking off shortly, but needed to complete some procedures first. He rattled these off, ending with, “… and, if nobody objects, we’re going to de-ice the wings”. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2022, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-signs-and-warnings/960564/164 "2022-03-24T21:53:17Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I’ll be ordering soon, since anything with a dachshund draws me in. @Baker and @carrps – (Slightly off-topic) If you’re all into dachshunds, here’s a site you should read. [Rose Heying - The Dachshund History Project](http://www.dachshundhistoryonline.com/historic-information/notable-dachshund-people/tribute-to-rose-heying/) > [@](#): > > In 1972, with the imminent sale approaching of the remaining five acres of land that comprised Heying-Teckel along Bracken Street in Pacoima, CA, we visited Fred and Rose Heying for the first time. I grew up on Bracken Street, one block from that place. It was a city-block size orange grove in the midst of otherwise single housing neighborhood. I grew up with a Heying-Teckel dachshund. ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-signs-and-warnings/960564/165 "2022-03-25T15:14:57Z")
A local bar had its two toilet doors marked with images of dogs. One was a setter; the other was a pointer. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-signs-and-warnings/960564/166 "2022-03-25T15:32:05Z")
> [@Mark\_Finn](#): > > A local bar had its two toilet doors marked with images of dogs. One was a setter; the other was a pointer. - > **[50 Funny Bathroom Signs People Found Around The World](https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-bathroom-signs/)** > > Who knew bathroom signs could be this entertaining? Check out these funny bathroom signs that transform ordinary restrooms into works of creative genius! ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-signs-and-warnings/960564/167 "2022-03-25T15:39:27Z")
> [@Mark\_Finn](#): > > A local bar had its two toilet doors marked with images of dogs. One was a setter; the other was a pointer. I really hate those cutesy bathroom door signs. When you’re in a hurry, you may not have the brainpower available to decipher some witty rebus or word picture. Ya gotta PEE! ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-signs-and-warnings/960564/168 "2022-03-25T16:35:23Z")
> [@F.U.Shakespeare](#): > > About thirty years ago, there had been a bad airliner crash, which turned out to have been caused by failure to de-ice the plane’s wings. [Air Florida,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Florida_Flight_90) and it was more like 40 years back. I was living in NC at the time, and some co-workers had been in the DC area on business, and were on the plane right behind that one on the runway. ---
**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:** [March 25, 2022, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-signs-and-warnings/960564/169 "2022-03-25T16:47:03Z")
I used to go to a bar that had the men’s room door sign outside the ladies’ room, and vice-versa. Each sign had a hand pointing to the appropriate rest room (men’s pointing toward the men’s and women’s pointing toward the women’s), and the words THAT WAY! ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-signs-and-warnings/960564/170 "2022-03-25T16:57:39Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > I grew up with a Heying-Teckel dachshund. I can’t tell you how many people will stop and tell us that they had a dachshund (or their mother or their grandmother had one) back in the day. Once a lady stopped her car to talk. We saw her a few times with her gorgeous black standard dachshund. Another lady came running out of her apartment building, because she’d just moved for a job, and her husband was still back in Colorado with her beloved dachshund. She walked several blocks with us just to be near dachshunds. > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I really hate those cutesy bathroom door signs. When you’re in a hurry, you may not have the brainpower available to decipher some witty rebus or word picture. Ya gotta PEE! Me, too. Especially in bars! ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-signs-and-warnings/960564/171 "2022-03-25T16:59:05Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I used to go to a bar that had the men’s room door sign outside the ladies’ room, and vice-versa. Each sign had a hand pointing to the appropriate rest room (men’s pointing toward the men’s and women’s pointing toward the women’s), and the words THAT WAY! I hope that was a lot less confusing in person. They were just asking for trouble once patrons had had a few drinks. ---
**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:** [March 25, 2022, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-signs-and-warnings/960564/172 "2022-03-25T17:13:51Z")
The pub at one of my universities had signs like that. After about 10pm on a Friday, nobody really gave a damn anymore. But it was a raunchy place anyway. Always holding events like [this one](https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/274863466_5545760195439457_6580124749963926925_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=5cd70e&_nc_ohc=pGMVD5RCWHQAX-GfX6b&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-2.xx&oh=00_AT_hLRfmRxDGQyvjZbdfcD490e-r0W7O-0kNahscDx_E0A&oe=62439479) (NSFW.) I miss that place. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-signs-and-warnings/960564/173 "2022-03-25T17:14:43Z")
In some seafood restaurants, the rest rooms are labeled “Buoys” and “Gulls.” ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-signs-and-warnings/960564/174 "2022-03-25T17:28:20Z")
Sorry to break the string of potty posts, but silicon valley license plate: GURAQT ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-signs-and-warnings/960564/175 "2022-03-25T17:29:32Z")
I don’t think it was intended to be humorous, but I saw this one in a bar in Truckee… _California State Law and **Common Decency** Mandate You Wash Your Hands After Using This Facility_ I often wonder who was shamed into washing by this? ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-signs-and-warnings/960564/176 "2022-03-25T17:30:57Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I often wonder who was shamed into washing by this? You’ve been to Truckee ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-signs-and-warnings/960564/177 "2022-03-25T17:49:42Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > [Air Florida,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Florida_Flight_90) and it was more like 40 years back. I was living in NC at the time, and some co-workers had been in the DC area on business, and were on the plane right behind that one on the runway. I’m pretty sure it was [the 1988 Continental crash in Denver.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1988/09/28/failure-to-de-ice-cited-in-fatal-denver-jet-crash/3a336bc5-5143-400d-876c-500f1972c2ba/) It was in _very_ recent memory, like a few weeks earlier, hence the effectiveness of the pilot’s droll comment. I met the friend who related the story around 1988. The Air Florida crash was five years earlier. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-signs-and-warnings/960564/178 "2022-03-25T17:58:54Z")
I need one of them Dachshund signs! ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-signs-and-warnings/960564/179 "2022-03-25T18:47:50Z")
> [@Crane](#): > > Sorry to break the string of potty posts, but silicon valley license plate: > > GURAQT I once saw “YOURN” as a vanity plate. I met the owner. He was a urologist. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-signs-and-warnings/960564/180 "2022-03-25T19:13:25Z")
Wow - very similar stories. You’d think they’d, yanno, LEARN from recent history. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-signs-and-warnings/960564.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humorous-signs-and-warnings/960564.md?page=10)