Humorous signs and warnings

8 flippers.

I must revisit Ghent. It’s been too long. Last time we were there these signs had been put up - I couldn’t find any on google earth just now, but this nice person has preserved an example on their website. Depending where you work, it could just barely possibly be NSFW, so spoilered.

Last time we were there, Ghent had just won the Belgian football championships. There was much drinking. The signs were widely ignored.

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This one did apparently appear at Wisconsin state parks in the early days of the pandemic.

Closer to home. Here’s a road sign I’ve posted before. It’s at the bottom of Keere Street, Lewes, East Sussex.

Yes, I know the writing is tiny. You can zoom in; or, to save you the bother, the sign reads:

KEERE STREET
NO THROUGH ROAD
Although recorded in history that George IV when Prince Regent drove a coach and four down Keere Street for a wager, access by vehicles to and from the High Street is now forbidden
By Order
Lewes District Council

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I never got a picture of it, and the sign’s been taken down since the pandemic closed the border. But someone took a picture of it:

At the St Lucia Crocodile Center in South Africa:

Some of them need reminding. Lets not forget about the time I got rear ended by a school bus, pushed about a block down the road, up a curb and into a block wall a few tiers high (around a garden). The driver, at least based on what he was saying, had no idea what happened. I call BS, but his official story is that he didn’t see me and didn’t see what happened.*

*I call BS because if he was as clueless as he claimed to be, he wouldn’t have stopped. If I hit someone and didn’t realize it, I’d keep driving because why wouldn’t I?

I don’t get it.

My dad’s little commuter car got clipped by a tourist bus while he was at work. The only damage at the scene was a knocked-out cigarette window but the car was never quite right after that.

‘At par’ means ‘at face value’. So they’re saying that they’ll accept lower-valued Canadian dollars at the same value as U.S. dollars. ‘Par’ is also a golf term.

When I first saw this sign, my brain interpreted it as “Falling bicycle zone”.

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One of my favorite signs was long long ago in Bolinas, a famously idiosyncratic beach town in northern CA, on a closed door in a strange little cafe, which stated “Members and Non-Members ONLY”

NO ENTRY
AUTHORISED PERSONNEL ONLY

So unauthorised people are fine to go in?

HARD HATS MUST BE WORN ON THIS BUILDING SITE

What’s wrong with brand new ones, exactly?

  1. Before car seatbelts were required by law, I had a bumper sticker -
    Love your kids at home
    Belt them in the car

  2. Every time I see a Cuidado Piso Mojado on a caution wet floor pylon sign I think of

Ciudad
Cuidado

I think it’s questionable Dutch, actually. :wink:

Back in the '80s, I snapped a photo at a mini-mall in Roseville, MN, where a women’s clothing outlet was located next to a sporting goods store. Taken together, their adjacent display windows read:

HOUSE OF LARGE FASHIONS | Tents, Tents, Tents. BIG SALE on now!

I still have the photo. :rofl:

The welcome sign in my entry says:

Welcome!
Hope you like dog hair.

In a bar in Texas…

We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone
We don’t care who you are,
who you think you are,
how much money you have,
or who your daddy is!

Our local drive-in theater closed in early 1980-something. The last movie they showed was, “Clash of the Titans.” Some wank stole the “a” and “n” from “Titans,” and that was up on the marquee for months until they finally tore it down. No, it wasn’t me.

Similarly, someone modified a street sign in the town I used to live in. The street name was ATWATER. It wasn’t me, either. (Spray painting over three letter is same color as the sign itself.) And this local business also sustained that sort of vandalism recently. Redirecting...