# Interesting Signs.. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 6, 2000, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-signs/21591 "2000-06-06T20:25:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Necros](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/necros/32/11086_2.png) [@Necros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necros)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2000, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-signs/21591/21 "2000-06-07T20:17:27Z")
And then, of course, there’s this site… [http://www.lumine.net/engrish/index.html](http://www.lumine.net/engrish/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Tally-Ho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@Tally-Ho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tally-Ho)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2000, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-signs/21591/22 "2000-06-07T20:34:33Z")
A local furniture store’s sign lost a few “E’s” and so read **Hug Sal** (always wondered who Sal was… 😉 ) Our local Albertson’s (grocery chain) suffered from a little vandelism. Their window sign used to say …OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK. Now it says OPEN 7 DAYS A **WIF**. My SO and I always half to resist asking the clerks what a wif is. Chrisbar ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2000, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-signs/21591/23 "2000-06-07T21:31:00Z")
My Favorite sign is in the plant where I work. Due to QS-9000 EVERYTHING is labeled and has yellow lines around where it is supposed to be. (Tape, Chair, some of the engineers have an outline on their chair of a behind labeled with thier job title) This is interested enough for a work environment but hanging from the ceiling in one spot is a big sign saying “Trip hazard below” and every time I have seen it it has been swinging wildly. Either the trip hazard moves a lot or people have been falling into the sign. Another fun one was on teh rfront door for a community center “Low Self esteem sufferers meeting tonight. Please use back door.” ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-signs/21591/24 "2000-06-08T18:48:21Z")
Oh yeah, and then there’s the hardware store up in north Georgia called **S&M SUPPLY**. I’m guessing they get a lot of weird phone calls… ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-signs/21591/25 "2000-06-08T19:27:17Z")
Now THIS is a properly-strange sign: [Stop Casting Porosity](http://milkyway.ssl.berkeley.edu/davea/porosity.html). Another one I’ve been meaning to photograph: on the drive from Pojoaque to Los Alamos, New Mexico, you travel along some twisting mountain roads with sheer cliffs rising and falling right next to the road. At one point, there are some steep rocky hills; the part nearest the road is made mostly of pumice. There’s a brief break in the pumice, through which you can look to the hills above, and there, on a pile of rock, is: a yellow diamond highway sign with a picture of a cow on it. Very profound, in an inexplicable way. ---
**Author:** ![Modian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Modian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Modian)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-signs/21591/26 "2000-06-08T20:41:20Z")
Found this on Snopes yesterday: There’s a town in Austria called F-cking. If thats not funny enough, the sign outside the town (which has been stolen many times) says: Welcome to F-cking, Austria. Ignore the comma and I rolled. ---
**Author:** ![Modian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Modian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Modian)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2000, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-signs/21591/27 "2000-06-08T20:44:21Z")
Oh, and another one that used to be in the US Postal Services headquarters on two of the doors: CAUTION: DOOR OPENS eh? You mean doors do other things? ---
**Author:** ![MissMonica7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@MissMonica7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissMonica7)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-signs/21591/28 "2000-06-09T00:39:38Z")
On my way to my best friends house in Nazareth, PA, I drive up Rt. 100 North. I notice at one point in the trip there are these signs simply saying “Stop Panda” every mile or so, then they stop. These signs are just along the road, by themselves, or at the end of people’s driveways. What does this mean??? Are they mad at panda bears? Are the pandas bothering some people? The thing is too, is that it probably has nothing to do with panda bears b/c I’m driving through rural PA, and there shouldnt be any pandas around for many miles… ---
**Author:** ![2nd\_Law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f475e1/32.png) [@2nd\_Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2nd_Law)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-signs/21591/29 "2000-06-09T01:45:15Z")
Back in my home town a business on the edge of town had a sign out front **Lemmen’s Used Cars** I always wondered how he chose to go into that line of work. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-signs/21591/30 "2000-06-09T01:56:10Z")
Above the urinals in the men’s restroom in a Beijing restaraunt: “Please Mang Out After Shit” Our entire group, including women, went back there to get pictures. I’m sure the locals thought we were insane. Does anybody know what “Mang” means? Or why Chinese shit in urinals? Also, outside a town named Beaver (I kid you not) a sign advertising the local Wendy’s. Yes, that’s right. It said quite plainly, “Wendy’s Beaver.” My friend and I spent the rest of the road trip menally making additions to it. Like, “Fast, friendly service.” ---
**Author:** ![Sneevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@Sneevil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sneevil)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-signs/21591/31 "2000-06-09T01:56:52Z")
There’s a sign on the main street in my hometown that reads: “Quick Lube in Rear” ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-signs/21591/32 "2000-06-09T01:57:26Z")
MenTally!! Damn damn damn. Why do I always notice those right as I hit the submit button? ---
**Author:** ![Dumbguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Dumbguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dumbguy)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-signs/21591/33 "2000-06-09T02:22:35Z")
In the parking lot of a junior college: ‘Midget Racing Prohibited’ I’m not sure if the fact it was a junior college is relevant or not. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-signs/21591/34 "2000-06-09T07:18:38Z")
On I-10 just outside of New Orleans, the big green sign above the road reads “NO International Airport.” Damn, I wanted to fly somewhere. Guess I’ll just have to turn around and go home if there’s no airport. (NO stands for New Orleans, of course. I still think they should have written it out to avoid confusion.) ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-signs/21591/35 "2000-06-09T07:29:46Z")
**SLOW** WORKERS AHEAD ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-signs/21591/36 "2000-06-09T10:03:42Z")
This actually could be put here or under the recent “practical jokes for fun and revenge” thread. A former co-worker once told me that a male friend of hers once caught a former SO “catting around”. So they stole a road sign and placed it, as prominently as possible, right under her window. No, not “MEN WORKING” “OPEN TRENCH” 😛 ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-signs/21591/37 "2000-06-09T14:16:50Z")
The 3 that I remember: Somewhere in Utica, Mich. behind an office building is a sign that says “Parking for Blind People Only” At a 7-11 I stopped in (somewhere in Ohio) was “Express Lane - 179 items or less” And in a bar called The Shack in Marina Del Rey, CA is a sign that says “We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone, no matter who you are, who you think you are, what movie you’ve been in or who your daddy is” ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-signs/21591/38 "2000-06-09T14:53:38Z")
> [@](#): > > Also, outside a town named Beaver (I kid you not) a sign advertising the local Wendy’s. Yes, that’s right. It said quite plainly, “Wendy’s Beaver.” This reminds me of my travels through Kentucky. Apparently, in this one particular area, there are salt deposits, and wild animals have established “salt licks” there. Result: **Beaver Lick, Kentucky**. I kid you not. I have a T shirt from the Beaver Lick Trading Post. It’s easy to find. It’s near the **Big Bone Lick** State Park. (So named for the mammoth bones found there. Apparently, ancient elephants were into the salt deposits, too.) ---
**Author:** ![labdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5fc32e/32.png) [@labdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/labdude)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-signs/21591/39 "2000-06-09T15:04:29Z")
Sign in front of the only gay bar in town. . . . Parking in Rear. . . The bar is downtown, and thats really where the parking is located. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-signs/21591/40 "2000-06-09T15:12:44Z")
On the way to my sisters’ in Elmhurst, IL I used to pass a dental office, and the dentist’s name, prominently posted, was Dr. D. Kay. I enjoyed a sign at a golden Nugget offering a one price special for “All you care to eat.” Given the quality of their offerings … Just this spring, leaving Mammoth Cave we passed (but did not patronize to my lasting regret) the “Mt. Golgotha Fun Park.” Yep. Nothing says F-U-N like crucifying the son of God! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-signs/21591.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-signs/21591.md?page=3)