Oooh, I remember that - I think every one of my classmates got a picture of that when we were in Durham. But I think we had a different definition of hump in mind…
Two signs that I have not seen in person, but have seen pictures of (so might have been doctored):
- Sign next to a river - “If this sign is covered in water, the river is in flood”
- Sign on a Freeway overpass - “Ignore this sign”
On that I have seen myself:
“It is illegal to shoot at this sign” - in an area of rural South Africa where the weekend entertainment is to ride in the back of a bakkie (pickup truck) and shoot at road signs with a pellet gun.
Gp
STOP
CHILDREN
It’s next to a driveway at a school near where I live.
In Paramus New Jersey, there is a permanent sign along a stretch of a residential street, which says, “No Garbage Pick-up This Wednesday”.
It’s been there for years. Which Wednesday are they referring to?
In Chapel Hill, NC, there’s a crosswalk with a sign that says “Walk with Light.” I think it sounds very spiritual.
ME
Yesterday I was in a department store. Near the exit, there were two signs. The first one said, “IF THE ALARM SOUNDS, PLEASE WAIT FOR ASSISTANCE.” Just beside it, the second sign said, “ATTENTION CUSTOMERS: IF ALARM SOUNDS, PLEASE RETURN TO CASHIER”
On the same stretch of road near Ft. Stewart, Georgia, I saw signs indicating that tanks crossed the road without warning (for some reason, those two words stuck out in my mind :)) and that there were alligators in the ditches.
:eek:
Our city recently put speed bumps on a number of residential streets accompanied by signs that state “Hump Ahead”.
Where I grew up “hump” meant something entirely different, but I keep driving through those neighborhoods hoping to get lucky. 
Oh, when my high school sophomore English teacher was a kid, he and his friends ran across a sign that said:
PRIVATE POOL
NO
SWIMMING ALLOWED
…which they took to mean: “Private Pool? No. Swimming Allowed!”
My personal favorites:
SLOW VILLAGE AHEAD (yup - it sure is!)
Outside of a church (yet, it was obviously an official town sign):
THOU SHALT NOT PARK HERE TO CORNER
There’s a frogs on road sign near where I live, analogous to horses on road, or people on road: a red triangle with a frog in. But looks like it means “BEWARE! 7ft tall Frogs ahead!” because the frog was obviously drawn on a different scale.
On a road outside a military base I once saw a sign that said something along the lines of WATCH FOR STRAY GUNFIRE
Like, what should you do if you see it? Duck? Roll up the windows real quick?
There are several signs here in town that say, “Keep moving.”
I never thought they were particulary funny because…well…they’re needed. People often stop in exit ramp lanes here, thinking they have to yield, but they don’t. But whenever I bring friends here from other towns, they think those signs are freakin’ hilarious.
:shrug:
Originally posted by Yondan
In the game Grand Theft Auto 3, this sign appears on the gate outside one of the town’s hospitals. You’ve got to get really close to the sign in order to make the words out. I thought it was a nice touch.
[Anything] Strictly Forbidden.
What, there’s places where trespassing is only slightly forbidden?
I have the wordless “Mother duck and two offspring” sign down the road.
But the classic one I’ve seen, explaining it isn’t as good as seeing the picture, is a pole with the classic ’ “One Way” and an arrow’ sign, but the pole has two of these signs, with one arrow pointing left, the other one to the right!
I once saw, in San Francisco, a single sign post that had both a no stopping any time sign and a yield sign on it. I guess you aren’t supposed to yield too much.
Not a road sign, but in the NMRI lab at school, there are all sorts of signs about there being a really powerful magnet in the room, and to take your watch, wallet, pacemaker, etc. out before entering. The best one is on the magnet itself. It is a yellow square which has a picture of an open hand, an exclamation point, and a wrench with lines drawn indicating that it is flying toward the magnet.
The chem prof who showed it to me said that they had a curious (=stupid) student see how strong the magnet was. The wrench was jerked out of his hand at 2 feet, and the whole building had to be evacuted because the liquid helium core boiled over. :rolleyes:
This is a rather common sign, but I wonder what is one supposed to do about it…
Caution Falling Rocks
The signs are usually placed just a few feet from the beginning of a rocky cliff area. If a rock is going to fall on you, there’s nothing you can do about it. Gravity’s effects happen rather quickly - I would wager quicker than the transmission of your Honda Civic, never mind your hand/eye coordination. And even if you were to TRY to do something about it, would you turn around and find a detour just to avoid the possible falling rocks? I’ve always taken my chances and lived to tell about it.
It is bizzare to see 19 as a speed limit, but odd numbers in general aren’t at all unusual: 25, 35, 45, 55, 65…
Actually, the point of this is to alert you to the possibility that rocks that have already fallen may be lying in the highway.