I was eating at a fish place tonight with a fishing theme.
The bathrooms were labelled “Inboards” and “Outboards” :rolleyes: I was afraid when I walked into the “Inboards” (only bathroom I had seen at the time) that I was mis-interpreting the sign somehow.
Which reminds me of a steak place that labelled the bathrooms “Bulls” and “Heifers”. At least they didn’t use “Cows”
I’m so tempted to change the signs here at the journalism school to “Serif” and “Sans-Serif.” I suspect, however, that this would be evil.
There’s a seafood chain in Florida (sorry, forgot the name) that has this sign over the hall to the restrooms:
4U2P
isn’t that cute?
Now that’s funny! You should do it!
Cramer-Krasselt, a Phoenix, Arizona advertising-public relations firm, have 3-inch square photos of a toilet on the doors. One has the seat up and the other has the seat down.
From The Simpsons: Seafood place has two bathrooms. One says “gulls”, the other says “buoys”.
Went to a restaurant in upstate NY, that had “pointers” and “setters” and pictures of the appropriate dogs on the doors.
My favorite Maylasian restaurant has “nature’s call” over the hall that leads to the restrooms.
Shells restaurant chain
**The Ferret and Firkin in a Balloon up the Creek **in London has “hymns” and “hearse” on the toilet doors.
Bugaboo Creek Steak House in Philadelphia uses “Bucks” and “Does” on the restroom doors.
Huh.
I thought this thread was gonna be about
“If you sprinkle when you tinkle,
be a sweetie and wipe the seatie.”
(gag)
…Although…it would work great in the women’s bathroom here at work.
Nah.
There’s no help for those people.
“As a joke, the organizers [at a lesbian conference] removed the bathroom signs and replaced them with Butches and Femmes. You have not seen such a collective nervous breakdown! Nobody knew where to go to the bathroom! Women ran out into the bushes, women went in the parking lot, women exploded in the lobby.” - Lynn Lavner
"How to handle public restroom confrontations: ‘Excuse me, this is the ladies’ room!’
"Political: Explain that you refuse to dress as a pawn of the patriarchy.
"Rude: ‘Oh, I’m sorry, I thought it was the WOMEN’S room!’
“Lewd: [rips open shirt to expose bra]”
“I was once embarrassed in a restaurant because I didn’t know the difference between a ram and a ewe. We can never go into that restaurant again.” - Erma Bombeck
What really drives me bananas is when there are two identical, individual washrooms, each with a toilet and a sink, and they’re gender-marked! Why even bother?! What are you afraid of, cooties?
I’m fond of the “goddesses” and “morons” proposed in a Dilbert cartoon.
We need one here too…in the men’s room!
Regarding the topic at hand, doesn’t Outback Steakhouse mark theirs “Sheilas” and “Joeys”? I haven’t been in one of their restaurants in a while so I can’t say for sure.
Went to a club that had lips and a tie. Not on the same door.
I like 'em. even the confusing ones.
But I have an ongoing thing that it doesn’t matter. Or it shouldn’t. Nobody has anything special to see and no one’s looking anyway.
Even better when its girls, where everybody is using a stall anyway.
And if you don’t tell any one here, I use the guy’s room in the engineering hall because they only have girls bathrooms on three floors, none of which I’m ever on. (Stupid engineering building. Every floor was built with a guys bathroom, when girls started coming to school they changed the sign on three of them. Sigh.)
An apple-themed restaurant I went to once had “Adams” and “Eves.”
I could be wrong, and I’m sure someone will let me know if I am, but I think Captain D’s has the same signs.
Off the subject, but I once used a urinal in Beijing that had a sign over it reading “Please mang out after shit.” I still don’t know how to mang, why anyone would shit in a urinal, or how manging out afterwards would help.
I’ve also seen this at a different seafood restaurant
One of Stan Freberg’s earliest routines was “John and Marsha”. It consisted of Stan imitating two people repeating each other’s name with various emotions to the accompaniment of violin and organ music, satirizing radio soap operas. After this was issued on a 45, apparently many places re-labeled restrooms “John” and “Marsha”.