# Signs or graffiti that give you pause... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 28, 2013, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-or-graffiti-that-give-you-pause/651621 "2013-02-28T11:38:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-or-graffiti-that-give-you-pause/651621/21 "2013-02-28T16:45:52Z")
Gigantic letters sprawled across the entirety of a modern railroad autorack: [ABE LINCOLN BRIGADE!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_Brigade) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-or-graffiti-that-give-you-pause/651621/22 "2013-02-28T16:50:36Z")
People who live near the New Orleans Fair Grounds and Racetrack offer parking on their property for varying prices. One homeowner had a sign **PARKING $145,000. House included.** Clever way to sell your home. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-or-graffiti-that-give-you-pause/651621/23 "2013-02-28T16:57:36Z")
[I snapped this a year or so ago here in SF](http://i.imgur.com/g8sw2.jpg)… ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-or-graffiti-that-give-you-pause/651621/24 "2013-02-28T17:27:37Z")
This reminds me of a time I was with a friend on the freeway and passed an official Caltrans sign that said END LANDSCAPING. She said, “Is that a protest sign?” I still smile. Decades ago, painted on the side of a beat up delivery type truck in San Francisco: NOT A TRAIN. I still wonder about this one. And on an interior door in some semi-public building in Bolinas, where anything can happen: MEMBERS AND NON-MEMBERS ONLY Which last is a motto I try to live up to every day. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-or-graffiti-that-give-you-pause/651621/25 "2013-02-28T19:02:57Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > They got pills for that now. They do?:eek: (Need answer fast!) ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-or-graffiti-that-give-you-pause/651621/26 "2013-02-28T19:12:40Z")
On a tourist shop at the top of Gibraltar: “Much Cheapness!” ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-or-graffiti-that-give-you-pause/651621/27 "2013-02-28T19:17:31Z")
Years ago, in a bathroom somewhere in Yosemite National Park (a popular place for rock climbers): “Chris can’t climb well” ---
**Author:** ![Rack-a-Bones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rack-a-Bones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rack-a-Bones)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-or-graffiti-that-give-you-pause/651621/28 "2013-02-28T19:21:23Z")
My first time at Mardi Gras walking down the street: **Huge Ass Beers** then… **Fucking Huge Beers** then… **Motherfucking Huge Ass Beers** I just enjoyed the progression. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-or-graffiti-that-give-you-pause/651621/29 "2013-02-28T19:29:56Z")
Sign in a field in rural Kansas - **One Kansas Farmer feeds 27 people** I want to stop and put up a bunch of signs like 1 doctor can provide health care for 100 Kansas Farmers 1 engineer has designed a tractor so a Kansas Farmers can feed 27 people 1 hooker can ruin 25 Kansas farmers’ marriages Another sign I see often **It’s a Jeep Thing - You wouldn’t Understand** Which is true. Some of these jeeps have obviously never been off road. I always wonder why somebody would buy an all terrain vehicle and never drive it anywhere but on the street. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-or-graffiti-that-give-you-pause/651621/30 "2013-02-28T19:42:02Z")
I can’t figure out the dump trucks with the sign “Construction Equipment – Do not follow”. So, do you mean I shouldn’t follow your truck down some long muddy potholed road to a godforsaken construction site all the while thinking that I was on a superhighway? I’m pretty sure that’s not a mistake I’m going to make. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-or-graffiti-that-give-you-pause/651621/31 "2013-02-28T19:44:51Z")
My favorite pic is of some graffiti I saw in San Francisco. Paraphrased from memory, it says: “my people, your people, when will we realize we’re all one people?” > [@BubbaDog](#): > > Another sign I see often > > **It’s a Jeep Thing - You wouldn’t Understand** > Which is true. Some of these jeeps have obviously never been off road. I always wonder why somebody would buy an all terrain vehicle and never drive it anywhere but on the street. The Bestest Boyfriend would ask that every time we saw a pristine, cherry-red (for some reason they were always cherry-red) Jeep. Then he’d proceed to answer himself: “because they’re asholes, is why. Too much money, not enough brains, and they’re the kind of morons who’d complain that a barn smells like cow.” I just can’t do justice to the rant, he could go for a while and it was quite a superb rant. He’d grown up in a farm, to him those Jeeps were being mistreated and misused - he felt about them the way a shepherd feels when seeing a shepherd dog used as a lapdog. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-or-graffiti-that-give-you-pause/651621/32 "2013-02-28T19:54:48Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > This thread made me think of one of my favorite time wasting websites, a collection of signs that people have vandalized to make them [hilarious](http://www.happyplace.com/4286/brilliantly-sarcastic-responses-to-completely-well-meaning-signs) Thank you for that! A lot of those are really great! ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-or-graffiti-that-give-you-pause/651621/33 "2013-02-28T20:01:50Z")
Graffito: the first couple of lines of “Nobody Does It Better.” Considering the kids these days are into the hippety-hop and the dubstep, I was kind of surprised. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-or-graffiti-that-give-you-pause/651621/34 "2013-02-28T20:23:05Z")
For years, I saw signs at the checkout counter at 7-Eleven saying “We check ID for alll Under 30.” I’d sarcasticaly wonder “How do you know they’re under 30 befor you check ID?” Now, those stores usually have a sign saying “We check ID for anyone who looks under 30.” ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-or-graffiti-that-give-you-pause/651621/35 "2013-02-28T21:39:36Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Graffito: the first couple of lines of “Nobody Does It Better.” > > Considering the kids these days are into the hippety-hop and the dubstep, I was kind of surprised. That reminds me – on a wall somewhere in Iowa City, mid-70s, in huge letters: “STARLAND VOCAL BAND SUCKS”. I agreed and was impressed that someone felt that strongly about it. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-or-graffiti-that-give-you-pause/651621/36 "2013-02-28T21:58:29Z")
Long long ago, on an abandoned muffler shop in Kansas City, spray painted in huge red letters: NO MUFF TOO TUFF I"LL DIVE FOR FIVE Not just graffiti, but poetry. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-or-graffiti-that-give-you-pause/651621/37 "2013-02-28T22:06:15Z")
When I was driving once I saw this painted on a bridge: “I don’t want the world, I just want your half” Thank you TMBG ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-or-graffiti-that-give-you-pause/651621/38 "2013-02-28T22:35:57Z")
At a little town south of where I live there was a billboard on the side of the road that the local police were fond of parking behind to catch speeders. The town pub/hotel started using it and part of the ad read: **C** akes **O** r **P** ies & **S** ausage Rolls Here. Back in the 1980’s on the major highways (in New South Wales at least) the police had airborne speed checks, a light plane would fly over marked sections of the road and time how long it took vehicles to cover measured distances. They used to have large signs up announcing: “Police airborne speed checks operate in this area”. I saw one sign under which someone had painted _“Pigs in Space!”_ ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2013, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-or-graffiti-that-give-you-pause/651621/39 "2013-02-28T23:17:29Z")
Near my office, someone has graffitied a “NO TRESPASSING” sign on an eternal construction project\* so it reads “There is NO such thing as TRESPASSING.” I have been sorely tempted more than once to write, in the gaping white space right below the words that begs to be filled, “So I’ll be by your place at 3am, then?” \*Conversion of an old office building into [del]condos[/del] apartments, delayed by the Great Recession for years, but not before the sidewalk on one side of the street was fenced off wall-to-curb for [del]sweet fanny all but blocking pedestrian traffic[/del] construction. :rolleyes: The building is now occupied, but that sidewalk is **still** fenced off. :mad: The NO TRESPASSING sign is on the construction gate. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2013, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-or-graffiti-that-give-you-pause/651621/40 "2013-03-01T03:09:33Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > This thread made me think of one of my favorite time wasting websites, a collection of signs that people have vandalized to make them [hilarious](http://www.happyplace.com/4286/brilliantly-sarcastic-responses-to-completely-well-meaning-signs) [This one made me literally laugh my ass off.](http://static.happyplace.com/assets/images/2012/04/4f8826a3af9a5.jpeg) No, seriously, it fell right off. My husband and I use that addition to stuff all the time. 😃 > [@BubbaDog](#): > > \ > > **It’s a Jeep Thing - You wouldn’t Understand** > Which is true. Some of these jeeps have obviously never been off road. I always wonder why somebody would buy an all terrain vehicle and never drive it anywhere but on the street. That’s a pretty annoying sign - no, I wouldn’t understand, mostly because I don’t want to. Jerks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-or-graffiti-that-give-you-pause/651621.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-or-graffiti-that-give-you-pause/651621.md?page=3)