# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-or-graffiti-that-give-you-pause/651621/101 "2013-03-19T05:36:06Z")
Very popular back in the day: “Don’t switch Dicks in the middle of a screw, Vote for Nixon in '72.” ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-or-graffiti-that-give-you-pause/651621/102 "2013-03-19T16:43:29Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > Very popular back in the day: > > “Don’t switch Dicks in the middle of a screw, > Vote for Nixon in '72.” Yeah, well we all got screwed on that one. ---
**Author:** ![Fool\_in\_the\_Rain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8491ac/32.png) [@Fool\_in\_the\_Rain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fool_in_the_Rain)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-or-graffiti-that-give-you-pause/651621/103 "2013-03-19T19:19:42Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I’ve mentioned these on the Board before > > 2.) On route 95 going through Providence, RI > **No Exit 4** > which made me automatically think “Sequelmania strike Jean-Paul Sartre” Nitpick - that would be Route 195 Signpost with three signs on it: One Way –\> Dead End –\> \<– No Parking Any Time ---
**Author:** ![Hecatenna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/43a26b/32.png) [@Hecatenna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hecatenna)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-or-graffiti-that-give-you-pause/651621/104 "2013-03-29T19:17:45Z")
Not very impressive, but once I found a sign complete with a tent that said: **TENT FOR RENT. $5** I’m sure it was meant as a joke, but my friends and I seriously contemplated renting the tent for a night and sleeping in the backyard. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2013, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-or-graffiti-that-give-you-pause/651621/105 "2013-03-29T21:55:25Z")
I was in a meeting, in a church basement no less, and saw this on the folding chair in front of me **boobies** No context. I like boobies and random references to boobies, but I just thought it unusual for the location. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-or-graffiti-that-give-you-pause/651621/106 "2013-03-29T22:22:27Z")
> [@yellowjacketcoder](#): > > On GA 316 between Atlanta and Athens, where you’re in the stretch that is ‘country’, there is a billboard, black on yellow, that simply says “JESUS”. Every time I pass it I wonder who the target audience is. Is some guy just driving along and suddenly “Oh crap, it’s Jesus I need! Why didn’t I think of that before!?” As a former fellow commuter along that corridor, I can tell you that the other side of that sign reads “COMING SOON”. It is always a bit amusing to see this. ---
**Author:** ![PurpleClogs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f04885/32.png) [@PurpleClogs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleClogs)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-or-graffiti-that-give-you-pause/651621/107 "2013-03-30T02:36:02Z")
There’s been a sign near us for years pointing to a new neighborhood that says " **New Historic Homes!"** ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-or-graffiti-that-give-you-pause/651621/108 "2013-03-30T03:06:40Z")
Twice now on my commute to work I’ve wound up behind a truck with large letters announcing “BM Plumbing.” I also enjoy the dot matrix display on the 405 near the interchange with the 10. “Work zone: 55 MPH speed limit strictly enforced,” it says. You get to look at the sign for a good 3 minutes as you crawl by at a leisurely walking pace. Anybody actually achieving 55 mph through that area should submit it to Guinness. ---
**Author:** ![PurpleClogs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f04885/32.png) [@PurpleClogs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleClogs)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-or-graffiti-that-give-you-pause/651621/109 "2013-03-30T03:35:04Z")
Sometimes on those huge electronic programmable signs they use for Amber Alerts, they’ll change them to: **Drink. Drive. Go to Jail.** Is that a suggestion? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-or-graffiti-that-give-you-pause/651621.md?page=5)