# Stupid Sign **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 5, 2000, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-sign/32138 "2000-09-05T20:45:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-sign/32138/1 "2000-09-05T20:45:15Z")
There’s a great stupid sign in front of my building right now, which reads, and I quote, … **"California Closed 2 to 4 AM"** Holy shit! I gotta wake up in the middle of the night and drive to Nevada? It’s referring to California _Street_. Where’s a camera when you need one? ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-sign/32138/2 "2000-09-05T20:48:53Z")
Heh. I was in Atlanta a couple weeks ago and I saw what appeared to be an odd roadsign. “Keep Moving.” Once I stopped wondering, “what the fuck?,” I realized that as you exit the expressway you get dumped into your own lane. There’s no reason to stop as you go around the corner to your right. ---
**Author:** ![Turpentine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Turpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turpentine)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-sign/32138/3 "2000-09-05T20:53:21Z")
Well, once I saw a sign that said “NO Loitering” located above a picnic table. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-sign/32138/4 "2000-09-05T20:54:50Z")
Jack, just to be safe, I think you should make arrangements to move to Nevada. ya never know, the sign could be \*\* right\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-sign/32138/5 "2000-09-05T20:55:26Z")
Once, I was walking in England and I saw a road sign that said “Change of Priorities.” When I passed it, EVERYTHING CHANGED! I am told that the sign has something to do with right-of-way. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-sign/32138/6 "2000-09-05T21:00:19Z")
We’ve got signs that say “Gusty Winds May Exist.” The Land of Enchantment - also the Land of Existential Road Signs. ---
**Author:** ![Phobos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Phobos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phobos)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-sign/32138/7 "2000-09-05T21:34:12Z")
How about the signs on back of some contruction vehicles? CONSTRUCTION VEHICLE DO NOT FOLLOW (an odd command when driving down the road) ---
**Author:** ![THespos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@THespos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/THespos)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-sign/32138/8 "2000-09-05T22:45:41Z")
My favorite stupid sign. From my website: [http://www.hespos.com/graphics/buffett8.jpg](http://www.hespos.com/graphics/buffett8.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Lazarus7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/67e7ee/32.png) [@Lazarus7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazarus7)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-sign/32138/9 "2000-09-06T00:53:34Z")
Sign on the side of a larger (about 10 inches high) bucket of pickles in the superstore. “Warning. Children may fall into pickles in drown.” Then there is a cute little picture of a child drowning in a jar of pickles!!! ---
**Author:** ![Asmodeus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@Asmodeus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asmodeus)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-sign/32138/10 "2000-09-06T02:19:35Z")
I like this one… [http://members.tripod.com/~NatureLady/gallery/sign.jpg](http://members.tripod.com/~NatureLady/gallery/sign.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Asmodeus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@Asmodeus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asmodeus)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-sign/32138/11 "2000-09-06T02:24:36Z")
A couple more… [![](https://naturelady.tripod.com/washington/eathere.jpg) ](https://naturelady.tripod.com/washington/eathere.jpg) [![](https://naturelady.tripod.com/washington/eathere.jpg) ](https://naturelady.tripod.com/washington/eathere.jpg) thanks baby! kiss~~ ---
**Author:** ![rackensack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-sign/32138/12 "2000-09-06T02:25:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBeer \* > \*\*Heh. I was in Atlanta a couple weeks ago and I saw what appeared to be an odd roadsign. “Keep Moving.” Once I stopped wondering, “what the fuck?,” I realized that as you exit the expressway you get dumped into your own lane. There’s no reason to stop as you go around the corner to your right. \*\* We’ve got lots of those around town, particularly in Gwinnett County (where, IIRC, you were meeting up with other Dopers). A lot of them are in the type of location you describe, while there are others that are at non-expressway locations where traffic flow makes it desirable for drivers to be able to make a right turn without waiting for a gap in traffic coming from the left on the cross street. Unfortunately, a large number of local residents seem to be unable to read these signs, and stop dead still in front of them, causing nearly infinite frustration to the rest of us. Either that, or they’re all out-of-towners who have the same reaction you did. ---
**Author:** ![Asmodeus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@Asmodeus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asmodeus)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-sign/32138/13 "2000-09-06T02:27:56Z")
heh…lets try that again…this was the second one… [![](https://naturelady.tripod.com/washington/enclosure.jpg) ](https://naturelady.tripod.com/washington/enclosure.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-sign/32138/14 "2000-09-06T02:36:30Z")
Once in south Louisiana I saw a bunch of signs along the side of the road reading **No Dumping Broken Concrete** They were completely surrounded by jagged chunks of concrete. That’s irony, y’all. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-sign/32138/15 "2000-09-06T03:28:05Z")
One of the academic buildings at UNC has at least twenty bulletin boards that apparently exist ONLY to display twenty identical signs reading “Post No Bills.” Uh, wouldn’t it be simpler not to have a bulletin board in the first place? ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-sign/32138/16 "2000-09-06T04:12:56Z")
[hijack] FP, you’re from Chapel Hill? I’M from Chapel Hill! At least for a couple more weeks, that is. [end hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Season\_Strange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Season\_Strange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Season_Strange)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-sign/32138/17 "2000-09-06T06:01:51Z")
California also closes on Cesar Chavez day and Chinese New Year, so what’s a couple extra hours? ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-sign/32138/18 "2000-09-06T06:47:18Z")
Has anyone ever figured out “Stop Casting Porosity”? ---
**Author:** ![ASD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@ASD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASD)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-sign/32138/19 "2000-09-06T13:00:59Z")
On the door to a building being demolished: “Do Not Enter Building Unless Others are Already Inside” I tried to go back and take a picture but the place had already been torn down. The food and pool place next to one of my apartments in college posted signs in all its doors one day that read “Temporally close”. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-sign/32138/20 "2000-09-06T13:08:55Z")
an old favorite - back in my dorm days, there were “kitchenettes” - 3 stoves in a room, to serve the half of floor that I lived on (about 40 rooms). One day, a sign appeared. “Please do not steal the oven knobs”. We went to our rooms and started thinking 'gee, what could you even use them for???" and sure enough, within days, the oven knobs started disappearing. To this day, I think it was a psych experiment. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-sign/32138.md?page=2)