elmwood, the US is devoted to the pursuit of happiness, is it not? Obviously someone found it. Does that mean you guys have to do something else now? 
Besides the fact that they are about 4 metres by 6 metres, and slightly hard to conceal on the top of a nissan micra.
BTW there are about 10 of those damn things on the M40 last time I looked, oh how the britsh givernment spend our tax pounds :rolleyes:
No can do, I’m afraid. I don’t drive! But if you’re in the area, I saw them between Slough and Reading on the M4.
Sadly not. At least now I have an aim in life, to find one of these signs. Truly that will make me very happy
I have that book. That sign was one of my favorites. I’ve got to imagine that some local historical society was authorized to make, say, 10 signs but could only think of 9 events worth mentioning
Here’s a picure of it - sorry 'bout any pop-ups
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It’s always been a fantasy of mine to have signs every fifty feet or so that say GO. These would be especially nice in the desert or those long stretches where the road doesn’t bend or go up or down.
Whenever you get to an intersection, there’s no GO sign.
Same with BRIDGE IN until you get to where the bridge would be.
Also, signs that say FASTER
And, MEN STANDING AROUND WATCHING MAN WORK
I think my favorite road sign is “One Miles Ahead”. I’ve seen these all over Western Pennsylvania.
We get a lot of “Please do not shoot the signs” signs in the otherwise quiet island of Crete. I say “otherwise”, since its inhabitants have a tendency to hoard weapons, use them to solve disputes, fire them for fun at weddings and of course, practise their markmanship on the signs.
(sometimes it is worse… some years ago the police captured a german tank that was hidden by some peasants since WWII. You want to know how they found out ? the peasants took it out for a joy-ride!)
There’s a sign in a park near my home that says, “No spacewalks in park.”
I’m sure there’s a perfectly good explanation (Papa Tiger tried to offer one, but I hushed him fast), but I don’t want to know it! I want to imagine astronauts putting on their EVA suits and hopping up and down, saying to each other, “Man, I thought we were supposed to be WEIGHTLESS when we’re taking a spacewalk! And does this mean we can’t spacewalk our dog here?”
I’m surprised a discussion of unusual street signs got this far without a mention of Stanley Marsh 3’s “Art Signs” in Amarillo. elmwood was just a few miles from there when taking the picture outside Happy.
I guess my hometown isn’t as famous as I’d like to imagine.
I meant to mention the motorway emergency signs we have here in the UK; they consist of a square dot-matrix (maybe 20x20) that it typically used to post emergency speed restrictions in case of accidents ahead (in a vain attempt to prevent traffic ploughing full-tilit into the back of an existing pile-up).
Anyway, as you may have been told, the weather here in the UK is somewhat variable and on a cold, damp November morning, you may be puttering along the motorway in your horseless carriage, mindful of your speed because of the reduced visibility, to see the glowing lights of the emergency sign emerge from the gloom, helpfully announcing ‘FOG’ - as if it were something you wouldn’t otherwise notice.
I saw a good one on the back door of a minibus last night, it said:
Emergency door handle pull handle and pull
A building down the street from where I work was doing some ceiling repainting, etc., so the entrances were all scaffolded. There was a sign hung on the scaffolding:
“Please excuse our progress.” Yes, sorry about that- we didn’t mean to do it.
I’ve seen that sign, or at least a sign like that. I’m not sure of the date though. But it’s in Fredericksburg, VA on the corner of an old bank building. It was one of my favorite signs in the town since it’s filled with lots of other historical signs like Mary Washington Lived Here (George’s Mum), Civil War Historical Site, etc.
My all-time favorite sign was in the American embassy in Vienna. It was posted next to an entry door from the parking garage into the embassy (FYI, all embassy employees are required to wear identification badges while in the embassy). Sign said:
** Badges Required
To Be Visible Beyond This Point**
I put my badge in my pocket and asked the first person that said hello to me “How did you see me?!” I tried to explain the nonsensical nature of the sign to the Marine det commander, but he just gave me that puzzled dog look…