Today I got another sign.
It was 25-30 feet long, 4 feet tall, made out of some sort of vinyl/plastic. It says Join the Phar-Mor Family, Applications Inside. They don’t really need it anymore, since they are going out of business.
On the tag on my pillow: “Carelessness causes fire.”
Good advice… but what does it have to do with my pillow?
Any sign in the Houston area that says “Watch for ice on bridge” in winter. You could watch for 30 years and never see any ice on the bridge.
[re: Bridge Freezes Before Road Surface signs]
And apparently there were enough people who didn’t get it, or who weren’t able to read the sign fast enough, that they’ve changed anyway. I’ve just come back from Pennsylvania and the signs now usually read: BRIDGE MAY BE ICY.
On the umpteenth consecutive day of temperatures in the upper 90s, these signs are almost surreal…
If you drive out in western Norway, you’ll find signs warning of dangerous curves just after you’ve gone around a half-dozen blind curves. You may laugh and think the sign is a bit late. You would be wrong. It’s a warning that the curves are about to get worse :eek:
I occasionally drive about 3 hours south of Perth, to Margaret River (in south-west Australia) where my parents have a holiday house. Every 50km or so, there are huge signs on the road which say:
**LOCAL POLICE ARE NOW TARGETING SPEEDING **
Periodically, it’s changed so that the word SPEEDING is replaced by SEATBELTS or DRINK DRIVING or FATIGUE. So, if local police are targeting speeding, does that mean that I won’t be pulled over for not wearing my seatbelt? I find it especially amusing to be told that local police are targeting fatigue - what’re they going to do, pull me over and test my blood sugar?
Sign on the highway near my home…
" Do not pass when opposing traffic is present."
REALLY?!?!?!? :smack:
A friend of mine took a photo in the back hallway of a restaurant in Jamaica.
“Please do not piss in bus tubs.”
<shudder>
The Coney Island Lunch in Johnstown, PA used to have a sign behind the counter saying:
**Self Service
Please Serve Yourself**
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I guess in case someone doesn’t quite grasp the concept…
Posted outside a racetrack:
“No Illegal Contraband”
When I asked the gate attendant if “Illegal Contraband” was a tad redundant, he replied, “Oh, that just means no fireworks, that sort of thing.”
He didn’t have an answer when I asked him for an example of “Legal Contraband.”
Later that season, the “Illegal Contraband” sign was gone, but posted all over the area were “No Trespassing Without Permission” signs.
“Excuse me, sir, may I have permission to go on your land without your permission?”
Anyone ever seen the Tsunami evac signs on the Washington coast? They all point one direction…
Inland, uphill.
Seemed obvious to me… So we had fun turning them around so they pointed towards the coast…
Drown all you tourist! DROWN!.
I’m inarticulate today. blah blah blah.
Duncan.
Oddly, there was a thread just a few days ago where a man confessed that he was passing through the lobby of a hotel (a shortcut he takes regularly) and just out of the blue decided to spit. The title was something like: Hotels really frown on spitting.
The Braille signs at the drive-up ATM.
2nd place: sign in an English restaurant, just above the urinals –
“Now, please wash your hands.”
My wife liked the latter so much that she made a copy for our downstairs lavatory.
Nothing like a Bridge May Be Icy sign in Tucson in July to brighten up your whole day. Entire discussions can and do revolve around just what circumstances could conspire to make the bridge icy… “Say there was a tanker truck loaded with liquid nitrogen, and a dry ice factory nearby…”
Oh, and the Pennsylvania Pass With Care signs were always my favorite. When I lived outside of Lancaster, I had a lunatic friend in a convertible who used to time it so that he could speed madly down a particular hill, and pass some unsuspecting car at an insane rate of speed, just past the Pass With Care sign, yelling out “I LOVE YOU!” at the top of his lungs. And blowing kisses.
“Illegal Activity Prohibited In This Area.”
I only wish I were kidding.
Sign on the side of a building last summer:
“Card Reader and Psychic, Coming Soon!!”
Why couldn’t you tell us when?
I read that with interest and horror, and valiantly resisted the impulse to flame the OP, partly because he recognized that what he did was wrong, and didn’t sound likely to do it again, and partly because it wasn’t posted in a flame-friendly forum.
And he didn’t appear to be a (excuse me) drooling moron.
[slight hijack]
I’ve been working on a set of documents at work, annual stockholder reports and things like that, and I’m seeing a lot of ** “This page intentionally left blank.” ** I can understand that someone might think something was missing from a blank page, but why even include it at the end of the report if it’s blank? 
This one just irritates me to no end.
Alice is blind. She has her seeing friend Bob drive her to the nearest ATM. Happens to be a drive up ATM. Alice uses the ATM thanks to the Braille. (For obvious security reasons she doesn’t want to have Bob do it for her.)
Isn’t this obvious to people??? Why does this issue keep coming up???
Just because it might take a car to get there doesn’t mean that you should assume that blind people never get there.
[Pennsylvania hijack]
OK, FairyChatMom, you may have a point…it just seems so obvious that water freezes faster than ground, that’s why the creek is covered with ice and the road isn’t.
Up in Lycoming and Sullivan counties, the highway department explained away the lack of guardrails by saying, “People would just go through them anyway.” Ohhhh-kay.
[/end Pennsylvania hijack]
I am big into the sign theft bidness. I steal non-fatal signs… stop signs are too important and deadly to steal. BUT… some kinds of stops are special. Liek the 4-way, which has special rules and is specially marked. However, there is also the rare and elusive “3-way” stop, which has a little sign that says “3-way” underneath. Like it matters. You have to stop anyway. SO I stole the little sign that says “3-way”. It now hangs over myt bed. I figured I had better use for a 3-way sign than the municipality I live in does anyway.
The OP reminds me of an even dumber sign foudn in the Men’s room, namely the red urinal pads with “Say No to Drugs” printed on them. Can someone describe the mentality behind these?
flup
flup, when I was a callow youth I filched many signs. It became a habit during the 1986 World Exposition here in Vancouver. It appealled to my nihilistic sense of humour to collect as many restroom signs as I could while I was there. I feel much better now, thank you, but I was sixteen.
The only sign I haven’t been able to resist as an adult is a nice little AREA OF REFUGE sign that now adorns the door to my den/computer room. (I didn’t feel too guillty about absconding with it, since it was triply-redundant, and each time I went past it, I thought, …but they’ve got two more… )
Another poorly conceived bit of combination-signage that has puzzled me for a long time was a parking sign that said:ul
[sup]7AM - 6PM[/sup]
except with
permit[/ul]
Huh?