# Warning! Do Not Enter When Alive! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 10, 2002, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-do-not-enter-when-alive/127787 "2002-09-10T11:52:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LolaBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LolaBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaBaby)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2002, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-do-not-enter-when-alive/127787/21 "2002-09-12T06:22:05Z")
Have you ever seen anyone around the yard/premises? ---
**Author:** ![GopherGod72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f0a364/32.png) [@GopherGod72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GopherGod72)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2002, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-do-not-enter-when-alive/127787/22 "2002-09-12T06:32:29Z")
Oh no, you MUST go up to the door and ask them what it mean… I mean… you MUST! If we dont find out… then where are we gonna be?!? ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2002, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-do-not-enter-when-alive/127787/23 "2002-09-12T07:20:12Z")
Well I prefer my yards to be, (normal vegetation excepted) inanimate. I think that if this particular yard is, at certain times, alive, I will be staying well away. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2002, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-do-not-enter-when-alive/127787/24 "2002-09-12T18:36:30Z")
> [@](#): > > I bet they got the sign from the place that made banners for a local church. ::AHunter visualizes church with large sign saying ‘Danger: Do Not Enter When Alive’:: > [@](#): > > What the hell is a cebration? I think it involves doing something to your cerebrum down in the Pit of the Soggoths. ---
**Author:** ![CoderSlave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbce88/32.png) [@CoderSlave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoderSlave)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2002, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-do-not-enter-when-alive/127787/25 "2002-09-25T02:29:31Z")
AHunter3, Thanks for the Lovecraft ref 🙂 CalMeacham: Let me propose a theory, I call it the “BabelFish” theory. They are foreign, and something major was lost in the translation. -Da Slave ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2002, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-do-not-enter-when-alive/127787/26 "2002-09-26T17:50:10Z")
Okay, I rode up to the house on my bike at lunchtime today. 1. As I said, NO WAY was this fence ever electrified. 2. The sign is hung up by plastic bands attached at the top corners only – that is, it isn’t properly hung. 3. There’s a sign on the side where they park their cars. It is one of those signs you can get in novelty shops, and reads" **Don’t Even THINK of Parking Here**. 4. There’s a nasty sign about not smoking on the side. Conclusion: These are unsociable folk (or sociable folk with a weird sense of humor) who will hang up non-relevant signs. I suspect they found the front gate sign on an old electrified fence, or picked it up at a junkyard/flea market/garage sale, and thought it matched their sentiments well enough to hang it on the front gate. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2002, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-do-not-enter-when-alive/127787/27 "2002-09-26T18:01:39Z")
Okay, I rode up to the house on my bike at lunchtime today. 1. As I said, NO WAY was this fence ever electrified. 2. The sign is hung up by plastic bands attached at the top corners only – that is, it isn’t properly hung. 3. There’s a sign on the side where they park their cars. It is one of those signs you can get in novelty shops, and reads" **Don’t Even THINK of Parking Here**. 4. There’s a nasty sign about not smoking on the side. Conclusion: These are unsociable folk (or sociable folk with a weird sense of humor) who will hang up non-relevant signs. I suspect they found the front gate sign on an old electrified fence, or picked it up at a junkyard/flea market/garage sale, and thought it matched their sentiments well enough to hang it on the front gate. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2002, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-do-not-enter-when-alive/127787/28 "2002-09-26T18:15:21Z")
Okay, I rode up to the house on my bike at lunchtime today. 1. As I said, NO WAY was this fence ever electrified. 2. The sign is hung up by plastic bands attached at the top corners only – that is, it isn’t properly hung. 3. There’s a sign on the side where they park their cars. It is one of those signs you can get in novelty shops, and reads" **Don’t Even THINK of Parking Here**. 4. There’s a nasty sign about not smoking on the side. Conclusion: These are unsociable folk (or sociable folk with a weird sense of humor) who will hang up non-relevant signs. I suspect they found the front gate sign on an old electrified fence, or picked it up at a junkyard/flea market/garage sale, and thought it matched their sentiments well enough to hang it on the front gate. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2002, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-do-not-enter-when-alive/127787/29 "2002-09-26T19:14:28Z")
Okay, I rode up to the house on my bike at lunchtime today. 1. As I said, NO WAY was this fence ever electrified. 2. The sign is hung up by plastic bands attached at the top corners only – that is, it isn’t properly hung. 3. There’s a sign on the side where they park their cars. It is one of those signs you can get in novelty shops, and reads" **Don’t Even THINK of Parking Here**. 4. There’s a nasty sign about not smoking on the side. Conclusion: These are unsociable folk (or sociable folk with a weird sense of humor) who will hang up non-relevant signs. I suspect they found the front gate sign on an old electrified fence, or picked it up at a junkyard/flea market/garage sale, and thought it matched their sentiments well enough to hang it on the front gate. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2002, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-do-not-enter-when-alive/127787/30 "2002-09-26T19:28:41Z")
Somebody slap him. He’s stuck. Oh, and a ‘cebration’ is where you go to have some bobbecue with your famlynfrenz. Jeetenuff? ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2002, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-do-not-enter-when-alive/127787/31 "2002-09-27T02:33:50Z")
So post your own sign next to it: **KEY POUT!** ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2002, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-do-not-enter-when-alive/127787/32 "2002-09-27T02:38:39Z")
What I want to know is: **Are all their base belong to us?** ---
**Author:** ![owlofcreamcheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@owlofcreamcheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlofcreamcheese)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2002, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-do-not-enter-when-alive/127787/33 "2002-09-27T16:57:02Z")
there is a church I have seen with a sign saying “thou shalt not park here” ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2002, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-do-not-enter-when-alive/127787/34 "2002-09-28T00:16:08Z")
This is sort of related to the topic (I feel the need to share). There’s a house a few miles from me with a sign in the yard that reads: “FREE FIRE ANTS. YOU PICK UP.” Makes me laugh everytime I drive by. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![flapcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@flapcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flapcats)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2002, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-do-not-enter-when-alive/127787/35 "2002-09-28T10:57:46Z")
There’s a sign at a cliff edge in Ventnor on the Isle of Wight that says ‘SHEEP DROP’. (Defaced 5th letter I believe) ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2002, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-do-not-enter-when-alive/127787/36 "2002-09-28T12:00:47Z")
I avoided this thread for almost 20 days for this? I thought Cal had gone to the other side and brought back some celestial info. I thought he was waiting for the ghosts or something. Sigh. Damn my curiosity! This thread used to be so cool. You can send them a letter without a return address asking them to kindly put up an explanation of the offending sign next to said sign. They’ll never know it was you and they just might do it. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-do-not-enter-when-alive/127787/37 "2002-09-30T01:48:28Z")
> [@](#): > > I avoided this thread for almost 20 days for this? I thought Cal had gone to the other side and brought back some celestial info. I thought he was waiting for the ghosts or something. > > Sigh. > > Damn my curiosity! This thread used to be so cool. “I must avoid explaining myself, Watson. The explanations always make me sound to prosaic.” – semiquote from Sherlock Holmes. Damn. I actually used to be cool. (Sigh!) ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-do-not-enter-when-alive/127787/38 "2002-09-30T02:19:16Z")
You mean “too prosaic”! And you call yourself a **physicist**? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![CRorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CRorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CRorex)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-do-not-enter-when-alive/127787/39 "2002-09-30T15:46:06Z")
My favorite sign ever was “Do NOT stroke the Elephant!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-do-not-enter-when-alive/127787.md?page=1)