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The signs. Yeah, the one that cracks you up every day because i mean, c'mon, can't people read? People HAVE to see why that's funny.

My favourites include the one in Belmont MA on the cemetary fence that says, and i quote, "playground".

Or how about the one that reads, "No trespassing violators will be prosecuted. " Means it's fine, right?

But the one that gets me the most, every DAY, is the one by Back Bay Station in Boston. Where they've posted these white metal signs, saying Please Do Not Feed The Pigeons.

Underneath, with a black magic marker, someone has scrawled a word. One word. Not even an obscene one, at that, but a word that transforms the entire concept of the sign, reflects an accurate view of the disparities in the neighbourhood, and also makes me laugh out loud on a regular basis because it's such a transformation of the sign's original meaning.

The sign now reads, "Please Do Not Feed The Pigeons Caviar."

Been meaning to tell you about it for ages.

Is there anything that funny in your neighbourhood?

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  • thinking nothing could top Mongolian Grill night in the heart of the middle east...

    Thanks. THAT was funny. :-)

  • I've always been partial to the signs that state "Slow Children" in residential areas. It probably means slow down, there are children present. Maybe it means be cautious of little retards who might jump in front of your car. Who knows.

    Another favorite is the sign, yellow in big black caps that reads "DEAF". It's funny in that netiquette way where all caps means shouting. Even if you shout the deaf person won't hear it.

    There's also a sign near a medium sized airport near my parents' house which reads "Look

    • I've always wondered about those "Deaf Child Area" signs. Number one, if I'm driving through, how am I supposed to know which one is the deaf one? Is he/she wearing a special t-shirt? Second, they're not blind, right? They should still be able to see the cars coming...

      Bong State Rec Area definitely exists, just 10 minutes down the road from where I live. It was going to be an air force base, but they abandoned construction early in the process. They had the runways started and you can still see them in ove
      • I passed by the Bong Recreation Area many summers on my way down to the Bristol Rennasaince Faire. My parents live somewhere in the midst Waukesha, Brookfield, and Menomonee Falls, so it's not that far away from where I used to live. That should put you near Racine and Kenosha, if I recall.

        The deaf child signs, I assumed, were just to alert people to the fact that there were mystery bonus points to be had. If running down a child is worth a lot of points, running down a deaf child must be worth at least twi

    • I know where there is one that says "Slow Church".
    • There's also the legendary and oft pointed out "Bong Recreation Area"

      Here you go [astradyne.co.uk]. Along similar lines, there's also this dilemma [astradyne.co.uk].

      • Thank you for the visuals. I've seen pictures of the college and weed sign, but I've driven past and seen the actual Bong Recreation Area sign in person. This is why I listed it as one of my favorites.

        And it really is oft pointed out, every time I've driven past somebody (sometimes me) feels the need to point it out.

  • has a sign on his door that says:

    KICK THE DOOR!
    and the cat!

    no one knows why he wrote that. but I do both daily now. I mean, there's a sign.
  • oh man! the addition of that ONE word just makes that sign not only amazingly funny and priceless... but i think that may now qualify as art?

    i mean sheesh... that is just so brilliant. i'm going to be laughing about that for a good long time!

    yay for creative people and their desire to modify their environment in small yet significant ways

  • I had a boss who had a do not disturb sign for her door, and under "Do not disturb" someone scrawled "any further."

    I think it was originally a Callahan cartoon, but it still makes me laugh out loud to think about it.
  • Pretty stupid - if my speed is controlled by radar, then how can I speed, unless their control is defective, which is their fault, not mine.
  • This is a sign on the outside of an alligator enclosure (kind of a chicken-wire thing) at a wildlife park:
    People caught throwing objects over the fence will be made to retrieve them


    I have a picture of it somewhere, it is a very funny pic, with the alligator in the background behind the sign...

    Pixie
  • First, the No Tresspassers signs have a legal significance, but are pretty meaningless beyond that. Due to the origins of our law, it came to be here too that if somebody squats on land without something being done about it for some length of time, then they are guaranteed rights to use that land in some capacity. The signs, useless warnings that are never followed through upon, provide enough basis with the law that the owner of the land doesn't have to get a squatters permission to put up a mall or someth
  • ...stepmothers are being sold on the open market [humor911.com]. Five kroner a piece ;-)
  • We pass through the town of Readlyn in Iowa whenever we visit my grandparents. The welcome sign to the tiny little town says:

    Welcome to Readlyn. Home of 857 friendly people...and one old grump.

    Then there's also the sign that I pass on my way the work by the airport. It's one of those LED signs they put on the road during construction, except that the LEDs are the brightest fluorescent orange you can imagine, and it appears to be a permanent fixture. It says:

    See suspicious behavior? Call 911.

    So.
  • As I never had children, and now cannot, but I rather like them once they're housebroken, I get a kick out of "Kids 12 & under free"

    Waitress: "Can I take your order?"
    Me: "Yes, I'd like two ten-year-old girls to go please." :)

    Why two? Heck, I have four catboxes to clean every night. A little help would be appreciated :)
  • Prior to the movie starting, ours show still slides of advertising, and the occasional public service announcement.

    Like: "In case of fire, proceed to the nearest exit."

    Really? And I thought the plan was to sit here and burn to death....

    What if the fire is between me and the nearest exit? Should I use the further exit??? I'm so confused!!!

    • "In case of fire, proceed to the nearest exit."

      So they want you to leave now, just in case there is a fire at some random point in the future? I'd rather sit and watch the movie and only leave if a fire does break out...
  • One of the previous companies I worked at was pretty good sized, probably about 75 to 100 people at its perk. At 5'4", there may have been one other guy at my height, but everyone else seemed to be a good few inches taller than us.

    We moved into a new building while I worked there, and within a week of us occupying the new building a sign popped up in the men's bathroom. You see, it had two urinals, a normal one, and I guess a handicapped urinal that was lower than the other two.

    Well the sign over the tal
  • At work we recently had convienent "automatic" flush sensors put onto the restroom facilities. In the men's room, over one of the urinals that was out of commision for a while, now reads a sign:

    Please do not place your foot on the automatic flush sensor.

    There is a large paragraph detailing WHY that is a bad idea right below the large red lettering.
  • The local news loves to tape in front of a school in my area. The news person always stands on the right side of the screen, and the stop sign always resides on the left, with the bus lane going through the middle of the shot. Someone took a thick perminent marker and wrote "WAR" on the bottom of it, so that the news crews are always filming next to a "STOP WAR" sign.

    I swear I've seen that sign about 6 times in the last month on the news. I love it :-)
  • i always read it as a rally cry for those tired of seeing so many thing being built.
  • "This product contains granules under 3 millimetres. Not suitable for children under the age of 14 years in Europe or 8 years in the USA."
    -- On a pack of juggling balls

    "Do not eat packet"
    -- Hormel Pepperoni

    "Do not look into laser with remaining good eye"
    -- UC Berkeley Molecular Imaging Center

  • When I was a kid we used to travel to my grandmother's house after my grandfather died just about every weekend. It wouldn't be bad except it was a six hour ride.

    The one bit of entertainment that I had would be when we would pull through St. Mary's, PA. There was one strange intersection with a stop light so they put up one of those "Stop here on red" signs. Some funny kid added an F at a very strategic place so that the sign read:

    Stop here on Fred

    That made me laugh for years. I guess I was eas
  • In my town, there is a parking lot at a major intersection shared by a regional barbecue joint and a daycare center. For years I'd meant to get a picture of the glass sign that they shared. One day, I noticed that the glass was gone from the sign, and the peasants did *not* rejoice.

    A few days later, I had dinner at said wings-n-ribs boutique and saw that they had merely been replacing the glass, and I still had a chance to get The Picture [ironicallyenough.com].
  • There's a town called Yass, just near our national capital, Canberra. On the road to Yass, McDonalds had proudly erected a billboard advertising their new store. Unfortunately, the "M" was a little to close to the town name, so from a distance the sign read "MYASS".

    Never did get a picture of that one unfortunately...
  • What I said before was my crappy attempt at having an answer. This is my real favorite sign.

    On the freeway on my way to work, there is a sign by the side of the road:

    No Wake.

    There is not any water in the vicinity. Nor are there large groups of mourners. It baffles the mind.

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