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Signs: What do you see posted when you are out and about?

deadendpdeadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
edited July 2015 in All Encompassing Trip
I read signs all of the time. I find them in some of the weirdest places. I've found a few gems and figured if I've found some funny ones, some people here may have as well.

It's about signs, people.

The signs you find at the turnpike bathrooms:
photo zAVcoUaPFve7371D35IeRF9lJI5tQHU5lvHPde8iaKMsSxTTJ_zpsglrzcaac.jpg This one is from Pennsylvania.

The signs that you find when stopping at the turnpike visitor centers:
photo 120816_0000_zps7f268vsg.jpg Another Pennsylvania gem. Yes, my husband went hunting for the rattlesnakes they warned about. He didn't find any.

The crappy, homemade signs hung at work:
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The response you may leave after you rip said sign down:
photo 130320_0000_zps7pudzgpt.jpgMy coworker has a problem with putting signs up everywhere. She stopped for a while after this one.

Yet another sign providing a lovely little factoid:
photo DSCN6239_zpsighjiy0c.jpg Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh. Seems that we find all of the weird ones in PA!

Keep an eye out. Entertain us with what you find.
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  • LongueuilLongueuil Posts: 2,224
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    Artistic treatment of a road signs from Firenze, Italy.
  • PJfanwillneverleave1PJfanwillneverleave1 Posts: 12,885
    I was visiting Toronto about 8yrs ago and saw this sign and took a pic on my phone. (Not my pic. It is from google)
    It was funny to me and I emailed the pic to my parents.
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  • ldent42ldent42 NYC Posts: 7,859
    Oh man I love this thread. I have a few gems but it would require going through a LOT of pix. I'm lazy.
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  • whispering handswhispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    ldent42 said:

    Oh man I love this thread. I have a few gems but it would require going through a LOT of pix. I'm lazy.

    I gotta find my pic of the shin from the 215 fwy outside of Calexico! It's freakin hilarious!
  • whispering handswhispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
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  • whispering handswhispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    edited July 2015
    whispering hands said:

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    These signs are all over in SoCal.. They start at about 20 miles from the Mexico Border. We never realized how funny they really are Gil we left SoCal, and no one believed us! So I took this pic to show the Joplinites, that yes, we really had these signs... I love how they're just dragging the kid.. Who's just hanging on for dear life on the sign!
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  • oftenreadingoftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,845
    whispering hands said:

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    What the hell is that supposed to be warning people against? Do you often have random families running amok on your roads?
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  • deadendpdeadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    ^^ Peeps who are running the border, yes.

    I love the signs so far! Elderly crossing, people dragging children and fun signs from Italy. Can't wait to see what else you guys come up with!
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  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,199
    whispering hands said:

    whispering hands said:

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    These signs are all over in SoCal.. They start at about 20 miles from the Mexico Border. We never realized how funny they really are Gil we left SoCal, and no one believed us! So I took this pic to show the Joplinites, that yes, we really had these signs... I love how they're just dragging the kid.. Who's just hanging on for dear life on the sign!
    I think this could be a sign when those fast moving FIRES hit S. California. So watch out for fast moving families crossing, running in your roads.


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  • markymark550markymark550 Columbia, SC Posts: 5,165
    Saw this on a trip to Savannah a few months ago:
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    Saw this one at the grocery store:
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    Still trying to figure out what a ballon is?
  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    Good thread, deadend!

    I saw this one recently (online), and fortunately, it's one of many -
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  • deadendpdeadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    edited July 2015
    ^^ That is awesome! (More specifically, very caring for them to do that.)
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  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 49,987
    edited July 2015
    This sign is in Missoula, Montana, on the street outside a bar I was at. Lol. They should have these in all party districts.

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  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 49,987
    deadendp said:

    ^^ Peeps who are running the border, yes.

    I love the signs so far! Elderly crossing, people dragging children and fun signs from Italy. Can't wait to see what else you guys come up with!

    Wow, crazy. I had no idea these existed!
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  • LongueuilLongueuil Posts: 2,224
    From Australia
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  • whispering handswhispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    Susan asked me to post these for her here.
    From her record store guy, advertising a pop up shop coming up:
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  • whispering handswhispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    ^^^ and now I
    Have had that song stuck in
    My head all day!!
  • whispering handswhispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    PJ_Soul said:

    This sign is in Missoula, Montana, on the street outside a bar I was at. Lol. They should have these in all party districts.

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    This has me cracking up!!
  • whispering handswhispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    So.. For THE longest time, I took pics of stupid shit I saw as I drove from state to state. I sent out a request this morning to everyone that ever took pics of my pics of stupid shit. And over the next few days, as ghey're come in.. I 'lol post them.. So one of these signs is from Ar. The other two are from Texas. Incidentally they are all speed limit signs!!
    This was on a side street in Mountain Home Ar.:
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  • RKCNDYRKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    Here is a parking sign here in Seattle...

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  • whispering handswhispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    edited July 2015

    This was at the beginning of the four mole driveway of Flash Ranch where I worked for a year in San Angelo Tx. Yes.. They laughed at me for making them stop so I could photograph it!! I couldn't replace the pic I'd list of this. So my good friend Brandon sent me it again!
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  • oftenreadingoftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,845
    ^^^^ these go to 11.
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  • whispering handswhispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
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    And this one I Can't remember what city we were in in TX.. But this was in an apartment complex. We were there to collect a ranch hand. I was totally stoned when
    I first saw it.. Nd I
    Almost couldn't get the pic, I was laughing so hard!
  • RKCNDYRKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    I'm lazy and don't feel like downloading my pics from camera to photobucket, but I'm not the only one who ytook a pic...

    Outside of Sequim (pronounced like 'swim' but with a 'q'...squim)

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  • ldent42ldent42 NYC Posts: 7,859
    :giggle:
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    I think this was spotted in Belgium but I forgot
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    This was on the coast outside Melbourne, by the 12 apostles.
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    Yikes
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    Gangsta swans
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    don't drink and drive!
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    That time I found Ferngully in Stewart Island (New Zealand)
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    This was an actual shirt actually on sale in an actual dunkin donuts.
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    This was on an actual airplane safety insert thing in am actual airplane circa 2009. Seriously.
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    Not sure why but I found this hilarious, I'm sure there's a horticulturalist on here who will tell me off for it but I'm ok with it.
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    Finally, an oldie but goodie. As seen from the bqe, my personal favorite, Cheese.
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  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 49,987
    :rofl:
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  • JWPearlJWPearl Posts: 19,893
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  • deadendpdeadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    RKCNDY said:

    Here is a parking sign here in Seattle...

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    So can you decode that bad boy?

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  • deadendpdeadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    photo OP 43_zpss0fmeoze.jpg
    Sign at the wood bin at Kentuck Campground- Ohiopyle State Park, PA.
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    Idlewild Park. (An amusement park south of Pittsburgh.) This was in the Story Book Forest.
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    The plate frame on the TIV. We went to Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh to meet the TIV team and see the IMAX film Sean worked so hard on during the filming of Storm Chasers.
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  • RKCNDYRKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    deadendp said:

    RKCNDY said:

    Here is a parking sign here in Seattle...

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    So can you decode that bad boy?

    Yes, 2 hour parking unless you have a zone 6 permit. No parking west of the sign, basically past the sign. No parking during the dates listed, basically during Husky games.

    Hey, it's free, so no complaints. :)
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