Comments on: More sign fun, and some Do Not Disturb variations

By: greenstrawberries

greenstrawberries — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:36:43 +0000

There’s a sign at the zoo where I live (in China) that says: “Breasts of Prayer.” No joke. It’s my all time favorite sign. Ex-pats where I live go to the zoo just to get a photo with the sign. The cage has lions in it, so we are guessing that they meant “Beasts of Prey.”

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:55:26 +0000

Griffin, Ga used to have a low railroad bridge, and apparantly tired of removing trucks from it, posted a hanging sign well in advance that read: “If you hit this sign, you will hit that bridge.”

By: Lauren

Lauren — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:07:02 +0000

In Germany there are yellow signs with a frog pictured. This means “Frog Crossing”… They are serious too!

By: Kyle

Kyle — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:54:50 +0000

At the Peninsula Hotel in Chicago, when the maids enter the room, they pull their carts in with them so as to not clutter up the hallway . . . and they hang a sign that says “Presently Being Serviced.” So of course, I had to take that for my dorm room . . . sure beats a sock on the handle!

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:47:45 +0000

Two of my favorite signs:

Rural Ohio: signs featuring a horse and buggy The buggy is a very specific shape: the type used by the Amish residents of the area. They are “amish crossing” signs.

At a hotel with an animal print theme. The sign for the door read “Don’t come in! I’m wearing only my leopard print bathrobe!” and on the other side “Please help! I spilled wine on my leopard print bathrobe!” They provided the leopard print bathrobes.

By: Manda

Manda — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:38:11 +0000

Two of my favorite signs:

1) In Homer, AK there was a “Duck Crossing” pictorial sign, just cute little ducks on the sign.

2) In Canada, a sign about paying attention to where you are going, with a sort of three-panel picture sequence of what happens when you hit a goat. It had a car slamming into a goat, with X’s for eyes. It was so graphic.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:16:01 +0000

My favorite sign was one in Daytona Beach off of Granada Avenue. It had only one word…”Don’t.”

So I didn’t.

Another one I came across in West Virginia had a picture of a guy walking with a “Deer Crossing” sign underneath.

By: adrienne

adrienne — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:52:18 +0000

This isn’t such a weird sign as it is a poorly planned one. At one of the local WalMart stores, a non-parking space was always occupied by some sort of vehicle (usually a motorcycle), so one of the employees was instructed to paint “No Parking” in the space (as if it would help!). Apparently they chose the wrong employee, because the space vehemently exclaims “No! Praking.” Seriously!

By: Sara

Sara — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:10:07 +0000

Ken, there is a similar sign in a parking lot near my job… it’s posted on some parking signs and it says “OBEY SIGNS”. Seems to me there’s a flaw with your target audience on that one…

Also, Becky thanks for the heads up as I’m staying at Sea World Holiday Inn Express next month!

By: Molly W.

Molly W. — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:18:23 +0000

Two instances.
1) There were “DRUG FREE SCHOOL ZONES” signs posted all near my high school. Some smartarse took a white marker to the FR… making it a DRUG EE SCHOOL ZONE. It stayed like that for months.
2) When vacationing in Kentucky (woohoo good times) with my family when I was a kid, we passed a Cmart with a sign in the window that read “PAINTS FOR SALE, LEVI & DOCKERS”. We still laugh about that one.