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If you are amused by any of these try using Google Images (or whatever your favourite search engine is) and looking for ‘Funny road signs’ or something similar.
Traffic congestion wouldn’t disappear but would be much reduced with fewer freight vehicles on the roads; road surfaces wouldn’t need repairing so frequently, and building work for new roads would be very much less
The cycle-lane/car-lane sign may be in Australia, though I can’t guarantee it
The traffic light tree is on the Isle of Dogs in East London (near Canary Wharf)
It doesn’t ban lorries and buses though, and the steps don’t seem to go anywhere; I’m not sure where these steps are, though the notice below the prohibition signs appears to be in Japanese or a similar language
Ham and Sandwich are both in Kent
This Notice reminds me of a newspaper photograph from many years ago; in the middle of an otherwise empty field was a sign that said “Do Not Throw Stones At This Notice”!
Dull is near the River Tay in Scotland; there are also places called Twatt on both Orkney and Shetland
The falling cow sign may be in Serbia (the web-sites on which it occurs are all in Serbian)
A training directory for staff on Capitol Hill, circulated in early 2012. On page 13, it advertises a course in copy-editing and proof reading
Educational road marking in New York city
The things these Koreans get up to!
Don’t stand on the loo – You might lose your head – or, as Compo in Last of the Summer Wine would have said: “Bog Off!”
A photo of the White House taken with an iPhone and the ‘With Mitt’ app from the campaign of Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney in May 2012. The app allows users to take photographs with one of 14 overlays, including one that says ‘A Better Amercia’
Wedding Dress for Sale...Whose Mistake?
The city of South Bend, Indiana, extols the benefits of its educational establishments
Jack Daniels’ Church; and see below what Miracles Jack Daniels can perform! (Andy Pipkin, please note)
This one’s in Dar es Salaam
[Like that at ye top of ye page; methinks, young Banquo, that ye Photoshoppe has been casting spells again, or those damned witches of ye Forres heath]
How could anyone park here anyway?
Sign for people who don’t know their REFT from their LIGHT
It’s all very interesting to be warned that the sign has sharp edges (and I’m sure Health & Safety would approve), but it wouldn’t be there but for the fact that the f***ing bridge is not available!
Just tell me: what idiot architect decided to put balconies above ground level?
It’s obviously necessary to take care of endangered species
[This euphemism is American;
the British version is “Crown Jewels”]
Do you remember the old Scots prayer:
From ghoulies and ghosties
And long-leggedy beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us!?
I was reminded of the boy who said after hearing this,
“I wouldn’t mind being caught by the ghosties
but I wouldn’t want to be caught by the goolies”!
Timeless headline from the New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper, 2011. Sports journalists just can’t control themselves
The Barker and Lucas bible of 1631 – also known as ‘the Wicked Bible’ – see the seventh commandment in Exodus 20:14