Tag: signs

We’re thru

While being technically acceptable the use of the word “thru” really annoys me. And this sign vandal.

Free paper, plain

Mmm. Free paper. A tasty calorie free treat.

Advertised uses include making paper hornets (or wasps in Australia), chewing gum disposal, phone number collection, bookmarking, or “a tasty snack”…

Some look at signs and wonder

Want to know what happens when a resident gets so sick of traffic chaos that they erect their own road sign?

The police fine people for breaching it. That’s what.

Izaac needs your help

Izaac works for AFES at Cumberland College. They have been putting up posters. The atheists have responded with some wit. Izaac is preparing for a tit-for-tat battle of the poster. So he’s looking for some witty responses in order to start discussions.

Here are the slogans;

1. INFINITE BEING IS AN OXYMORON
2. WE’RE A NON-PROPHET ORGANISATION
3. BLASPHEMY IS A VICTIMLESS CRIME
4. IF GOD CREATED THE UNIVERSE THEN WHO CREATED GOD?
5. WE JUST BELIEVE IN ONE LESS GOD THAN YOU

Godwin’s Law of Signage

If your business name evokes thoughts of the holocaust – change it.

From this Flickr set of unfortunate names (some of them are rude).

Ninja signs

If you think your awesome castle may suffer a visit from ninja assassins you should make sure they know how to get in just so they don’t damage your carefully manicured rock garden…

Who am I kidding? Ninjas move so quickly they leave no trace – but having one of these graffitied signs outside your abode would be awesome…

Sign Language: Under New Management

“Under new management” signs make a pretty clear statement of discontinuity with the past. I suggest that the more prominent the sign, or the longer it’s shown – the greater the intended discontinuity.

One of the Pizza Hut restaurants in Townsville (one of the few remaining dine-in Pizza Huts in Queensland) has had a large “Under New Management” sign on its roof for a couple of months now.

No bones about it

This Brooklyn Cemetery has a lot of rules. And for every rule, there’s a sign. I can’t for the life of me figure out who goes to the cemetery to wash their car…

More included here.

Sign of the times

If there’s one thing I hate more than atheists advertising on buses (actually I don’t hate that – “probably no God” – where’s the commitment…) – it’s so called “Christians” doing nutty things to give the rest of us a bad name.

The Westboro Baptist church systematically protests at the funerals of dead US soldiers becaues they believe the US system’s lax stance on homosexuality. I don’t think they read the bits in the bible where Jesus hangs out with sinners, prostitutes and tax collectors… anyway, kudos to this guy for his funny sign campaign. If you can’t beat them – join them.