Silly Signs and Daft Notices

Silly Signs and Daft Notices

As you drive around your town, or travel to work on the train, look out for amusing notices in your area, meanwhile enjoy our silly signs.

• Emergency - Very Silly Sign
• Deliveries at the rear of building
• Shoplifters
• Silliest Sign
• Flashlight Required
• Daft Notice in Elevator
• Game of Golf?  Amusing Notices
• How To Deal With Customer Complaints
• Typo Eradication Advancement League (TEAL)

Emergency - Very Silly Sign

In case of emergency in this building please call 301-241-4050 and leave a message!

Deliveries at the rear of building?

School of Nursing and Midwifery - Deliveries at the rear of the building.   What can you picture?  Babies, or vans?  Which ever way you look at it, this is a silly sign.

Shoplifters

Hung drawn and quartered we hope!

These funny signs make us think: who put them there, are the pictures faked.  Is the resulting picture funny, offensive, or just plain stupid.

Silly Warning Signs

When it comes to safety you would think that sign designers would take more care.  Wrong.

Silliest Sign

Warning: Jumping into toxic waste does not give you super powers.  Often it's the absurdity of these notices that makes them so humorous

Mirror Image?  Mirage?

Flashlight required after dark

Danger - Hazardous fumes (fair enough)  But flashlight required after dark, that's too much

Daft Notice in Elevator

Customers should use push buttons (fair enough) To open AUTOMATIC doors? (Silly Billy)

Close Gate - But Why?

Who's for a game of golf?

A classic amusing notice.  Drink and drive golf range.  Even the hoarding looks drunk.

Drink - Don't Drive

How to Deal With 'Customer Complaints'

A daft notice if ever I saw one.  ... but it gets worse ->

Crisis Counseling - Temporarily Out of Service

Typo Eradication Advancement League (TEAL)

Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson, have launched a campaign to correct spelling and grammar mistakes on American signs.  Depending on your point of view, the best, or worst example is on the Watchtower at the Grand Canyon, it promises: 'emense westward view of the Grand Canyon'.

Officials instead of being embarrassed, put the wonderful spin on the mistake by claiming 'a unique historical object of irreplaceable value'.  At first we thought they were talking about the Grand Canyon, but no they were defending the spelling of 'emense'.

Amazingly to our way of thinking, the pair were charged with vandalism for trying to rectify the spelling error on the Desert View Watchtower at the Grand Canyon.  At worst they should have had a caution, but we are staggered to discover they were fined $3,035 and banned from national parks for a year.

"We're not going after people in a self-righteous manner, like fashion police. Or trying to make them look stupid," Deck said. "Instead, we're addressing specific errors like confusing 'its' for 'it's' or 'you're" for 'your.' Finding and correcting these, even every once in a while, is incredibly satisfying."

To date Jeff and Benjamin have identified 231 signs with spelling or punctuation mistakes.  Examples include, birthday candell's.  However, the old chestnuts of confusion between their, there and they're feature strongly.

More Examples of Silly Signs

Will and Guy feel sure that Jeff and Benjamin would have something to say about these particular banners: Make English America's offical Language.  Let us hope that the gentleman in the middle is better at calculating math than he is at spelling 'arithmetic '.

Funny pictures and pointless signs give us a laugh, but we ponder how much they cost in time for replacements.

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