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[w5klb]

This is about the stuff we read on signs, billboards, and in public places. You know... the stuff we read when we get bored... really bored. Bumper stickers and bathroom poetry is acceptible as long as it's clean.

Example (This was on display in Navy workspace)

"We, the unwilling, lead by the unknowing,
Are ready to the impossible for the ungrateful.
We have done so much for so long with so little
That we are now qualified to do anything with nothing"

Or one of my favorites:

"The ship we built is just fine
Don't tell me that's it's not
The front and sides are just divine
It's the bottom we forgot." http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Your turn.

[NO6O]

Sign on a bank:

"Jesus saves. Why can't you?"

---Michael

[KG6YTZ]

Quote[/b] (w5klb @ April 21 2006,21:08)]"The ship we built is just fine
Don't tell me that's it's not
The front and sides are just divine
It's the bottom we forgot." http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
Shel Silverstein. Not exactly verbatim, but definitely Shel Silverstein.

This one is mine:

Quote[/b] ]Everyone at school today
called me Spaghetti Head
I think it's 'cause I forgot my hat
and wore my lunch instead

The funny part is, I had actually forgotten all about writing that one until I recently stumbled across it while looking through some old Usenet postings circa 1999. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[W0UZR]

This is a church parking lot

Pastor
"Thou Shalt
Not Park Here"

[KC9ECI]

In the computer lab where I went to school:

Quote[/b] ]I really hate this damn machine.
I think that they should sell it.
It never does what I want,
Only what I tell it.

[KW4MW]

Fine for Parking


T H I N K #A
# # # # # # # # #H
# # # # # # # # # # E
# # # # # # # # # # #A
# # # # # # # # # # #D

[K9STH]

Sign in my high school chemistry lab:

This is a laboratory: More of the first 5 letters and less of the last 7 letters.

Glen, K9STH

[KG6OPR]

Quote[/b] (n6mou @ April 21 2006,22:20)]Sign on a bank:

"Jesus saves. #Why can't you?"

---Michael
On a stockbrokers sign,
Jesus Saves, Moses Invests. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif

[AD5UD]

Above the lens edgers in an optical lab where I worked:

"Should I rush your rush job, or should I rush the rush job I was rushing when you rushed in with your rush job?"http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[N6BOA]

...and braile on the drive-through ATM...

[N3ATS]

In a really dumpy bar bathroom...

"Flush twice, it's a long way to the kitchen."

[ka6gjn]

Roadside sign in rural PA, I think, seen about 12 years ago, near a service station:

Diesel
Sandwiches

Luckily, we weren't hungry. At least we weren't after we read the sign.

[N6BOA]

Here's a good one:
http://www.dirtybutton.com/media/db483-new-cuyama-population.jpg

New Cuyama is a town on the far eastern border of Santa Barbara County. This sign is for real!

[k4kyv]

Quote[/b] (w5klb @ April 21 2006,22:08)]This was on display in Navy workspace

"We, the unwilling, lead by the unknowing,
Are ready to the impossible for the ungrateful.
We have done so much for so long with so little
That we are now qualified to do anything with nothing"
I recall it like this from the conscripted Army in 1968, during the height of the VietNam conflict:

We are the unwilling

Led by the incompetent

To do the unnecessary

For the ungrateful

[N1MLF]

http://www.maineline.net/~jwatts/images/maine.jpg

Guess that 'bout covers it...

JW

[k6pme]

signs, signs, everywhere there's signs
don't do the this and don't do that signs....

http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

Now if could remember who sang that. Maybe I need to sign.......

[KW4MW]

And the sign said long haired freaky people need not apply
So I tucked my hair up under my hat and I went in to ask him why
He said you look like a fine upstanding young man, I think you'll do
So I took off my hat I said imagine that, huh, me working for you

Signs - Five Man Electrical Band

http://www.fivemanelectricalband.ca/signslyrics.html

[k6pme]

Quote[/b] (KW4MW @ April 23 2006,06:36)]Signs - Five Man Electrical Band
And theeeers my sign! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[n0jaa]

I remember seeing a sign once in the little town of Sedalia, CO. #A little shoppette with a sandwich shop and some sort of repair shop next door. #The sign read...


# # # #SANDWICHES
-----------------------------
SERVICE AND REPAIR





http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[KC0OGH]

sign posted in the corner of a cemetary along the road

"DEAD END"

It has since been changed to read

"NO OUTLET"

[N5RLR]

+/-20 years ago, I saw this on a portable sign outside a repair shop:

"WE REPAIR WHAT YOUR HUSBAND "FIXED." #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif

[K9STH]

A sign that was available for purchase (present in large quantities) when I was in college read:

"Are you helping with the solution or are you part of the problem".


Of course there are thousands of the

"DANGER: 10 million megohms"

signs around. I actually had a fraternity brother at Georgia Tech who was really worried about this until someone explained what a megohm really was (and the fraternity brother was an electrical engineering major!

Glen, K9STH

[WA5KRP]

My wife is a high school counselor. One day I put this bumper sticker on her Suburban:

MY OTHER CAR IS A BROOM

I got my ass handed to me.



WA5KRP
Texas

[K9STH]

A good friend of mine is a staunch Republican and his wife is a very rabid Democrat. Before the last Presidential election he put a Bush / Cheney bumper sticker on the back glass of her car. She already had several Kerry bumper stickers on the car. To my knowledge the Bush bumper sticker is still on her car. Frankly, she has never noticed that it was installed.

Glen, K9STH

[wv6z]

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d148/ku4my/252339_hi.jpg

[KG6YTZ]

Road Trip America (http://www.roadtripamerica.com) has an excellent collection of signage - some of which has been contributed by yours truly. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

Arrow Radiator [Irwindale, CA.]: "A Damn Good Place To Take A Leak"
Young Dong Tofu [Arcadia, CA.]
New Born Water [Arcadia, CA.]
Thrift Store B.S. [Arcadia, CA.]
Tax Immigration [El Monte, CA.]

Shots I never got around to taking:

#1 Water [Baldwin Park, CA.]
Coffee Sandwiches [San Gabriel, CA.]: "I'll have a double-decaf on rye"

[G8ADD]

This one has been on the wall of my lab for the last twenty years:

Out of the darkness a voice spoke unto me:

"Smile and be happy, for things could be worse".

So I smiled and was happy, and Lo! Things got worse.


As true now as the day it was put up!

73

Brian G8ADD

[k6pme]

Quote[/b] (K9STH @ April 23 2006,20:36)]"DANGER: #10 million megohms"
If I put that on the door to the shack do you think it would keep people out? http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif

[w4ass]

Quote[/b] (N3ATS @ April 22 2006,22:54)]In a really dumpy bar bathroom...

"Flush twice, it's a long way to the kitchen."
or don't eat the big white mint

[W0UZR]

This in the bathroom of an apartment complex......


"We aim to please
You aim too please"

[ve2nsm]

Written in very very small letters inside the door of a public toilet:

"If you can read this, you're sh***ing on the floor.

[ve2nsm]

Quote[/b] (K9STH @ April 23 2006,23:36)]Of course there are thousands of the

"DANGER: 10 million megohms" signs around.
Sure it's not "DANGER: 10 million megamhos" ? http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[KW4MW]

Not a Baptist but I thought this one was cute.

Quote[/b] ]TRINITY BAPTIST CH #CH

What's missing?

[KG6YTZ]

Quote[/b] (KW4MW @ April 25 2006,20:18)]Quote[/b] ]TRINITY BAPTIST CH #CH

What's missing?
EE. Dave's not here. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[kf6rdn]

Quote[/b] (KG6YTZ @ April 25 2006,20:24)]Quote[/b] (KW4MW @ April 25 2006,20:18)]Quote[/b] ]TRINITY BAPTIST CH #CH

What's missing?
EE. #Dave's not here. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
You almost got monitor spritzing points on that one!