Road Sign Fun
Posted by: Mike-B on 20 March 2018
My local news has a story on road sign "vandalism". Yes all very vandalish, but they have bought a smile to a lot of peeps. And I have to say that judging by the quality with matching fonts etc, a lot of care has gone into making them.
TV Police say the vandals are still at large & should not be approached as they might make you laugh out loud.
This one is real...
Kensal Green station in 2014, brought joy to my heart when I saw the picture.
Ouch.
Desiree'sable Residence
The signs says it all. If anyone needs a translation ......
The road sign is the name of a farm in NW Province, South Africa that I've passed by a few times. Translated it means Two buffalo shot dead in one shot spring. Or put another way, the place with a water spring where someone killed two buffalo with one shot. There is even a song about it.
Eloise posted:This one is real...
Ha. I lived there for a while many moons ago and must have driven and cycled past that sign countless times.
The natives get shirty if it's referred to as Goth-um; it's pronounced Go-tum. Bumpkinsville is bang out of order too it transpires. 
In Newfoundland. Might want to duck as you drive past. Then again, might be inclined to make that left and explore.
Some more real road sign chuckles from my 2nd home
I do hope this is not an apocryphal story but lack any visual evidence
I believe a Welsh council sent a request for the correct translation to add to a road sign that needed to be bilingual.
They duly made up the sign with the reply that came back in Welsh. For some time the sign read 'We are Currently Out of the Office' until it was removed!
I always liked this one too
How pleasing; it is true!
It reads
"I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated".
Bruce Woodhouse posted:
How pleasing; it is true!
It reads
"I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated".
Thanks Bruce, I was on a conference call and didn't have the chance to copy the picture. There are a couple of possibly apocryphal tales which I love and refuse to do a validity check on, as I'd rather believe them to be probably true than find out they're urban myths.
Sign above a Cash Dispenser in a petrol station in Tiverton, Devon. Just in case anyone using it has unrealistic expectations... Made me chuckle.