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Funny Signs
Posted by mica in
7 May 2004 — 4:14pm
7 May 2004 — 4:14pm
I see quite a few wooden signs with the letters turned all which ways and mixed up fonts. Here's one that I pass every day:
Anyone else catch some of these in the wild?
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7 May 2004 — 8:29pm
Must be a deadNd street :-)
7 May 2004 — 10:07pm
I started taking photos of inverted and flipped letters a few years ago, but gave up when I realised just how often this happens. My favourite example is in Brompton Oratory in London: there is a monumental text running around the inside of the dome in brass letters that must be at least 3ft high (it is difficult to judge, because it is so far up). One of the Xs is upside down.
9 May 2004 — 4:33am
Sign in Rome.
http://socialdesignzine.aiapnet.it/images/cartello.jpg
"For turists: no parking here please.
For everybody else: you pissed me off.
Sunday open."
NoWindows
http://homepage.mac.com/juggle5/fun/NoWindows.jpg
9 May 2004 — 10:28pm
would you eat here?
10 May 2004 — 11:21am
Ole, there's an oriental restaurant in Glendale called "My Dung".
And it recently closed because of a rat problem. No joke.
hhp
10 May 2004 — 12:40pm
In Blackpool i saw a Chinese restaurant called 'Junk'. It was closed.
Ahhh, Blackpool.
Where I live, we have a candy called 'Spunk'.
It's liqourice in case you're wondering, but then again, we use English names for all our Oriental restaurants...
10 May 2004 — 12:45pm
Ole ... I love it!
What a fantastic name, must be a popular place!
R
10 May 2004 — 3:07pm
Not as popular as the "Pu Ping" restaurant
10 May 2004 — 4:05pm
11 May 2004 — 2:55pm
Alessandro,
It looks like it is your kern to be funny :-)
13 May 2004 — 6:02pm
13 May 2004 — 7:38pm
LOL!!! Looks like some serious over-kerning in photos 3 and 4
:-)
13 May 2004 — 8:16pm
More bicycle lane fun:
http://www.geocities.com/fredpipes/cyclelanes/cyclelane4.html
Link via This Is Broken. You can usually find some great oddball signs and completely distressing instructions over there. This is one of my favorites:
http://www.goodexperience.com/broken/i/04/04/union_station-s.jpg
16 May 2004 — 4:08am
AH AH!
Thanks for the link, this is my favorite:
http://www.goodexperience.com/broken/i/03/11/whichway.s.jpg
1 Jun 2004 — 5:46pm
I've been driving past the sign at the top of this thread for over four years now, and they _just_ changed it:
10 Jun 2004 — 6:36pm
maybe someone alerted them to yer earlier post. ;^)
11 Jun 2004 — 8:19am
>turned all which ways and mixed up fonts
Ah, the power of professional desktop typography. No longer do we have to suffer quaint amateurism, now that we have horizontal scaling!
11 Jun 2004 — 12:12pm
Nick,
>now that we have horizontal scaling!<
I always felt that Tennis was a better sport than SQUASH :-)
11 Jun 2004 — 2:24pm
There was a maltt shop just of I-94 in St. Paul with a sign-board with movable letters. For the longest time it read:
"Children Eat Free Balloons On Tuesday!"
Such a deal!
11 Jun 2004 — 2:48pm
Not in print, but Kristin's sign reminds me of the radio ad from my hometown that ran when I was a kid: (about sandwiches)
"If they're too big for the kids, ask us to cut them in half."
Antecedents, anyone?
11 Jun 2004 — 2:52pm
I got an old card in my wallet from a restaurant in Turkey, on the back they wrote: 'Bring this card and get 10% discount, free fruit, free ice cream, free irish caf