Nonsensical signs

Gopher · Jul 23 06 11:16

Can we have some examples please?

I'll start you off, having recently seen the following:

1) (On a telephone booth) "This telephone is now on the other side of the street". - There was NOTHING on the other side of the street.

2) (On the door of a public building) "This door is to be kept locked and open at all times".

kitten · Jul 23 06 11:18

Those are good! I've seen signs that indicated the business was closed with the door wide open, and vice versa.

weird al · Jul 23 06 11:45

At Lougheed and Gaglardi, in the bus lane on the south side of Lougheed immediately east of Gaglardi, there's a sign that says BJS ONLY. It looks like it was intentionally made that way, no sign of defacement. Want to get a picture of it it, but it's damned inconvenient.

kitten · Jul 23 06 11:48

It's probably supposed to be BUS, but it's funny this way.

kingy · Jul 23 06 12:56

ive always wondered about the 'no dogs allowed except for guide dogs" sign.

do guide dogs know how to read because the blind person definately can't.

weird al · Jul 23 06 05:47

Those signs should be in Braille. Also the signs at emergency eyewash stations.

Gopher · Jul 24 06 11:04

I did once see a stone monolith which bore a metal sign in Braille - it was at the end of a very narrow, undergrowth (and overgrowth) ravished, convoluted country trail: how did the blind person get there in the first place - and how would he have known that the stone was there, and last, but not least, how would he have known that it possessed a metal sign written in Braille?

kitten · Jul 24 06 11:17

On my way to town I saw a sign declaring Vancouver to be a nuclear-free zone. Any place is until someone decides to drop a bomb on it, so shouldn't they add "So Far" in brackets?

Gopher · Jul 24 06 11:23

This sign has always amused me too - you see it all over the place, different cities, different countries, and I've never been quite certain what it meant. Don't even the hospitals have some kind of radio-active materials on their premises in these sactuaries of peace?

kitten · Jul 24 06 11:26

My heart tests took place in the Department of Nuclear Medicine, so maybe it's not so free after all.

Gopher · Jul 24 06 11:28

Next time you go, you must query the matter.

kitten · Jul 24 06 11:30

I do hope that is many years in the future.

Gopher · Jul 24 06 11:35

Have you come across the Pacific Bell advertisement sign which reads:

"Phone out of service?

Give us a call".

kitten · Jul 24 06 11:37

No, I haven't. Perhaps they mean one should go to their nearest office and yell up at the window, which is likely on the tenth floor.

Gopher · Jul 24 06 11:38

More efficient than their phone service?