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".
Those are good! I've seen signs that indicated the business was closed with the door wide open, and vice versa.
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.
It's probably supposed to be BUS, but it's funny this way.
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.
Those signs should be in Braille. Also the signs at emergency eyewash stations.
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?
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?
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?
My heart tests took place in the Department of Nuclear Medicine, so maybe it's not so free after all.
Next time you go, you must query the matter.
I do hope that is many years in the future.
Have you come across the Pacific Bell advertisement sign which reads:
"Phone out of service?
Give us a call".
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.
More efficient than their phone service?
No, but some small satisfaction in yelling at them.
-Saw a sign on Gabriola Island declaring it to be a nuclear weapons free zone. Kudos to the plucky Gabriolans for keeping nukes off-island!
This is a funny thread. I can't think of any right now though.....................
Gopher wrote:
[div style="font-style: italic;"]Have you come across the Pacific Bell advertisement sign which reads:[/div] [div style="font-style: italic;"]"Phone out of service?[/div] Give us a call".
No, but I saw one that said "Illiterate? Write for a free brochure."
kind of like those hooked on phonics stuff. if you cant read, how do you order it.
Not really nonsensical but fun nontheless is the sign in stores and resturants that say: shoes (shirts) must be worn, to which I ask: I've only been wearing these shoes (or shirt as the case may be) for 2 days are they worn enough?
Just saw this sign along 12th Ave - Traffic Calmed Area. (whatever the hell that means)
I've never heard of traffic calming anything before, let alone an area.
I don't get it. If that's not a nnsensical sign, I don't know what is.
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You could write a thesis solely concerned with the intriguing symbolism of this picture.
"It is forbidden to enter a woman, even a foreigner, if dressed as a man" - Notice at a Bangkok temple.
"Please do not flush anything down the toilet except toilet paper" - sign in a Saskatoon restaurant. (How exactly does one do this? - empty out all the contents first?).
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At a sushi restaurant - Car will be tooed at 2 to 5pm.
Outisde a hospital - Guard dogs operating here.
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that sign would be good for a brothel.
Nice to see some people still have a sense of humour.
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