Pictures of funny signs and silly Labels give us a laugh, but we wonder how much they cost their owners in lost business, or for replacement calligraphy.
Touching Wires Causes Instant Death
Will and Guy think that the above $200 fine is a bit steep – under the circumstances.
Stupid Sign – Even If You Are Able-bodied
Instructions: Alternate exit to the left, then right, then left, then right, then left to exit.
Don’t Leave Your Footwear Here!
For some reason this amusing picture reminds me of the chap who wore his old shoes to the bowling alley, exchanged them for a new pair of bowling shoes, then walked out leaving his old shoes at the checkout.
Hard Hat’s Required Beyone This Point
The apostrophe – how can such a tiny item cause so much mayhem?
Guy’s daydream. The above sign is trying to say, ‘Queue here for a Beyoncé Knowles gig’.
Funny Signs Inside Shops
- At a Music Store in Nottingham, UK: Out to lunch. Bach at 12:30. Offenbach sooner.
- In a dry cleaner’s shop in Portsea, Portsmouth, UK: Drop your trousers here.
- In a department store in Vancouver, Canada: Bargain Basement Upstairs.
- In a restaurant in Norfolk, Virginia, USA: Customers who find our waitresses rude ought to see the manager.
- In a restaurant window just outside Brixham, Devon, UK: Don’t stand there and be hungry, come in and get fed up.
- In a health food shop window in Los Angeles, USA: Closed due to illness.
- In a pub in West Sussex which is non-smoking: If we see smoke, we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.
Funny Pharmacy Pictures
Another Tranche of Silly Notices
- This sign can be found at the front of Safeway store in Seattle, USA: For Sale: 100% Recycled Compost. [Is there any other way to produce compost?]
- Adult Literacy leaflet in Chelmsford, Essex, UK: If you cannot read, this leaflet will tell you how to get lessons.
- On a Music Teacher’s door in Halifax, Nova Scotia, USA: Out Chopin, back in a min-u-et.
- The Ram Inn Hotel’s restaurant, Newark, UK: Try our fish just for the halibut.
- Written on the trucks of a local plumbing company in San Francisco: Don’t sleep with a drip, call your plumber.
- Seen in a vet’s waiting room, Walton-on-Thames, UK: Be back in 5 minutes.
Sit! Stay! - In an Ottawa, Canada, clothing store: Wonderful bargains for men with 18 and 19 necks.
- At an Optician’s in Fareham, UK: If you don’t see what you’re looking for, You’ve come to the right place.
- In a Laundromat, seen in Portland, Oregon, USA: Automatic Washing Machines: Please remove all your clothes when the light goes out.
Fall Into Water Carefully
Ever Seen Hot Snow?
- Sighted at a towing company in Sacramento, California, ‘We don’t charge an arm and a leg. We want tows.’
- Written on the door of the Delivery Room in the Maternity Suite at St Mary’s Hospital, Newcastle, UK, ‘Push. Push. Push.’
- Wet Paint. This is a warning, not an instruction. Sign next to a fence seen in Bradford, UK
- Seen outside a second hand shop in Glasgow, Scotland, ‘We exchange anything – bicycles, washing machines etc. Why not bring your wife along and get a wonderful bargain.’
- Spotted in Windsor Safari Park, Berkshire, UK: ‘Baboons – Please stay in your car.’ [When Will and his family visited the park, the baboons sat on the roof and the bonnet of his car; they broke the windscreen wipers and threw them away, as well as pulling the washers out of their seating, drinking the soapy water and throwing the pipes away. I didn’t dare leave the car to retrieve the pieces – I was not amused!].
Follow the lead of William S. Broach and please send us your
pictures of funny signs or silly labels
