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A month ago I bought and orange cream soda at safeway. Anyways, it didn't have a UPC printed on it (molded glass bottle) so the guy just rang it up manually. When I checked the recipt, it said "new age beverage"
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There were these rednecks that lived in my town, had a sign out front their shack that read :
Panit for Sale
Gotta give em credit, they did spell "Paint" right on the other side of the sign.
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quote:Originally posted by rockland6674: M. Wise, the Stop & Shop supermarket chain used to abbreviate "homogenized" in the same way on their receipts: "S&S HOMO MILK." I haven't checked lately. I wonder if they still do?
They use tha abbreviation at Dunkin' Donuts, too! I have a good story behind THAT one. In my high school days, my friend Bill and I had a mutual friend that worked at Dunkin' Donuts. We frequently went there and bugged the sh%t out of him. lol
Anyways... One day we were doing just that when Bill discovered the sign. It wasn't long before we were taking turns shouting "There's no mo' homo milk mofo!" while he was serving customers. He wasn't too happy about it, but we soon took care of the problem when we discovered (to our evil joy) that we could, and did, lock him in the women's bathroom.
It's no small miracle we didn't get him fired, but damn it was fun!
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quote:Originally posted by Teodoro: I apologize for raising the dead and all, but it is getting on towards Halloween:
quote:Originally posted by Gibbie: At many intersections in Philadelphia, there is a sign by the traffic light that reads "Wait for Green." Well d'uh.
Gibbie
I believe that sign is the equivalent of "NO TURN ON RED"...just phrased slightly strangely...
In some states (such as Vermont) it's perfectly legal to turn on red, so long as it's turning RIGHT ofcourse! However that's still dangerous in some places, henceforth the signage. There's one nearby my house, because you are turning right onto an access road for the highway. Posted speed limit is 50 mph, so obviously it's not a great idea to turn onto it during the red light.
My two pennies. (Sh&t! Now I'm broke again! )
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Left turn on red is legal and possible too (in Ohio and Indiana at least), if you're turning left onto a one-way street from another one-way street. Of course, that's a pretty rare situation, but it does mean there are some legal left turns on red too!
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Bump. Arizona is another right-on-red state -- and Mesa, where I live, is one of the three worst cities in the US for red-light running. I've seen NO RIGHT ON RED as well as NO RIGHT ON RED WHEN PEDESTRIANS PRESENT. We also have the following gems:
In Phoenix:
And in Mesa:
... which latter, as the maintainer of arizonaroads.com points out, would seem to make red-light running mandatory.
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Here in Washington at Bellevue Square is a sign that reads "Left turn on green ball." It cracks me up every time. We have to repeat it several times as we're parking, and we get a laugh out of it every time we say it (even though we've been there many, many times).
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Near the parking lot of a shoe store (don't remember the name) in Somer's Point, New Jersey, is a sign reading "Thank you for you patronage." Dunno, but maybe bad grammar sells shoes. When I was a kid driving past the Hamilton Mall (not far from Somer's Point) I would laugh every time at seeing a Dick's Sporting Goods right next to a Seamen's Furniture. Not really signs, but the placement of the two stores could have been perhaps better thought out... The Mini Mart in my old hometown of Bradford, Vermont, sold, for the longest time, "Raisen Bread". Sadly, it didn't seem to raise anything, dead ancestors included (Pepsi has the monopoly on that I think! )
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Last Friday, I was returning home from Pokemon League in Miami and I saw this sign in front of a McDonalds:
EW MCGRIDDLES
Kinda makes you think about the foood they serve there, doesn't it?
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What I love is pulling up to to a drive-through ATM, and there's Braille on the ATM's buttons. You know, for the convinence of all those blind drivers who don't want to get out of their cars.
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quote:Originally posted by Midge: There's a senior citizen apartment/assisted living/nursing home complex here in town that used to have a sign next to its driveway that said, "Caution: Pedestrians Walking.
On the floor of the warehouse where I work, every so often two warnings are spray-painted:
CAUTION: WATCH OUT FOR LIFT TRUCKS
and
WALKING PEDESTRIAN
smitty"but isn't that what a pedestrian is supposed to do?"kins
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During "Iraqi Freedom" a local Subway shop (run by people of foreign decent) had a sign that said:
SUPPORT OUR SOUPS
Although not really funny in respect with what was going on, I thought it humorous.
Another great sign is here. There are more pictures on the page, but it looks like the main website is down currently.
edited to fix typos.. silly me
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There is a sandwich board sign on the side of the road that I see on my way to the bank that reads "Grooming Cats @ Dogs call 555-5555".
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I see signs at Burger King that say "Picture Menu Available on Request." I'm assuming these are for people who are illiterate or can't speak English, but if they can read the sign, why do they need a picture menu?
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There is a Korean restaurant not far from where I work that has this sign in the door every Tuesday:
quote:CLOSED Tuesdays for weekly cleaning and maintenence. "Sorry" for the inconvenience.
You're "sorry", huh? I see how it is...
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I see a lot of restaurant signs around here that say:
quote: TODAY: "Fresh" Mussels!
or something similar.
I always thought that this is rather honest...
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quote:Originally posted by Don Enrico: I see a lot of restaurant signs around here that say:
quote: TODAY: "Fresh" Mussels!
or something similar.
I always thought that this is rather honest...
Probably because they were fresh - before being frozen for transport. Eew - smelly things when Mussels Go Bad
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I saw one yesterday on my way home from work. There is a lot of construction in this area and there is a sign that read:
quote:Originally posted by budgyrl of Oz: I saw one yesterday on my way home from work. There is a lot of construction in this area and there is a sign that read:
CAUTION: SIGNS AHEAD
Why thank you for the warning!
Classic. Reminds me of the legendary (but probably apocraphyl) "DO NOT THROW STONES AT THIS NOTICE".
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I love the signs that you can find on the motorways in the UK..."this sign is not in use".
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quote:Originally posted by moonfall86: I see signs at Burger King that say "Picture Menu Available on Request." I'm assuming these are for people who are illiterate or can't speak English, but if they can read the sign, why do they need a picture menu?
I guess the sign is in case they're with someone who can read. For example children with parents, foreign visiting a relative who lives in the US, old illiterate person visiting daughter who lives in town, etc.
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Edit: Please notice the name of the store is "Hussey's"
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Bringing some shoes to be mended the other day, I noticed a sign on the counter that said
Please retain your receipt for when you come to collect your "Shoes"
un"what the hell are you going to turn them into? Kittens?" broken
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Temple's post reminded me of one. At West Point there is a road that runs by the Generals' houses. There was a sign on the road just before the Dean's residence that read, "Slow Children Ahead." Needless to say, I always resented him chewing my butt for academic non-excellence when he couldn't even motivate his own kids!
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quote:Originally posted by WildaBeast: I saw this painted on the back of a 15 passenger van today:
"Caution: Church Van."
Ok... Why would you have to use any more caution around a church van than any other vehicle?
Wilda"Rear-end them and God will smite you!"Beast
While it's quite unfortunate and not a laughing matter, my wife and I have noticed that every summer, about a half-dozen of them slam into bridge abutments on the way to Six Flags and explode in fireballs.
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quote:Originally posted by jumpinjonflash2:
quote:Originally posted by WildaBeast: I saw this painted on the back of a 15 passenger van today:
"Caution: Church Van."
Ok... Why would you have to use any more caution around a church van than any other vehicle?
Wilda"Rear-end them and God will smite you!"Beast
While it's quite unfortunate and not a laughing matter, my wife and I have noticed that every summer, about a half-dozen of them slam into bridge abutments on the way to Six Flags and explode in fireballs.
Also, church vans are typically used to bus in children. So the warning would apply as it would to a school bus.
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I might be going to hell but when I saw this sign after the death of Wendy founder Dave Thomas, I thought they were serving him. I think it was the "well done" part that got to me.... ok, it might just be a private brain fart but I still don't like the wording on the sign.
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