Signs of a different English...

Everytime I see that a detour has ended and I go by the sign
END DIVERSION
all of a sudden I get very sad ...

But, then, I always look forward to the next DIVERSION...!

Am I the only one?

I had a good smile at this - thanks!    Tried to think of a good follow-up but couldn't, probably because I'm a Brit and have read the road signs so long that I see them as intended .... I look forward to other followups though!

-- Graham

What about the "Way Out" sign in the Tube (instead of simply "Exit")?  I love that...I giggle everytime!

Way out....dude!   

What about the "Way Out" sign in the Tube (instead of simply "Exit")?  I love that...I giggle everytime!

Way out....dude!   

I love that!!!  I have a picture of that on my phone!  I use it as my screensaver,  I'll use the one of a NYC subway when I am back in the UK! 

I also love, Mind the Gap!

my all time favorite thing is the 'Humps for 400 yards' signs.

LOL.  they get me every time.

i have a picture of me under one a long time ago doing some.....erm....risque things to the sign pole!  I think i had spent too much time at the pub that night!   

Ahem, and as a note to any immigration agents who may be reading this thread.  Please let me into your country to reside in September even though i molested one of your sign posts.

I won't do it again.  Promise.   

Ahem, and as a note to any immigration agents who may be reading this thread.  Please let me into your country to reside in September even though i molested one of your sign posts.

I won't do it again.  Promise.   

Now how do I get it out of my head when I meet you in person that you are the sign post molester!

We just have to organize a posse to keep her away from any sexy sign posts.....

We just have to organize a posse to keep her away from any sexy sign posts.....

Not me....really.....ermmmm.....

this and i ripped down a huge amount of those porn posters that are hung in the phone booths and stuck them in my pockets one night thinking i was funny.  it was funny until the flyers ended up strewn up the stairs to the flat of my friend's dad.  all his neighbors threw really bad looks at him for weeks because they all thought he was a perv.

Oh God that reminds me of stumbling around Soho at 4 in the morning completely blotto with two other naive knuckleheads and popping into one of those old time red phone boxes to call the MP's to come and pick us up because we were AWOL for 48 hours and thinking to myself "mmm...is'nt this a weird place for a French teacher to advertize tutoring"

even though i molested one of your sign posts

Hey...whatever floats your boat

One more:

Self-drive vans?

Images of KITT and Knight Rider spring to mind.

this and i ripped down a huge amount of those porn posters that are hung in the phone booths

Those cards are a dying art!  Seriously, they are primarily a London phenomenon and are illegal now (though obviously they aren't going away). Some of them are great pieces of ephemera (right, Celtic?!). Anyway...allow me to plug a friend's book - it's only been out for about a year:

Tart Cards: London's Illicit Advertising Art
Caroline Archer
Mark Batty Publisher

It's available on Amazon



It's on the American Amazon, too.

Edited to add: Many people collect these cards, too!

Are the adverts dying out because phone boxes seem to be a vanishing breed?

I get the biggest laugh over

Max Headroom

recalling the TV show of that name. When I first saw the sign I did a DOINK! That's where they got the name!

Talking of old shows the Brits may recall "That's Life!" with Esther Rantzen (or Rancid as we used to joke).

Anyway, they used to do a spot with very humorous road signs photographed by the viewers.

Very recently, I saw a great one at the local Recreation Center here in Jonesboro, GA that read:

"NEW- DOG'S OBEDIENCE FRENCH AND MUCH MORE"

Come on now Cora and Duke (our dogs) "Asseyez Vous!"