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Ronniej
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Location: Blackwood, by Lanark, Scotland
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 Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 4:15 pm Post subject: AMUSING SIGN (OO-ER MISSUS!) |
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I have often seen a sign with an amusing "double entendre" which is good for a laugh but is usually just a fake sign put up as a joke.
I suspect this one may be an exception. It is cast iron and looks as old as the date on it would suggest. We spotted it outside The Railway Tavern in a remote part of Somerset. The railway has long since gone but the delightfully basic pub is still there and still dispensing hospitality. |
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peter scott
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Location: Edinburgh
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Ronniej
Joined: 02 Dec 2008
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Location: Blackwood, by Lanark, Scotland
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Oh well, I was totally taken in. It is well made and the fact that it was this railway company that operated here lent credence to it. It did not escape me that it is secured by crosspoint screws but I simply thought is had been re-secured at some recent date.
I am now wondering if my recent post of Daleks at a bus stop might also have been Photoshopped!
With someone as gullible as I am it is lucky it was not an e-mail from a Nigerian prince offering a fortune.
Does anyone have any (genuine) amusing signs? |
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mikeC
Joined: 31 Jul 2009
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Location: Market Warsop, Nottinghamshire
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I no longer have it, but many years ago I 'liberated' a Great Northern Railway sign from its original location, which said:
DO NOT DEFACE THIS SIGN
I've often wondered about it... |
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peter scott
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Location: Edinburgh
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I think it's very difficult to tell if any amusing old signs were accidental or deliberate. (I suspect most are deliberate.)
Peter
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MikeEdwards
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Location: South Cheshire
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| Ronniej wrote: | | Oh well, I was totally taken in. It is well made and the fact that it was this railway company that operated here lent credence to it. |
While I can't claim that I knew it wasn't a real sign, I figured that the terrible lack of consistency in the size of each of the letters simply would never have made it past the quality control "gaffer" back in the 1800s - it would have earned someone a slap around the ear. |
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baconsdozen
Joined: 03 Dec 2007
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Location: Under the car.
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Hand on heart this is true.A friend of mine started a little one man car repair business.It didn't last long. His first advert in the local paper read "Car running rough? Why bodge it,let me do it for you". I like to think it was a deliberate joke but I'm not 100% convinced.
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Ashley
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Location: Near Stroud, Glos
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ukdave2002
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Location: South Cheshire
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We have the lower sign in many locations locally...always puts a smile on my face 
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Ray White
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Location: Derby
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I once saw a sign at a farm gate advertising "weak old hens for sale".  |
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Penman
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Location: Swindon, Wilts.
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Hi
Back in the 50's or 60's there was an estate agent near Kingston on Thames who used to use sardonic ads which disparaged the property being sold.
They appeared regularly in, I believe, the Dalton's Weekly.
They must have been effective because he did it for some years.
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Ray White
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| Penman wrote: | Hi
Back in the 50's or 60's there was an estate agent near Kingston on Thames who used to use sardonic ads which disparaged the property being sold.
They appeared regularly in, I believe, the Dalton's Weekly.
They must have been effective because he did it for some years. |
I remember that! There was also a guy who used to impersonate Kojack in his ads with the phrase "who loves your house, baby ?" |
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Keith D
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In rural Bali (Indonesia) there is a woodworking shop that proudly advertises on a roadside sign "Antiques made to order!"
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Ronniej
Joined: 02 Dec 2008
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Location: Blackwood, by Lanark, Scotland
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I took this picture at the Anson Engine Museum in Cheshire.
At the time I regarded it as genuine but, in the light of how well made fakes can be, I am not so sure now. I note that "rigor" has the American spelling which also adds doubt.
Anyway, that apart, the very forthright message is quite amusing.
Incidentally, the Anson Museum is well worth a visit to anyone with even the slightest interest in engineering. |
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peter scott
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Location: Edinburgh
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And in these liberal times for the gun lobby:
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