We were in Williamsburg over this past weekend. I saw a truck that read: "Antique Tables Made Daily".

We encountered several entertaining ones in our jaunt across the South Island in New Zealand. Some of my favorites (including sneezing mountain with extra phlegm) are here.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y96...angkok/166.jpg

'nuff said....

Sadly, it does not have to be "another country" where English is mangled. It happens all the time in English speaking countries, too. I was somewhat relieved to discover that it is not just the USA where plural nouns are erroneously created by using an apostrophe s. I have seen it in Australia, NZ, and Ireland. But in addition to that silly error, there are plenty of humerous mangled English signs to be found right here in the USA.

Seen in Italy:

(large type) VIETATO FUMARE (prohibited to smoke)
(small type) something in Italian about the fine being 1,000 to 10,000 lira based on some law from 1974

I wonder how many people who smoke would be deterred by a fine of about 50 cents to 5 euros.

Seen in France:

STOP sign (the fact that STOP is in English proved to be amusing to some Canadians that I showed a picture of the sign to)

Seen in China:

Grotesque Stones Exhibit (which was the English translation of something in Chinese)

We Canadians are amused/ suprised to see a STOP sing in France, because all the stop sights in Quebec say Arrêt

In Oahu, on the front of "Hawaiian Rent All"

Husband For Rent
Will Bring Own Tools

Steps are slithery. (In a town in Tuscany.)
Please park prettily. (Outside a little church in the English countryside.)

I always like the ones near some prison in Phoenix that tell you not to pick up hitchhikers.

We thought so! What wasnt clear was if a psycho could be a guardian for a drunkard and vice versa.

They are gone now, I dare not ask why. But years ago the stalls in the mens room in the lower level of Penn Station had signs on them that said: "Occupancy by more than one person at a time strictly prohibited by law". It then cited the NYC Penal Code.

The city of Berkeley is also a "Nuclear-free zone" even though UCB had a reactor on campus until mid-1980s.



Here are some of the ones that I spotted:
No Parking in NYC
Delayed Development in SMF
Elevator Button = a destination
Elephant in a container

"Rear or Side-loading vans only" at a parking spot. As opposed to top- or front-loading vans?

"Pedestrians yield to traffic" in Toronto near the CN Tower. Cars also had a sign reading, "Yield to peds"

:confused: What would you expect a falling rock sign to look like?

A friend's real estate company rents out a small suite of offices in the back of its building to a physician. You can't get to that office except from around back; it has its own outside entrance and is not connected to the main offices. However, patients kept coming in the front door and asking the receptionist how to get to the doctor's office.

Over the months, the realty company tried various signs on its front door to direct people to the doctor's office. The current iteration is my favorite:

"Dr. Smiegel sees patients in the rear." :eek:

LMAO, that's classic!:D^

There was this one awning (I think that's how it's spelled) a bar had that read "We Cheat Tourists and Drunks" I wish I had taken a picture of that one before it became something else. n_n;

There's also a spot on Haight Street with a big sign on the side of the store that reads "This Is Not A Toilet" or something to that effect.