Friday, June 17, 2011

Signs that make me go "hmmmm"


This one got my attention.  I was far enough away at the time that all I could read was Tree Frog Farm.  I wondered what, exactly, you could expect to get at a Tree Frog Farm.  Tree Frogs?  Really?  Why?  So out comes the zoom lens to investigate.  Hmm ... plants, what I assume was produce, and pygmy goats.   Wonder what happened to the produce?  Do you suppose the goats ate it? And isn't that a classy way to change the sign? ... tap, tap, tap ... all fixed.

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I was sitting in a restaurant across the street looking out the window while eating my lunch when I noticed this.

A Drive thru?  A DRIVE THRU???  What kind of business is this?  Can't you just see them trying to stuff a mattress out that window?  Or a bed?
 
 

Sometimes road signs can be a bit confusing.  I hadn't been in the mountains long when I saw this one, and had never seen a sign like this.  My first reaction was to snort and say "No effin' way!" and start laughing.  2nd husband says "Way"  I said "Why in the hell would you go around in a loop just to go straight."  He said "Watch".  What I couldn't see was around the curve to the left was a tunnel after which the incline rose incredibly steeply and of course wrapped around a peak.





Around the corner from where we use to live this street was aptly named.  You could SEE the fault line running right along side of the road.  Why would someone want to live ON a fault line?





I often find political signs funny because so many of them are misspelled, often underlining the stupidity of their message.  (MORANS anyone?)  My senators are two of the biggest twits in Washington, so I find this one is funny even though it's spelled correctly.

Of course, some signs are misspelled intentionally ... or maybe not.


That's all I got this week.  Come on over to Carmi's @ Written Inc. if you'd like to see more or want to play along with us.
 

19 comments:

  1. Great set of photos, love the drive thru mattress store!

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  2. That last one is my favorite, although the road sign is by far the most clever (and wordlessly descriptive) I've seen in very long time.

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  3. Love them all, especially the mattress store drive thru and the "toad" one. giggle. The kids liked 'em too.

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  4. I love these! Why spend hours furniture shopping when you can just pick up a drive thru bedroom? Can I get fries with that?

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  5. Fantastic shots - they were all fun!

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  6. These are funny, but are you sure the tap, tap, tap which covered up the word said produce... maybe it said people! lol

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  7. I like the drive-through bedroom store. :)
    And, as for the fault line.... well, my former high school sits directly on top of a fault line, and there are many houses in that area as well, so it does happen. You said that you used to live nearby the one in your photo.

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  8. Wow, a drive-thru bed store, interesting! lol

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  9. I want to drive that loop road, never seen a sign like that before

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  10. Drive through mattresses? I'll never understand the whole drive through mentality. It's such a wasteful way to run a business. But mattresses? That's the weirdest thing I've ever seen. And funny as heck.

    Your signs are way cooler than anything in my area. I love the sense of humor behind them. It reinforces that people out there still care about making others smile.

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  11. I'm liking the drive thru, we have a truck, call them, and they can load the furniture as you wait!
    We have a lot of religious signs around these parts.

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  12. My favorite election sign was Elect Mike Hunt. My brother jumped out of the car and stold it!!

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  13. I love these shots. That drive thru is spectacular. As we get fatter and lazier, EVERYTHING should be a drive thru. I can't be inconvenienced to get out of my car.

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  14. I really want to check out that Tree Frog Farm! Hhahah that totally looks like Hippy-ville.

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  15. Aha, how good this is :)
    Well we were certainly toad a thing or two, here. Makes me want to hop to attention as I order fries and a coke whilst driving my bed through a bed drive thru. Reminds me of that dry-cleaning sign that stated, 'drop your pants here'.
    Take care and thanks for sharing.

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  16. great pick of signs...and i agree about the mattress store...it would be kind of interesting to waste a little time to just sit and watch what they pass through the window! ha!
    and the first one...the tree frog farm...does it say "fully rely on god" ?? hmmmm...maybe there was a higher power that got hungry and ate the produce!

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