| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 144.1 | | AJAX::TOPAZ | | Mon Feb 03 1986 20:16 | 9 |
| This doesn't qualify...still,
The Spit Brook cafeteria includes both a salad bar and a sandwich
bar. Over the salad bar is a sign that says "Sandwich Bar"; over
the sandwich bar is a sign that says "Salad Bar".
If you're not asleep by now, your insomnia is incurable.
--Mr Topaz
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| 144.2 | | DELNI::CANTOR | | Mon Feb 03 1986 22:14 | 13 |
| Okay, so it didn't qualify. I want to talk about it.
Presume that the signs get interchanged, and that the "Salad Bar" sign is
over the salad bar. Why should the sign include the word 'bar?' "Salad"
would be enough. I suppose there might be a little sticker on the sign
so the person who installs it knows what it is. The sticker would say
"Salad Bar sign". The package in which the sign comes from the painter
has a label which says "Salad Bar sign box" and the package in which the
label comes is itself labelled "Salad Bar sign box labels".
:-) , but only half so.
Dave C.
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| 144.3 | | FIFTY1::TIMMER | | Wed Feb 05 1986 03:20 | 9 |
| Some years ago at Digital in Utrecht (Holland) the computer room was on
the same floor as Software Support. The IS operator wanted to prevent customers
to enter the wrong section so he had signs made which read:
PERSONNAL ONLY
The Dutch word for employees is "personeel" which got sort of translated
into English... Someone else decided to patch the signs and made them:
PERSONNEL ONLY
Rien.
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| 144.4 | Looked great on paper!!! | VIRTUE::LARRY_M | | Fri Feb 28 1986 16:15 | 7 |
| I went home and tried out this idea after seeing the following sign
in each of the men's rooms at NRO1, but it didn't work:
Please!!!
Do not write on the men's room walls in order to keep
them clean!!!
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| 144.5 | The "Family" Restaurant | TLE::FAIMAN | Neil Faiman | Tue Mar 18 1986 15:25 | 7 |
| A restaurant in Plymouth, Michigan had a sign reading:
The "Family" Restaurant
Did that mean that it was owned by the mafia?
-Neil
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| 144.6 | | PASTIS::MONAHAN | | Wed Apr 02 1986 10:17 | 2 |
| There are many shops in England which describe themselves as
Family Butchers
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| 144.7 | | APTECH::RSTONE | | Fri Apr 04 1986 09:50 | 2 |
| The last time I was in England (15 years ago) they also had
_Turf Accountants_ otherwise known in the states as legalized bookies.
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| 144.8 | Must be to protect the pigeons. | DELNI::CANTOR | Dave C. | Tue Oct 13 1987 17:02 | 14 |
| At Bader Field Airport (AIY) in Atlantic City, New Jersey,
the signs on the doors to the outside air operations area
are signed:
+-----------------------------+
| BADER FIELD AIRPORT |
| AIR OPERATIONS AREA |
|-----------------------------|
| TRESPASSERS |
| SUBJECT TO ARREST |
| NJ STATUE 2A:170-31 | [sic]
+-----------------------------+
Dave C.
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| 144.9 | | ERASER::KALLIS | Make Hallowe'en a National holiday. | Tue Oct 13 1987 17:18 | 9 |
| How many fruit stands have you seen where there is a lettered sign
proclaiming:
BANANA'S
hmm?
Many fruits and vegetables are advertised in the possessive.
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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| 144.10 | A banana's lot is not a happy one | HOMSIC::DUDEK | Elegant in her simplicity | Tue Oct 13 1987 17:31 | 1 |
| re .9
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| 144.11 | a crazy place for the girls to eat ! | ESDC2::SOBOT | Steve Sobot, ESDC-II | Wed Oct 14 1987 04:50 | 9 |
| I like the sign combination I saw at a British Rail station.
-----------------------------------------
| w a y o u t -> |
-----------------------------------------
| l a d i e s -> |
-----------------------------------------
| b u f f e t -> |
-----------------------------------------
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| 144.12 | gym dandies | LEZAH::BOBBITT | face piles of trials with smiles | Wed Oct 14 1987 14:53 | 18 |
| I was never impressed with a certain gym I used to go to. The ladies
locker room was adorned with those colorful magic-marker signs that
are lettered in perfectly legible, perfectly spaced lines...but...there
were several that caught my eye:
Please Watch You Step
Please Showre Before Entering Pool Area
Please Lock Up Your Valualbes
(hmmm...all brauns and no brain here, eh?)
-Jody
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| 144.13 | Musta lost their shirt | RUTLND::SATOW | | Wed Oct 21 1987 12:18 | 17 |
| Don't know where this should go. The error message referenced below
is certainly not "wrong", in fact it may be accurate in a way not
intended.
<<< TLE::PUBD$:[VAXNOTES]EASYNET_CONFERENCES.NOTE;7 >>>
-< EasyNet Conference Directory >-
================================================================================
Note 447.2 INVESTING personal money matters, computing, etc. 2 of 3
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Every time I try and access BMT::INVESTING this conference I get:
"Insufficient Resources at remote node"
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| 144.14 | | XANADU::RAVAN | | Thu Oct 22 1987 10:09 | 10 |
| This isn't really a "wrong sign," but...
I had to chuckle every time I thought of all the people around the
E-net who were...
$ NOT INVESTING
(Sorry!)
-b
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| 144.15 | Did you say Pleace? | UPOVAX::GREER | | Tue Aug 23 1988 22:25 | 13 |
| -<Let me pay, pleace>-
I have seen two signs that I would like to share:
o "FREE GIFT" - Personally I have never payed for one!
o While I was in Russia I happened upon a badly translated
door sign. it said:
"Pleace show doorman your hotel card upon entering"
(-:
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| 144.16 | signs, signs, everywhere are signs | COOKIE::DEVINE | Bob Devine, CXN | Sat Nov 04 1989 02:41 | 102 |
| From USENET:
At gaseterias through the nation: Eat here and get gas.
At a Santa Fe gas station: We will sell gasoline to anyone in
a glass container.
In a New Hampshire jewelry store: Ears pierced while you wait.
In a New York restaurant: Customers who consider our waitresses
uncivil ought to see the manager.
On the wall of a Baltimore estate: Trespassers will be prosecuted
to the full extent of the law. --Sisters of Mercy
On a long-established New Mexico dry cleaners: 38 years on the same spot.
In a Los Angeles dance hall: Good clean dancing every night but Sunday.
On a movie theater: Children's matinee today. Adults not admitted
unless with child.
In a Florida maternity ward: No children allowed.
In a New York drugstore: We dispense with accuracy
On a New Hampshire medical building: Martin Diabetes Professional Ass.
In the offices of a loan company: Ask about our plans for owning
your home.
In a New York medical building: Mental Health Prevention Center
In a toy department: Five Santa Clauses -- No waiting!
On a New York convalescent home: For the sick and tired of the
Episcopal Church.
On a Maine shop: Our motto is to give our customers the lowest
possible prices and workmanship.
At a number of military bases: Restricted to unauthorized personnel.
On a display of "I love you only" valentine cards: Now available
in multi-packs.
In the window of a Kentucky appliance store: Don't kill your wife.
Let our washing machine do the dirty work.
In a funeral parlor: Ask about our layaway plan.
In a clothing store: Wonderful bargains for men with 16 and 17 necks.
In a Tacoma, Washington men's clothing store: 15 men's wool suits, $10.
They won't last an hour!
On a shopping mall marquee: Archery Tournament -- Ears pierced
Outside a country shop: We buy junk and sell antiques.
On a Pennsylvania highway: Drive carefully. Auto accidents kill
most people 15 to 19.
In downtown Boston: Calahan Tunnel -- No end
In the window of an Oregon store: Why go elsewhere and be cheated when
you can come here?
In a Maine restaurant: Open 7 days a week and weekends.
In a New Jersey restaurant: Open 11 AM to 11 PM midnight.
In front of a New Hampshire restaurant: Now serving live lobsters.
On a radiator repair garage: Best place to take a leak.
On a movie marquee: Now playing:
ADAM AND EVE
with a cast of thousands!
In the vestry of a New England church: Will the last person to leave please
see that the perpetual light is extinguished.
In a Pennsylvania cemetery: Persons are prohibited from picking flowers
from any but their own graves.
On a roller coaster: Watch your head.
On the grounds of a public school: No tresspassing without permission.
In a library: Blotter paper will no longer be available until the public
stops taking it away.
On a Tennessee highway: When this sign is under water, this road
is impassable.
Similarly, in front of a New Hampshire car wash: If you can't
read this, it's time to wash your car.
And apparently, somewhere in England in an open field otherwise untouched
by human presence, there is a sign that says "Do not throw stones at this
sign."
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| 144.17 | Kick 'em in the teeth... | RTOISB::TINIUS | Lovely, just lovely | Mon Nov 06 1989 18:58 | 7 |
|
On a high school football stadium in Ohio:
New Philadelphia - Home of the Fighting Quakers
Stephen
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| 144.18 | Sign of the times. | GRNDAD::STONE | SPECIAL WHEN LIT | Tue Nov 07 1989 17:31 | 7 |
|
Grafitti seen from train passing through a poorer section of Philadelphia:
CITY OF BROTHERS
[Philadelphia has long been referred to as "The City of Brotherly
Love".]
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| 144.19 | | BLAS03::FORBES | Bill Forbes - LDP Engrng | Fri Feb 16 1990 20:11 | 9 |
| One of my neighbors evidently works for a company which services air
conditioners, walk-in refrigerators and other similar things. His
panel truck is emblazoned with the name of the outfit:
ARTIC REFRIGERATION
It drives me nuts every time I see it, even after these five years...
Bill
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| 144.20 | | SUBWAY::KABEL | doryphore | Fri Feb 16 1990 23:31 | 6 |
| And all of those trucks that shout
RENT ME
I have often thought of taking a sharp knife and doing so!
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| 144.21 | | HPSCAD::ALTMAN | BARB | Wed Oct 31 1990 18:57 | 5 |
| Saw this over the weekend:
Meet Queen of the Damned Author
Ann Rice
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| 144.22 | missed her by one day before | TLE::RANDALL | self-defined person | Wed Oct 31 1990 19:56 | 6 |
| Not to go down a rathole, but -- where?? when??? I suppose that was
last weekend, too.
Sigh.
--bonnie
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| 144.23 | hmm. Maybe I need the exercise... | HPSCAD::ALTMAN | BARB | Wed Dec 12 1990 14:46 | 6 |
| Sorry, Bonnie. It was old when I saw it.
Got another one - from a local dry cleaner -
Shirt special - $.95 (no cent sign on this antique)
folded or on hangars.
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| 144.24 | | TLE::RANDALL | Bonnie Randall Schutzman | Wed Dec 12 1990 16:50 | 3 |
| Ah, well . . . some day.
--bonnie
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