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This topic has 24 replies, 18 voices, and was last updated 26 February 2011 at 22:24 by Cyril Bonnett.

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21 February 2011 at 13:05 #64398
David Colwill
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While walking home in the rain today I walked past a bus stop which was being cleaned by a man from a contract cleaning company. What made me laugh was the sign he put out…….

‘Caution wet floor’
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21 February 2011 at 13:05 #21802
David Colwill
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21 February 2011 at 19:56 #64416
wheeltapper
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It’s a bit like the safety notice in my chinese lathe ‘handbook’

“caution, do not carry this tool by the electrical lead“

It’s a C4 clone.

Roy.

Edited By wheeltapper on 21/02/2011 19:57:34
22 February 2011 at 04:59 #64443
Ian S C
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@iansc
Not for under 36 months may cause choking, what is it? It is a Frisby made in China, similar warning on a pack of tennis balls. Ian S C
22 February 2011 at 08:40 #64445
Terryd
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Hi Guys,

Reminds me of a newspaper signboard I saw a while ago in Shrewsbury which said in it’s usual terse way “Man held over Shropshire fire” How cruel I thought.

Mind you the next one said “Asda to extend 24 hr opening“. Hmm, would that be 25 hrs, 26 hrs or what?

Regards

Terry
22 February 2011 at 08:43 #64446
RJW
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Or, the warning – ‘Contains MILK’ .……………………

My wife couldn’t believe it, so she showed me the carton just to make sure she wasn’t hallucinating ……………… It Really was printed on a 1 litre carton of UHT ……..MILK

I kid you not, it was on a Somerfield own brand product!

……or the bag of mixed nuts that warns ……………...’Contains NUTS’ ………..

I can see this one going on for a while ……..

John
22 February 2011 at 09:00 #64447
Roderick Jenkins
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Or, on a bucket of dried mealworms for feeding the wild birds:

Not for human consumptiuon….May contain nuts.

I tried warning the birds but the woodpecker just laughed.

Rod
22 February 2011 at 09:41 #64449
Buster
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Making a chicken salad sandwich the other day and noticed the bag had, Traditional seasonal salad leaves, (seasonal) in February, David
22 February 2011 at 10:24 #64451
Steve Garnett
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I don’t know if it’s still there, but in the harbour at Watchet there is a sign on the slipway that has always amused me. ‘Warning – Slipway may be slippery’…

But my favourite is the sticker that I removed from a Brother dot matrix printer that got scrapped years ago. This says ‘Keep Hair, Fingers and Personal Object out of this printer’. Says it all, really!
22 February 2011 at 12:06 #64459
Ramon Wilson
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Don’t know if it’s universal throughout their stores but the cafeteria in John Lewis in Norwich is called “The Place to Eat”

Big sign hanging over the walkway as you approach says

TOILETS

THE PLACE TO EAT

Hmmm
22 February 2011 at 13:54 #64465
David Colwill
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Keep them coming I may end up with enough for a book!
22 February 2011 at 15:16 #64468
Peter Gain
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There are (or were) several large notices along the sea front at Lyme Regis stating “Warning – Rocks Slippery When Wet”.

My daughter recently had an application form for employment with Surrey County Council which asked the question, “Are you now still the same gender as when you were born”!

Peter Gain.
22 February 2011 at 18:29 #64490
Mark Dickinson
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A hand painted sign seen when driving in deepest darkest Cumbria

COWS DRIVE SLOWLY

Obviously they have trouble due to their hooves.
22 February 2011 at 19:37 #64496
peter walton 1
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Best I have seen is ‘Ears pierced while you wait’

Peter
23 February 2011 at 01:11 #64512
Bill Pudney
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Back in the ’60’s I used to read Motor Sport magazine. One of the few concessions to humour was a photo on the back page. The one that has stuck in my mind was a photo of a sign on a windswept moor in, it was claimed Yorkshire. The only wording on the sign was

“Do not throw stones at this sign, signed Borough Clerk of wherever”

Dopey officialdom is not a modern thing

cheers

Bill Pudney

Adelaide, Australia
23 February 2011 at 10:53 #64520
Nobby
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@nobby
Hi

On a peanut butter jar This item may contain nuts.

Nobby
23 February 2011 at 11:44 #64522
Terryd
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Hi Guys,

When on a trip to Southern Ireland with my Father in law a few years ago he went to close a building society account. The sign on the door of the Irish Permanent BS in Coolgraney read ” Now in temporary premises“. Perhaps they foresaw the recession?

mind you I liked the pole sign at a nearby village service station which offered the following services:

Fuel;

Servicing:

Shop;

Car wash;

Funeral Director.

Made me smile

Terry

Edited By Terryd on 23/02/2011 11:45:55
23 February 2011 at 12:23 #64524
Stovepipe
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@stovepipe
Seen at a primary school in the 1940’s :-

“DEAD SLOW CHILDREN”

Dennis
23 February 2011 at 14:32 #64533
Mike
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@mike89748
As a former newspaper editor, I always enjoy headlines which don’t say quite what their writers intended. “New bridge held up by red tape” is one example, but World War II reportedly produced a couple of classics: “Monty flies back to front” and – pick of the bunch – “Eighth Army push bottles up 5,000 Germans.”
24 February 2011 at 10:10 #64594
Ian S C
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@iansc
On the roof a Lawyers office next door to a old peoples home in Christchurch NZ is a sign Free Wills, Right next to thier customers . Ian S C
24 February 2011 at 12:32 #64612
Terryd
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@terryd72465
Hi Ian,

So who is ‘Wills’ and why is he captive?

Regards

Terry

Edited By Terryd on 24/02/2011 12:33:18
24 February 2011 at 12:53 #64615
David Colwill
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Dare I mention Michael Caine’s immortal line from the film Zulu ‘Fire at Will’. He was the Zulu with 600 bullet holes in him!
26 February 2011 at 21:10 #64738
Ian Welford
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Seen in butcher in Yorkshire a few months ago ” freshly shot yorkshire rabbi”

Well it’d be a coshure dish no doubt….
26 February 2011 at 21:41 #64742
RJW
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Posted by Ian Welford on 26/02/2011 21:10:49:

Seen in butcher in Yorkshire a few months ago ” freshly shot yorkshire rabbi”

Well it’d be a coshure dish no doubt….

Nice one!

The ‘T’ is often ‘swallowed’ in Yorkshire dialect, maybe he was thinking ‘spell as she is spoke’

…..unless the butcher was thinking along latin lnes
26 February 2011 at 22:24 #64745
Cyril Bonnett
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B&B sign in Oban for years read “hot and cold water”
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