Signs or graffiti which amused you on a ride?

Anonymous

Someone changed Rood Hill in Congleton to read Rod Hull about the time he died, which I thought was top.

Initialised

Hamertime on stop signs does it for me

TommyEss

I was on the bus the other day and went past "Fanny Street"

EDIT: Just seen that it intersects "Bent Street"

Bet that doesn't happen very often!

Wheelspinner

Old favourite from uni days on the campus student union building walls...

"Dyslexics untie!"

batch78

Bramswell Rd near me is forever having the B removed.

My friends found it hugely amusing when I recounted my route which had taken me through Lickfold.

And the Deepwell Inn reminds me of that joke.

SteveR_100Milers

AndyF16 wrote:

CarlosDSanchez wrote:

Clint Road near Eye in Suffolk, some wag had drawn a line joining the bottom of the"l" and "i" on the road sign at both ends of the road.

At a few days off 40 years of age, it's a sad indictment of my mindset that such a simple and puerile jape had me cackling out loud

I'm 44 mate, and it only gets funnier from now on in...

shouldbeinbed

42 and I sill giggle at the thought of there being a Nob End in Bolton. I took a pic in Glossop at the weekend of a building site portacabin Marketing Suite with the U changed into an H. When I figure out pic uploads frm my mobile I'll put it on.

ratsbeyfus

39, and this one in Brighton made me giggle.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rats/314273967/in/pool-644544@N24


War is naughty > W@nking is naughty.

Crapaud

I passed this sign in Canada. It still makes me chuckle.

keyser__soze

Heroes coffee shop in Oxford invariably had its banner outside the shop changed to Herpes. No matter how many times they tried to change it back it got re-done almost immediately.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/50036489@N00/541263074/

brin

Crapaud wrote:

I passed this sign in Canada. It still makes me chuckle.

Brilliant, reminds me of a time a while back, a group of us sitting round a table having a few beers, my mates wife tells us all that he has been decorating and has put a dildo rail up in the bedroom, never seen so many people fall about in hysterics

AndyF16

shouldbeinbed wrote:

42 and I sill giggle at the thought of there being a Nob End in Bolton.

There's thousands, this is the town that produced Vernon Kaye after all

Ben6899

I love graffiti as long as it has a message and isn't just a mindless 'tag'. I went to the "Marks and Stencils" exhibition in Soho yesterday. Some very good stuff from Dran and Banksy, I recommend a visit if you're in the area.

bompington

Making me laugh / grimace at the moment is the sign on the A90 at the Friarton bridge by Perth: I can remember the weeks of delays while they built it, I shudder to think how much it cost, and now as I slither along through blizzards and snowdrifts, it helpfully says

CAUTION

SNOW

crumbschief

One from years ago that made me laugh was outside a fruit farm near where i live was a big sign saying P.Y.O ,but underneath someone had put F*cking Nose.

keef66

I still smile when I drive / crawl / park under the bridge over the M25 which some, presumably vegetarian, has decorated with "GIVE PEAS A CHANCE"

keef66

And, I just realise, my favourite local loop takes in the pretty village of Upend, which has some comic potential

pneumatic

For many years, the turnoff near us to the village of Wormit was regularly doctored to read Vomit. Presumably this was to make the road to Dundee more appealing!!

One that inspired (rather than amused) me a few years back was in France. We were cycling out of the town of Bazas which must have recently hosted the Tour, because on the road, every 20 metres or so, was painted the whole pantheon of road riding greats: from Bobet to Virenque and beyond. As we rode over Pantani, Mercx etc we were trying to guess who would come up next.

The last one, at the town limits sign, simply said "Et Vous?"

Classic!

CHRISNOIR

I sometimes ride through Delph and there’s a road called ‘Hill End Road’. Someone had got the magic marker out and altered the ‘H’ to a ‘B’ and the ‘I’ to an ‘E’. I sniggered like a t*t for the next hour.

Stewie Griffin

"Please do not spit on the pavement" along Wembley High Road.

priory

3 years ago as you arrived in Pals , catalonia , by the off road cycle route you were treated to this celebratory graffiti

hatbeard

my day was always brightend marginally on the way out of london bridge towards waterloo east on the southeastern trains when I saw the poorly scrawled legend

"big daves gusset"

it's on a big wooden shed in some kind of yard it's still there and has been for a good few years, if you're on the train look out the left hand side (when facing the front of the train) and you can't really miss it.

deptfordmarmoset

hatbeard wrote:

my day was always brightend marginally on the way out of london bridge towards waterloo east on the southeastern trains when I saw the poorly scrawled legend

"big daves gusset"

it's on a big wooden shed in some kind of yard it's still there and has been for a good few years, if you're on the train look out the left hand side (when facing the front of the train) and you can't really miss it.

HB, just round the corner from you there's a fairly curious sign - I went past it for years before I noticed it - Artificial Teeth.

fleshtuxedo

Women's Institute Cream Tease

kettrinboy

When i used to go out to Germany to see my sister, on the Dutch/German border is a place called Wankum, to them i suppose its a normal place name, but always made us laugh as we passed by.

Mr Dog

In Aberdeen the council are fed up replacing the sign for cANAL sTREET.

jc4lab

http://www.philipjohnston.com/gallery/wank.htm
Simlar to above...Saw Plenty of signs to this place in Garmnisch Partenkirchen,Mittenwald in bavaria where I went cycling this year..Its a mountain near the Zugspitze..also a Village near Fussen has the same name..

Crapaud

kettrinboy wrote:

When i used to go out to Germany to see my sister, on the Dutch/German border is a place called Wankum, to them i suppose its a normal place name, but always made us laugh as we passed by.

The producer* of the re-make of 'V' is Brian Wankum!

*might not be the producer, but it's the first name in the credits.

ashleymp777

I saw one years ago in Brighton, which is an old one buit still makes me chuckle:

"Bill posters will be prosecuted" and underneath someone had written "Bill posters is innocent"

Lagavulin

Puerile I know but someone has gone to the bother to remove/cover up the 'Gl' on several direction signs for The National Glass Centre in Sunderland. :oops: