Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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9 February 2010
14:4740095#1
Anyone else spotted any good ones ?
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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9 February 2010
14:5340098#2
Sadly, no photo to prove it, but my wife (who is an apostrophe Nazi) was particularly enraged at the BBC last year for showing a trailer for "The Apprentice: Your Fired!" (Sic)
As she said at the time - if the BBC can't get it right, standards have slipped to unacceptable levels.
True friends stab you in the front.
9 February 2010
16:3540106#3
Don't have any punctuation pics, but this sign on one of the roundabouts in Dubai always makes me chuckle as there is nothing to say where you actually are!
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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9 February 2010
17:0940107#4
I see that I am not the only one then,
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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9 February 2010
17:1640108#5
These made me chuckle (they are all ones I've taken in cemeteries!)
On a vault in Glasgow (the D had been painted over!)
Presumably there's a path for fast public as well?!
Where pedestrians end up? I won a top 20 place in The Times Sign of the Times 2009 with this one!
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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9 February 2010
17:3740112#6
A couple more.
1. Would you like to live in this street?!
2. No comment!
I'm actually putting the finishing touches to a book I'll have out later this year which is called 'Curiosities' and contains photos of silly signs and odd and interesting things I have come across on my travels (not just from cemeteries!)
9 February 2010
18:3440117#7
Fabulous!!
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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9 February 2010
18:4340122#8
Believe it or not the top one was in Waterstones !!!!!!!!!!!!
Been nice knowing you :)
9 February 2010
20:3140130#9
OMG!!! I love this type of stuff. You need to check out
http://www.engrish.com which is quite simply the funniest website on the planet, it always has me rolled up in pain with laughter. Here's a few to get you going (with apologies for the few swear words, but hey, they are funny)...
ANDY: My wife is also an Apostrophe Nazi, you have my full sympathy and understanding.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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9 February 2010
20:5940135#10
the worst double act i have seen was in east london, a lock gate on a canal was named "bow lock", this was compounded by the "fookin" chinese take away opposite.
it seemed to encourage a degree of mirth amongst some.
9 February 2010
21:4440144#11
Howard, was that the "Fookin" near to the entrance to Blackwall Tunnel. I drove past it on my way home from work and often meant to try it out. but never did.
Why?
Imagine saying to Hazel that "I'll be home a bit late tonight as I'm in the Fookin Chinese restaurant"! I'd have been locked out for sure.
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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9 February 2010
22:0940146#12
Reminds me of my days as a benefits adviser at the DSS we had a Mr Fucutoo. It was so much fun calling him over the tannoy - not!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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9 February 2010
23:2740156#13
dead right sid, just before you turned off of the a127(if my memory is correct) left into the tunnel to the side of bow flyover.
Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
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10 February 2010
07:4040167#14
I'm appalled at the general sloppiness on the Beeb. Just now on the local news opt out on BBC1, Thomas Paine was described as a "foundling father"! Radio Kent are no better, often describing someone as being six foot tall. It's six FEET!
Grumpy
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Weird Granny Slater
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#15
If you're going to use big words on the side of a truck, best find a literate sign painter first:
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Bob Whysman
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#16
Just wanted a different Nding WGS or was running out of room!
Do nothing and nothing happens.
Been nice knowing you :)
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
