Hey everyone! Saw this question on another travel website, and it had some HILARIOUS responses... <BR> <BR>What are the most interesting and/or amusing signs (street signs, signs in businesses,etc)you have seen while traveling? <BR> <BR>I'll start: A sign near a wall in Skipton, North Yorkshire, England that reads "Dog loo".

In Germany 'AUS FAHRT' <BR>

On a low wall along the Seine in Paris: <BR>Defense de pissoir. <BR>I don't read French, but I think I understood.

Well it wasn't in Europe but in Puerto Vallarta,Mexico. There was a fire extinguisher next to the elevators (Sheraton Bougainvilla's Hotel) and the placard next too it said "Do Not Use in Case of Fire". We assumed they meant do not use the elevators in case of fire, but we cracked up everytime we saw it. That same hotel passed out a newsletter on Easter Sunday on one of our visitors advising guests that "The Eastern Bunny" would be arriving to entertain the childern. Then there was a sign on a bridge near my home in Ca. that said "do not jump off the bridge" .....

J.M., <BR>In the courtyard of a close (narrow street) where we stayed in Edinburgh there were numerous round signs banded to streetlamps/posts that read "£100 fine for soiling the green verges". They were nice enameled white with red circle/slash depicting a dog doing his business - even neat little wavy lines representing steam eminating from his deposit. Across the top was the official seal of "City of Edinburgh". (Liked it so much that we went out at midnight one raw night with a screwdriver and snatched one which is now proudly affixed to the fence in my friend's dog run -- forgive us city council). What struck us as funny is that the warnings seem to be directed at dogs, not dog owners. (My dog never carries anything larger than a 50 anyway).

The funniest sign I ever saw must be taken in the context of its presentation. A friend of mine had walked up to the lodge on top of Mount Le Conte in the Smokies where he had a room for the night. Details vary, but somehow my friend had food in his pockets which he laid out on the bed. A bear sniffed the food and came in the cabin window. So my friend and the bear were doing a square dance of some description in the room. <BR>(No injuries.) Later another friend gave our bear-dancing a friend a sign that said "Do Not Feed The Bears." <BR>

Paul - LMAO, man! Great stuff. Anyone else?

On the road to our North Georgia mountain house is a sign that always makes me grin: "Four Mile Church. Two miles."

Somewhere in England, saw a sign in front of some parking places...."Please Park Prettily"...never forgot it.

While driving along behind a German bus on a road in Denmark, great clouds of black diesel smoke came from its tailpipe. Our teenage daughters burst into laughter because just above this source of fumes was the sign: "Turistfahrten." Sure were.

<BR>Oh yeah, thought of another one-- locally. I was playing tour operator for my sisters from back East and chauffeuring them about SF. We were heading back from Fisherman's Wharf area to downtown on one of the super-steep hills (Hyde or Jones I think) where the incline almost makes your tires bark as you're climbing. At the crest of the hill you reach a stop sign - with the nose/hood of the car looking at nothing but blue sky; then you zip across the intersection and begin the death-drop. Just at the beginning of the decline is one of those yellow signs saying "Hill", <BR>and shows a car on a steep diagonal line. On the lower portion of that sign somebody (a tourist I presume) had very neatly printed with a broad, black permanent marker: "No shit, Sherlock!" <BR>We had a good chuckle - maybe you had to be there.

I've always liked the signs here in NYC that say "Don't even Think of Parking Here." So New York. In DC, I found it amusing to see, on the sides of all federal office buildings, signs near basement-level doors indicating nuclear fallout shelters. (Gee, why didn't schools get those?) Also in DC, the "Kiss and Ride" signs made me laugh (where commuters get dropped off), as did one reading "Giant People's Parking" (parking lot for Giant Food and People's Drug).

On the train somewhere from London to the west, on a building "Fertilizer Depot" so, the s**t stops here I sez I sez. <BR> <BR>In Victoria Station "STOP! before driving over the sleeping policeman" <BR> <BR>On the side of a bus in Brussels (as previously mentioned) "Turistfart" <BR> <BR>The pictograph on the grounds of Versailles that forbade playing Twister (it actually was a 'no picnicking' sign, we finally surmised).

Well, two signs, actually.... As we were walking the winding streets of Siena, we saw at one corner two signs: the first, <BR> <BR>Duomo ---&gt;, then just below it.... <BR>&lt;--- Duomo. <BR> <BR>As I was taking a picture, a local man followed the gaze of my lens and starting laughing with us. Only in Italy? Nah, I think there are overly officious bureaucrats everywhere. (probably some redundance in that phrase) <BR>

We were in a bus climbing up Haleaka Volcano on Maui, about 9,000 feet up, corkscrewing towards the summit. On a right hand bend, when the left hand side showed a dizzying prospect of cliff straight down to the coast, some helpful park ranger with a sense of humour had placed a sign reading "No Left Turn". No kidding!

More cute than funny really .. In Ireland a sign in a remote, mountainous spot that said "Leprechaun crossing".

Read in a magazine long ago about somewhere rural in the USA: <BR> <BR>ONE LANE BRIDGE -- Take Turns

There was a local billboard in our city -- advertising butter. At the bottom it said: "the lima bean's only hope". <BR> <BR>

What really got our attention in Germany was the speed limit signs for tanks!!!

There once was (may still be) a mortuary in New Jersey owned, apparently by Mr. Gorney and another Mr. Gorney. It had a huge neon sign on its roof just about eye level with those traveling by on the NJ Turnpike. Late one night, I was going home from college on a chartered bus with many other college-mates, when I heard a chuckle begin at the front of the bus rippling back to me, and I saw everyone looking out to their right at something along the road. <BR> <BR>One "e" in the neon was unlit and the resulting sign said "Gory Gorney Mortuary."