(sorry for the misreport -- obviously the "n" was missing, too.)

In Inverness, Scotland - lots of graffiti that said, "ENGLISH GO HOME!"

I like one I saw in the midwest (US) that said SLOW DIP. Who you callin a dip?!

I liked the sign with a mortuary's name in Deadwood, South Dakota (below the cemetery with the graves of Wild Bill Hickok and Annie Oakley): Chaput. <BR> <BR>(Say it like the "ch" in "loch.") <BR>

Oops, that's Calamity Jane buried next to Wild Bill. Annie's still in Ohio.

This is probably more sad then funny. Several of the roads leading into Boston (eastbound) have signs warning: "CAUTION! - Solar Glare in AM". I know the general level of education in this country has decreased over the years, but I didn't think it was so bad that we needed signs telling us that the sun rises in the morning!

1) On Spadina Street in Toronto (one of the cities Chinatowns) a funeral parlour by the name of "Wing On". <BR> <BR>2) Walking past the lake in Central Park in mid-August - "Warning. Thin Ice" <BR> <BR>3) At fortress in Loche "Children are kindly requested to keep quiet" <BR> <BR>

All of the public busses in Locarno CH <BR>have the acronym for the local transport <BR>agency on their sides---FART.

None from Europe come to mind, but I do remember a couple from Asia. <BR> <BR>First, a store in Phuket was named "Pay All That You Can". <BR> <BR>At the Forbidden City in Beijing, there was a sign posted that read "Please keep the ancient wall free from graffiti."

Sign at the entrance of a cemetary in Woonsocket, RI "Entrance Only" <BR>Once you go in you can't come back.

Thought of another one, Europe this time. <BR> <BR>When it was still the USSR, we drove in from Helsinki to Leningrad. The actual border consisted of a simple shack with a soldier and a gun and a hand-cranked field phone. He checked passports and visas, then wrote down the car plate number, made a phone call, and waived you on. The road then went through several km of woods until one emerged into a vast clearing with a big concrete building surrounded by parked cars, buses, and trucks, all being inspected (read dismantled) and the occupants and luggage being inspected (read dismantled) by po-faced soldiers, while other AK-47-toting soldiers looked on, including those in the concrete guard towers, one of which (with visible guns and searchlights) must have been 100 feet high. <BR> <BR>The sign on the premises? "Welcome Centre."

In Germany, no words, just a warning sign with a big BULLFROG on it. WE cried everytime we passed that sign. Took a picture of the sign and framed it. Our German friends said, "You think that is funny??? When a lot of toads cross the road they can cause an accident because they are very slippery" Oh and we always thought it was because there were giant man-eating bullfrogs in that area!!!

In Prague at our hotel, there was a sticker on the underside of the toilet lid. It was one of those big cicles w/ the slash thru it. It showed a hand holding a handle, like a fixed handle on a suitcase and an arrow pointing down. We could nver quite figure out what they were telling us NOT to do! <BR> <BR>

As the manufacturer-painted logo on a motorbike in Taipei, where (at least in 1995) it seemed that every motorbike- and t-shirt manufacturer had decided that English phrases made his product distinctive and cool: <BR> <BR>"We reach for the sky. Neither does civilization." <BR> <BR>I have a photo, of course. <BR>

A sign along the interstate going to Mackinac, Michigan that read "Tourist and elk information."

This is not a sign but the previous post made me think of the funniest "translation" error I've ever heard. My husband is a musician and he was in a club somewhere in Scandinavia and the host got up on stage and was trying to pump up the crowd by yelling "We are really rocking now, haven't we?" The crowd went wild.

These are great, you guys! I thought of another one in my area of England. <BR> <BR>I saw the photo in a local magazine. It was a picture of a street that goes through a local village. At the time the photo was taken, there were two speed limit signs on the road within a few feet of one another, each posting a different speed limit. <BR> <BR>And the name of the village? "Bedlam"!!

In England there are signs for 'Plant Crossing'. Never did see any plants crossing the road but it did conjure up some fanciful ideas. I appreciate that a plant is a factory, but here we use 'truck crossing' not 'factory crossing'.A common sign for blind corners was something like 'Oncoming vehicles in middle of road'. I appreciated the warning but thought what would I do about it, there is a stone wall 2 inches from my left mirror.

We were in London in March and while wandering on the east side, came across a sign that said "Wholesalers of Children" -- we suspect that the rest of the sign (probably something about children's clothing) had been ripped down.

In Jerusalem, at the entrance to the Garden of Gethsemane, there is a wordless sign telling visitors about many types of prohibited activities. It's the usual stuff: no dogs, no picnicking, no camping, and some not so usual stuff: no nudity, no automatic weapons, etc. What makes it funny is that it's all visual. <BR> <BR>The other signs I loved in Paris were the warnings in the Metro about ways you could be hurt. One, showed a man in mid-air falling on to the tracks, quite dramatically, and another showed a man convulsing violently as he was electrocuted. What made them funny was obviously not the message, but the passionate way it was conveyed!