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Showing posts with label sign. Show all posts
25 April 2014
If You Can't Play
If you can't play,
Don't.
If you can,
Do so quietly.
Sign on a piano in a used furniture store in Charleston, South Carolina. Submitted by Paul Bowers.
20 March 2014
Buddhist bullseye
The look of
the moment
Infinity scarves
Sign in the Juniors department of Target, 1 March 2014. Submitted by J.R. Solonche.
29 September 2011
Mine Host
No thieves, fakirs, rogues or tinkers
No skulking loafers or flea-bitten tramps
No slap an' tickle o' the wenches
No banging o' tankards on the tables
No dogs allowed in the kitchen
No cockfighting
Fintlocks, cudgels, daggers and swords
to be handed to
the innkeeper for safe-keeping.
A poster spotted in a pub in Berwick upon Tweed, 25th August 2011. Submitted by Marika Rose.
18 August 2011
Clothes make the man
Naked people have
little or no influence
on society.
Mark Twain, quoted in 'High and Mighty' shop window in Newcastle, spotted 18 August 2011. A perfect senryu. Submitted by Marika Rose.
17 March 2011
De Hors
Do not lean out
Do not punch the horse
No spaghetti
Night of the tinsel hen
A rather loose translation of a warning sign in a New Zealand train, February 2011. Submitted by Noah Slater.
24 February 2011
An anemone also
This is a whelk.
When it dies its shell lies
On the sea bed until......
A growing hermit crab
Takes up residence.
In his new home
The hermit does not
Feel the arrival of a ragworm,
Which crawls into the same shell.
Later, an anemone also
Settles on his shell.
So the ragworm, anemone and
The hermit, all live together
In an old whelk shell.
When the hermit feeds,
The ragworm takes his share
And the anemone clears up
What is left on the floor.
If attacked, the great claw
Provides an armour-plated door.
Taken from a display in an aquarium on the Cobb in Lyme Regis. Submitted by Nathan Lechler
When it dies its shell lies
On the sea bed until......
A growing hermit crab
Takes up residence.
In his new home
The hermit does not
Feel the arrival of a ragworm,
Which crawls into the same shell.
Later, an anemone also
Settles on his shell.
So the ragworm, anemone and
The hermit, all live together
In an old whelk shell.
When the hermit feeds,
The ragworm takes his share
And the anemone clears up
What is left on the floor.
If attacked, the great claw
Provides an armour-plated door.
Taken from a display in an aquarium on the Cobb in Lyme Regis. Submitted by Nathan Lechler
03 December 2009
Nonstop
No Trespassing
Staff Only
Shenfield
One Two
Shenfield
Question mark
Romford
Shenfield
One Two
Shenfield
Welcome to Shenfield
01 June 2009
Wee Imperative
Return
to
left
after
overtaking
Message seen on a digital road sign on the M74 driving into Scotland, 30 May 2009. Submitted by Gabriel Smy.
