Category: signs of our times

Two signs found on top of one another in a country kitchen several years ago: Restrooms to the left. Please wait for the hostess to seat you.Seen in a health food store. “Shoplifters will be beaten over the head with an organic carrot””Children left unattended will be towed at parents expense.” I went to a little hole in the wall restaurant: the sign read: Women are not served here. You have to bring your own. At a Santa Fe gas station: “We will sell gasoline to anyone in a glass container.”

Seen on a bumper sticker:

Grow your own dope, plant a man.

In an ad for a swimwear store:

“Our bikinis are exciting. They are simply the tops!”

In a Tacoma, Washington men’s clothing store: “15 men’s wool suits, $10. They won’t last an hour!”On a shopping mall marquee: “Archery Tournament-Ears pierced”Outside a country shop: “We buy junk and sell antiques.”In the window of an Oregon store: “Why go elsewhere and be cheated when you can come here?”In a Maine restaurant: “Open 7 days a week and weekends.”

From a brochure of a car rental firm in Tokyo:

When passenger of foot
heave in sight, tootle the horn. Trumpet him melodiously at first, but
if he still obstacles your passage then tootle him with vigor.

In front of a church:

“Remember, Detroit is not the only place that the Maker
can recall his product.”

In the window of an Oregon store:

“Why go elsewhere and be cheated when you can come here?”

On the menu of a Swiss restaurant:

Our wines leave you nothing to hope
for.

Classified Ad:

Soft & Genital Bath Tissues Or Facial Tissue
89 Cents

Sign in a Rhodes tailor shop: “Order your summers suit. Because is big rush we will execute customers in strict rotation.”Sign from the Soviet Weekly: “There will be a Moscow Exhibition of Aets by 15,000 Soviet Republic painters and sculptors. These were executed over the past two years.”Sign in an East African newspaper: “A new swimming pool is rapidly taking shape since the contractors have thrown in the bulk of their workers.”Sign in a Vienna hotel: “In case of fire, do your utmost to alarm the hotel porter.” Sign in an advertisement by a Hong Kong dentist: “Teeth extracted by the latest Methodists.”

In a Rhodes tailor shop:

Order your summers suit. Because is big rush
we will execute customers in strict rotation.

In a New York medical building:

“Mental Health Prevention Center”