Author Topic: Silly signs  (Read 340448 times)

Basil

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #825 on: 02 June, 2014, 08:43:03 pm »
I wish someone could teach me how to capture a picture from twitter on my nexus.

Unfortunately, I'm going to have to post a link again </naff>

https://twitter.com/qikipedia/status/473505049432567808
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Torslanda

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #826 on: 03 June, 2014, 01:05:33 am »
Pub signs that look like Hitler, anyone?



 . . . or, indeed, Milligan?
VELOMANCER

Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

Aushiker

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #827 on: 03 June, 2014, 02:43:25 am »

clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Silly signs
« Reply #828 on: 03 June, 2014, 12:06:47 pm »
Poor Luton.  Look What Has Been Done. :(

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clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Silly signs
« Reply #829 on: 03 June, 2014, 02:54:10 pm »
I am reassured there is no discernible change to this rather ropey bit of road.
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clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Silly signs
« Reply #830 on: 03 June, 2014, 05:01:48 pm »
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billplumtree

  • Plumbing the well of gitness
Re: Silly signs
« Reply #831 on: 04 June, 2014, 09:18:42 pm »


Very silly when you're travelling through the Alps, on your bike, and you still think "Hmm, I wonder if I could, somehow..."

Re: Silly signs
« Reply #832 on: 05 June, 2014, 02:48:11 pm »
Highway Gothic, according to the ever-reliable wikipedia.

Do you reckon FML is 'shopped too, or just a happy coincidence?

hellymedic

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #833 on: 05 June, 2014, 06:10:37 pm »
The first four letters (Farm) don't seem to match the last five (ville), methinks

Aushiker

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #834 on: 06 June, 2014, 02:39:28 pm »
Farmville and the silly sentence look photoshopped to me as they are the only characters in Arial. Scatterbrain that I am cannot put my finger on the other typeface.

Farmville is a Facebook game.

Andrew

Andrij

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #835 on: 07 June, 2014, 10:06:43 pm »


Except for signs, apparently.
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

Auntie Helen

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #836 on: 08 June, 2014, 06:13:29 am »
Accept for signs, apparently.
one for the 'Spelling that makes you cringe' thread?  ;)
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Andrij

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #837 on: 08 June, 2014, 08:29:23 am »
Accept for signs, apparently.
one for the 'Spelling that makes you cringe' thread?  ;)

 ::-)   Blame it on the vodka.
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Silly signs
« Reply #838 on: 08 June, 2014, 10:39:21 am »
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clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Silly signs
« Reply #839 on: 08 June, 2014, 10:53:20 am »
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clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Silly signs
« Reply #840 on: 08 June, 2014, 11:13:09 am »
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clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Silly signs
« Reply #841 on: 08 June, 2014, 08:21:24 pm »
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Kim

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #842 on: 08 June, 2014, 11:22:25 pm »

clarion

  • Tyke
Re: Silly signs
« Reply #843 on: 12 June, 2014, 10:36:07 am »
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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #844 on: 13 June, 2014, 12:50:11 am »

Blodwyn Pig

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #845 on: 16 June, 2014, 08:11:52 pm »


outside the Post office in Gravesend.

mcshroom

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #846 on: 17 June, 2014, 11:36:58 pm »
Climbs like a sprinter, sprints like a climber!

Aushiker

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #847 on: 18 June, 2014, 03:13:41 am »


Andrew

Auntie Helen

  • 6 Wheels in Germany
Re: Silly signs
« Reply #848 on: 19 June, 2014, 09:15:49 pm »
Unfortunately hyphenation for the word for garlic in German

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hellymedic

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #849 on: 20 June, 2014, 08:39:48 am »
French word for garlic has 3 letters.
English has 6.
German has 9...