Someone In Colorado Is Putting Up The Funniest Signs, And Here Are 50 Of The Best New Ones
If posting puns was a sport, this guy would take third, second, and first place — he's in a league of his own.
Vince Rozmiarek, who lives in a small Colorado town of Indian Hills, started publishing his dad jokes nearly a decade ago when he began volunteering for the local community center and took over managing its roadside message board.
At first, he put up messages for community members, but on April Fools' Day 2013, the former stay-at-home father went for a joke. It ended up going a "little haywire".
"There's a heavy police presence in the neighboring town of Morrison, where a lot of speeding tickets are issued," he said. "People hate those speed traps, so on the sign I put 'Indian Hills annexed by Morrison'. I pranked everyone in town and got a call from the Morrison Police Department an hour later."
And Rozmiarek has been trying to outdo himself ever since. Continue scrolling to check out his latest puns and fire up our earlier publications on his work here and here.
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The Indian Hills Community Sign Facebook page currently has over 162,000 followers. Rozmiarek puts up photos when he changes his jokes, and the posts often get thousands of likes.
His followers share their own puns in response or just express their gratitude for the laughter. Simple phrases like “This little place saves my life most days.” Simple but meaningful.
“Obviously, I’m a man with time on my hands,” Rozmiarek said. “My three kids are all grown, and people could use something to smile about. So, why not, I thought.”
However, Rozmiarek admitted that like any comedian, he sometimes pushes the envelope, and not all of his puns go down well. Once in 2015, he posted the phrase, “Old McDonald had OCD — EE II OO.”
*aggressively pets them on the head as i whisper* if it not’s too much trouble, would you mind sleeping?? like, forever?? maybe if i’m nice enough..
“Somebody put up a sign at the post office saying that I was making fun of people with disabilities,” he said.
“I wrote my response on the note and put it back on the bulletin board: ‘Do you see how nice and square those letters are? I have OCD, big time!’”
Rozmiarek said he searches for content on the internet, and also in his collection of pun books.
“I especially love the stuff from the ’40s and ’50s — the ‘glory days’ of puns,” he said. “I found that I could alter them a bit and make them fresh.”
Although he admits to stealing a pun or two, Rozmiarek said he never puts up jokes that somebody else has taken credit for. And he never posts an expression twice.
“I'm looking at puns now for at least an hour a day,” he said. “If I didn't steer clear of politics, I'd have an endless supply."
During the 2016 presidential election, he posted his first and last political pun.
“The problem with political jokes is that they sometimes get elected,” it read.
The real trouble there is to reconcile gross habits with a net income
ah, the wave of mortal terror my ears get when i hear my step-father start to shriek along with a hamilton song.. 😌
“I made an exception for that one,” Rozmiarek explained. “Generally, it's important to me to give everyone a reason to laugh, regardless of their political affiliation."
The man's cleverness has had an unexpected but welcome effect: outsiders now regularly come in search of Indian Hills and pull off the road to pose for pictures by his signs.
I am usually late to work, but I always make up for it by leaving early
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Indian Hills was founded in the 1920s as a vacation-cabin development for Denverites and a way for the landowners, the Van Derbur undertaking family, to make money. This was before subdivision regulations, so the lots were tiny, and the cabins were not well built. There was no municipal water supply, no sewer system, and the roads were all dirt. The area became a hotbed of Ku Klux Klan activity. In 1957, Marilyn Van Derbur was named Miss America 1958. When she was 53, she revealed that she had suffered child incest from age 5 to 18 by her father.
Reading these angers me. And I don't know what to do with my anger. Isn't it enough to be a good man...
Indian Hills was founded in the 1920s as a vacation-cabin development for Denverites and a way for the landowners, the Van Derbur undertaking family, to make money. This was before subdivision regulations, so the lots were tiny, and the cabins were not well built. There was no municipal water supply, no sewer system, and the roads were all dirt. The area became a hotbed of Ku Klux Klan activity. In 1957, Marilyn Van Derbur was named Miss America 1958. When she was 53, she revealed that she had suffered child incest from age 5 to 18 by her father.
Reading these angers me. And I don't know what to do with my anger. Isn't it enough to be a good man...
