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“How Was This Approved?”: 30 Of The Most Absurd Signs, As Spotted By The Bored Panda Community
Every town and city has signs, but sometimes you come across one that makes no sense. However, it's funny to read them, so I asked our community to share the most absurd sign they've seen in their hometown, and, surprisingly or not, they had a lot of examples to share!
Here are all the silly signs spotted by our Pandas. I hope it will brighten up your day a bit! Enjoy!
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#1
On A Road In Alaska, One Of The Reasons I Never Went Back
Final score:
346points
John Yaskowich 3 years ago
I was walking in the woods with a friend. A couple of mosquitoes grabbed him and, as they flew him away, I heard them say, “Where should we hide him so the Big Ones don’t find him?”
Theoretical Empiricist 3 years ago
Minnesota has this issue, too. There's a downside to those 1000 lakes.
Uber Mensch 3 years ago
Granted, they aren't really THAT big, individually, but the *number* of them...
James Pasquini 3 years ago
Are those the genetically modified mosquitoes they're going to release? And billions of them too! Run people!
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#2
Need A Job?
Final score:
334points
Captain Turkette 3 years ago
Long haired freaky people? I'm just the person you're looking for
Joely King 3 years ago
Well now I don't want to apply. I'm taking my freaky long haired self elsewhere
Sergio Bicerra Descalzi 3 years ago
Didn't knew them, 1st time I heard that lyric was in Fatboy Slim's Don't Let The Man Get You Down.
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At A Zoo
Final score:
318points
Shyla Clay 3 years ago
I'm out of the chair and using a walker now, but I don't think I'll visit this zoo.
Id row 3 years ago
I can almost hear the screaming as he races towards the waiting jaws of fate.
You cant stop the truth 3 years ago
This is at our crocodile farms in south africa, hence the non-standard roadsign colours (we've since changed to yellow/black).
#4
Okayyyy
Final score:
276points
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
OH... I wish they had tear off strips on the bottom of this poster... I've seen this cat!
#5
Always Made Me Laugh As A Kid
Final score:
264points
Miss.Information🤔 3 years ago
Is that really neccesary to tell people, not to laugh at the natives? I don't know what to think? Are the tourist stupid a holes, or are the natives very funnylooking?
Catherine Binder 3 years ago
They're most likely the type of people the Polish in the other post are larping as.
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Jette Wang Wahnon 3 years ago
PRICELESS !! We are over-run by tourists in downtown Oporto and I have overheard some snide remarks about food,choice of dress etc...
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
In Florida we have a game we play about guessing where they are visiting from, based on either the whiteness of their legs, or the severity of their sunburn. We try to warn the tourists about sunscreen, but they just don't understand until it's too late.
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#6
This
Final score:
243points
Marie Dahme 3 years ago
What fresh hell is this??? This isn’t a sign, this a warning to keep driving.
#7
Not Sure This Fits Here But Saw This On The Back Of A Lorry That Empties Cess Pools
Final score:
239points
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
There are trucks in my area that read "your poo is our bread and butter.
Yettichild 3 years ago
I've seen ones in my town that say "Yesterday's Meals on Wheels"
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Dolly_of TheCowboy 3 years ago
There was a local company that folded recently that were fertiliser spraying trucks that had the motto "you lay it we spray it" on their vehicles. I thought it was hilarious
#8
Getting Real Specific
Final score:
224points
Alvie Rots 3 years ago
a lot of people do this on private properties with longer driveways, because you're more likely to notice a speed limit sign not ending in a 0 or 5 and therefore more likely to drive slower. they're usually not the exact speed limit to go, but it does encourage you to go slower.
What's In Your Head? 3 years ago (edited)
Ha yes, it's ingenious actually! Just like stores that open at 08:57 or 09:03! It's much more specific; it keeps people from having an attitude when the store "still" isn't open at 08:55. :-D
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Ash (Submission author) 3 years ago
that's where this was taken! a campground.
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manalonedies 3 years ago
In the 60s there was a sign when approaching Saluda, SC that stated: Saluda 0 miles.
Mike Schantini 3 years ago
I think you can always go 10% over the speed limit so I would drive 10.45. Math!
Danny Eglen 3 years ago
just got back from a holidsy camp in england and the limit was 9 3/4 mph!
#9
Now Hiring Fish Sandwich
Final score:
214points
Ernesto 3 years ago
Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to BE a fish, then he can work at Popeye's for $4.49
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
The sign on a Popeye's near me read: NOW HIRING SHRIMP, so I guess there was a height requirement.
James Pasquini 3 years ago
If you're a fish sandwich, they'll pay you $4.49. Is that per hour or day. Just asking for a friend.
Jason Marin 3 years ago
I seriously doubt a fish would want to work at Popeye's for such a low price.
#10
This Is In A Cave But Does It Still Count?
Final score:
199points
Samantha Mannion 3 years ago
Hey I've been there that's in pergatory mass used to make fun of my dad as a kid cuz he couldn't make it through used to go hiking there alot now it cost too much for one day if I visit
Archer Harris (Submission author) 3 years ago
Ya, that place was pretty cool and it was easy for me to get through cuz I am skinny and short. I was born to go in caves 😂
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Archer Harris (Submission author) 3 years ago
And the walls have been touched so many times that they look and feel like plastic.
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Kathryn Burnett 3 years ago
Ah yes Mammoth cave. It's also a tall man's misery because if you're above 5'4" you have to crouch.
Virtually Fabulous 3 years ago
I've been there! We have a photo of that sign saved on our computer!
#11
Is This Legal?
Final score:
189points
Bored Retsuko 3 years ago
Kids have free entry but it doesn't say what (movie) is being shown, instead it seems like they're showing... children!
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#12
This Was A Sign My Dad Saw One Day, And Then He Added The Orc
Final score:
186points
#13
How Was This Approved?
Final score:
183points
Electra Smith 3 years ago
Sam buys houses fast? mas BYU's hoses U fats? WHAT IS GOING ON HERE???
Amanda Davids 3 years ago
To make you read/pay attention to it, but yes, took me a minute
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GoddessOdd 3 years ago (edited)
It accomplished exactly what it set out to do. You looked at it, read it and talked about it. Smart marketing (except I hate billboards). There have been studies that prove that you can rearrange the vowels in a word without impeding most people's unerdstndnig
Miss.Information🤔 3 years ago
Yes but you need to use the same letter, and first and last letter stays.. Then you can read everything!
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Troux 3 years ago
You know those scam emails (inheritance, send me money, etc.) where so, so many words are misspelled? There's a theory that this is used to weed out smart people, with hopes that only people who are too dumb to know it's misspelled will be responding, and those are the easiest targets. I wonder if 'SMA' here is trying the same?
Crocodile 3 years ago
I always spell check them and then tell them to get a life
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Thomas Es Thomas 3 years ago
I lvoe wrdolpay. It's fun to see how poelpe rcaet to wrods taht are simnegely mlssieelpd but can be raed because your brain doesn't read words, it reads letters, and translates the combinations of those letters into words you know.
#14
Actual Billboard In Rural Missouri
Final score:
164points
Jacob Slump 3 years ago
As a rural Missourian I can completely believe this. One near my house has a poorly photoshopped electric-green rattlesnake that hurts my eyes every time I drive by
Lucky2BAlive 3 years ago
This is for a truck stop - tourist trap. It’s called Uranus and the items and staff are all in on the jokes.
April Hodakowski 3 years ago
Not a truck stop, more of a curiosity/novelty. I live less than ten minutes from Uranus. It's a really neat place and the fudge is delicious.
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LittleWombat 3 years ago
I've been here!! Talk about some hilarious marketing lol!! Definitely the kind of place you stop to buy a funny t-shirt and some fudge (which they offer to pack for you...)
Lillian Swaim 3 years ago
Impressive that a gaga company can actually afford this. Most gag company names are for like, booze or pot stuff
Mike Schantini 3 years ago
I've driven by it many time. Sometimes Uranus is packed and sometimes Uranus is empty.
#15
Classic British Response To Snow!
Final score:
161points
RandomCitizen 3 years ago
sold out due to panic buying, before the milk ran out.
Load More Replies... Mike Rodrick 3 years ago
Happens in the states as well. Where I live for example. "Chance of snow." Shelves empty within hours.
Benita Valdez 3 years ago
Yup. Storm coming? Be prepared with the essentials of milk, bread and eggs. These three will safely get you through any storm regardless of conditions.
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Oliver Woehrmann 3 years ago
What am I missing? What's wrong with limiting people to two loaves of bread and four pints of milk?
Bored Retsuko 3 years ago
The fact that this has to be done, not for extreme circumstances (pandemic) but even with a bit of snowy weather, apparently
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#16
Succinct
Final score:
157points
Ash (Submission author) 3 years ago
Good question. This was on the side of a US Post Office building. Maybe the shield shape has something to do with federal property?
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#17
At 2 Different Zoo's In The Carolinas
Final score:
152points
Carol Emory 3 years ago
There are speed bumps (small) which abuse your shocks and struts...speed humps are very large and, if you're driving fast enough, can buck your car hard enough to launch your passengers around. Speed bumps make you brake...speed humps make you drive the posted speed limit. If you are doing the speed limit with speed humps, you'll hardly tell they are there.
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Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
"Speed Hump" signs are absolutely everwhere in Virginia. Plus, there's a huge county called "Fauquier" which, improbably is pronounced, "F**k yer." So when someone asks, "Hump what?" you can always answer with the other signs in the neighborhood, "Fauquier Police Department," "Fauquier Fire Company", "Fauquier Dept of Public Works", "Fauquier County Jail" and so on ad infinitum.
Raena Celis 3 years ago
Lol! I read your comment out loud the second time, and it got instantly funnier
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Christof Irran 3 years ago
Have you ever seen a Ford GT40 trying to go over one of those? Or an Audi R8?
#18
On A Pharmacy Window. The Sort Of Thing You Ask For In A Low Voice. Laxative. Seen In Oporto. ....it Ends In ..it's A Relief...
Final score:
144points
Virgil Blue 3 years ago
It does kind of describe how taking one of those feels. Just trust me.
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#19
Follicle, Hair, Thank You
Final score:
137points
snarkiest hot head 3 years ago
bored_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________panda____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Thank you.
#20
A Classic Detroit Billboard
Final score:
127points
Felice Coles 3 years ago
Gah! Gotta provide some context for non-Christian residents, or they'll think you're vampires or cannibals!
Cerridwen 3 years ago
I'm of Christian faith but...I don't get that. Need context as well.
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Benita Valdez 3 years ago
Do they mean the eucharist?? (Body of christ - wafer). I'm so confused.
William J Dougherty 3 years ago (edited)
Freedom of speech? You're free to stand in a corner & speak. My life should be free from your religion - see no, speak no & hear no religion
Seanette Blaylock 3 years ago
But you're allowed to preach your dogmas at me?
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Should I Just Go Out Back, Then?
Final score:
125points
WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago
Indeed, why throw money in a bottomless pit? It's strange how some people think that destroying other people's property is hilarious. But if someone picks a flower from their garden, they scream bloody murder.
Jenny Lorenz 3 years ago
I have cleaned public bathrooms and I wish people would poop at home.
Rachel Smith 3 years ago
We have done this at work as well, they are now employee bathrooms only. I work for a nonprofit in an old building with bad plumbing. When customers could use the bathroom we had to call a plumber ever other day.
Steve Burton 3 years ago
Regardless, customer restrooms are required for certain businesses...most especially restaurants!
BorrowedThoughts 3 years ago
*little dark age starts playing* Please tell me someone understands this
funkybluegirl 3 years ago
Depending on what type of business this is, wouldn't that be illegal?
#22
Somewhere In Montana
Final score:
124points
Uber Mensch 3 years ago
Certain time of the year is when young bulls are neutered ("steered"), resulting in an ample supply of Rocky Mountain Oysters. Actually surprised that they didn't make the Testival Festical joke.
Candia Lee 3 years ago
Hustler magazine went to a Rocky Mountain Oyster festival? Love the OP credit ...
rodger coghlan 3 years ago
Been there, bought the mug! Someone fell off of "Testie" and broke their neck - festival canceled.
#23
Never Forgot Seeing This Years Ago. Redneck Wedding Ftw?!
Final score:
114points
Joe Reaves 3 years ago
To the person suggesting the writer is dyslexic - every dyslexic I know, knows their limitations and would run it past someone else first. This is just ignorance not a disability.
B.Nelson 3 years ago
As a dyslexic person...on first look I thought that said Relic Reptation (Me: no brain, I don't think that's a word. Brain: it must be, it's there) So no, not even a dyslexic person can read that. Also, yeah, get someone who can spell to write it down first. That's what normal dyslexic people do...
#24
Seen In A Diner
Final score:
111points
Solidhog 3 years ago
That would work better with "Pump & Diner" works even better with "Pump & Dine her"
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#25
Small Town In South Africa. A Local Hair Salon Which Will Also Remove One Of Your Eyes, For Free!
Final score:
105points
Jofeen 3 years ago
Specialises in human humans? Or just humans? I want to know how many hits im gonna get
Calypso 3 years ago
A human human is basically a double mullet so that you can look like a human from both sides - perfect disguise for your average troll and demon 😜
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Connie Rose 3 years ago
Is the specialty in bonding for people who weren’t hugged enough as a child or is it for adults with more than vanilla preferences?
#26
Mike Exotic - Millions Of Kitties!
Final score:
103points
Katharin Blackerby 3 years ago
No one is talking about the fact it says my best business idea yet
Christina B 3 years ago
Two way petting zoo? Is Mike Exotic petting back during selfies - lol!
#27
A Funny Name For A Business In My Hometown. I Guess It’s A Dentist’s Office
Final score:
102points
#28
If Only I'd Known About This Place On Mother's Day. Here's That Catalytic Converter You've Always Wanted, Mom!
Final score:
97points
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
Bring your tools and you and Mom can make a day of it. Be sure to visit our gift shop on your way out.
Leon Bryan 3 years ago
This should be dads. Bring your tools and work and something. Pls visit the gift shop on the way out. And BTW did you mention that it is an auto shop? I'm sure dads would rather be here
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Is Be 3 years ago
Why the caption, some women like working on cars and why do we automatically assume that gift shops is a woman thing?
B 🇺🇦🇨🇦 3 years ago
Thanks for saying that! I love cars, have worked in the auto industry for years, and find the idea of a salvage gift shop really intriguing 🤔 like what would they even have in there? Most other gift shops I can’t be arsed with though (except for museum gift shops, those are always cool).
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Candia Lee 3 years ago
The gift shop makes sense, considering the interesting items I've found at our local pick&pull (can of dog food, flannel pants). I can only imagine how much personal property they get in those wrecks.
#29
It's Supposed To Be "I Love Boston Grillz" But It Looks Like "I Love Ot Grlz"
Final score:
79points
#30
Not An Irritation At All. Just Adding To The Things Needing To Avoid!
Final score:
75points
AJJ 3 years ago
I respect our Amish communities and even buy groceries from their shops - they have amazing antibiotic-free meat and wonderful produce, but the buggies sharing toads gets dangerous. Since they don't buy gas, they don't pay taxes for road improvement, but their horse shoes and buggy wheels tear up the asphalt. Also, many don't even use lanterns at night and it's dangerous. I grew up in mountainous, rural PA, and hated watching the horses struggle up and down the mountains too.
Rissie 3 years ago
Amish are, to me, proof that heavy conflict doesn't come from different believes, most of the time it's easy to take each other into consideration if there is room for each other. Your point shows exactly where things will start to get iffy. It the larger society has ideas about what constitutes as animal abuse (and develops in that), that can start to itch. I don't agree on your observation on the buggies "tearing" up the asphalt. Asphalt that tears under the stress of a buggy and or horse shoe, has probably withstood many, many cars before that. I don't feel like doing the math, but the forces from speeding up and slowing down from a car might be a little more equal on normal tires, it's still what stresses the road mostly. Take in account how the community has little carbon footprint because of how they live, and they get a pass in my book.
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Arthur Waite 3 years ago
In Ontario, we have Mennonites, similar to the Amish (at least to outsiders' view). To allow for the horse-drawn buggies, the road boulevards are wider, and made more firm. And the buggy is required to have a reflective 'slow vehicle' sign on the back. We get along very well.
ί𝔫ＣίŦᵃт𝐔𝐬 3 years ago
Bobbie is right! Why downvote? Don't want to accept these "quaint, adorable people" have faults?
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Persephone 3 years ago
These are common, and anyone who hits a horse and buggy or finds this funny should be ashamed; entire families are often killed by people driving like assholes.
Marnie 3 years ago
I've noticed that most people seem to equate their lifestyle with their being somehow more noble, pure, and moral than the majority society. I for one jump to no such conclusion. I don't know anything about their culture. If you're someone who assumes they are like puppy dogs just because they don't use every modern tech and are somewhat self-sufficient, erase that unfounded assumption from your mind. It's a strange thing to assume a society's morals are based on their religion or desire to be different.
Agent 8433599 3 years ago (edited)
There's an Amish shop near my town, they have the absolute BEST sandwiches!! 😋
#31
My Favorite Breakfast
Final score:
29points
#32
This English School Name In Brazil
Final score:
28points
#33
Cars For Kids
Final score:
26points
2econdSelf 3 years ago
It's a charity organization, they take donated vehicles and re-sell them with the profits going to childrens' charities.
Ben Moss 3 years ago
It’s more of a scam being run by a cult than an actual charity. Kars4kids is mostly a fundraiser for a summer camp to indoctrinate Orthodox Jewish kids.
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Vasana Phong 3 years ago
Probably a charity like establishment (3rd party) they fix and sell donated cars for charity
#34
Highliths
Final score:
20points
LittleWombat 3 years ago
Heck yeah! Right off the bat, they speak one more language than I do. No one should be mocked for trying. And it's a lot better than what some native English speakers write here on Bored Panda haha!
Load More Replies... Frying Pan 3 years ago
It could be worse...they could take the apostrophes out of "children's" and "men's"
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Jason Marin 3 years ago
Welcome to our ool. Notice there is no "P" in it. Please keep it that way.
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
What is it with BP's truncation policy? Must every posting be shortened? A post with 34 entries is just fine!
Wandaluzt 3 years ago
It's a clickbait site. 34 does not sound snappy in a clickbait title advertised all over the place.
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Jason Marin 3 years ago
Welcome to our ool. Notice there is no "P" in it. Please keep it that way.
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
What is it with BP's truncation policy? Must every posting be shortened? A post with 34 entries is just fine!
Wandaluzt 3 years ago
It's a clickbait site. 34 does not sound snappy in a clickbait title advertised all over the place.
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