If you've been around Bored Panda long enough, you know we have a soft spot for signs.
From Australian artist Michael Pederson to the legendary El Arroyo restaurant, we cover pretty much everyone who knows how to send a message. Or doesn't!
There's a Facebook group called 'The Absurd Sign Project' and, as the name implies, its members are sharing the funniest sign fails they can find.
We're talking brutal spelling mistakes, contradictory statements... you know, the good stuff. So join us and let's take a look at some of the most popular posts on the group.
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We contacted the group's administrators and moderators and one of them, Craig Hey, was kind enough to tell us more about this amusing corner of the internet.
"The community is fantastic," Craig told Bored Panda.
The gang is approaching 100,000 members but the predecessor of 'The Absurd Sign Project' had 166,000 before Facebook decided to ban it.
However, when it comes to content, numbers aren't the most important thing.
How many incidents have happened to need a sign put up Before said sign little kid pat's fart squirrels gets sprayed parents complain because they thought it was a squirrel many many complaints later
could've just been an excuse to write "fart squirrels"
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Fart squirrels 🤣🤣🤣 I’m holding in my laughter as it is 5am and I don’t want to wake my family up.
Smart as dogs and descented, make brilliant pets- that your Karen neighbors will NEVER come near.
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Using this from now on. Fart squirrels. My grandpa used to say they were a two toned kitty with a fluid drive
according to my Mom, when I was very young I saw a fart squirrel in our backyard. I apparently yelled "Kitty" and went to go pet it. Good thing both the fart squirrel and Mom were faster than me.
Why did my eyes read squirrels as faires after reading fart? Fart Fairies vs Fart Squirrels. Both sound adorable.
One farted close to an open window last night. Made my eyes water.
A bigger concern I have with this is why the skunks are comfortable enough to be that close to humans for this sign to exist. Unless this is a zoo of some sort.
Probably bc some stupid Tourons keep feeding them (or leaving food out that attracts them).
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If you see one of these very dangerous gas Machines turn and run as fast as you can..
I'm glad I didn't have pop or milk in my mouth when the fart squirrels sign came up!! Out the Nose it would have gone ! lol fof !!😅😄
i have never though about skunks that way but now that i have.... it makes so much since
I’ve rehabbed fart squirrels before, you smell ‘’em long before you could get close enough to pet them, which is doubtful with wild ones.
I can just imagine a kid telling their mama that a fart squirrel got them 🤣🤣
Just yell for the manager when that happens and the fart squirrel will be without a job... lol.
There was a guy at the local college who had lived in the city all his life. We are fairly rural so he really enjoyed the new experience. One time just after spring break started he adopted a stray cat and kept it with him in the dorm room. The cat was well behaved, used the litter box, enjoyed being petted and skritched behind the ears and made the week enjoyable for the guy. Then his roommate came home after break ended and freaked out. His freak out also freaked out the "cat" who proceeded to do what skunks do when they are startled. Gassed out half the dorm.
Actually, it's bc the 🤬 TV and movie industry has perpetuated dangerous fallacies about/ anthropomorphized animals to the extent that city folk don't have a 🤬 clue about what animals are really like. They have become 🤬 Tourons that try to pet/ride deadly predators for selfies and likes online 🤦♀️☠️🤦♀️☠️🤦♀️☠️🤦♀️
Load More Replies...From time to time, bigger Facebook groups attract toxic users who want to litter all over them but Craig said they don't have this problem.
"Sometimes we have to take down a post we think Facebook won't like, but we don't get too many trolls. We have a dedicated admin and mod team who love seeing the group thrive and grow. Our most common issue is people not being happy over the posts we have to take down so we don't get shut down."
As you can see, the signs that get featured on the group come from a variety of places but there are a few leaders.
"The biggest provider of entertainment, I would say, are restaurants and supermarkets," Craig said.
The representative of 'The Absurd Sign Project' thinks the main reason why there are so many funny signs isn't incompetence. Rather, it's our desire to make each other laugh.
"We are the biggest absurd sign group I've found and we are the original group," Craig added.
"If anyone has any absurd signs of their own and wants to share, we would love to keep growing as a community and we want to see them!"
If you also have to make a sign, whether it's for your kid's lemonade stand or a business of your own, it might be worth remembering a chat in our earlier piece on funny and clever signs with Adrian Geach.
Geach, who has been a signwriter since 1980, told Bored Panda that "a good sign should be eye-catching, easy to understand and not too wordy with enough negative space around the text or logo, and have a good color scheme."
Stay in drugs, eat school, and don't do vegetables. Sounds reasonable to me....
And then the man went wee wee wee wee wee, all the way home 😉
Geach has been successfully involved in all areas of signage and graphics for decades but not that long ago, he went back to his roots and now concentrates on traditional signwriting.
With the current resurgence of interest in signwriting and hand-rendered work, he utilizes his skills to offer clients a more personal, unique, environmentally friendly, and organic signage solution using old-fashioned materials and techniques.
"A sign might only be looked at for a few seconds so it needs to leave an impression within this time frame, hence the less is more approach," he said.
Where else am I supposed to do my competitive dog grooming? In the elevator!?
"There are many factors to take into account when designing a sign, but the most important thing is to make sure it doesn't get lost in its surroundings," Geach revealed.
"A bad sign is too much lettering, not enough space around or in-between text and logos, and bad color choices."
But after seeing a few more posts on 'The Absurd Sign Project', we'll become experts on those by ourselves!
Watch someone take the table and leave all the rest of the stuff on the ground, untouched.
I love EVERYTHING about this. Especially the voodoo dolls being made while you wait 😂
The fact that they probably had to write the sign based on some persons actions is unreal
For those of you not familiar, Rocky Mountain Oysters are bull testicles...
The missing closing quotation marks is what bugs me the most about this...
This is the weirdest thing I have ever seen/read in my whole life without a doubt
Note: this post originally had 107 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
Quite a few of these pictures would also qualify for "You only had one job" kind of list.
But it's so FUN to down vote them into oblivion!
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why is always the place to find job offers? and why are they always spam?
I once went to this great Amish restaurant called 'Old Buggy Buffet ' Imagine what I thought when I first saw that on their sign.
Nope, you just drew more attention to it. Downvote and move on, don't do this c**p
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Quite a few of these pictures would also qualify for "You only had one job" kind of list.
But it's so FUN to down vote them into oblivion!
Load More Replies... why is always the place to find job offers? and why are they always spam?
I once went to this great Amish restaurant called 'Old Buggy Buffet ' Imagine what I thought when I first saw that on their sign.
Nope, you just drew more attention to it. Downvote and move on, don't do this c**p
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