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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. 

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    Floof
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    yes, the chances of you pooping on your hairdresser is never 0

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    Amber Yancey Report

    Jack
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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

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    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."

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    Steve Falletti Report

    Kona Pake
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I saw her last week running out on the pitch and the referees tackled her.

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    Ben Rowland Report

    Lara Verne
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My milkshake is for me, I did not invite any boys.

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    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.

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    June’s Very Own
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What happens if I read it? Huh? HUH!?

    Jojo Armani
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You’ll get done for invasion of privacy

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    Cowws
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    hey guys what does the sign say?

    MPS
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh dear sorry about that

    Lisa Valen
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Too late. You should have begun with "Please do not read".

    Rose the Cook
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A sure way to get everyone to read it.

    Mel
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No one's gonna know... How will they know??

    Terry Tobias
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If they didn't want us to read it they should've put the warning first. Geez!

    Curry on...
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's really quite hard to not read something.

    juice
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    you can't tell me what to do!

    Manny Heffley
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    me after reading 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

    Ingrid Jeffers
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There should be, on the bottom, another small sentence that says, "Can't ANYONE follow directions?!" Or something.

    Landithy
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is a local sign for local people. There's nothing for you here.

    Heather Nemanic
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What if I can’t read, does it still mean what it says???

    P.C.
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What does the sign say? I saw do not read and blanked out for a second

    Emily McGee
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    YOU CANT STOP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Audrey Richardson
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Police come into your house, that’s what happens

    Julie Ann Al buzbeba
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Kind of like this circle pin my dad likes to wear on his coat that just says STOP LOOKING AT MY PIN

    Brianna Hunter
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We escape Privacy by being online! Lol 😆

    Kylie Crawford
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Uh I just read it whatcha gonna do now

    Don Lee
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And I'd better not catch you not reading it, buster.

    Alessandra Rodriguez
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To bad so sad. I already did. What are ya gonna do, huh? Cry?😎

    Madelyn Jeffords
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hello! I replied to a comment by June’s Very Own with a riddle, and I said I would post the answer in this comment. Please do not upvote or downvote this comment (these rules do NOT go for the reply). The answer is: does anyone know what I’m typing? Upvote if you can!

    Matt Ayres
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Gonna read it aren't ya .... ur brain just can't help it...🤣🤣

    R
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh goood, I read it

    qwerty
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    This comment has been deleted.

    Katherine Boag
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Aaaahhhhhh things that feel illegal but arent

    Adam Zad
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You read it, didn't you? You little rebel! I like it.

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    "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!"

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    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."

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    Eddy Darbinian Report

    phil bishop
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Stay in drugs, eat school, and don't do vegetables. Sounds reasonable to me....

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    June’s Very Own
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And then the man went wee wee wee wee wee, all the way home 😉

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    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.

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    Jerry Moody Report

    Trophy Husband
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I want to meet the person who thought of this!

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    Di Davies Report

    June’s Very Own
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where else am I supposed to do my competitive dog grooming? In the elevator!?

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    "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!

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    Moe Rogers Report

    ThePanInPanda
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Watch someone take the table and leave all the rest of the stuff on the ground, untouched.

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    Toni ha
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why are so many people pooping with pens in hand?

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    June’s Very Own
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love EVERYTHING about this. Especially the voodoo dolls being made while you wait 😂

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    DeadLetterOffice
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not sure why the dishwashers nationality was important to know.

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    Livi
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the fact that they even have to remind people of this...?

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    June’s Very Own
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The fact that they probably had to write the sign based on some persons actions is unreal

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    Susan Dault Powers Report

    Lawrencium
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For those of you not familiar, Rocky Mountain Oysters are bull testicles...

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    Ann Holiday Report

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    Jurica Mandić Report

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    Lawrencium
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The missing closing quotation marks is what bugs me the most about this...

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    June’s Very Own
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is the weirdest thing I have ever seen/read in my whole life without a doubt

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    Boris Adum Report

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    Naomi Wilkey Report

    Rose the Cook
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Had a student who called everything a thingy when she couldn't remember the name of it in English.

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    Lawrencium
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But what if I'm living with SUBTRACTION?!

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    Kelly Jo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But if done out at the bar or table, it would be rude not to share.

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    https://www.facebook.com/groups/theabsurdsignproject/ Report

    Trophy Husband
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Okay, we know what you don't stand for... Now tell us what you do stand for!

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    Ivana Bašić
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My uterus was a one-hit wonder, retired very early.

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    Ricardo Ferreira
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And that's why proper lettering space is important, kids.

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    ThePanInPanda
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All of you talking about the sign, meanwhile me: 'why are that guy's legs so long?'

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    DeadLetterOffice
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah. That’s not cool. Someone call animal control.

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    #68

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    Jurica Mandić Report

    Lawrencium
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Natural beauty is having an extra set of legs

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    Bella V. Vid Report

    Natalia Linnik
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    “Our visit was wonderful but we never saw any bears. Please train your bears to be where guests can see them. This was an expensive trip to not get to see bears.” – Yellowstone visitor complain.

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    Mav Mav
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The calibre of your guns should be sufficient to distinguish you all.

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    Lawrencium
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So basically all the real numbers are fair game here?

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    Troux
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Welcome TO the fence. Not welcome IN the fence.

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    Luís Cruz Report

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    Neb Rodgers Report

    Lawrencium
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well dang, there go my plans for the evening...

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    Nathaniel Gordon Report

    Trophy Husband
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is it sad that my new goal is to have a BP comment with 500 up votes?

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    Jacqueline Morrow Report

    Lawrencium
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    0% Off! I can't afford NOT to get this! /s

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    #82

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    Colleen Zweck Report

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    Fredrik Viklund Report

    Katie Lutesinger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I understand they put these signs up to assist people from countries where toilets aren't raised but are set into the floor so you have to squat over them.

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    June’s Very Own
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The sign….or the towel dispenser? Either way, I’m worried

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    Mark T. Brinson Report

    Kona Pake
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not really, it makes another organ water

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    ThePanInPanda
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Guys, it's filler text, it appears automatically as sample text in many programs. It's not supposed to mean anything important, they just forgot to delete it.

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    Eddy Darbinian Report

    sanityisnotproven
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Welcome to the Hotel California. You can never leave. Because you are forever lost.

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    Kirk Juergens Report

    rw55066
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Damn I wanted quality fathead minnows

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    Rob Jones Report

    APL
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, because some smoke alarms detect a change in air conductivity rather than smoke per se. Nothing odd about this.

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    David Leisure Report

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    Lawrencium
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This sign makes a lot more sense when you realize it's in Hawkins, Indiana

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    Trophy Husband
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And here's what it looked like after the small tornado from that Bugs Bunny cartoon came through!

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    rw55066
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's reversed to be read in a rearview mirror

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    Kelly Jo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Even royalty trash gets special treatment

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    David Meacheam
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In my home town there was the White Bus Company. The buses were painted blue. The White family preferred them that way.

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