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.
I work at a vet and they forgot an important one. I have seen on multiple occasions where dealing with the owners was worse on the groomer then dealing with the pups!
I want to know where people are getting their own hair cut. My cuts are like $60, but the groomer charges something like $40.
Got me right off the bat with "cleaning the rear end". I have to do it the rest of the time so I'm willing to pay more for someone else to do it at the doggie beauty parlor.
The likelihood of you pooping on your hairdresser is slim but not zero.
True but were people actually wondering why this was? Seems pretty obvious to me.
the likelihood of you pooping on your hairdresser is pretty slim but never none
Wait, your hairdresser isn't supposed to wash your bum? I need to cancel an appointment.
I love this!! I've never complained about how much my dog's groomer charged, only that I have 5 dogs. 😬 It is a skill that I could never master for my well-deserved Yorkies.
I must have a bozo playing with phone service again? I can read everything, but I can't look @ the pictures. Vic.
I happily pay my longhaired cat's groomer--and I tip too! Groomers develop their skills the hard way. I'm just glad to have found a good one.
So I've been acting badly at my Barber Shop? Sorry Frank... I had no idea...
I just googled (as I don't have a dog or get my hair done at a hairdresser) and the prices are very similar where I live!
# 4. Well....They didn't take young children into consideration in this one.
I'm not saying I've ever done these. Thought about some of them occasion when it's clear that I'm not in av talkative mood. Also when things start to go horribly wrong and you can see it, but they can't.
I might bite or scratch. Can't be entirely ruled out. I can't promise to sit still either.
#9 Incessant, non-stop, screaming, high-pitched embarrassing (for Poodle owner) BARKING
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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