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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.
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.
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Gina Mangin 3 years ago
If I had only read this 10 years ago, so everything I have done for certain people would have been for myself instead!
Sarah Berkner 1 year ago
This is crappy, you can be useful to the world without being taken advantage of, just get better at using common sense and don't enable people because that's not useful.
Mary Peace 2 years ago
I've heard lots of men say, 'My wife asked me to make her a cup of tea, but I didn't make it how she likes it, so she won't ask again.' Never heard a woman say similar.
Valerie G. 3 years ago
this is why husbands and boyfriends and sons do such a crappy job at any household chore, just so you say "Oh, damn, I'll do it myself" in a huff.
Fester Sixonesixonethree 3 years ago
This has, for me, proved a valuable insight over the years. When asked to "cook the chicken" for a patio gathering, after I had said I had never cooked chicken on a grill before, it turned out raw on the inside and a beautiful brown / black char on the outside. I've never been asked to cook again.
"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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phil bishop 3 years ago
Stay in drugs, eat school, and don't do vegetables. Sounds reasonable to me....
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June’s Very Own 3 years ago (edited)
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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June’s Very Own 3 years ago
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!
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ThePanInPanda 3 years ago
Watch someone take the table and leave all the rest of the stuff on the ground, untouched.
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June’s Very Own 3 years ago
I love EVERYTHING about this. Especially the voodoo dolls being made while you wait 😂
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June’s Very Own 3 years ago
The fact that they probably had to write the sign based on some persons actions is unreal
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Lawrencium 3 years ago
For those of you not familiar, Rocky Mountain Oysters are bull testicles...
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Lawrencium 3 years ago
The missing closing quotation marks is what bugs me the most about this...
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June’s Very Own 3 years ago
This is the weirdest thing I have ever seen/read in my whole life without a doubt
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Rose the Cook 3 years ago
Had a student who called everything a thingy when she couldn't remember the name of it in English.
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Trophy Husband 3 years ago
Okay, we know what you don't stand for... Now tell us what you do stand for!
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ThePanInPanda 3 years ago
All of you talking about the sign, meanwhile me: 'why are that guy's legs so long?'
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Natalia Linnik 3 years ago
“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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Trophy Husband 3 years ago
Is it sad that my new goal is to have a BP comment with 500 up votes?
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Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
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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ThePanInPanda 3 years ago
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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sanityisnotproven 3 years ago
Welcome to the Hotel California. You can never leave. Because you are forever lost.
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Lawrencium 3 years ago
This sign makes a lot more sense when you realize it's in Hawkins, Indiana
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Trophy Husband 3 years ago
And here's what it looked like after the small tornado from that Bugs Bunny cartoon came through!
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Final score:
5points
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David Meacheam 3 years ago
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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Random Anon 3 years ago
Quite a few of these pictures would also qualify for "You only had one job" kind of list.
Wisteria Lacoss-Arnold 2 years ago (edited)
But it's so FUN to down vote them into oblivion!
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MacKenzie Moore 3 years ago
why is always the place to find job offers? and why are they always spam?
JESSI WOLFE 3 years ago
I once went to this great Amish restaurant called 'Old Buggy Buffet ' Imagine what I thought when I first saw that on their sign.
Lsai Aeon 3 years ago
Nope, you just drew more attention to it. Downvote and move on, don't do this c**p
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Random Anon 3 years ago
Quite a few of these pictures would also qualify for "You only had one job" kind of list.
Wisteria Lacoss-Arnold 2 years ago (edited)
But it's so FUN to down vote them into oblivion!
Load More Replies... MacKenzie Moore 3 years ago
why is always the place to find job offers? and why are they always spam?
JESSI WOLFE 3 years ago
I once went to this great Amish restaurant called 'Old Buggy Buffet ' Imagine what I thought when I first saw that on their sign.
Lsai Aeon 3 years ago
Nope, you just drew more attention to it. Downvote and move on, don't do this c**p
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