Show me a Sign! Billboards,sign,bus ads,shop signs go here!

Thagomizer · 01-26-2021, 03:05 PM - **1 Like**

Signs, official and unofficial:

**WPRESTO** · 01-26-2021, 08:22 PM - **1 Like**

Originally posted by womble

That spot is at a bottom of hill. Before they put the posts in off-road cyclists would come flying through that gap and run into any walkers, cars, horses or other cyclists just coming around the corner. Now the dummer ones just wipe themselves out in the chicane.

There is a "mountain" nearby, Mt. Holyoke, a bit over 900ft (>280m) AMSL, so there's easily 700 ft down from summit to the surrounding ground. A road goes to the very top (there's an old mountain top hotel there) and inevitably the road has multiple hair-pin curves, one that also has one of the steepest slopes. Now and then a bicyclist thinks they can go top to bottom without using their brakes, some kind of prove-something, bragging-rights stunt. They always earn a Darwin Award - somewhere off in the trees.

**paulh** · 01-27-2021, 03:39 PM - **3 Likes**

Granbury TX

**goatsNdonkey** · 01-28-2021, 06:38 AM - **1 Like**

Originally posted by dadipentak

Wow, I've never seen or heard the word "chicane"--had to look it up. Now I understand "chicanery" Thanks!
For some reason, you Brits sure know the English language! Now, about "dummer"...

Next you'll be saying Brits invented English!

**cartesio** · 01-28-2021, 07:16 AM

Recycling old posts from other threads.

cartello_IMGP4122 by Marco Marco, su Flickr

**dadipentak** · 01-28-2021, 08:36 AM

Originally posted by goatsNdonkey

Next you'll be saying Brits invented English!

And I'm really very grateful. I especially appreciate their refusal to assign gender to inanimate objects!

**luckylu** · 01-28-2021, 03:20 PM - **1 Like**

Just in case the animals had trouble reading the message they drew a map for them too.

**cartesio** · 01-30-2021, 08:56 AM - **1 Like**

Centrale termica.

by Marco Marco, su Flickr

**WPRESTO** · 01-30-2021, 11:17 AM

I'd say this sign is all Greek to me, but it's Latin.

**paulh** · 01-30-2021, 03:11 PM - **1 Like**

**WPRESTO** · 01-30-2021, 05:19 PM

Originally posted by paulh

For Jeannie???

**cartesio** · 02-03-2021, 02:05 AM - **4 Likes**

by Marco Marco, su Flickr

**ffking** · 02-03-2021, 02:39 AM - **3 Likes**

Sagging sign

**ffking** · 02-03-2021, 02:40 AM - **5 Likes**

End of the day

**ffking** · 02-03-2021, 02:42 AM - **5 Likes**

woodland warning

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
Night The sign of Come Fly Away	JSJ	Post Your Photos!	9	07-12-2018 06:42 AM
Misc Sign :)	OrenMc	Post Your Photos!	2	08-20-2010 02:42 AM
Question Plus sign after usernames	Ash	Site Suggestions and Help	9	01-27-2010 09:11 AM
A Sign of Spring	Sailor	Post Your Photos!	14	02-21-2007 05:27 PM
Fun sign	mingdie	Post Your Photos!	2	02-04-2007 01:53 AM

01-26-2021, 03:05 PM - 1 Like	#5806
Thagomizer Pentaxian Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: London Ontario Posts: 2,068	Signs, official and unofficial:

01-26-2021, 08:22 PM - 1 Like	#5807
WPRESTO Loyal Site Supporter Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Massachusetts Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 59,104	Originally posted by womble That spot is at a bottom of hill. Before they put the posts in off-road cyclists would come flying through that gap and run into any walkers, cars, horses or other cyclists just coming around the corner. Now the dummer ones just wipe themselves out in the chicane. There is a "mountain" nearby, Mt. Holyoke, a bit over 900ft (>280m) AMSL, so there's easily 700 ft down from summit to the surrounding ground. A road goes to the very top (there's an old mountain top hotel there) and inevitably the road has multiple hair-pin curves, one that also has one of the steepest slopes. Now and then a bicyclist thinks they can go top to bottom without using their brakes, some kind of prove-something, bragging-rights stunt. They always earn a Darwin Award - somewhere off in the trees.

01-27-2021, 03:39 PM - 3 Likes	#5808
paulh Site Supporter Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: DFW Texas/Ventura County, CA Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 33,255	Granbury TX

01-28-2021, 06:38 AM - 1 Like	#5809
goatsNdonkey Site Supporter Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: Fulton County, Illinois Posts: 3,727	Originally posted by dadipentak Wow, I've never seen or heard the word "chicane"--had to look it up. Now I understand "chicanery" Thanks! For some reason, you Brits sure know the English language! Now, about "dummer"... Next you'll be saying Brits invented English!

01-28-2021, 07:16 AM	#5810
cartesio Site Supporter Join Date: Jun 2016 Photos: Gallery Posts: 899	Recycling old posts from other threads. cartello_IMGP4122 by Marco Marco, su Flickr

01-28-2021, 08:36 AM	#5811
dadipentak Site Supporter Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Baltimore, Maryland Photos: Gallery Posts: 11,590	Originally posted by goatsNdonkey Next you'll be saying Brits invented English! And I'm really very grateful. I especially appreciate their refusal to assign gender to inanimate objects!

01-28-2021, 03:20 PM - 1 Like	#5812
luckylu Loyal Site Supporter Join Date: Jan 2019 Photos: Albums Posts: 1,531	Just in case the animals had trouble reading the message they drew a map for them too.

01-30-2021, 08:56 AM - 1 Like	#5813
cartesio Site Supporter Join Date: Jun 2016 Photos: Gallery Posts: 899	Centrale termica. by Marco Marco, su Flickr

01-30-2021, 03:11 PM - 1 Like	#5815
paulh Site Supporter Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: DFW Texas/Ventura County, CA Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 33,255

01-30-2021, 05:19 PM	#5816
WPRESTO Loyal Site Supporter Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Massachusetts Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 59,104	Originally posted by paulh For Jeannie???

02-03-2021, 02:39 AM - 3 Likes	#5818
ffking Site Supporter Join Date: Nov 2015 Location: Old South Wales Posts: 6,038	Sagging sign

02-03-2021, 02:40 AM - 5 Likes	#5819
ffking Site Supporter Join Date: Nov 2015 Location: Old South Wales Posts: 6,038	End of the day

02-03-2021, 02:42 AM - 5 Likes	#5820
ffking Site Supporter Join Date: Nov 2015 Location: Old South Wales Posts: 6,038	woodland warning

02-03-2021, 02:05 AM - 4 Likes	#5817
cartesio Site Supporter Join Date: Jun 2016 Photos: Gallery Posts: 899	by Marco Marco, su Flickr

Thread Tools	Search this Thread
	Search this Thread: Advanced Search