Badly Worded Signs


	Badly Worded Signs

skwirlinator

3-31-2007 4:05 AM

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3-31-2007 10:07 PM

bonairegirl

This is positively HYSTERICAL!!
Ooh my goodness!

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Badly Worded Signs
</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://paul.merton.ox.ac.uk/language/signs.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><B>Sign in a laundromat</B>:
Automatic washing machines:  please remove all your clothes when
        the light goes out
</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://paul.merton.ox.ac.uk/language/signs.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><B>In a dress shop window</B>:
Don't stand outside and faint - come in and have a fit
</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://paul.merton.ox.ac.uk/language/signs.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><B>Sign in a London department store</B>:
Bargain basement upstairs
</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://paul.merton.ox.ac.uk/language/signs.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><B>On a church door</B>:
'This is the gate of Heaven.  Enter Ye all by this door.'
        (This door is kept locked because of the draught.
         Please use side door.)
</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://paul.merton.ox.ac.uk/language/signs.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><B>Outside a secondhand shop</B>:
We exchange anything - bicycles, washing machines etc.  Why not
        bring your wife along and get a wonderful bargain?
</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://paul.merton.ox.ac.uk/language/signs.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><B>In a restaurant</B>:
Customers who find our waiting staff rude should see the manager
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Why don't you go away?
</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://paul.merton.ox.ac.uk/language/signs.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><B>Spotted in a garden centre</B>:
Up these steps for the sunken garden
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Repairs and alterations done here.  Dying arranged
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No dogs allowed
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If you cannot read, this leaflet will tell you how to get lessons
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