Volume 3, Number 1
Somebody's going to get hurt!
Ahh yes... the convergence of many roads meeting in one spot. A problem nicely handled by stop signs, traffic cops or stop lights. But what happens when you reach an intersection where five roads converge... and the little disclaimer on the stop sign greeting you as you brake reads?
"4-way stop".
WTMTSW... "You go. No, after you. But I insist."
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Calling all counterfeiters!
No one wants to get caught with a fake $100 bill. But one gas station near Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania inadvertently advertises for the faux cash with this seemingly incongruous sign on the door...
...No $100 bills will be excepted.
Start those color printers rolling... we've found ourselves a pigeon -
WTMTSW... "We'll cash anything if the ink's dry!"
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Duck!
If there is a single person in cyberland who has ever driven by one of those threatening signs along almost any highway that cuts through a rocky cliff and actually witnessed what the sign promises, let us know.
Then again, if you have, you probably didn't have time to do anything but scream as you watched the -
"Falling Rock"
WTMTSW... "Now Fallen Rock we'd believe."
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Which came first, the cemetery or the sign?
As in any exceedingly rural area, wandering the back roads in the Poconos can reveal scenery unrivaled many places. But it can also reveal evidence that the locals are serious about their privacy and their property, as inferred by this sign. -
"Cemetery. No Gunning!"
WTMTSW... "Obviously we've had a few people who can't read."
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Unnecessary sign of the times.
Central Pennsylvania is smack in the middle of the Bible Belt. And in many of the more conservative churches in the area, tolerance for those of different persuasions very rarely reaches a Christian level. But even we were shocked at the directness of the following statement spotted on their portable sign designed to attract visitors -
"We have a policy against practicing homosexuals in the church"
WTMTSW... "We don't practice Christianity either."
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Let bygones be bygones.
As an advertising agency, there is nothing we applaud more than truth. But even we would have been hard-pressed to recommend this Philadelphia-area Jiffy Lube use the following headline on their street-side sign -
"Trust us. Were good."
WTMTSW... "Were better, thank you."
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Got my gun, my ammo, my license, my beer...
Perry County in Pennsylvania is the epitome of rural. No tourist office ('foreigners'). Few stoplights ('government interference'). And road names that include the word 'hollow'.
But it both surprised and disturbed us on a recent trip through this picturesque little place to come upon the following sign welcoming deer hunters to their fair county...
...Pabst (beer) Welcomes Hunters.
Now there's a comforting thought. Hunters. Guns. Live ammo. And beer. -
WTMTSW... "Welcome to our woods. Don't forget to duck!"
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