Comments on: Warning, warning signs ahead

Warning, warning signs ahead

mss — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:28:54 -0800

Warning signs ahead. Use caution. Don't be somewhere you shouldn't. No crapping in the woods. I just don't know.

By: knave

knave — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:34:56 -0800

Don't crash servers

By: wakko

wakko — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:41:27 -0800

they need a service unavailable sign

By: Gator

Gator — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:44:02 -0800

Oh, this'un's gonna come in handy.

By: Emperor Yamamoto's Eggs

Emperor Yamamoto's Eggs — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:45:19 -0800

Damn, already?

By: spock

spock — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:57:16 -0800

Hosting with register.com? Who says there's no such thing as bad publicity?

By: Jon-o

Jon-o — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 21:14:23 -0800

By: gambit

gambit — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 22:01:15 -0800

So, i actually know the guy who runs this site... he just moved and his second dsl line doesn't get installed until next week.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 22:21:10 -0800

Oh, this'un's gonna come in handy. It did, Gator.

By: Opposite George

Opposite George — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 22:47:13 -0800

They aren't pictographic, but I always got a kick out of the signs on the trails to the summit of Mt. Washington in New Hampshire:

STOP The area ahead has the worst weather in America. Many have died there from exposure, even in the summer. Turn back now if the weather is bad.

There's another good one at the start of the Crawford Path guaranteeing almost-certain death by heart attack if you aren't in peak physical condition, but I couldn't find the exact text on line.

By: gren

gren — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 22:55:30 -0800

Service Unavailable

By: Bugbread

Bugbread — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 23:03:09 -0800

Working fine now.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 23:35:26 -0800

There's a great warning sign at Yellowstone showing a boy scout stepping off of the raised path and into a thinly-crusted geothermal pool filled with boiling water. Wonderful.

By: Heywood Mogroot

Heywood Mogroot — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 23:41:46 -0800

translation of jon-o's sign: SEN-RO+ni mono+wo otosareta-kata+ha eki-kakari-IN+ni o-moshi-de+kudasai. "line-road"+(prepositional "on"/"to" particle に) "thing"+(direct object particle を) (past passive inflection of otosu, "to drop")-(formal "person"/"party")+(topic particle は) "station"-"duty"-"staff"+(prepositional "on"/"to" particle に) (honorific particle を)-(verb stem of "to request")+"please". Person who has dropped something onto the tracks make request to station staff please.

By: Kirth Gerson

Kirth Gerson — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 03:45:54 -0800

That last linked sign certainly means "I have a suitcase full of hot-pants."

By: grapefruitmoon

grapefruitmoon — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 05:55:09 -0800

Ha! The "No crapping in the woods" sign says "Toiletten benutzen!" To translate, it means : USE THE TOILET! I guess Germans need to be told because, like bears, they naturally go in the woods. Or something.

By: carter

carter — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 05:56:10 -0800

By: you just lost the game

you just lost the game — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:11:27 -0800

Those "Don't be somewhere you shouldn't" ones are all over the place in Singapore. After a few days of seeing them everywhere, I was scared to leave my hotel.