Comments on: Weird and Wacky Signs Around the World Part I http://blog.ratestogo.com/12-weird-and-wacky-signs-around-the-world/ Travel News by RatesToGo Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:55:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Natalie http://blog.ratestogo.com/12-weird-and-wacky-signs-around-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-18273 Natalie Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:42:03 +0000 http://blog.ratestogo.com/a-tour-of-weird-and-wacky-signs-around-the-world/#comment-18273 I'm Indian and gosh, that was funny. I reckon the last one's just a show of Canadian dry wit. Or avant-gardism? I’m Indian and gosh, that was funny. I reckon the last one’s just a show of Canadian dry wit. Or avant-gardism?

]]> By: 15 Hilarious Road Signs http://blog.ratestogo.com/12-weird-and-wacky-signs-around-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-9708 15 Hilarious Road Signs Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:52:05 +0000 http://blog.ratestogo.com/a-tour-of-weird-and-wacky-signs-around-the-world/#comment-9708 [...] the past, we have brought you weird and wacky signs from around the world. These hilarious and frankly, stupid road signs in many cases, certainly qualify in the same [...] [...] the past, we have brought you weird and wacky signs from around the world. These hilarious and frankly, stupid road signs in many cases, certainly qualify in the same [...]

]]> By: Kevin http://blog.ratestogo.com/12-weird-and-wacky-signs-around-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-6250 Kevin Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:20:29 +0000 http://blog.ratestogo.com/a-tour-of-weird-and-wacky-signs-around-the-world/#comment-6250 Sorry to come over all serious -- there are some great signs here! -- but the writer of your previous response is right. Your "museum sign in China" photo was obviously taken in Japan, both from the language on the sign and the fact that it is commonplace in Japan to indicate after-midnight closing times in this way (e.g. Sunday 17:00~25:00 = 5 pm on Sunday till 1 am on Monday). Also, it's a bit hard on the poor old Germans to say that they should have thought of consulting a future dictionary of English slang when they decided millennia ago what to call one of their mountains! We are seldom aware of the joke when the language coincidence works the other way round: why do French motorists in Britain guffaw at the sight of signs reading "soft verges"? (perhaps the highway authorities should have checked the French dictionary, which defines "verges" as "membres virils"). Why did the Spanish customs officer have a fit of the giggles when he saw the passport belonging to Mr C O Jones? (I'll let you work that one out for yourself...) Sorry to come over all serious — there are some great signs here! — but the writer of your previous response is right. Your “museum sign in China” photo was obviously taken in Japan, both from the language on the sign and the fact that it is commonplace in Japan to indicate after-midnight closing times in this way (e.g. Sunday 17:00~25:00 = 5 pm on Sunday till 1 am on Monday).

Also, it’s a bit hard on the poor old Germans to say that they should have thought of consulting a future dictionary of English slang when they decided millennia ago what to call one of their mountains! We are seldom aware of the joke when the language coincidence works the other way round: why do French motorists in Britain guffaw at the sight of signs reading “soft verges”? (perhaps the highway authorities should have checked the French dictionary, which defines “verges” as “membres virils”). Why did the Spanish customs officer have a fit of the giggles when he saw the passport belonging to Mr C O Jones? (I’ll let you work that one out for yourself…)

]]> By: Fu Rong http://blog.ratestogo.com/12-weird-and-wacky-signs-around-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-4693 Fu Rong Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:22:53 +0000 http://blog.ratestogo.com/a-tour-of-weird-and-wacky-signs-around-the-world/#comment-4693 These were hilarious.... I luv them!! Thanks for going and finding these, and adding the throughly hilarious comments to go with them. In the second to last sign, the instructions below are written in Japanese.... most Chinese can't read Japanese............ Since Japan sometimes still uses Traditional Chinese characters mixed with their own phonetic alphabets, some Chinese would be able to read part of the sign..... but there are still large portions that are in Japanese..... sooo..... the museum isn't being particularly helpful to the majority of Chinese people in China who only read Simplified Chinese..... they would be really lost...... unless this was from a museum in Japan... in which case this sign would make more sense..... except for the 25th hour of "closing time"... ;) These were hilarious…. I luv them!! Thanks for going and finding these, and adding the throughly hilarious comments to go with them.

In the second to last sign, the instructions below are written in Japanese…. most Chinese can’t read Japanese………… Since Japan sometimes still uses Traditional Chinese characters mixed with their own phonetic alphabets, some Chinese would be able to read part of the sign….. but there are still large portions that are in Japanese….. sooo….. the museum isn’t being particularly helpful to the majority of Chinese people in China who only read Simplified Chinese….. they would be really lost……

unless this was from a museum in Japan… in which case this sign would make more sense….. except for the 25th hour of “closing time”… ;)

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