Signs four stuped peeple

[packman]

[Coventina]

1. The coffee one is hilarious! "L'area de oolala"!

[Walleye]

2. Yeah. You gotta read them out loud. Ze knakkers

[Ohio Joe]

3. My favorite is still one I actually saw...

When I first moved to CT, one of the things I needed was an alarm clock. I picked it up and when I got home and was opening it, I noticed the silica gel pack had a bunch of writing on it. I read it and burst out laughing, it said 'WARNING NOT CANDY DO NOT EAT'. It just popped into my head that at some point some moron opened some electronic device, saw the packet and though... Oh cool, it came with candy... Gulp

[underpants]

4. You'd be surprised how many people just walk on elevators

A few years ago I was working on the 20th floor. This was new to me. I became aware that a lot of people would be in a conversation and then turned and walk right in when the doors opened. I became sort of a pest about it with my coworkers.

[leftieNanner]

5. "stuped people"

Nice touch.

Very funny signs.

[Butterflylady]

13. Evidently for republicans.

[niyad]

17. so is the "four".

[leftieNanner]

18. "four" and "peeple"

I missed those both!

Oh lordy, but I'm not sure where that places me on the Mensa chart.

[captain queeg]

6. My father in law was a insurance agent and told us about a case

Where two idiots picked up a running lawn mower and tried to trim a hedge. As imagined someone got hurt. They sued the mower company and won a judgement because there was no warning against it.

[sarge43]

7. It's only a matter of time

Caution

Use care getting out of bed.

(If you need this warning, you should stay right where you are.)

[Jerry2144]

8. About ten years ago

I bought some decorative holiday lights. They had a warning tag that said, “warning: for interior or exterior use only.”

How else can you use them? They didn’t emit UV so you couldn’t use them as a COVID preventing suppository. And this was years before COVID, so probably wasn’t that

[edbermac]

9. Shouldn't that be 'Sines four stuped peeple'?

[packman]

10. Yor write, im sow dum

[Wild blueberry]

11. Or for a litigious society

I remember being in Scotland on a meadow by the cliffs. No handrail, no signs. If one is foolish enough to get too close and fall over, oh well.

[burrowowl]

15. Yes, you can earn a Darwin Award

[IronLionZion]

12. Don't tell me what to do, you sheep

[forgotmylogin]

14. Almost all of these seem like they required a sign because someone did the stupid thing.

I understand "not ranch" because it is a pump dispenser sitting on a self-serve station with condiments and other edible things. Someone totally put that on their food like an idiot.

I'm wondering if "fire is hot" is because that metal fence likely heats up, and I can imagine someone probably leaned against it unaware and got burned - or leaned against the not-really hot fence long enough that the flames caught the wind the right way and singed them.

"Sidewalk Ends" I can actually appreciate. It may seem stupid for a pedestrian, but a bicyclist at 10-15 mph needs a good amount of notice about a surface change. Without that sign, I might not visually comprehend the sidewalk is ending and not just sloping down out of view until it's too late. It's actually unusual for a sidewalk to stop abruptly when there's no intersection.

(Yes, I know bikes shouldn't be on sidewalks but sometimes when there are no pedestrians it's safer than trying to pedal on the shoulder of a highway with automobiles whipping past just inches away.)

I think the coffee one is a required warning (remember McDonald's lawsuit) but they decided to make it humorous.

[Hekate]

16. Ooolala!

[niyad]

19. Bill Engvahl's "here's your sign".