You know, when I started this series of amusing signs, my intention was to use signs from my travels abroad. After all, here in he U.S. all the signs make perfect sense because we’re all native English speakers, right? Well, not quite… When I decided to take to the so-called Chinatown Bus from NYC to Washington […]
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Ah nature. It’s just wonderful to relax that quick pace and stop to smell…the footprints? “Less Foot Prints, More Aroma.” I don’t even know what to say to that. I mean, is that to say that you should walk less and smell worse? Or is it perhaps and indication that your feet smell? What I […]
China is a nice, wholesome, family oriented society, right? I’d venture to say that they have the world’s largest number of spoiled brats, considering the exceptional number of sibling-less children. What I definitely picked up on during my collective two months in the “middle kingdom” was that sex is a taboo subject. Case in point, the […]
“Man Protect the Green, The Green Do Good to Man.” Sounds like a Chinese proverb, right? Somehow I doubt that it is, as this seems like a cute way of reminding people to keep off the grass! And a mighty nice grass it is! But I see a trend here. Remember the very first image […]
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Say What?? Travel Photo: Gibberish
It’s not often that you see a sign that quite literally makes absolutely no sense at all whatsoever. I mean, at the very least you can usually determine what the intent in the meaning was. Well, I give you the granddaddy of signs that make you say, “What??” A sign so nonsensical that it’s just […]
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Say What?? Travel Photo: Trash Can
Behold, the “Use Me” bin, ubiquitous in the tiny Himalayan nation of Bhutan! These rather ingenious trash cans are scattered around the Bhutanese Kingdom, kindly requesting that you simply use them. And for a nation that has built itself on environmental sustainability, it only makes sense that they should gently poke the public to properly […]
Do you love your life? Well if you do, it kind of goes without saying that you shouldn’t step off a sheer cliff, especially amidst incredibly thick fog because you’re up at 10,000 feet! Emei Shan is one of China’s four sacred Buddhist peaks. Located in the western Sichuan province, this UNESCO World Heritage Site […]
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Say What?? Travel Photo: Meal Urn?
“Point your meal urn.” It’s quite a straightforward sentence that quite frankly makes absolutely no sense in English, especially when you take in to consideration that it’s the name of a restaurant! I have to wonder what the intention here is. I mean…urn? Ye olde dictiornary says that “urn” is a noun and is “a vessel […]