taxi4ballet Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 I happened to drive past the entrance to Woburn Safari Park yesterday, and saw a large sign advertising their forthcoming Elephant BBQ. The mind boggles! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pas de Quatre Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 They'd need jumbo sized plates! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted June 25, 2012 Author Share Posted June 25, 2012 First, cut your elephant into bite-size pieces... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjuli_Bai Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Be sure you make enough BBQ sauce. Where does find an adequate grill? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangorballetboy Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 How do you know there's an elephant in your fridge? Great big footprints in the butter. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjuli_Bai Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Oh - I dimly remember a thing called butter! A menu I recently read in an ethnic restaurant was divided into categories: Beef Seafood Foul Vegetarian Dairy I did not order from the "foul" section. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna C Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 In Puerto Pollensa many years ago I came across a sign outside a restaurant, advertising "Pizza with cheese and jam". I hope they meant ham! Oh, and "Fishcaks and chip's" - outside an English Fish and Chip shop. The wayward apostrophe was bad enough, but I don't even want to know what's in a "Fishcak". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted July 9, 2012 Author Share Posted July 9, 2012 Years ago, my friend and I were highly amused by a variety of crisps on sale in Ibiza called 'Bum' ! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiz Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 LOL,Taxi! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spooky Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 Many years ago there was a roundabout in our town which only had two exit roads signposted 'Town Centre' and 'All Other Routes'. Later a new road was built aiming to divert traffic around the town and this exit was signposted 'All Routes' so until someone realised and the signs were altered your options were 'Town Centre', 'All Routes' or 'All Other Routes'! I often wondered how people unfamiliar with the area reacted. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 That sounds like the ring road in Huntingdon, I think it was, which was oddly signposted or something, so you'd find yourself attempting to head for the town centre and then suddenly find you were driving out of town! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ann Williams Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 Whilst on holiday in Crete severall years years ago, we happened on a taverna in a remote village offering 'Spleen Omlette Calf Pluckett' as a menu choice - ever since then 'Spleen Omlette' has become a standing joke as a menu choice for picky dinner guests! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangorballetboy Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 One of my favourite menu items is a "bowel of chips" at The Muggery in Upton-upon-Severn. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna C Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 Tasty! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted October 13, 2012 Author Share Posted October 13, 2012 Saw this today... 'Easy Open Door - pull to activate' 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dancealot Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 Years ago, in my backpacking days, I was most amused to come across a sign outside a shop in Suva, Fiji, advertising "Ears pierced while you wait"! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 silly - the elephants are running the BBQ. Those trunks are nifty at flipping burgers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 One of my favourites was the gynaecologist's sign outside his practice in Rome: "Dottore ..... : specialist in women and other diseases" 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ann Williams Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 And one (apparantly genuine) found in the kitchen of a cricket pavilion: "LADIES: Please rinse teapots thoroughly and stand upside down on the draining board". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiz Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 I do this all the time, Ann 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted November 18, 2012 Author Share Posted November 18, 2012 It's back - much to the amusement of dd and me as we drive past at this time of year... A local garden centre advertising for Christmas has a prominent sign reading: 'Visit us before Santa visits you' We can't help imagining it being said by Vinnie Jones or a Eastenders-style villainous type who adds the words 'or else!' 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 We often wonder what's going on behind the hedge at a builder's yard in Essex which offers 'free hardcore!' 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted November 27, 2012 Author Share Posted November 27, 2012 Had a good chuckle at this sign we saw hanging in a shop doorway: SHUT HAPPENS 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 Just seen on the back of a lorry disappearing into the docks: Have gravel will travel! BTW it was a gravel lorry.... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Have gravel will travel! BTW it was a gravel lorry.... that's reassuring to hear... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trog Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 Yesterday, I saw a van with "some company Your Partner In Restaurantation" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted December 14, 2012 Author Share Posted December 14, 2012 ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted December 16, 2012 Author Share Posted December 16, 2012 One of the direction signs in a massive car park in Stevenage points to: "Accessible Parking" Is the rest of the car park inaccessible then? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted January 18, 2013 Author Share Posted January 18, 2013 There is a notice by the till in our local paper shop saying that any customer mentioning the weather has to put 20p in the charity 'swear box'. The box is getting quite full, and some people are doing it on purpose, just so they can donate! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted March 16, 2013 Author Share Posted March 16, 2013 My local Morrisons has a sign outside saying "Start Saving For Christmas". 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa O`Brien Posted March 16, 2013 Share Posted March 16, 2013 When I was dancing in Japan we were given a weekly "Western food list" to fill in. If there was something we wanted that wasn`t on the list we could request it for the following week. We were all sitting there very late in the middle of the night watching "Little House on The Prairie",the only programme on Japanese tv that was in the English language.! Suddenly I said ,"Do you know what I haven`t had for months and would give anything for right now? Beans on toast". Everyone else`s mouth watered at the thought of it too,as we were 5 months into our contract by then,so"deprived" of everyday things we used to take for granted. Anyway, for next week`s shopping list we asked for baked beans. Sorting through the box of food the hotel had left us,there were no tins of beans.There was,however,a large plastic food storage type bag with what looked like small pelletts inside. Attached to the side of the bag was the note which read, "Baked beans. To be baked by oneself." Needless to say ,we all waited until our contract had ended and we were back in the UK before we were able to have our lovely snack.!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen Posted March 26, 2013 Share Posted March 26, 2013 Horse box on M6 had written in the dirt, 'especially for Tesco' hmmm! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted May 19, 2013 Author Share Posted May 19, 2013 A rather optimistic sign at the roadside yesterday: 'Asparagus 100 yards' Well, I knew it grew quickly, but as much as that?!!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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