I spotted this sign on the desk of our Sunday editor, Scott Blanchard. It was given to him by niche publications editor Kara Eberle, who spotted it during a family trip to Cape May this summer and couldn't resist buying it.
In case you can't read the tiny words in the logo, the motto is "E Pluribus Smart Assimus."
What cool signs have you spotted lately? Snap a picture and send it to me!
I spotted these "Life is Crap" T-shirts in Ocean City, N.J. when I was there for a day last week to celebrate my (gulp!) 31st birthday.
Apparently, there's a bit of backlash by folks who are fed up with the popular motto's cheery attitude. You knew it would happen sooner or later!
Normalville! Ha!
Makes me want to knock on the doors and interview the residents, maybe hang around town for a few days to see what normal looks like, you know?
And then there's the whole philosophical discussion of what is normal, anyway?
Seriously, if you need to check it out for yourself, it's in southwestern PA, not too far from Ohiopyle State Park. Let me know what life's like in Normalville! :)
This sign above the restrooms in the Ohiopyle visitor's center (a former train station -- see photo below) had me totally perplexed.
As I waited my turn in line, I thought about it probably a little too much. How would flushing the toilets in the station restrooms be affected by whether the train was there or not:? Afraid that I wouldn't enjoy the rest of my afternoon without knowing the answer, I had to ask.
The answer wasn't pretty.
Spotted in the town of Ohiopyle this weekend. Strangely enough, it wasn't anywhere near a fire department or ambulance association or other emergency service provider location that I could tell. It seemed to be a residential alley.
Deb Forry snapped this photo of her husband, Art, and grandson, Brendan Minton of Tempe, Ariz., "standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona," just like the line in the Eagles hit "Take it Easy" during a March trip.
They were returning to Tempe from a petrified forest and meteor crater.
Their travel tip: If driving here from Phoenix, you might want to consider booking a hotel/motel because it's a 5-hour drive and you'll want plenty of time to enjoy the desert.
I was in Philadelphia Thursday evening for the city's Fiesta on the Parkway, featuring one of my favorite (albeit old) salsa groups, DLG (Dark Latin Groove), when I saw this banner.
After a few minutes trying to figure out what "jonron" meant, then wondering why I didn't know this word, it dawned on me....
Finish reading 'Spanglish' »
Headline writers have a hard job. They have to convey lots of meaning in limited space, make it accurate, clever and maybe even fun.
When it works, it's magic.
When it doesn't... well, either Jay Leno makes fun of their work on a segment of The Tonight Show, or they get put on a tile like these in the bathrooms of the new Newseum in Washington, D.C.
I felt bad for the folks behind these blunders, but still, I couldn't help but find some of them entertaining. Does that make me a bad journalist? (please say no)
My friend and her husband spotted this sign in Guanajuato, Mexico, during a trip there in May. When she showed it to me earlier this evening, I knew I just had to share it here on the blog.
Great. There's no other way to describe it. Thanks Pau!
Mort Kousen of Springettsbury Township snapped this photo last fall while driving on a winding mountain road in Utah.
The sign was at the end of a ravine, and -- as is obvious from the photo -- got plowed over by someone who failed to heed its warning.
Mike Maloney of Windsor Township took this picture somewhere in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland.
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Mike Maloney of Windsor Township snapped this photo along Route 30 in West York.
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... but don't come in!
Jack Dyson of Spring Garden Township took this photograph heading west on East Market Street in York at his wife's urging. "She loves the irony of the signs," he wrote.
Virginia Gibson of Fawn Township spotted this lawn mower on top of a country store in Fawn Grove earlier this month.
Seen a funny/odd/unusual/witty sign?
Send it to jvogelsong@ydr.com along with your name, the municipality you live in, and when and where you snapped the picture.
Mike Maloney of Windsor Township snapped this photo a couple of years ago behind the Queensgate shopping center in York Township.
That's some serious rust on there!
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Michael Russo of York Township snapped a picture of this sign in London's Hyde Park in June.
(Double click on the photo to see a larger version where you can read the sign)
Virginia Gibson of Fawn Township took this picture on her way to North Carolina. She said she often takes pictures of unusual signs in her travels.
Reader Michael Tamarkin of Spring Garden Township spotted this sign while visiting Oregon in August 2004. The hotel behind the "No U Turns" sign is called "The Turn Around Motel."
Bill Moul Jr. of York Township snapped this photograph in May in the borough of Manchester. To see it, he says you have to turn right on Hartman, go past Cooper and turn left up the alley.
Kent Moyer of York took the above photograph in Homer Spit, Alaska. The one below was taken in Chugach National Forest in Girdwood, Alaska in July. It must be awfully difficult to enforce the laws in the 49th state...
Pamela Wable of Spring Garden Township snapped this photograph during a trip to London in September 2005.
(Click on photo to see it larger)
Dave Fitzgerald of Spring Garden Township snapped this picture at the urging of parents during a York United Red Devils under-13 boys soccer tournament in Hempfield in November.
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