Whacky Signs.

[melmerby]

13 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Only the supporters, and the Wisconsin dexter is a sailor, rather than the Cornish fisherman. Nothing else is in common.

I thought the guy had a rope to lasso the extra large fish you get around the American Coast!😄

 

 

[melmerby]

6 hours ago, chris p bacon said:

 

The dictionary definition of a Mine is 'a hole in the ground with a Cornishman at the bottom'

Also known as a grave.........

[Ramblin Rich]

8 minutes ago, melmerby said:

Also known as a grave.........

That's a bit dark 🤨

[Ozexpatriate]

12 hours ago, Johann Marsbar said:

There were a lot of early settlers from Cornwall in Wisconsin, particularly to work in the mines.

The Cornish diaspora is a curious thing. There were large expatriate Cornish settlements in places as diverse as Australia and South America.

[Cowley 47521]

[melmerby]

4 hours ago, melmerby said:

Also known as a grave.........

 

4 hours ago, Ramblin Rich said:

That's a bit dark 🤨

Mining is dangerous, in those days very dangerous and a lot perished underground.

[Ramblin Rich]

36 minutes ago, melmerby said:

 

Mining is dangerous, in those days very dangerous and a lot perished underground.

Agreed. My remark was a bit obtuse in itself....

[PhilJ W]

Not a sign but still wacky.

[pH]

2 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

Not a sign but still wacky.

I grew up very close to a large and deep quarry (now long filled in). The fencing round the quarry was originally just regular barbed wire on wooden posts. Eventually this was upgraded, using metal posts of the same shape as those lamp-posts, about 8 feet high above ground level, and set in concrete. Between them was chain link fencing and several strands of barbed wire were to be strung between the posts, attached to the overhang at the top of the posts. The posts numbered in three figures, all round the perimeter of the quarry.

 

A crew arrived to install the chain link and the barbed wire strands, and their reaction was “Can’t do it!”. The metal posts, now firmly set in concrete, had been installed with the overhang facing inwards - towards the quarry - no great deterrent to anyone wanting to cross the fence. The solution - every post had the overhanging part burned off, then welded back on facing outwards! The job took weeks.

[Michael Hodgson]

10 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

Not a sign but still wacky.

 

That looks like the handiwork of somebody sacked but requried to work out his notice!

 

[Ian Morgan]

 

[PhilJ W]

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[PhilJ W]

What if you don't like sdnos?

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[Ozexpatriate]

20 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

I am good with Headaches, Sour Neck, ... etc

"However, I am not good with spelling."

 

Apparently.

[kevinlms]

1 hour ago, PhilJ W said:

Well it is rump steak!

[Ramblin Rich]

9 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

A sentient printer now?

"Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they've got me printing documents...."

[The Johnster]

The first 10 million years were the worst.  Then the next 10 million years, they were the worst as well.  After that, I went into a bit of a decline...

[Titan]

And this pain in my diodes on my left hand side...

[Cowley 47521]

Life. Don’t talk to me about life.

[Colin_McLeod]

On 04/08/2022 at 23:04, PhilJ W said:

Not a sign but still wacky.

 

So who built the road in the wrong place?  🙂

[PhilJ W]