Do Some People Have Nothing Better to do.

[ginger ninger]

Has anyone else seen the little lane sign on the way back from the east coast to South Yorkshire called "FANNY HANDS DOWN LANE", it always makes me smile its one of those "blink and you'll miss it signs".
Now I was always told that most old street/road/lane names meant something ...mind boggling..

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Now I was always told that most old street/road/lane names meant something ...mind boggling..

That comment reminded me of something I saw as a featured article on wikipedia a couple of months ago.
I may well get into trouble with this one...

Gropecunt Lane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[seasprout]

In Leicestershire there are at least 2 Butthole Lanes.

Apparently a Butthole was a type of well.

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Apparently the majority of people who complain to points of view "weren't offended themselves, but complained because they felt others might be"!

Really common, I believe.

An expression I heard a while back was something like "the white, middle class, offended minority".
The person who said it was talking about how insulting it was to have someone offended on your behalf. It's as if you're too thick to understand it and be offended for yourself so they feel they need to get offended for you.
They may have been disabled and referring to able bodied people complaining about something that was said somewhere.
A very vague recollection but the general message stuck with me none the less.

[Polly Fouracre]

A second hand/antique furniture shop in Torquay had a lovely, big golden Buddha on it's roof. I thought it was beautiful but it had to come down "in case it offended Christians"
I'm a Christian and certainly wasn't offended. Indeed no-one ever asked me, or others, if we were.

[OllieMartin]

When I worked in a warehouse an articulated lorry delivered something to the warehouse nextd door. It was for a company called "Cox-Long". The tag-line read:
"You can if your Cox-Long"

Other good ones I've seen are:
A septic tank cleaning company who's tagline was: "No.1 in the No.2 business"
A plummer who on his van under his emergency telephone number had "Where a Flush beats a Full House"
A hairdressers in Leeds called "Kurl up & Dye"
and the website for Pen Island which is www. penisland.com

[miffy]

One of the fab things about the English language is that you can play around with words and give phrases etc double meanings.
Would be a very sad day indeed if we lost the very British ability to poke fun at our own language in such an innocent way.

[susieq100]

Other good ones I've seen are:
A septic tank cleaning company who's tagline was: "No.1 in the No.2 business"
A plummer who on his van under his emergency telephone number had "Where a Flush beats a Full House"
A hairdressers in Leeds called "Kurl up & Dye"
and the website for Pen Island which is www. penisland.com"

At a previous employer's workplace we did not have mains sewerage and so a company had to come and empty the cess-pits. The tag line on their vehicles was
"The motion is carried".
I always thought that was really clever.

[Alison]

I don't really like them as they make me cringe with the corniness of them all but I wouldn't complain unless they were actually properly offensive.

[MrsC]

That made me laugh, you can't do anything nowadays for fear of upsetting people!

[matthew2riches]

I wish there was someone that did stuff like that round here! This place is boring at the best of times! It's given me a few ideas though :-)

[zebedee]

I knew a man with a wooden leg called Jim.
I don't know what he called the other leg.

If he had seagulls on it, he could have called it Cliff

[janeyo]

It's probably just me here, but I actually wouldn't like to have to see those kind of adverts on a daily basis. I have a 5 year old who is desperatley trying to read and insists on attempting everything he sees. I don't think they are necessary or appropriate to have on big signs.

[snuffer]

Glad to report, normal service has been resumed. Today's notice said 'Do you prefer shaven or unshaven? Horse and dog clippers now in stock.

Hoorah.

[bubblewrap]

Glad to report, normal service has been resumed. Today's notice said 'Do you prefer shaven or unshaven? Horse and dog clippers now in stock.

Hoorah.

Not for cats then??