Funniest things when you're not expecting

rrlund · Apr 5, 2015

The wife and I were sitting at Pizza Hut last night and I looked out the window at another fast food joint next door that's been closed for several years. There's still a big sign painted in the front window that used to say 100% Pure Sizzling Angus,except now the G is gone out of Angus.

Think about it. LOL

steve_in_mo · Apr 5, 2015

Revised sign would have been more appropriate if it was a closed Mexican restaurant.

notjustair · Apr 5, 2015

And now there is coffee on this sweatshirt.

rrlund · Apr 5, 2015

That's the best part. It was a Taco Bell at one time. LOL

Grampy · Apr 5, 2015

Me too !!

oj · Apr 5, 2015

Next "town" up the road is called Angusville... Same thing happened to their big highway sign... I think they have replaced the G three times already.

VaTom · Apr 5, 2015

Wife and I were in a supermarket buying fennel. The unfortunate clerk asked what it was so she could look up the price. Wife explained it was fennel but the sign incorrectly said anise. "You mean A-N-U-S?"

30 years later we're still laughing over that one.

Finocchio in Italian, which also means something a little different from the vegetable. That, we didn't try to explain to the confused clerk.

RayP(MI) · Apr 5, 2015

I have seen and contemplated that one before.

Too bad we didn't make connections last night. Wife and I didn't want to go any place fancy. Ended up in Lakeview. Place sure wasn't fancy! On the other hand, almost had the place to ourselves, food was tolerable and I didn't have to do the dishes!

rrlund · Apr 5, 2015

Should have gone to Turk Lake. That's where we go for anniversaries,company from out of state,things like that. Nice view of the lake,fairly quiet,real good food,don't need to take out a second mortgage.

CKain(MI) · Apr 5, 2015

OT. Some of you may have traveled I-94, between Battle Creek & Galesburg, MI. There is small village a few miles south of I-94, exit 92. I actually lived there in the 80's 90's. The first Pioneers, to the area, decided the nice flat, fertile area was what they were looking for, so they stuck their flag in the ground and named in Climax.
The Village had lost a hundred signs over the years !! AND traveling westbound I-94 near marker 93, It says "Climax 1 mile". We didn't need to loose letters, to be funny.

rrlund · Apr 5, 2015

Never mind,I was going to say something,but it might get my own post removed. LOL

jon f mn · Apr 5, 2015

Nice visual! Lol

37chief · Apr 5, 2015

How would you like to live on a street called Uranus. I believe they are named after the planets, as there is one called Pluto also. Stan

bradley martin · Apr 5, 2015

There is a town in Pennsylvania named "Intercourse". I imagine it causes a few blushed faces and off color jokes when a resident is asked where they are from!!

oleclint · Apr 5, 2015

Any of you guys ever been to Hell,Mi? Wife and I were there several yrs. ago. The post office person took a picture of us in the post office to prove that is the rite name. No idea where that name came from , anyone know its history?
Names in Pa? how about Blue Balls, Pa. Very interesting town with good eateries. clint

onefarmer · Apr 5, 2015

From Wikipedia:

There are two theories for the origin of Hell's name. The first is that a pair of German travelers stepped out of a stagecoach one sunny afternoon in the 1830s, and one said to the other, "So schön hell!" (translated as, "So beautifully bright!") Their comments were overheard by some locals and the name stuck.[3] Soon after Michigan gained statehood, George Reeves was asked what he thought the town he helped settle should be called and replied, "I don't care, you can name it Hell for all I care." The name became official on October 13, 1841.[3] The second theory is tied to the "hell-like" conditions encountered by early explorers including mosquitos, thick forest cover, and extensive wetlands.[3] It has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names.
Wiki

in-too-deep · Apr 5, 2015

There's a Climax in NW MN,too.

ShadetreeRet · Apr 5, 2015

AND a Climax, North Carolina, it's just a few miles from Whynot.

Heyseed · Apr 5, 2015

Bumpass Virginia

Pete in MD · Apr 5, 2015

and Climax, Georgia

Chris Jones · Apr 5, 2015

I bet the P has been scraped off those signs before!

NCWayne · Apr 5, 2015

Not a city name, but years ago I was driving into Greenville, NC, and there was a sign for an attorney's office right beside the main drag. The sign proudly proclaimed Dufus and Associates, Attorneys at law. Given that the definition if a 'dufus' is a stupid person, it was fitting that there was also a sign saying that the building was for sale. I guess no one wanted a 'stupid' lawyer.

JMS/.MN · Apr 6, 2015

It"s not too far from Fertile, MN. Old joke about a car accident where a Fertile woman died in Climax.

Mashbox · Apr 6, 2015

We used to have a Methodist preacher here who was from Intercourse, PA. When someone ask where Intercourse was, he would tell them "it's half way between Blue Ball and Paradise!"

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