Billboards That Blew My Mind Today

[filkertom]

"THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY"

"Pray for a cure for cancer - prayforacureforcancer.com"

One of those inspirational ones -- "A setback didn't set them back." Uh, yes, it did. Otherwise, it wasn't a setback, it was holding their position.

"WARNING: JESUS IS COMING BACK"

And, a truck that said it came from Humble, Texas. I didn't know there was any Humble in Texas.

Anything interesting out your way? I love the billboard in northern Florida advertising Bronner's Christmas Store in Frankenmuth, MI. Just stay on I-75 for 1,400 miles and turn right....

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[ororo]

In Georgia, I remember seeing, "Don't Make Me Come Down There---God"

A friend of mine wants to buy one that reads, "Kneel Before Me, son of Jor-El---Zod"

[snobahr.livejournal.com]

There's a billboard on the street I exit the 210 (in Pasadena, CA) from on the way home from gaming night, and it says Jesus Is Coming Soon To Judge The World

It's been nailed a few times with yellow paintballs. And at least one red paintball.

[robin-june.livejournal.com]

the billboard in northern Florida advertising Bronner's Christmas Store in Frankenmuth, MI. Just stay on I-75 for 1,400 miles and turn right....

I repeated this to the Spousal Unit (who grew up in Bronner's neck of the woods), and he said,

"Oddly enough, people do it."

[mythdude.livejournal.com]

HEY! We need that last sign out there. Otherwise people wouldn't notice Jesus when he wandered onto the interstate late at night!

[fair-witness.livejournal.com]

And, a truck that said it came from Humble, Texas. I didn't know there was any Humble in Texas.

Yep. The town's name is pronounced "Umble," and until I saw it spelled out, I had no idea there was an H in it.

[hiddenriver.livejournal.com]

I thought it was warning right-wing, "Christian" zealots to start being nice to any long-haired hippy weirdos they see - just in case. You know, at least until he's gone again...

I know that this is off topic, but ...

[capplor.livejournal.com]

Aye! matey. The word is out that Saturday be talk like a Pi-rate day. I'm in need o' some links to yer chanties on that. Under which sea chest did ye leave 'em?

[capplor.livejournal.com]

Sorta like Santa?

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

We have a bunch of billboards that have "WHY ISLAM?" is big letters and a number and website for a free Qaran. Meanwhile, just over the hill in San Joaquin County, I see endless billboards from the JesusisLord.com folks, and one odd one that seems to be from young-eath creationists.

I just want to know how many miles it is to Wall Drug (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Drug)

Re: I know that this is off topic, but ...

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

ARRR! I'se gonna link up tamarrah, but ye can find a few at me Free Stuff (http://www.tomsmithonline.com/freestuff.htm) page.

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

I have to preface this with saying that what I'm about to say is not me joking around. This is a real sign I've seen three years straight driving to Rolla, Mo.

There's a series of signs on 75 going towards Missouri for an RV salesman named, and I kid you not, Tom Raper. The first of these signs says, and again I kid you not, "You are now entering Raper country."

*hides*

[darthparadox.livejournal.com]

Stupid billboards

Blow your mind

Make you wish

For simpler times

BURMA SHAVE

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

And it's not far from Houston, and is where the Houston Gem & Mineral Society holds their big annual show.

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

One I spotted in San Antonio on the way back from Phoenix:

"WHERE'S THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE?"

Let 'em waste their money, sez I.

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

We used to see a set of Burma Shave signs when we'd go to Tennessee to visit relatives. Always did like those.

[shadowofsummer.livejournal.com]

The first time I heard about Wall Drug was when the then-girlfriend and I were drinking in a bar in Paris, and I pointed out a sign indicating that we were 4,278 miles from something called 'Wall Drug'. Without missing a beat, my girlfriend not only explained what Wall Drug was, but also gave me the entire story of the time she was driving from NJ to Spokane and stopped in Wall Drug, amid the dinosaurs and detritus of Americana.

[shadowofsummer.livejournal.com]

I want to pay to have the next billboard after that one read 'WHERE DID I LEAVE MY KEYS?'

[birder2.livejournal.com]

Gee, he's in Missouri, too? There have been billboards for Tom Raper's business in Ohio for years--see them en route to OVFF every year.

[shadowofsummer.livejournal.com]

On the drive through Mennonite country to see the wife's extended family, we passed a bunch of little hand-made signs with Bible verses painted on them, followed by the entire side of a barn taken up with six-foot high letters reading 'AT THE END OF THE ROAD YOU WILL MEET GOD.'

If I'd had some spray paint with me, I'd have had her pull over so I could add a 'ZILLA' to the end of that. I would probably have got killed by the barn's owner, but I think it would be worth it, if only for the FARK writeup.

[ravenclaw-eric.livejournal.com]

I've thought that Burma Shave signs for today would be really cool:

"Our sales campaign

Was not a flop

Until we met with

ZZ Topp.

BURMA SHAVE."

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

It might have been going through Ohio that we saw them, we went that way going to Missouri.

[mtgat]

I remember those signs!

*fled The Black Hole years ago, and yet*

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

As tasteless as it is I have to give the guy credit for running with his name. I can't imagine the hassle he went through trying to date with a last name like that.

[biomekanic.livejournal.com]

There used to be one... I think it's on I-5 in WA headed towards Seattle with "JESUS HATES FAGS!" on some guys property.

I remember a whole series of billboards from when I was a kid and we were driving in Colorado, on...I-25 I think. On our way north from Colorado Springs. Just miles of some guys fight with the Federal government who claimed his land for emimant domain purposes.

[silentpheonix.livejournal.com]

A few days ago, I passed a truck that had a homemade "Obama is America's Hitler" bumper sticker on it and another one that had the word "HETEROPHOBIC" on it in big letters surrounded by other words with smaller letters.

I have no idea what they were trying to say about being afraid of things that are different from each other but now I kind of wish I had taken the time to find out.