Robyn A. Bartlett

Brainstove Productions

Things I’ve noticed

If I had pictures of every funny or weird sign I’ve seen, it would take an entire data centre to store them (so it’s probably good I don’t). Here are a few that have made me laugh over the decades.

A cartoon shrimp on a Toronto sign, with the words He owes me money!!!
Shrimp
A very short wooden footbridge on a forest trail, with a hand-painted sign reading Large bridge built by Gary 1995
Gary’s large bridge ❤
Close-up of the hand-lettered sign for Gary's large bridge
Gary’s large bridge, close-up
A sign taped to a wall: Warning. These biscuits contain nuts and traces of nuts.
These nuts contain nuts
A printed sign reading Please remember to flush, with a handwritten addition: Please remember to buy some coat hooks. Thank you.
A reasonable request
Black-and-white photograph of the word MUNDANE spray-painted on a wall
Mundane
A brown TRAIL sign with a walking figure, with OF DEATH added in marker
Trail OF DEATH
Photograph of a sign, titled Wash anus?
Wash anus?
A bumper sticker on a red car reading Surely not everybody was kung fu fighting
Kung fu fighting
A bumper sticker, titled Mothman is real!!
Mothman is real!!
A notice on a plywood hoarding reading Bill posters will be prosecuted, beside green graffiti
Poor Bill.
A nature-identification app identifying a pair of shoes as snakes
Shoes are snakes
A nature-identification app announcing that it has observed a new species: Human
A sign reading Down with the patriarchy!
Down with the patriarchy!