I was coming up the stairs tonight at our apartment and, only moments after screaming when a giant roach ran over my foot as I was trying to hop over it, I saw probably the biggest moth I've ever seen outside of a display in a museum or in a science textbook. This is it next to my size 10 1/2 shoe. Yuck!
Posted in: creepy things on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 at at 10:41 PM 1 comments Links to this post
First some advice: If you ever think that you want to go to Wal-Mart the night before school starts, don't.
Luckily I wasn't going there for bread because this was what was on the bread aisle. (Click the picture for details.)
Posted in: bread aisle, funny things on Sunday, August 19, 2007 at at 11:32 PM 3 comments Links to this post
Just a quick opinion poll. I was at Wal-Mart recently and saw these two sections on the bread aisle:
I realize that the pictures are sort of fuzzy (because I was trying to take a picture in the bread aisle without attracting attention) but they make a point. The top picture is loaves of bread whose name and packaging are in Spanish with subtitles in English. The bottom picture is from further down the aisle and is a whole section that is entirely in Spanish. I know different people have different opinions about this, and I want to hear yours. Should we go into the stores, drive down the roads, or turn on the local tv networks in our English-speaking country and see products, billboards, commercials, etc. that are completely in Spanish? What do you think?
Posted in: bread aisle, opinion poll on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 at at 10:17 PM 5 comments Links to this post
Well, I didn't expect to get 20 more pictures so fast! So here we go!
I took the boys to Chuck E. Cheese's today (which, by the way, is just about as fun still as it was when we were kids and it was called Showbiz Pizza.) There was one game there where they sat on a chair, strapped in, and pretended to fly a plane while the chair moved slightly with their motions on screen. Apparently it's the most dangerous thing ever invented, because all of these warning stickers were on the ride somewhere, with several of them being on there multiple times:
I'd really avoid playing, riding, or getting near that game, much less putting my rectangular open-topped briefcase with handles on the step area of it.
Also at Chuck E. Cheese's. Um, there's a baby in that thing that lady's wearing. Creepy.
This is hilarious. It's the ticket counting machine. Don't get your necktie or long hair near it.
Something's a little off here.
This one's kind of hard to read. Let me transcribe the right window: "Locked out your car? Need a tow for the low... Call ??? Auto -- Used tires for the low 13" & Up $10 & Up"
Quite a variety of bumper stickers
One definition of two-tone paint
Yep. That's what you think it is.
I guess my neighbor just wanted his car seat a little more comfortable. (His window was open.)
Old picture: A store in Dallas. Apparently it's a chain.
Another oldie: Something about this was just funny to me: "Beer to go"Posted in: bumper stickers, funny things on at at 9:38 PM 0 comments Links to this post
Breast milk!
I thought it was funny because I figured someone was just dumb, but then it continued for the next many many weeks. It really just made my Wednesday morning. I hated going to work and that made me just a tiny bit happier. So here are the ones that I got pictures of.
And because I didn't have 20 pictures, here is my last picture in these Funny Things.
Posted in: funny things, license plates on Thursday, August 09, 2007 at at 9:32 PM 1 comments Links to this post
Wow! 25 hits in the last 2 1/2 hours? I guess a few people are reading this! I know some of those are people who have clicked on a picture to make it bigger and then hit back, but still. Thanks Sarah for making me feel loved.
I'll be back to posting pictures tomorrow night, but for now I just wanted you three people that read this to know about this site. I've had it in my side links, but most people don't look at those. This site is kind of like the pictures I've been taking. It's Found Magazine and they have a ton of pictures of things that people have just found and most of them are really funny. They've had the site since 2002 so there are alot. Enjoy!
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These are getting worse, I know. I'm running out. But some of these are still pretty funny, including a few I just saw in the past few days.
At a horrible inservice I had to go to last year. This lady had the longest pointer I've ever seen. It was really hard to get this picture.
Worst "garage sale" ever. It was on an empty lot at a stop light in Texarkana.
On the way to Fort Worth once I saw a billboard on fire. A billboard! On fire! This was what was left of it the next time I drove by.
Whoa.
I proudly offer this picture. It's my "couch" after I got rid of my couch right before I got married. I had to sit on something!
Usually the people doing this are around 19 years old. Not 91. So cute.
I love a good smilin' bag-o-ice.
Stupid Waffle House.
This truck was carrying another truck bed upside down in its bed.
The first bus ever made in the history of time.
At the hospital yesterday.
This bathroom offers giant monkey head sandwiches.
Unnecessary, punctuation: bothers' me.
Super what?
This was super hard to get a picture of. Actually my brother got it. Check out the shirt/sock combo.
After the snow in Texarkana on our school playground. Less funny. More just plain ol' cool.
Stupid Arby's.
This is what it looks like when your apartment complex is using the actual building to decide what new color to choose for the complex.
This guy lost part of his car.
I really just want to know the rules and procedures in this place.Posted in: funny things on Tuesday, August 07, 2007 at at 9:22 PM 1 comments Links to this post
This post contains a few signs that I decided to go ahead and show you.
This is one of the best things I had turned in to me as a teacher. An absolutely amazing map of the United States. As an answer to a math problem. My favorite parts are "ocean," "sea," and "Kansas."
It's like a traveling garage sale!
Yesterday I showed you the smallest thing I'd ever seen towed (a lawnmower). This is the biggest thing I've ever seen towed (by a regular truck).
All of your needs met at one stoplight.
The ad on the back is kind of dirty. ("I got Lance in my pants.")
Brightest car I've ever seen.
What the?
I don't really understand what this is all about.
Scariest thing I've ever seen in a Mexican restaurant.
This person doesn't understand how it's ok to take off the last 6 years' stickers.
Saddest little Christmas tree I've ever seen.
Weird ad on a weird thing.
Sure kept me out of there!
Biggest bone ever. (Compared to my size 10 1/2 foot.)
This person likes the pink tiger.
That's a little extreme.
Silly state park.
I guess someone was a little taller than 9 feet.
I wonder if this kid gets royalties for being a walking billboard.
Do YOU know the Muffin Man?Posted in: funny things on Monday, August 06, 2007 at at 9:52 PM 3 comments Links to this post
Now that I've shown you just about all of my funny signs, I'm now going to move on to just funny THINGS. (There may still be a few funny signs stuck in there.)
This is one of my favorite things I've ever caught on camera. It was in Aledo, TX, where I taught for two years. It was kind of the country, if you can't tell.
I got this from one of my students. I didn't want to keep it because it was very messy, but I had to get a picture. "This is your heart made out of pencil shavings."
The crazy guy that lived across the street from my old school. The sign in his yard kind of hides it, but he's washing his pretty big dog in a pretty small bucket.
The directions (in English, Spanish, and PICTURES) for cleaning this particular bathroom.
I'm so upset this came out so dark because it's about the best thing I've ever seen. It was a cowboy monkey riding a dog. He even herded sheep.
Best parts: "nutritious," "edible vegetable oil," and "may contain Yellow #5"
More directions on washing your hands. I guess people have trouble with this.
Funny license plate.
Cutest little old man in a little tiny car ever.
This may be the longest "hallway to a bathroom in an ice cream store" ever. I like the cow at the end.
DFW Airport. This non-opening window over an escalator that goes down below this window should not be used as an exit.
One day this was on one of the tv channels.
They need to get a repairman into this bathroom.
Watch out for giant child tourists in NYC.
In a girls bathroom. This was the same place that had the stairs labeled "Vomitory." A weird place.
This is another favorite. I guess his regular A/C that came with the car had gone out.
Ah. Good ol' Captain Sewer. We had to watch this video last summer for inservice the same day we had to go to the Sewage Treatment Plant. It was a good day for everyone. Captain Sewer made it worth it.
You don't see cars towing things very often. Especially tiny trailers with lawnmowers.
What ingredients make something "cheese flavored"?
This guy digs America.Posted in: bumper stickers, funny things, license plates on Sunday, August 05, 2007 at at 10:02 PM 1 comments Links to this post
Here are a few pictures of funny signs from my travels around the U.S.
This was a crazy menu at the Farmer's Market in Los Angeles.
A really funny bus ad in Los Angeles. The bottom says Auto "o" trabajo, which translates Auto "or" Work. The top: Accidents!
In case you want to, you know, lactate at NASA.
This is a pretty scary sign at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
This reminded me of that one episode of Punky Brewster where Cheri got stuck in the fridge.
This is about the grossest sign I've ever seen. It was at this place at NASA where they figure out how to turn pee water into drinking water on the space station.
Obviously found at the same place.
This was in our hotel room. NEVER hang your clothes from the sprinkler.
This is pretty gross too. Sorry it's so fuzzy.
Stupid NASA notes.
Silly NASA.
Their motto is great.
Now on to a few things from Salt Lake City. This "Caution: Wet Floor" was by one of those fountains with the water coming out of the ground. A little redundant.
"Please do not touch the earth globe."
Real rocks ARE real hard.
Very detailed directions. Follow every step.
The brilliant minds at the Marriott Hotel.
The Texarkana airport couldn't afford the letter P apparently.
I'm glad they printed a sign to tell us the status of the door.
This wasn't funny, but pretty scary. I just ran out of funny signs for this post.Posted in: funny things on Saturday, August 04, 2007 at at 10:06 PM 0 comments Links to this post
Now this is just stupid.
This could be seen at my old school during the month of November. Courtesy of the cafeteria ladies at Fairview Aerospace and Environmental Studies School.
They showed off their creativity again in February.
You are looking at the red sign. I hope you don't have an altered vehicle.
Are they leaving because they are mad or just tired of playing?
I hope they let us know when it's NOT going to be that.
Apparently that's what they call "stairs" around those parts.
This is just kind of creepy.
Aren't you excited?
"Y-o-u-r. Y-o-u-apostrophe-r-e. They're as different as night and day. Don't you think that night and day are different? What's wrong with you?"
I guess they couldn't get together a dollar to buy a new one.
This one is less funny and more disgusting. This was at the sewage treatment plant that our principal made us go to last summer. That brown water behind it is sewer water. Yuck.
For some reason my friend Sarah thinks that this is about the funniest thing ever. This is leaving our church here.
Sometimes, when you're writing a sign, you should make sure you know how to spell a word that you're going to write multiple times on said sign.
Which way should I go?
What an awesome combination!
I don't trust someone with ridiculous "creative" spellings like this to do my tackses, kleaning, or anything else.
This guy pretty much treats everything.
I mean, seriously. Check out this lady's boobs.
This was on the water heater at my apartment in Fort Worth. I was just amazed at the extremely long ellipses on here. (FYI: Ellipse = ...)
Posted in: funny things on Thursday, August 02, 2007 at at 10:12 PM 1 comments Links to this post
This is pretty much the best sign I've ever seen. It says "Dang Good Used Cars" and this one sure is!
I don't understand it. But it's really funny.
But I need to go!
So you can go in shirtless and shoeless?
Fun times at my grandparents' place!
Best Bar Name Ever!
I'm glad you told me what to do.
I had a hard time understanding the first line of the sign.
It's off centered because I took it while driving. But now you know where to get those gold teeth you wanted.
Isn't it ironic? Don't you think?
Just plain ol' funny.
I have a hangnail!
I think a first-grader made this sign.
A hanger made of corn? What?!
I was needing one of those!
Crunch crap! (Sort of)
1. Mr. Sparkle (like on the Simpsons) 2. The message on the marquee.
The only thing written on the freshly painted walls inside the bathroom stall.
I don't know what that means.
Don't put your sharp buckets here. (This was at my school.)Posted in: bumper stickers, funny things on Wednesday, August 01, 2007 at at 7:16 PM 2 comments Links to this post
