Wig & what?

When road works closed some Truro streets to traffic in April 2014, the Wig & Pen pub sensibly erected a banner to draw attention to the fact that it was still open. The banner certainly attracted attention, if not for the intended reason.

Colour happily that ever lasts after

"Colour happily that ever lasts after". 

Thanks helpful that statement for, Dulux! 

Even Yoda better couldn't have put it. 

A £20 fate worse than death

Here’s another lovely image of a silly sign that I nicked from someone else’s tweet. It was first posted, I believe, by Twitter-user Ash Warner (@AlsBoy).

Splash!

This photograph, which I shamelessly stole from a tweet by a Bristolian called Roly (@rtbh), shows a sign seen near Plimsoll Bridge in Bristol.  

Every little helps

OK, so I nicked this image from a Twitter post by @theJeremyVine, but it is so good I had to use it. 

Luckily, since I no longer use Tesco for my major weekly supermarket dash, I am unlikely to spend enough to qualify for decapitation by falling tiles. 

I also like the “Every little helps” message. It clearly helps if you only spend a little at a time.

This sign are ungrammatical

London Borough of Barnet, write out 100 times: 'A singular noun such as "supplier" needs a singular verb such as "is".' 

Oh brother!

OK, so it isn't a sign, but I just couldn't ignore it. This is an illustration from an Amazon page advertising a Kindle edition of a translation of a famous Russian novel. The publisher, e-artnow Editions, has managed to insert an apostrophe that is not only uncalled-for but is also the wrong way round. Whatever happened to proofreaders?