Another one for the Stokes girls!

So you might remember my blog entry about the Friendly Chapel Church. If not, click it! In that vein, here's another one for the Stokes girls:


I mean did the local sign maker get tasked with naming the church? Or was there a special on letters so they decided to use as many as they could? There really was only one church (and it was quite cute and fairly old looking).

If you believe in UFOs...

Then this sign is for you!

Put the fun...

Well, the picture tells the story!


Thanks to Brad for finding and submitting this one.

Here's the much maligned sign!

From our previous post and comments about funny signs, here's the one Ashley and her sisters used to giggle about as kids (yes, it's been there 30+ years now!):

The "funny" here is that a "chapel" already is a "church" in this sense. So the girls would apparently spend the next little while saying things like "look, there goes an automobile car" and "cool, check out that gravel rock" and such redundant nonsense. I'm sure there was much giggling involved, too.

Pet Resale?

These two signs appeared to me to be the same actual business. Sadly, it was closed so I couldn't verify that for myself, especially since I love me some "Clothin." Combine that with "Pet Resale" and you have a clear winner. More from Blytheville, AR.

Where is the adventure, exactly?

I'm just not sure these two words belong together. I mean seriously. Pontoon boats are for drinking beer and throwing the kids in the water. And what does the cartoon crab add, exactly? Is looking at crabs from a pontoon boat considered "adventurous"? I really don't think so. At least not at the outer banks, where you can just go walk in the sound and see a bajillion crabs without the need for any kind of boat, much less a pontoon boat.

What more is there to say, really?

Checkmate.

A little bit pregnant?

Semi Oceanfront? Isn't that like being a little bit dead? Or a little bit pregnant? I mean either you are or you aren't. I'm just sayin'.

Daily Double

So you only get one thing, but the "double" is that this is both a sign and a restaurant recommendation. If you're ever in Reidsville, NC, I suggest Short Sugar's. They've been in business at this location since 1949 selling NC BBQ, and it's pretty good. The atmosphere is nothing to write home about, but you can pull up to the side of the building and eat in your car if that bothers you. They come to you for service and that area is shaded as well. Can't beat that.

Reserved Judges Only

Can anyone tell me what this sign means? These chairs were just out here like this along a road in someone's yard in Hatteras Village, NC. There is nothing but swamp across the road from here. It was really odd.

At your own risk...

This sign was on the back of the door of the workout room at my hotel in Blytheville, AR. The misspelling is what caught my eye, but it also has another significance...it could be what really started this new "hobby" of taking pictures of interesting signs to post here. I had to stare at it for an hour while using their "equiptment" and the idea was born.

Talk about full service!

This place has it all!

More Blytheville Signage

This one jumped out at me because of the "Youth Awareness Week" thing. What does that mean? Are people forgetting that youth exist in Blytheville? Are they trying to get the youth of Blytheville to be more aware of something? What? And the "week" is only four days long and it's two hours each day. They aren't going to be getting a whole lot of awareness that way. Then there is the fact that this is a "Temple Church." Reminds me of Ashley and her sister's story of all the giggling they'd do every time they passed the "Friendly Chapel Church." There is some serious redundancy going on. Oh, and the fact that this place has a "Founder/Overseer" is more than a little bit scary for some reason.

Oh, might as well...

...go for a third one in a row.

Seriously? Someone was annoyed enough that people were illegally passing on the right to hand paint their own sign and put it out? Amazing stuff. Found in Buxton, NC. I love how the text gets bigger on each line, too.

Signology

Hey, when you need a good deal on some lemonade, I got your joint. And I like that I got me in the picture, too.

Here's your sign!

So, I had every intention of doing a separate blog for these, but now I'm thinking I'll just post them here occasionally. My new hobby is taking pictures of signs that I find "interesting." It may be that they're funny, artistic, silly, or just plain cool. I have a stash of them, but I'm not sure how often I'll post one. Depends on how fast they are coming in, really. So not more than once a day, and not likely even that often for a while. We'll see. Anyway, first up is one from our recent trip to Hatteras Island.

This one sort of sums up the island to me. Why? Because you just don't find unhappy people there. Maybe that's why we love that place so...