So, here in Northern California it is cold and very rainy. I figured it is a good day to make a nice split pea soup. So I head off to the grocery store, the rain is coming down in buckets, I can hardly see through my windshield. I finally arrive to the store and the photo below is what I am greeted with (keep in mind I only took a photo of one sign, they were all over the parking lot). Not much to say about it except I found it extremely funny and it lightened my day. Following the photo will be a coin to keep it related. I dont think I have posted this coin before, but its one of a few dozen of the Chinese series I kept from my old collection: Zhou Dynasty, State of Yan, 300 - 220 BC Lead 18mm, 1.94 grams Obverse: Yi Hua. Reverse: Ji. References: Hartill 6.19-20
I wish I took a photo. Earlier this week I saw a new business with a new sign that read..... Closed On The Sabbath Sunday hours 12-4 I choked on my coffee when I read it.
I love these pics @Ken Dorney , fun to see odd signs communicating unusual events. I spent several years traveling on bidness. It was fun to watch China grow from a 3rd World Country (more like 4th World when I started going there), to a World Power that they are becoming. Saw some different signs in my hotels, restaurants, common areas catering to Western travelers. Hmmm... yeah, they love to party there... This was in one of my hotel bathrooms... I have a bunch of these type of cool signs from over the years, but they can be a bear digging them out of my old directories...
'Drunken Walking'? I gotta try that! Seriously, that is funny! Many things dont translate, I suppose.
Suffice to say... we were inebriated that night when I took that pic! It was a non-tourist local restaurant that our factory took us to. Lol.
According to the Bible, the Sabbath Day is Saturday. Many Christian churches, as well as other religions, keep the Sabbath on Saturday.
That's hilarious! Last year I saw a sign for a BREAKFAST WITH SANTA event at a local pancake house. The N from SANTA had fallen down and shifted to the right so that the sign read—well, let's just say it named the ruler of the fiery underworld. To keep this coin related—here's a coin from the reign of another notorious figure with a fiery reputation.
That sign next to the carts is pretty funny, too - 'Feel free to take carts' - looks like half the neighborhood did just that
Well how about that??. I been a practicing Lutheran more than half my life and never knew that. Now I have to drive by that place to see if it is closed on Saturdays.
Military members can relate...ever mess up so bad you had to mop up the rain? A coin I have not shared in a while: Faustina the Younger, Rome, AD 128-175 AE, 31mm, 23.72g; Rome mint Obv: FAVSTINA AVGVSTA; draped bust right wearing circlet of pearls Rev: IVNONI REGINAE S-C; Juno, veiled, standing left, holding patera & scepter; peacock standing left at feet, head reverted