Next to the occasional vanity license plate that manages to smuggle delightful stuff like “HU4TD” past nefarious DMV censors, the big signs posted outside fast food restaurants and strip malls provide the best numbskull laughs to be had for pranksters devoted to making public spaces funny.
Now, instead of just hoping the letters reading “BUTT” stay up outside your local pizza place long enough to show a friend, some of the best examples of the modern folk art of dumb store signs has been collected in a Twitter thread by @Ghobsmacka.
Aside from the Walgreens advertisement to “Get your shongles shit today,” the photos included promises to supply interested customers with all sorts of other wonderful items, like “Pee donuts,” a “99¢ sloppy,” and, our personal favorite, “Bucket.”
When not telling passersby about their products, the signs may also try more active sales techniques by offering directions. “Wow come in,” one reads. “Love the little tacos love them good,” says another.
After asking for other submissions, the original thread expanded with many, many other great examples of the sign pranksters’ underappreciated art. Among these, we see advertisements for the delicious “Optart,” “Ass combos,” and an unhinged announcement that pumpkin spice had once again come to Dunkin’ Donuts.
We’re glad this thread exists, not just because we’re children who giggle mindlessly at a McDonald’s sign that contains nothing more than the word “Cone,” but also because the people who create these humble sources of joy deserve celebration—even if they have to remain anonymous in order not to lose their jobs.
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Missing the greatest of them all. Thanks for not making this a slide show, but it is still a pretty dumb article.
Just out of curiosity, what else would one put on a KFC sign?
How about “NOW WITH SIGNIFICANTLY LESS BEAKS!”
The sign in front of our high school was at ground level and had no protective plastic or glass; it was only too easy to change the sign from, say, BOARD ELECTION to A BOLD ERECTION.
That guy in the lead image is huuuuuuge! (was my first thought)
It is just pathetic how much I have laughed at ‘Shongles Shit’, as well as trying to work out what it was meant to be, but ‘Bucket’ had me in tears. Why is that so funny to me?
I used to live near a funeral home, and one day the sign said, “My boss told me to change the sign so I did.” I laughed for a solid five minutes; I wish I had taken a picture.
Oh how I wish cellphone cameras were a thing in the 90s. That way I’d have proof that the marquee outside the local theater once advertised “Good Lil Cunt” (Good Will Hunting). Or the record store that boasted “Beat the meat with some cool husic”.
I’m wondering what did they change “Pee donuts” from?