I just spotted this notice on a wall while driving by it in Cebu a few minutes ago. You just gotta laugh. And parts of it were painted over, probably in a fit of “bluntness remorse”… But if you can’t read it, this is what it says…
A 10 TION
DO NOT URINATE THIS AREA
I’LL CUT PENIS
(AND A DRAWING OF A SCISSORS FOR ADDED EMPHASIS)
I presume what was erased was either a graphic representation of the threat or other body parts included… :)
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I peed laughing!…..
Censorship remembered…maybe it was near a school or a church?
posted at a construction site
BAWAL OMEHI DITO, ANG MAHOLE BOG-BOG
on a glass window of a photography shop in cubao
WE SHOOT YOU, WHILE YOU WAIT
in a restaurant in cebu
WE HAB SOP-DRINK IN CAN AN IN BATOL
Hahaha! That was good laugh! It made my day. We have been missing your posts MM.
How about this: GOAT’S FOR SALE. DEAD OR ALIVE. =)
spotted at a baguio manukan stall–wanted: lechoner.
It was understandable, nay forgivable, to have come across puzzling signs in English in China in their rush towards hosting the 2008 Summer Olympic Games but we, we are supposed to have had close to a century of familiarity with the language. The only sign that truly unnerved me though was the one posted in the breakfast room of the international hotel chain I stayed in, “We only serve water passed by the management.”
I remember my brother telling us the story of his US Navy buddy asking him while they were on shore leave in the P.I. what the “bowl tomay” (as he read it) sign meant…
Here’s one too that made the rounds:
NOTARY PUBLIC
(Tumatanggap din ng labada pag Linggo)
Nyahahahaha!
LOL!!
Welcome home MM!
@Lizzie: it stumped me for a while until I said it loudly LOL!
One either laughs or cries … whatever works for one … :)
Missed you, MM! Welcome home! I also have to thank all of you, including Onix, Papa Ethan, general, Footloose, Lizzie, Malou, not to forget MM, for setting my funny bone on giggling mode!!! I remember on one of our vacay in the Philippines when my son first saw this ” bawal umihi o’ tumae dito sa pader ” sign on a wall by a residential vacant lot, he asked me what it meant! When they were playing patintero on the street at night, his cousin stopped to pee by a wall, he was a bit surprised. I told him that was what the sign meant…ha,ha,ha. Then on the Superhighway, we saw a jeepney stop and all the male passengers went down to pee by the roadside !!! My son said to me, ” Mom, they had a pee break”….only in the Philippines! :)
what man who would do it there knows what a penis is? i bet what was erased is the cebuano term. lol
posted by a sidewalk vendor near 168 selling blankets and bedsheets:
“BEDSHIT for sale”
Welcome back MM! We obviously miss your posts. Here’s my contribution –
Posted on a vacant lot “No Trashpassing”
Do Pinoys get an “A” for creative (ad)writing?
And here’s the following printed on a vendor’s T-shirt which the owner won’t sell:
“I will distroy ur virginity TRUE the power of my imagination.”
bwahahaha… a very good laugh on a boring day :)
Yey! MM is here na!
My contribution on the signs, this was posted outside a hair salon, “poodle for sale owner living soon” hihihi
An instruction inside a public CR:
“Don’t sit like a frog, sit like a Queen”
Lol
Hahaha! Natawa ako sa BEDSHIT! Nice one, Icey.
Just what I need. Having a rotten week!! Thanks for all the laughs.
Name of a shop in Binangonan: Pizza ng Ina Mo.
The best I’ve seen is a cell phone repair stall in Quiapo. ” We repair Nokia, Samsung, Sony Erection and Motorola”.
This wasn’t on a sign but stamped on a photocopy of a POLICE CLEARANCE.
“CERTIFIED THRU COPY”
here’s one DEFORMED MAN TOILET. an unfortunate way to describe disabled facilities in china
“Wanted: Boy waitress”
True story.
In one of the movie houses in Jordan: Watch at your own risk..
I actually asked what that meant and was informed that it was meant to tell people to be careful (of what, they couldn’t say)… it was eventually taken down!
“SORRY WE’RE CLOSE”
My contribution:
Sometime ago, this sign was posted on the side streets of Pasig, around the Munisipyo:
” Starting on Monday, parking will not be allowed in areas with “No Parking” signs.
LOL
This is hilarious!
Welcome back Mr. MM. Thanks for the funnies.
This is a food blog, so I cant resist adding this. Just saw it today at the Market Market supermarket.
“Brazil Sprouts” P999.00 per kilo, from Australia.
I took a photo but dont know how to include it here.
Now, unless I am not aware of these vegetables from Brazil, then I presume this is a “sounds like” category.
LOL
What a way to cheer people up. You made my day. All of your comments made me laugh. Thanks ~ Sophie
Ha ha ha!!! Grabe sumaya ang araw ko..
Thanks for the laugh guys….:)
@andrew That’s too funny!!!! LOL
Hi MM – will have to send you a copy of “Signs of the Philippines” published in 1981 or so with a friend…possibly the first publication/recording of inadvertently silly Pinoy signs…
Hi Mrs. Murray, yes, of course I have Jill’s ? book, it’s a favorite on our bookshelves for showing newly arrived foreigners or guest just how amusing the signs can get. It’s time for another compilation… :)
hilarity, at its best! :D
A post on one of those bars at Clark Base in Angeles City, ” Wanted: GRO – Stay In or Stay Out”.
It’s 12:03 AM and I’ve been laughing out loud while reading the post and the comments, that I woke up my mama. and she was like “ano nanaman yan pinagkakaabalahan mo!!? Matulog ka na!”. LOL!
Oh my. I’m still laughing. haha!