The Petting Zoo's Roving Eye

This is one strange and crazy world and if you think you've seen it all, you haven't seen all the things the Petting Zoo has seen! It pays to keep that camera handy -- once in a while you have the rare opportunity to make fun of someone who must have been completely out to lunch when they made a sign or thought of a company name. Mmmmm, lunch...

Superpumper signEvidently, Superpumper is a very common sort of place in Phoenix. I guess a lot of people get gas there. Yet, I believe that not a single one of 'em giggles as much as I do when I see it. Or maybe they do and they hide it, the clever sandy bastards. Had I not already suffiently pumped the ethyl of the car I was driving, I would have stopped by, just to have a receipt to savor, at the very, very least.

Nads signHere's another thing folks in Arizona don't realize they're selling -- gonads. I guess it's some kind of secret under-the-sink women's thing. On the other hand, what popped into my mind still fits that bill as well. What -- do I have a dirty mind? Maybe, maybe, but I can't help it. It's a mind that has been trained and honed on the whetstone of American culture and if it's nasty or gross or you can't face it, just remember what the really clever philosophers say: "Like I care about your opinion. Go eat a railroad spike."

No Poopin' signAnyone seen this doggie?

This just shows you what America's elderly are doing with their copious spare time. Making warning signs. Can't we put our most valued citizens to work doing something productive? Listen up America, these folks have years and years of skills and experience. Maybe we can give them something worthwhile to do, something that not only keeps their yards clean, but that provides for a higher quality life for everyone and not just the plastic bag industry.

Dike signAnd just what do you suppose makes America's "little pointers" stand up? Thanks to the American Highway System, we now have symbols for nearly everything you can imagine, including the happiest of all little soldiers in the world (and no, I don't mean the Swiss Marijuana Navy!).

AA Bar and Grill signStayed in Eureka, California, right above a bar-and-grill. I really can't decide if this is an old converted AA hall and they didn't want to lose those repeat customers, or if perhaps it used to be a AAA, and they just lopped off one of the letters.

Some weird-ass treesWhat appalls me most of all is that in this great land of ours, there are people with the time and the ability to do such terrible, terrible things to a tree, an already beautiful work of nature (when they aren't killing skiing celebrities, that is).

These are all we have at the moment, but never fear, the world is filled with strangeness and oddities and whenever we come across it, we'll throw it up on this page (whoopsie, did I actually write that?) and make sure you, The People of the World, are kept in the loop.

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