Strange road signs from around the world

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Strange road signs from around the world

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Another one of those photo features the Daily Telegraph seems to publish regularly.

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More here, and guaranteed to raise a smile or two;

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/pictu ... signs.html

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The Zzyxxz one is just down I-15 from here on the way to LA

took me three years to find out how to pronouce it

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If you think Zzyzx is just a strange name for a place, take a look at the story behind the place.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zzyzx,_California
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Howe_Springer

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This one's a village here in Austria! B)smk

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Some of our road signs a just plain wrong

I once was riding my pushbike and was forced to swerve by a car that came onto the cycle lane.

I collided with a give way sign..........it didn't :'(

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WhisperJet wrote:This one's a village here in Austria! B)smk

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Nick.out of interest, what do they call folk born in the village? :-O :$

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Garry Russell wrote:
WhisperJet wrote:This one's a village here in Austria! B)smk

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Nick.out of interest, what do they call folk born in the village? :-O :$

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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: *-) :-#


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Oh no problem, that would be "die Fuckinger". :agree:

People from that village regularly report of American tourists posing next to their sign! ;)

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WhisperJet wrote:Oh no problem, that would be "die Fuckinger". :agree:

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If you had a heart attack perhaps :-O

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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

It would actually mean "The ****ingers"
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