It's funny what you see when you're walking round Morrisons.
Example: Wholemeal Farmhouse Spelt Bloomer.

No it's not, it's spelt W-H-O-L-E-M ...

Reminds me of a story told by my brother, who went to live in the US 25 years ago and now runs a garden centre in Minnesota.

(To get this one you have to know that "sod" is the American for turf.)

He was in town one day in early May, after a long day preparing bedding plants for sale, and passed a rival establishment with an advertising board reading:

SOD
BEDDING PLANTS

He says he knows exactly how the guy felt.

Ha! I see things like that the whole time - especially on the sides of white vans. The village I used to live in was a bit of a yawn, and I always remember our 'celebrations' for the Queen's jubilee. The sign in the road read: 'SLOW STREET PARTY AHEAD.'

Boy, were they ever right about THAT one.

we have a "SLOW CHILDREN" sign hanging on one of the trees in the parking strip outside my house. it's been there since we moved in, and the silhouette of the child looks like they wouldn't be able to move very fast...

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As children we always wondered about the 'Stock Crossing' signs we saw in the country.

The question was always: 'Catholic Cows'?

What about the "Heavy Plant Crossing" signs that you used to see around the countryside. That always used to conjure up images of trees pulling their roots out of the ground, crossing the road and re-planting themselves.

That old chestnut, "This Door is Alarmed" is still around and the one we liked best at school was the (apocryphal?) newspaper headline in Britain during one of the world wars, "British Push Bottles Up Germans" (still a good example of the value of a well-placed hyphen).

On the weekend we had a good front page header - apparently squillions have been spent by the government because data showed Aust children were too fat and now new data shows the original statistics to be dubious, so 'The Australian' ran with "Hysteria about obese children inflated". I wondered if the same hysteria would erupt if skinny children were similarly given a bit of puffing up.

There used to be a sign that never failed to crack me up, but you'll have to imagine the whole thing:

PECANS

<picture of pecans>

BUY SELL CRACK


I so wish I had a picture of it!

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I still like the one on the outskirts of Swakopmund. You are about to leave the city and drive into the Namib Desert. Sign: SAND

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Clearly put there by operatives of the Ministry for the Bleeding Obvious.

Like those signs on board ship which say "Floor slippery when wet".

one a recent road trip i saw unfortunate dead kangaroo on the roadside 100 metres later a warning sign to waarn drivers to look out for wildlife...Now if only that roo knew how to read ..Important lesson there kiddies

I know I'm in W.Sussex now, but it can't be any coincidence that the vehicle in front of me at a 10 mile roadworks tailback is ALWAYS a liveried coach bearing the proud message: 'Crawley Luxury.'

There's always the 'Stop Children' signs near school crossings.

I think eradication is possibly the best solution.

At some level crossings there are 'Give way to trains' signs. Very similar to the 'Do Not Feed The Elephant' signs .

A road sign seen plenty of times in hilly areas (well, they're mountains to us):

'Falling Rocks Don't Stop'.

Like the estate agent's signboard, seen on 'For Sale' houses all over the South East: 'Gasgoine Pees.' Doesn't everyone?
Ella Fitzgerald. Lucky lady.

Don't know if it is the same in overseaslands but when you go into bookshops in Oz you often see books sorted by genre. So you have: Travel; Cooking; Fantasy/SF; crime; horror; biography, etc.

Usually theyalso have a section marked 'Literature'.

Why?

Don't all the other categories also contain 'literature' or is there some 21st century effect that sorts out some but not all?

Most of the books in 'literature' are either dull and boring, or contain no jokes. So perhaps it is a filter of sorts to remove books that no one other then Eng Lit students will want to read.

Bunyip: That is the way I use the genre. Anything in it can be safely ignored.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Careful, almost every bookstore I know has Jasper's books in the Literature section.

MuseSusan,

What else do they have in the Literature section?

Most of the classics, plus a lot of modern writing that simply doesn't fit into any of the other categories. It's not necessarily any better, it's just not fantasy, mystery, romance, etc. so it must be "literature".