Signs of the Times

• On interstate 80, just outside of Winnemucca, NV, is a sign that reads: "If You Don't Stop Here, Who Will?"
• A traveler reports this sign at the swimming pool of a French Riviera hotel: "Swimming is forbidden in the absence of the savior."
• What makes Moscow different from other cities of its size is the absence of advertising signs.
• The first outdoor advertising sign was "Chew Mail Pouch Tobacco." It showed up in 1908 in Wheeling, W. VA., and spread. That was a couple of decades before the Burma Shave signs appeared.
• In the lobby of the Continental Hotel in the strict Moslem city of Dacca is this sign: "Ladies in shorts may be stoned."
• At New Jersey's beaches in the 1880s a white flag meant "ladies hour." A red flag meant "male nude bathing."
• In Jamaica, you're forewarned of speed bumps by signs that read: "Sleeping Policemen Ahead."
• On a pasture fence in England is this sign: "Don't cross this field unless you can do it in 9.8 seconds. The bull can do it in 10."