Talking of road signs, I saw an interesting one today. It was a large temporary sign at some roadworks. In white letters on a red background, it read
CAT`S EYES REMOVED.
I was tempted to take a marker pen, and write underneath, "From £25 +VAT."
Personally, I can`t see the advantage of a blind cat. I was also reminded of a story about a silly notice from the 1960s. I met a guy who lived in a terraced house in Peterborough. His back garden backed onto the railway shunting yard. He somehow discovered that if he stood a row of tin cans on his garden wall, bored shunter drivers would throw lumps of coal to knock them down. As a result, he got some free coal.
The rows of cans were superceded by pyramids and other more elaborate structures.
Then his neighbour joined in, with a target mounted on pivots like the old pub sign. This went on for a while. Finally he made another swinging sign which bore the words
WARNING. IT IS AGAINST THE LAW TO THROW COAL AT THIS NOTICE,