Lonely Planet Signspotting (General Pictorial) | 
 enlarge | Author: Doug Lansky
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Category: Book
List Price: $7.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 35845
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.6 x 0.5
ISBN: 1741044898
Dewey Decimal Number: 910
EAN: 9781741044898
ASIN: 1741044898
Publication Date: October 1, 2005
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Product Description
From The Publisher
As anyone who has spent time on the road knows, you often have to depend on signs...to navigate through a town, locate your hotel, even obey the law - a scary thought if you've ever come across any of the publicly posted absurdities that appear in this book. Signs about as easy to understand as a Swahili auctioneer (to a non-Swahili speaker) or as well-planned as the dance steps in a mosh pit with the help of signspotters around the globe, we've assembled a collection of some of the most unintentionally entertaining postings on the planet - we hope they confuse and amuse you!
From the Author
Signspotting is a visual tour through the 'Far Side' of travel -- a guide to the head-scratching public postings that dot the highways and byways around the world. As a longtime fan of Gary Larson's cartoons, the comical absurdity of these signs may have been what attracted me to start collecting them in the first place. The thing is, I never would have guessed that there's stuff out there stranger than what Larson dreamed up. It almost suggests that Larson didn't have such a delightfully warped mind after all -- he had just been out traveling. There's a part of you that wants to just laugh when you see these Monty Python-esque signs. And there's another more sensitive part saying, 'Wait a minute, these people are putting up signs as a favor to us. It's not their first language, they're doing their best, and we wouldn't do any better if we started putting up signs for tourists in other languages.' I figure that as long as we recognize that we would have all nationalities rolling in our streets with laugher if we attempted to be as thoughtful to them as they're trying to be to us, then there's no harm in enjoying the signs for what they are: side-splitting inadvertent comedy. Besides, some of the very best signs come from English-speaking countries where they should (in theory) know better. During the last four years, I have received well over 10,000 photos of funny signs. This book, you might say, is Signspotting's greatest hits collection. If you haven't seen these yet, you'll be amazed at what's decorating our planet.
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 Short but Sweet September 29, 2008
Amusing book, a little short, but packs quite a few laughs in. Its great to just sit out to let a friend read. For this price, its worth it.
 A fun flipper sure to entertain! July 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Lonely Planet Signspotting is a sure laugh-getter to share with friends. Bring it to work with you and it will be the sensation of the break room for a couple of days as everyone passes it around.
There are lots of hysterical photos of signs -- the sort of things you sometimes notice in passing and wish you had a camera to capture as evidence, yourself. Guaranteed, you'll enjoy this book.
 Hilarious! July 8, 2008
Great book! Kept me cracking up for a long time. #2 is very good too! I really hope more like these will follow.
Made laugh till I cried October 5, 2007
I stood in a book store that shall remain nameless and read most of this book. I was laughing out loud and giggling shamelessly. I love this kind of stuff and I will be sending this book out as gifts for my friends that I know also appreciate this kind of humour. Many of the signs are just poor English but even more of them are just such mysteries as to why they were ever printed... love it.
A good little diversion August 23, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
A lot of fun and, unfortunately, you don't have to go very far when traveling in the Middle East or Africa to see some entertaining signs (and I'm not just talking "camel xing" either). I'm glad someone thought to put this collection together!
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