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please take care in the wet
caution wet floor
two things to note here. one that the sign is resting on an inflatable ring, and secondly that the shadow man's jacket and trousers are a bit too big for him
slippery swirl
kiwis seem to do signs much better than the brits. their signs have more attention to detail. like the thumb on this chaps flipper. although i fear for the swirling abyss
warning - polished floor ?
polished. see what i did there ? nearly.
welsh thinking sign
there are some good signs on this board, but the one below was the best. no thinking.
this is a temporary sign
i guess it's not always slippy.
dog breedism and a selection of signs
happy man with signs
this is a bit weird though. it's dog breedism.
step of faith
Keith (other half of pootlecat) sent me this and says "I was at my Niece's Christening a few weeks ago when I saw this quality "mind the step" sign in the church and thought of funkypancake (St Michael's in Linlithgow, if you're interested)"
watch your step
i've brought you this slippery floor sign before, but this one looked particularly like the person is dancing, and we're being asked to watch how good his dance steps are.
sticky situation
Georgina (better half of alvin the hoggster) sent me this saying "Not sure if you have this sign in your collection. My friend Nai (who reads my blog and thus yours) wanted me to send you this. She liked the fact that the poor chap seems to be evacuating his bowels and wondered whether this had caused him to slip or vice versa?"
to me it looks like a little person trapped in chewing gum
very high change of falling
three signs on the same door - the one at the top is a new one to my eyes. i like the scribble colouring.
keep safe !! use the Lift !
this is a sign to savour. good use of variable amounts of exclamation marks. and random words. please.
a new falling over sign
just when i thought i had all the main people falling over signs i see this one, which is someone tripping over a small step. great stuff
kezia and a trip hazzard sign
but what a great sign this is. the chap is so heavy he's bent the floor
born slippy
nancy has gone beyond the call of duty - despite having just given birth here's nancy showing a slippery floor sign ! well done for thinking of funkypancake at such a time !
!!!
the explanation for these explanations is a warning of slipperyness. heed it well.
strange chap
the chap on this picture is a bit strange. something about his legs and lack of hands i think. i can't work out which way round he/she is facing.
walk carefully
i've been abit out of time sequence recently, so to prove we're back on track, here's an underground train slippery floors sign dated yesterday. it asks us to 'walk carefully'. so i did.
slippery floor sign from Vietnam
how's this for an international slipper floor sign ? this is from vietnam which is where pootlecat spotted it.
stumble is a great international word.
mind the trapdoor
i love this slippery floor sign. this is a better photo than this one i took a while back
slippery landing place
bird lovers are funny old people. some are even funny young people. they've even put up signs to warn them that their landing places might be a bit slippery
if they are slippery then they've only got themselves to blame.
and what is a landing stag anyway ?
slippery floor sign
it's always great to see a new variant of an old friend, and this is a great one. i blame his winkelpicker shoes.
a fantastic sign medley
how fantastic is this great medley. i especially like the people falling up and down things.
BBC slippery floor sign
Look at this mad slippery floor sign. i saw it on the ladies' toilets at the BBC.
rather than slipping it looks like the person in question is having a nice dance. or deliberately stamping in it.
whatever, they are definately having a nice time which should be motto of the BBC
fantastic cleaning sign
slippery floors signs are one of my favouritist categories. i'm amazed we're still finding new versions and varieties, particularly in this type of mass-produced sign.
here we see a gender-unspecified cleaner with one club foor poking/drawing on the floor with a stick.
or perhaps it's actually a picture of someone weeing on the floor rather than the bucket behind them ? i do hope not.
slippery bridge
click for big
slippery skater bollards by the shell building
how many categories can this fit in ? it's two slippery sign bollards on a trolley in front of the Shell building
diana memorial garden
you might have heard about the diana memorial garden ? it's been a bit of a classic - originally a nice idea but went all a bit wrong when people slipped in the water channel. oh well
it's actually looking very nice now
and see how many categories i can put it in: no dogs, no cycles, people, royalty and slippery floor
a new sign
here is a new slippery sign from Katherine's Dock in London.
and in a wheelbarrow
no spitting
this isn't a slippery floor sign as such, but if people did spit then it would be slippery so i think it counts.
keep off the groynes
keeping off groynes is generally a good idea. this smiley chap is throwing caution to the wind and i think he'll regret it.
warning to the crabs
it's political correctness gone mad. of course crabs know their habitat is slightly slippery. like, durrrr.
two sudden drops
i like these two new signs which have appeared on the south bank in recent weeks
sudden drop suggests a trap door. but i don't think there was one
slippery tower
it's funny what people like looking at. i never have a clue which bloggy things are of interest, but occasionally people email me and express gratitude for something or other which is brilliant (hint hint!)
for example, tom emailed me saying he loved the slippery surface sign collection and referred me to this excellent example
so here for tom, and all the other slippery sign lovers, is a slippery floor sign in the underpass next to Tower Bridge
slippery floor sign on a bollard
it's another double category-er. this time it's a bollard holding a slippery floor sign. i think he was simply carrying over to where he wanted it.
slippery ice-cream cone
this chap looks like he's about to fall on a giant ice-cream cone.
the sign was in Smithfield Meat Market. it can be offally slippery in there.
slippery! floor! sign!
i spotted this sign when i went for a meeting at a very! famous! exclamation! mark! using! internet! firm!
classic slippery sign
can you believe i haven't posted this sign ? it's a very common one and very similar to this (although the arms is at a different angle)
some of my favourite things
look at this one. three categories in one - cleaning, a door and a slippery sign.
slight varient on the slippery sign
this sign is very much like this one, but if you look carefully there are a few small differences
word 23 - protection: danger at sea
click for big
triple feature
look what i found in our local supermarket - it's a glove on a slippery-sign bollard
danger drop
here is a man falling down a danger drop. i think this sign has got real movement.
a slippery chap from far away
jewel sent me this chap.
she writes:
hello again! tis me, jewel. i thought your readers might enjoy this a bit more than mine, so i decided to send him off to you. please take good care of him, he's never been away from home before.
this poor chap is not only slipping on the wetness that is before him, but he is also clapped in a life-or-death struggle with a very linear dragon. not a very good day for two-dementional men, i suppose.
slippery in Heathrow
surely the most manic of all the slippery floor signs ? one from the slapstick comedy school of sign writing:
still running
look. it's anotehr sort of slippery sign. this chap has fallen over but is still attempting to run straight up in to the air.
it's no wonder he fell over with such a lack of appreciation for the basic rules of gravity.
slippery signs for God
at the church holiday club they projected a variety of signs on to the screen for the kids to say what they stood for (all were warning about danger ahead and the likely result of ignoring them).
one of the signs was a 'slippery floor'. the compere asked "where will you see this type of sign" ? i was very disappointed that no-one shouted "the funkypancake blog". oh well.
a selection of slippery floor signs
so, you're thinking of starting your own collection of slippery floor signs - but where's the best place to start. well, let me tell you. it's motorway service stations. full of them they are.
the strange thing is that motorway service stations are increasingly becoming photo-fits of each other, yet the one thing they haven't standardised on is slippery floor signs.
here are a few examples. i didn't take photos of ones i've already got. some are quite similar though so i'll talk you through them:
a classic hollow body picture very similar to this one. possibly caught a few micro-seconds later.
at first glance this is the same as this one. but look again, don't be fooled. the claw is gone and the person has merged with the puddle. it's never clear on these photos whether the subject slipped on the puddle or produced it as a result of their fall (is it blood ?):
as above with helpful explanatory words:
the water on this one isn't quite as deep as this one:
very similar to (if not the same as) the waitrose version. this one is certainly more in focus. the chap seems to be dancing the can-can (and therefore more likely to fall over). they are using the full space available to them:
finally something a little more tenuous. it's indicating that cleaning is happening and therefore, by implication, slipperness may appear.
sitting down
the person on this slippery sign is sitting down. we know this as their back hand is pointing backwards. if they aren't sitting down then i fear for that wrist.
also, why the fish ?
slippery floor
paddington station slippery floor screen anouncement informs us that due to the inclement weather surfaces may be slippy.
slippery
this seems to be a slightly younger version of this chap His jacket and trousers are much too large for him. great winkle pickers though.
slippery in waitrose
my third slippery sign of the day. this time in waitrose on marylebone high street. i took it at an angle through the window, hence the weirdness.
slippery
this is a GREAT picture of a person slipping over.
slippery floor
i thnk there are a varierty of different falling down signs so i'm starting a seperate category
