I came up with these while stopped in traffic on I-79.
Welcome to Ohio: Slow Down
Welcome to Pennsylvania: Do Not Pass
Welcome to New Jersey: Wanna Fight About It?
Welcome to New York: One Big Apple, Many Rotten Ones
Welcome to Rhode Island: Kicked Out of Massachusetts
Welcome to Massachusetts: The New York of the East
Welcome to Maine: Enjoy the Moose, Eh?
Welcome to Vermont: Live Free and Don't Stand Out
Welcome to New Hampshire: Live Free or Be Liberal
Welcome to Connecticut: The Traffic State
Welcome to Delaware: Stay Near Wilmington.
Welcome to Maryland: Pay Up
Welcome to Virginia: We've Heard the Jokes Already
Welcome to West Virginia: Should Have Stayed in the South
Welcome to North Carolina, If You're from the North
Welcome to Mississippi: No One Here Can Even Spell It
Welcome to Alabama: At Least We're Not Mississippi
Welcome to Florida: The Disney State (TM) (C) (R)
Welcome to Georgia: We're Not Just Atlanta, But That's All You'll See
Welcome to California: speed limits now actually enforced.
Jake, I'd have put that one in Texas given my experience. Welcome to California: Se Habla Espanol.
Oklahoma: Just Like Texas But With Crappier Weather
Oklahoma: BUMP / Next 225 Miles
In California, I raced with impunity along old 66, easily going 80 in 55 zones. In Texas I got yoinked for 73 in a 70 on US 380 in the middle of nowhere.
I actually drew some of these in my sketchbook recently...
Welcome to Pennsylvania: Cheesesteaks available at welcome center
Welcome to New Jersey: U-turn 1/4 mile ahead
Welcome! We're glad you're on Georgia's mind. Oh, you're not? Huh, well then...
Welcome to Delaware: now leaving Delaware
Quote from: agentsteel53 on May 16, 2011, 11:06:05 PM
to add further to the hypocrisy of speed limits (and please make this a separate thread, or combine it with a thread that mentions speed limits)
Done. The speed limit tolerance stuff has been tacked on to this thread: https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=3399.0
Welcome to Virginia: Use Left Lane Whenever Possible. :banghead:
(I like PennDOTFan's New Jersey entry.)
Welcome to New Jersey: now get lost.
Welcome to New Jersey: Pay Toll 1 mile ahead
Welcome to Rhode Island: Where you're guaranteed to visit at least 3 states every year.
Welcome to Connecticut: What's a county?
Welcome to Illinois: 65 zone ends ahead
Welcome to Wisconsin: Cops every 2 miles, guaranteed.
Welcome to Minnesota: Our freeways are never complete.
Welcome to Iowa: Not a cop for 1000 miles
Welcome to Michigan: If you missed your left turn, don't worry - a U-Turn is coming up.
Welcome to Louisiana: Where most of us are submerged in water.
Welcome to Mississippi: How do you spell it?
Welcome to Arizona: Please check the humidity at the border.
Welcome to Nevada: Casinos, next 200 miles.
Quote from: Master son on May 17, 2011, 09:46:38 AM
Welcome to Iowa: Not a cop for 1000 miles
correct. also, Utah. Between those two states, I have seen maybe four cops sitting in the median and running radar, in thousands of miles driven through them.
Welcome to Ohio: We Encourage European Driving -- Slower Traffic Use LEFT Lane. :eyebrow:
Welcome to Pennsylvania (I-90): Hey, we ALWAYS need to have some section of our 46-mile stretch of I-90 torn up for construction. :banghead:
Welcome to Florida: Seniors MUST signal turns 10 minutes in advance. :rolleyes:
Welcome to Indiana (I-275): Welcome to Indian....Ah Screw It, Welcome to Ohio (Or Kentucky). :)
Welcome to Utah (I-70): Anybody Here??? or You've just dropped off the face of the earth.
This "Welcome to Southampton: International Maritime City" sign (http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=50.951993,-1.403739&spn=0,0.016512&z=17&layer=c&cbll=50.952161,-1.403685&panoid=KUjtx0nazGeMgOixMfRUYg&cbp=12,172.58,,2,4.88) got vandalised with "Home of the Titanic" written on it with black spray paint (and a hole was added to the ship).
Welcome to the borough of Slough: It isn't fit for humans now (stolen off Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman in his poem "Come friendly bombs, fall on Slough").
Quote from: thenetwork on May 17, 2011, 10:37:03 AMWelcome to Ohio: We Encourage European Driving -- Slower Traffic Use LEFT Lane. :eyebrow:
How is that European driving? British driving perhaps (or Irish, Maltese, Cypriot, a vast swathe of Africa, South and South East Asia, Japan, Australia and Pacific Islands), but most of Europe drives 'French-style', like you Americans.
Welcome to Miami. Driver Carries Less than $50 Cash, More than 100 Rounds of Ammunition.
Quote from: Master son on May 17, 2011, 09:46:38 AM
Welcome to Leaving New Jersey: Pay Toll 1 mile ahead
Fixed that for ya (although David Paterson says that's a sign that the worst is behind you)
Quote from: Mr. Matté on May 17, 2011, 12:52:08 PM
Quote from: Master son on May 17, 2011, 09:46:38 AM
Welcome to Leaving New Jersey: Pay Toll 1 mile ahead
Fixed that for ya (although David Paterson says that's a sign that the worst is behind you)
What would David Paterson know of signs?
Quote from: PennDOTFan on May 16, 2011, 10:55:59 PMWelcome to Pennsylvania: Cheesesteaks available at welcome center
Primanti Pitts-burger Cheesesteaks (http://burgatory.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/dscn0147.jpg) available on this side. :D
Welcome to Milwaukee - Beer, next right
Welcome to Madison - State Law: Yield to Protesters
Welcome to Los Angeles - Where everyone drives fast to avoid the bullets
Welcome to Seattle - That's not a space needle, it's not tall enough
Welcome to Serious Michigan
Welcome to North Dakota - Ass-end of the United States
Welcome to New York - The Rent Is Too Damn High
Quote from: agentsteel53 on May 17, 2011, 10:14:32 AM
Quote from: Master son on May 17, 2011, 09:46:38 AM
Welcome to Iowa: Not a cop for 1000 miles
correct. also, Utah. Between those two states, I have seen maybe four cops sitting in the median and running radar, in thousands of miles driven through them.
I live in Minnesota. I have driven to or through Iowa perhaps 20 times in my life.
I have received exactly the same number of speeding tickets in Iowa as in Minnesota.
Welcome to San Francisco - where we make stupid bans
@Coelacanth: how many, 1?
Welcome to Chicago - Enjoy the congestion
Welcome to St. Louis - Detroit with a big arch
Welcome to Florida-Turn Signals Optional.
Welcome to Florida. Hog the left lane well below the speed limit and talk on the cellphone at the same time. :spin:
Welcome to Michigan - Where there are two seasons, Winter and Construction.
Welcome to Wyoming: All Texans and Californians must stay on direct highways to Jackson Hole
Welcome to Idaho: More than potatoes!
Welcome to Idaho: Go away.
Welcome to New Jersey: You Got a Problem Widdat?
Welcome to New Jersey: I Didn't Ask for your Stinkin' Opinion!
Welcome to Iowa - Plenty of idiots out walking around.
Welcome to Illinois - don't use the F and B words.
Quote from: corco on May 21, 2011, 11:58:09 PMWelcome to Idaho: Go away.
I actually saw a bumpersticker once that said "Welcome to the Eastern Shore: Now go home."
Welcome to Arizona: Papers please!
Welcome to Nashville: Elvis did not live here! (But, Al Gore does.)
Welcome to Nashville: Yes, we have rock music radio here.
Now Entering the Battlefield of (Franklin, Spring Hill, Nashville): Sites of desperate battles we treat like Gettysburg.
Now Entering Brentwood (TN): Net worth of under $1,000,000 punishable by fine.
Hudson Village (OH) City Limits: We're still a village, really we are! [City is still shown on maps as simply Hudson.]
Welcome to Twinsburg, OH
Welcome to Twinsburg, OH
Welcome to West Virginia, shoes optional.
Welcome to California: Exit Numbers now Available!!!
Welcome to Chicago: You probably should've taken the train.
Welcome to Wisconsin: Illinois vehicles please pay toll.
Welcome to da UP: Pasties, next five exits.
Welcome to Wisconsin: minimum BAC is .05
Welcome to Canada: Please check all potatoes and live bait at the border.
Welcome to Georgia (I-24) - Re-entering Tennessee in two miles.
Quote from: ftballfan on May 24, 2011, 02:02:22 PM
Welcome to Georgia (I-24) - Re-entering Tennessee in two miles.
Along those line: NY-17 (future I-86): Welcome to Pennsylvania - no wait - welcome BACK to New York!
Welcome to Alaska: Trying to convince Canada we aren't part of their country since 1958.
Welcome to Pennsylvania: Bud Shuster was here.
Also, from "Whose Line is it Anyway":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW1zkvIX3YQ#t=01m36s
Welcome to Wisconsin: I'll have another if you will.
I can't remember where I first heard this one:
Welcome to Montana: Where men are men and sheep are scared.
Welcome to California - soon to be as separated as Alaska and Hawaii.
Welcome to Milwaukee - the home of the disease "beer nuts"
A Chicago welcome sign follows...
...
Welcome to the UP: Where the men are men and the women are too ;)
Welcome to Detroit: America's second most dangerous city.
Welcome to Flint: America's most dangerous city.
Welcome to Camden: America's Most DaGRAFFITI GRAFFITI GRAFITTI
Entering Saskatchewan. This is why they invented cruise control. Have a nap.
http://moose.spreadshirt.com/saskatchewan-cruise-control-A2606939
Quote from: WNYroadgeek on May 28, 2011, 12:36:08 AMWelcome to Pennsylvania: Bud Shuster was here.
And he's still here.
Welcome to The Ohio $tate Univer$ity: "Give Me Ca$h, Car$ & Tattoo$"
Welcome to Michigan: Our football team is irrelevant.
Welcome to Florida: Where Lebron, Wade, and Bosh have made other sports teams seem meaningless.
Actual real welcome sign i saw a number of years ago in the Okla panhandle:
Welcome to Hooker,
Home of the Horny Toads.
Welcome to Delaware on I-95:
Wake up your passengers or they will miss us.
Welcome to Rhode Island on I-95:
At least it takes longer than Delaware.
Welcome to New York City:
Now shut the F** up and drive.
Quote from: hobsini2 on June 03, 2011, 11:00:29 PM
Actual real welcome sign i saw a number of years ago in the Okla panhandle:
Welcome to Hooker,
Home of the Horny Toads.
(//www.aaroads.com/shields/misc/w15855.jpg)
Toad Ball lives!
Did you photo shop that> i looks so real.
nope, that's a real photo that I took on May 19th, 2007. I did not notice the welcome sign, but there are some older white guide signs in the area.
TY for grabbing that photo. i can now send it on to friends who didn't believe me. lol
Welcome to Washington. The State! If this were the city, I'd be called the District of Columbia!
Quote from: corco on June 03, 2011, 09:34:33 PM
Welcome to Michigan: Our football team is irrelevant.
It likely will be relevant in the next few seasons.
Welcome to SMU: Still suffering from the death penalty.
Welcome to Michigan: Losing population every day.
Welcome to Arizona: Would you like a gas mask?
Welcome to Arizona: Land of Turn Signals Blinking for 20 Miles
Welcome to Nevada: "Fun Fun Fun" Until the Gaming Takes Your Money Awaaay..."
Welcome to Arizona: Mexicans Fuck Off
Welcome to New Jersey: You Know It's New Jersey From The Smell!
Welcome to Akron: At least we're not Cleveland!
Welcome to Detroit: Come and Stay Awhile. Please, please, please!!!
Welcome to Washington: Disneyland on the Potomac
Welcome to Scranton: Dunder-Mifflin is NOT real!
Quote from: mightyace on June 09, 2011, 11:29:57 AMWelcome to Scranton: Dunder-Mifflin is NOT real!
With The Office Store at The Mall at Steamtown and The Office Convention (http://www.theofficeconvention.com/) held every year, they don't want that slogan.
I-25 Sb: Welcome to New Mexico:US 85 not available in this state.
The other direction:
I-25 Nb Welcome to Colorado:US 87 not available in this state.
Quote from: mightyace on June 09, 2011, 11:29:57 AMWelcome to Scranton: Dunder-Mifflin is NOT real!
Well not anymore, given it went bust and merged with SABRE (http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk), selling paper and being British Roadgeeks :P
Welcome to Wisconsin: Choppin Unions since 2011.
Welcome to Illinois: Siphonin Gas Money Since 2011.
Welcome to Michigan: Spittin out residents since whenever :P
Welcome to Iowa: Not as flat as you think it is.
Welcome to Montana: Got a life vest?
Welcome to Colorado: Still Skiiing in June!