Excessively Oversized Signs

[hbelkins]

It's kind of an internet thing, I suppose. Most people I mention it to have not heard the term before. Which I guess is why the DMV didn't catch it.

I had certainly never heard it until now.

[Takumi]

The internet is a terrible place.

[vtk]

The Internet is really really great.

[vdeane]

And someday, NY will probably issue WTF plates too.  My calc professor said you can always hear students say that doing word problems and that it means "what to find".  Given my experience with word problems, I don't think that's what they were trying to say.  Not when you get problems like "Bobby has ten apples.  What is the distance to the moon?".

[jeffandnicole]

And someday, NY will probably issue WTF plates too.  My calc professor said you can always hear students say that doing word problems and that it means "what to find".  Given my experience with word problems, I don't think that's what they were trying to say.  Not when you get problems like "Bobby has ten apples.  What is the distance to the moon?".

X=Clock.  Squared.

[Alps]

"Bobby has ten apples.  What is the distance to the moon?".

"Approximately 238,900 miles, and can I have an apple?"

[TXtoNJ]

The Internet is really really great.

Trekkie Monster approves.

[Dr Frankenstein]

I don't think that Québec has skipped a single 3-letter combination except for ABC which is "reserved."

Back on topic, https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=Pont+Laviolette,+B%C3%A9cancour,+QC&hl=fr&ie=UTF8&ll=46.299457,-72.547783&spn=0.002591,0.006539&sll=53.796105,-68.44248&sspn=36.71342,107.138672&hnear=Pont+Laviolette,+B%C3%A9cancour,+Qu%C3%A9bec&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=46.299234,-72.547391&panoid=OZ6qWGLOFdE4xcBL4vr4gw&cbp=12,306.49,,1,-2.03

[cpzilliacus]

I don't think that Québec has skipped a single 3-letter combination except for ABC which is "reserved."

Back on topic, https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=Pont+Laviolette,+B%C3%A9cancour,+QC&hl=fr&ie=UTF8&ll=46.299457,-72.547783&spn=0.002591,0.006539&sll=53.796105,-68.44248&sspn=36.71342,107.138672&hnear=Pont+Laviolette,+B%C3%A9cancour,+Qu%C3%A9bec&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=46.299234,-72.547391&panoid=OZ6qWGLOFdE4xcBL4vr4gw&cbp=12,306.49,,1,-2.03

Frank, I think the "we're not kidding" 80 k/h sign there is appropriate (I've been in Quebec, but not over that span).

Looks like a pretty steep grade to the crest, with  narrower-than-normal travel lanes.

[vtk]

Here's how that should have gone:

The Internet is really really great.

...for porn!

It's a song from Avenue Q.  Guess it didn't have as much visibility as I thought.

[Kacie Jane]

Here's how that should have gone:

The Internet is really really great.

...for porn!

It's a song from Avenue Q.  Guess it didn't have as much visibility as I thought.

Sorry to let you down. Guess I hadn't checked this thread recently.

[formulanone]

Are all the Penn Turnpike signs this huge? No cutout sign should ever be this big. That arrow is a as wide as a pickup bed, and that's just kind of wrong.

[KEK Inc.]

^ That's actually awesome.

[Roadsguy]

That's what the Turnpike always does, even on expressways. (Though I wish they'd have proper MUTCD overhead BGSes at the exit in addition to these signs replacing the "EXIT -->" signs.

[kphoger]

One of the southern states (South Carolina) no longer issues standard plates with the letter combination OMG.

How about LOL or WTF?

And New York issued plates with FAP:

FAP - Federal Aid Primary?  That's one designation for route in Illinois (as in FAP-407 aka IL-336).

Nope. This.

It's kind of an internet thing, I suppose. Most people I mention it to have not heard the term before. Which I guess is why the DMV didn't catch it.

So I just read this post mid-morning today.  And what do I see on my way home from doing some percussion instrument maintenance at church this afternoon?



The damage to my mind cannot be undone!  AAGGGHHH!!

[Sanctimoniously]

This made me do a bit of a double-take when I saw it for the first time.

[PHLBOS]

This made me do a bit of a double-take when I saw it for the first time.

Other than the oddly-shaped US 58 shield (unless it's due to a distortion in the photo); I don't see anything really wrong nor oversized with that BGS and/or its message contents.

[Ian]

This sign is pretty intimidating in person.

[J N Winkler]

Other than the oddly-shaped US 58 shield (unless it's due to a distortion in the photo); I don't see anything really wrong nor oversized with that BGS and/or its message contents.

There is one thing wrong--no exit tab and no word "EXIT" on the main sign panel.  (The MUTCD also deprecates periods, so "Va. Beach" runs afoul of that particular provision, but I regard the use of periods as a disfavored style choice rather than as an outright error.)

[PHLBOS]

Other than the oddly-shaped US 58 shield (unless it's due to a distortion in the photo); I don't see anything really wrong nor oversized with that BGS and/or its message contents.

There is one thing wrong--no exit tab and no word "EXIT" on the main sign panel.  (The MUTCD also deprecates periods, so "Va. Beach" runs afoul of that particular provision, but I regard the use of periods as a disfavored style choice rather than as an outright error.)

Fair enough, but since this thread topic only involves oversize signage as opposed to non-compliant MUTCD issues (there are tons of other threads for those); my earlier quote was only directed towards why Sanctimoniously included it in this thread.   It certainly isn't oversized by any stretch of the imagination.

[kphoger]

This sign is pretty intimidating in person.

Interesting how no arrow points to points.

[OracleUsr]

I saw several oversized diamond signs on I-95 south of Providence, RI.  Also a couple on I-581 in Roanoke, VA.

No pics though.

[amroad17]

This made me do a bit of a double-take when I saw it for the first time.

Other than the oddly-shaped US 58 shield (unless it's due to a distortion in the photo); I don't see anything really wrong nor oversized with that BGS and/or its message contents.

Isn't that sign on the mainline going eastbound where the Suffolk Bypass meets the US 58/US 460 original section on the east side of downtown Suffolk?  To me, this is the highway you are already on.  I also see US 13 is omitted.

[agentsteel53]

Other than the oddly-shaped US 58 shield (unless it's due to a distortion in the photo); I don't see anything really wrong nor oversized with that BGS and/or its message contents.

the 58 shield looks like someone took a '70 spec three-digit shield and compressed it to two-digit width.

[J N Winkler]

Fair enough, but since this thread topic only involves oversize signage as opposed to non-compliant MUTCD issues (there are tons of other threads for those); my earlier quote was only directed towards why Sanctimoniously included it in this thread.   It certainly isn't oversized by any stretch of the imagination.

I think this sign is, if anything, undersized--the shields seem quite large in comparison to the primary destination legend, so I suspect the use of 13.3" UC/10" LC instead of the more usual 16" UC/12" LC.