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Funny Signs 2

Last Updated on Friday, 27 February 2009 20:44

Living in Peru offers many opportunities to see things that can strike you as odd or funny. I'm trying to document as many funny/odd signs as I run across, which abound where we live. I'll make my best attempt at explaining why I'm putting them here.

I went out to dinner in Guatemala and decided to have the "Filete Martin Fierro", since it had my name in it. (it translates - Martin Iron Fillet) I was intrigued by the Engrish* translation. If the cow is afraid of fire, why did it end up on my plate?

* Engrish is the site that inspired me to put up some of the funny things I've seen. www.engrish.com




This is the ouside of a market near where we used to live in Cusco. It looks inviting, unless you are a thief.

Just behind this sign you can kind of see another sign.


The translation reads "Patrolled Market - Any thieves caught will be lynched, and burned." If I were a thief, I would think twice about getting caught there.



If you look carefully, you will see beneath the "No Left Turn" sign another sign that points left for the Emergency Room. This one was a real head scratcher.



This is an excercise in redundancy, with a slight misspelling. Hermanos is the Spanish word for Brothers. But, most Spanish speakers turn the "th" sound into a "d" sound. So, welcome to the Brothers Brothers restaurant!


I've been meaning to get a picture of this restaurant on my site ever since I saw it five years ago. But when I saw the Nativity scene on top of it this year, I ran and got the camera. Which is it? Beer or Chicken? Do they make the chicken with some sort of beer marinade?

I inquired a few years back about the name and it turns out the founder was Dutch and put his last name on the restaurant. So it has nothing to do with beer.


This one was a true find! My wife's very own brand of napkins! Even the haircut is similar.


This one is not so much strange as it is unusual. In Cusco, it was very common to see people with flourescent green vests who are hawking cel phone calls. You don't have to have a cel phone here. You can stop on any street corner where there is someone in a green vest, and make a cel phone call. They start their timer when your party answers, and you pay them by the second! I'm still waiting for the Krispy Kreme sellers.


This one is a bit "risque" but it hits the nail on the head (in my opinion). Who else would visit such a place?

My neighbor and I discussed the name, and the only rationale we could think of for the name was possibly a "base" for men, or "basement". But the name is appropriate for the place.