Wikipedia:Road humor

When road editing gets stressful, here are road-related jokes and funny things.

SRNC and/or edit war related

SPUIs can be dangerous if you don't know how to handle them.

• A guy drove through a SPUI and went kaplewy!
• "We Didn't Start the Fire", a song about road articles: the triumphs and the tribulations
• The SRNC's entry into the Lamest Edit Wars Hall of Fame/Shame

Signage or lack thereof

• Welsh translation gone wrong

• What kind of U.S. Route shield is this?

• Road signs they didn't teach you in drivers' ed class:
  • Good Luck(internet archive) Credited as being in Bensonville, IL. CNN notes a similar sign on Grande Drive (Denali, Alaska) commenting that "Grande Drive is a single road leading to the top of Sugarloaf Mountain. There are no intersecting roads."
  • Watch for Moose
  • Baghdad
  • Relationship Signs
  • Freaky
  • Don't Sign and Drive

• Just plain funny road signs:
  • Annoying Sign
  • Don't Tell Anyone You Found It
  • Only at McDonalds
  • Innuendo?
  • At Least the Road is Clean
  • It's a Misnomer
  • Well Escapees Can't Get Away Easy
  • This Route Must've Been a Bully in High School
  • It Actually Makes Sense
  • You Have to Think About This One
  • Look at Me Cross the Road

• Road sign goofs:
  • I Can Only Go One Way
  • No Kidding?
  • Must Be Trying to Cut Emissions
  • Your Other Right
  • How Did the Tire Tracks Cross?
  • Some Things Never Change

• Roadtrip America's Top 100 Funny Road Signs (some of them):
  • Thanks Y'all
  • Nature Calls
  • Hold Your Breath
  • Hazards of Life
  • Where All the Guys with Porches Live
  • They'd Run Faster But They Only Have One Leg
  • You're Supposed To?
  • Fun with Missouri Supplemental Routes
  • One Too Many Huh?
  • How They Get Californians to Go Home
  • Dare I Enter?
  • Roadkill Warning?
  • Great for Dogs... and some Men!
  • Paving must be rare in these parts
  • Not Going to Tell Which One?

References

Poking fun at DOT's (PERIOD's and DECIMAL's too!)

Tax dollars at work!

• A nice alternative left turn treatment: [1]
• "Sometime between 1988 and 1990 this route was deleted by Transportation Planning because it was found there is no way to inventory said route." Oops!
• Hilarious Pennsylvania Road Humor!! Trust me you're going to enjoy this!

Highway oddities

• Interstate 95 in the District of Columbia
• Million Dollar Bridge, a bridge in Alaska that was built in the early 1900 and renovated in 2004, but truly goes nowhere.
• If you squint, a turbine looks sort of like a swastika.
• The extension of Charles Street north from downtown Baltimore was once known as the Charles Street Avenue, a turnpike operated by the Charles Street Avenue Company. Beyond the end of the turnpike, it was known as Charles Street Avenue Road. Other names at times included Charles Street Avenue Extended and Charles Street Avenue Boulevard. A piece of Charles Street Avenue still exists.

Internal workings of road article editing

• Join the Antarctica Highways WikiProject. It's a WikiProject devoted to developing articles on highways, roads, and penguin paths on the continent of Antarctica. Since there is little government enforcement on the landmass, road rules and routes are often disputed. Don't be surpised to see edit wars and heated naming convention debates here, so bring your helmet and knee pads.
• Interesting AFD comment (Note from author: It was all in good faith :-P --Triadian (talk) 00:38, 31 December 2008 (UTC))
• Count how many times the word "route" is used in this article
• US 52 BUS in Harvey, ND is apparently a "Banned Route". We're not certain whether this resulted from US 52 BUS's radical views, or merely tendentious editing.

Google Maps

• As a joke, Google Maps will provide directions when a clearly impossible route between North America and Europe (for example, between New York and London) is desired; however, one of the steps is "Swim across the Atlantic Ocean", with a travel time (29 days, 0 hours) and distance (3462 miles/5,572 km) calculated accordingly, between Le Havre in France and Boston in America. The longest route currently known (using the swimming) thus obtained is 15289 miles (24605km) from Zabaykalsk, Chita Oblast, Russia to Overland Dr, Unalaska, AK with coordinate input. [2] Note that we cannot go in the other direction.
• Shopping Center Highway 11?

Games for the whole family

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  Spot the Interstate!

• 

  Spot the state highway!

• 

  And this one!

1. Play the State Game! Find each state as a license plate. 2. The Alphabet Game! Find all of the letters of the alphabet in order from road signs. 3. The Bug Game! Whenever you see a bug, punch someone and yell "Slug Bug!". 4. I'm Going on a Trip! Pick a category (e.g. animals) and start at A and go all the way to Z. The catch, you have to repeat all of the animals. So if the first person said "Alligator" then the next person has to say "Alligator, Bear" and so on. 5. I Spy... (or Eye Spy if you want to get fun). Annoy the heck out of everyone by forcing them to play this child's game.

Partisan politics (Let the wigs fly!)

• The British government should be criticized for making their citizens pay to drive in downtown London. It is horrible and atrocious and an indignity... wait why is this page now on the IWF blacklist?

Modest Proposals

• Essay: User:Triadian/Wikipedia is a roadfan paradise
• You can't drive 80 mph legally anymore? Well, it's over.