Oh, those crazy Aussies!

I used to think that the Aussie sense of humour was 'drizabone', and that this meant I was surrounding by sublime intentional wordplay and ironic references. But after a while I realised it's not an automatic cultural inheritance. There are those who get the jokes and those who are the jokes.

An embodiment of this is the road signs. There are some good intentional pisstakes, like this one from the south west coast of Victoria, spotted a couple of years ago:





Then there are the ones that I'd love to think are intentional, but somehow reckon just weren't really thought out...



Like this one in Landsborough, Queensland:





Or this in South Australia:



A common tactic is to use road signs to get you to stop and buy a coffee in out of the way towns ... but sometimes they employ some wit to get you to pull over (not sure what's so wrong with Galahs by the way):







They can get be a bit stern about it, too:

They can't think up their own names, though - lots of settlements are named after places in The Old Country.

They're all budding Cub Scouts, really - Be Prepared and all that (sorry for reposting this one):