You know that Churches have those little messages outside them, well I saw two good ones last week
Give the Devil and inch and he is the ruler
and
What is missing from CH CH - U R
Both very clever and funny I thought.
Now without getting “mushey” please (which I feel I can say as I have started the topic) - have you seen others?
How about ones from outside an animal hotel and a chiropractor’s office?
But its not how big it is.
Doesn’t this belong in the Interfaith Café?
It took me a bloody long time to decipher “The wages of sin is death.” That “is” completely threw me for years, I can tell you! 
It is a play on “Give An Inch, They Take A Foot”, meaning (approximately) that any leniency will be exploited, or that charity is often greeted by greed.
Standard rulers (in the US) = 1 foot so it is kind of a pay on the two. Doesn’t work in metric I am sure.
So if I was to translate the above it would be something like this
“Ever vigilant must ye be
against the temptations of sin!
Woe is those that taste that fruit
they are lost.
For the journey to hell is traveled
one cubit at a time
and even one palm
sets them down that
and then serpent in the garden
is their master”
Or something like that.
Go for it. I only wanted to have a lighthearted topic after all, nothing Interfaith stuff
This isn’t a church message, but I’ve seen it posted in the reception area at a veterinary clinic:
Unattended children will be given an espresso and a puppy.
Sign in the underground station: “Dogs must be carried on the escalator.” I was half an hour late getting home - I couldn’t find a bloody dog anywhere.
Don’t their little paws get stuck in the gap in the underground?
This might be a little too IFC, but it’s also appropriate for this thread…
When my older brother was in college, he was speeding along a twisty road in a VW Beetle, tried to take a curve too fast, and rolled the car. The VW was totaled, but my brother walked away without a scratch. When he got out of the car, he noticed that he’d crashed right in front of a little country church whose sign read, “THE BEST SPEED IS GODSPEED.” I suspect that little coincidence had something to do with his later decision to go to divinity school and become a minister.
Sometimes a sign is just a sign…
Slan,
D. 
Sometimes? 
Well it could, I suppose, be a-sighin’
Slan,
D.
At least 25 years ago, when I was in my prime, I was riding my bike home from work one evening when a car which hadn’t seen me pulled out and forced me to mount the kerb in a most jarring and unseemly fashion. The driver was mortified, and stopped to apologise. I noticed a sign in his rear window, along with one of those silly fish symbols, to the effect that Jesus saves us all, etc. Pointing to his sign, I informed him in language far too colourful to reproduce here that he would need far more than just Jesus to save him if I ever clapped eyes on him again.
My first car, an Oldsmobile, had it’s odometer go to all sixes when I was passing a church. Man haven’t thought of that in years. Then there was the time I had jumped out out of an apartment window to avoid a really weird friend of my roommate and saw a sign on a church that said “all welcome”. The door was locked. That seemed odd to me because my home town’s church didn’t have locks on the doors.
That must’ve been one really dangerous dude (dudette?) if you were seeking sanctuary!
It was a dudette, I could hear her keys that were always on her hip as she walked up the stairs. Gave me time. Not dangerous but…
…didn’t want to be there.
Adam blamed Eve
Eve blamed the snake
and the snake didn’t have a leg to stand on.
