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Posted: 2/22/2021 12:20:08 AM EDT

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"Personnel urinating in this area will be relived"
extra points for the 80's movie it was in.

Posted: 2/22/2021 12:20:22 AM EDT

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OP's post is one of those things that Arfcom people are notorious at doing. Posting something completely out of context and thinking everyone will understand or have similar thought processes.

My best guess, he is making a statement about how schools are now closed campuses.

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I'm going with an 80's comedy I can't remember

Speed

Posted: 2/22/2021 12:25:04 AM EDT

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Class of '87 checking in to say I have no idea what OP is referencing.

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this is really the only sign from the 80's that makes me smile...

Posted: 2/22/2021 12:25:05 AM EDT

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Pretty sure development of closed schools has more to do with children getting picked up/grabbed/kidnapped in custody disputes than school shootings.

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I think 9/11 had more to do with it than either. In my area the change in school architecture was pretty dramatic and showed up within a year or so.

Everything switched from open layout to prison architecture seemingly overnight. Older schools got some pretty hardcore retrofits with fencing and concrete walls as well.

Posted: 2/22/2021 12:29:05 AM EDT

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So, now I'm guessing it had something to do with the TV show V. But I'm still not gettin it.

Posted: 2/22/2021 12:33:40 AM EDT

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Daddy would have gotten us Uzis.

Posted: 2/22/2021 12:48:09 AM EDT

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I thought it was going to be "Slippery when wet"

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Class of '86. This is what I was expecting.

Posted: 2/22/2021 12:49:44 AM EDT

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Graduated in 89 but that sign means nothing to me.

However I do chortle every time I see an “Entrance in Rear” sign.

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Yup! Me too! 89

Posted: 2/22/2021 12:51:14 AM EDT

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This one gives me a giggle. But that's because I haven't grown up.

Posted: 2/22/2021 12:59:44 AM EDT

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That show sucked

Posted: 2/22/2021 1:02:26 AM EDT

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I grew up in the 80s and have no idea why that sign would make me giggle.

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This.

- There was a hippy who lived across the street who had a shag carpet Van with dual bumperstickers:

If the Van’s a rockin’, don’t come a knockin’

And

Ass, Gas, or Grass, Nobody rides for free!

Post that up and it might make me smile.

Posted: 2/23/2021 8:09:10 AM EDT

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Anyone figure out why the OP giggles at the sign? Is this a “safe” thread?

Posted: 2/23/2021 8:27:00 AM EDT

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This is the one I remember

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This is the one I remember.

Posted: 2/23/2021 8:30:35 AM EDT

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This is the one I remember

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Threat sticker had been on my bedroom door for 20 years. Wife hates it

Posted: 2/23/2021 8:34:29 AM EDT

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This is the one I remember

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Yep.

Posted: 2/23/2021 8:34:36 AM EDT

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Class of 85. Guessing at least 8 entrances. Couple buddies brought their ARs in for speech class and I brought in a spent LAW.
Glad I grew up when I did.....

Posted: 2/23/2021 9:06:46 AM EDT

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me.

Posted: 2/23/2021 9:10:30 AM EDT

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Class of '86. WTF, OP?

Posted: 2/23/2021 9:13:02 AM EDT

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Class of '81. No giggle.

Posted: 2/23/2021 9:32:28 AM EDT

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Yup! Me too! 89

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Graduated in 89 but that sign means nothing to me.

However I do chortle every time I see an “Entrance in Rear” sign.

Yup! Me too! 89

class of 89 up in here

this sign was funny because of a Dennis the Menace cartoon.

Posted: 2/23/2021 9:45:24 AM EDT

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This one gives me a giggle. But that's because I haven't grown up.
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This is what I thought OP was going to post. I have no idea about his sign.

Had a buddy in HS that would make noises and start rocking back and forth when he saw that sign. We'd bust out laughing!

Posted: 2/23/2021 9:54:52 AM EDT

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Anyone figure out why the OP giggles at the sign? Is this a "safe" thread?

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I suspect it's because people could randomly walk in/out of a seemingly endless amount of unlocked school doors in the 80s/90s. And now you have to give a blood sample before they'll let you in to the office.

Posted: 2/23/2021 10:02:35 AM EDT

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I suspect it's because people could randomly walk in/out of a seemingly endless amount of unlocked school doors in the 80s/90s. And now you have to give a blood sample before they'll let you in to the office.

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Giggle though? Still doesn’t make sense.

Posted: 2/23/2021 10:14:56 AM EDT

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Why that gun has two handles?

Posted: 2/23/2021 10:32:22 AM EDT

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This is the one I remember

https://www.classicmetalsigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Fallout-Shelter-Sign-3.jpg

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I have that sign on the side of my beer fridge, an original.

Posted: 2/23/2021 10:36:05 AM EDT

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I grew up in the 80s and have no idea why that sign would make me giggle.

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Graduated in 1988. I don't get it either.

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Graduated in 89 but that sign means nothing to me.

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Graduated in 83 and have no idea about that sign.

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Class of '87 checking in to say I have no idea what OP is referencing.

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I see I'm not the only one.

Posted: 2/23/2021 11:50:20 AM EDT

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Not sure or the year, but this is the sign that makes me giggle.

Posted: 2/23/2021 12:06:46 PM EDT

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Posted: 2/23/2021 12:33:19 PM EDT

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Class of 85. Didn't watch V.

Posted: 2/23/2021 12:39:02 PM EDT

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I grew up the
N. I do not get the sign or why it would make me giggle.

Posted: 2/23/2021 12:42:53 PM EDT

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I get it. We're a nation of overly cautious pussies and back in my day, no one had security at high schools.

Unless they were in the inner city.

Anyway, no I don't giggle at those. Makes me nauseous we send our kids to commie education camps where they learn this is normal. Bad parenting, IMHO.

Posted: 2/23/2021 12:43:18 PM EDT

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I grew up in the 80s and have no idea why that sign would make me giggle.

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Me too.

Posted: 2/23/2021 12:45:27 PM EDT

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I grew up in the 80s and have no idea why that sign would make me giggle.

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Dont remember the sign or why it would be funny

Posted: 2/23/2021 12:46:12 PM EDT

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EYE

OWN

THREE!!!

Posted: 2/23/2021 12:54:23 PM EDT

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EYE

OWN

THREE!!!

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WRONG!

Posted: 2/23/2021 12:57:27 PM EDT

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it was a different, BETTER time

Posted: 2/23/2021 1:00:24 PM EDT

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I'm not seeing what's funny about the sign.

Posted: 2/23/2021 1:01:07 PM EDT

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So, now I'm guessing it had something to do with the TV show V. But I'm still not gettin it.

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The aliens were called "visitors" in that show, if my memory isn't off. I don't remember if the sign was used at some point in the show as a joke, or not.

On the topic of schools, my elementary and junior high schools were built before WW2, so they had stout doors with small windows using the security glass that had a wire mesh in it. Both have since been torn down and replaced with buildings that have the large "shoot out the glass and step through the large hole" entrances. High school already had the glass entrances, when I was there.

Posted: 2/23/2021 1:24:58 PM EDT

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"Personnel urinating in this area will be relived"
extra points for the 80's movie it was in.

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WarGames

Posted: 2/23/2021 8:01:47 PM EDT

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WRONG!

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EYE

OWN

THREE!!!

WRONG!

Now?

Posted: 2/23/2021 8:38:33 PM EDT

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Giggle though? Still doesn’t make sense.

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I suspect it's because people could randomly walk in/out of a seemingly endless amount of unlocked school doors in the 80s/90s. And now you have to give a blood sample before they'll let you in to the office.

Giggle though? Still doesn’t make sense.

Class of '87. I'll guess that OP skipped class with his buddies (some people in my school would go get high), and went past that sign coming back into the parking lot, right before they snuck back into the building through a side door.