NOTHING makes us chuckle more than a silly sign – and we have featured numerous pictures of daft, rude and bizarre signs over the years. BEN JAMES looks back at some of the funniest.

BE IT pranksters or inept workers, funny signs leave us scratching our heads and laughing out loud in equal measure.

One case was in 1990, when someone had some fun in Mid Sussex.

Heather Griffiths notified The Argus when she spotted a confused road sign while driving by.

While searching for directions, she had to double-take after reading the sign.

It read, Hivelsfield Green (one and a half miles) and Waywards Heath (five miles).

Whether it was down to pranksters or incompetent road workers was uncertain but thankfully after reporting it, the two first letters were switched so the sign read correctly: Wivelsfield Green and Haywards Heath.

Meanwhile, other signs appear to have come a cropper at the printing stage as the headless horse rider shows, pictured left.

We had plenty of calls to the office in 1984 when the sign was erected – ironically, close to Brighton racecourse.

Talking of erections, Walton’s Buildings had many of you chuckling away after advertising their erection service in the early 80s. No matter how immature, we couldn’t help but smile too at their inadvertently suggestive poster.

It read: “Our erection service includes assembly of building on to a prepared base.

“It is the customer’s responsibility to provide a suitable base before delivery.

“Please ask for a leaflet on base preparation before ordering.”

Some signs don’t so much make you laugh, as make you go “aah” – as was the case with Gaz’s message to Beverley in Lewes Road, Brighton.

Drivers awoke one morning in 1988 to see Gaz’s declaration of love on an old billboard outside the Polytechnic, now University of Brighton. It read: “To Beverley, Happy Birthday, Love You, Gez XXX”.

However, there was one sign which attracted more attention and more calls to The Argus office than any other.

It appeared on the streets of Brighton in 1990 and conjured up images of council workers on their hands and knees measuring dog dirt.

The sign read: “A person in charge of a dog which fouls the footway and grass verge up to 4 metres wide is liable to a fine of £100.”

You could not resist calling us and we obliged by printing a photo of the poorly worded sign in the paper. One of our favourites, though, is from 1988, when a fast-food outlet appeared to be selling children and pensioners for 75p.

The sign read: “OAP and child, cod and chips – 75p.”

What a bargain.