Serena's Mr Floppy Collection http://mrfloppies.fotopic.net/ 5 rows en-gb 60 Foreign Floppies http://mrfloppies.fotopic.net/c269226.html They have them abroad too - just facing the other way, if they drive on the other side of the road! Wednesday 25 August 2004: They have them abroad too - just facing the other way, if they drive on the other side of the road!

A 'wonky' (leaning backwards) one near Roubaix, Lille, France. Given that the French drive on the other side of the road, it's also facing the wrong way as well! Floppy car park sign somewhere in France (found on Google) Nice bi-directional jobby - N13 West of Bayeaux (as in the tapestry?) Very curly example on I-75, Exit 7B, Tennessee, USA Ile de Re, France... pointing to a rather unfortunately named village...! Detail of floppy featured in Dead Floppies - it qualifies as a foreign one as well! We've had to road to Ars, now welcome to the road to Condom!

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]]> Wed Aug 25 2004 Dead Floppies http://mrfloppies.fotopic.net/c261031.html These are floppies that are no longer with us: demolished, dead, deceased, removed! For all I know these might be the only two that make it to this album, but we shall see! Tuesday 17 August 2004: These are floppies that are no longer with us: demolished, dead, deceased, removed! For all I know these might be the only two that make it to this album, but we shall see!

Archive photo of floppy sign in Blackburn removed when the Orbital was constructed. Shame, as it's an impressive right hand complicated oddity of a floppy! Another archive shot of different right handed, but not quite so complicated non-primary floppy sign in Blackburn, also removed as part of the Orbital construction A late French floppy awaiting its fate (also see Foreign Floppies)

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]]> Tue Aug 17 2004 And Now For Something Completely Different... http://mrfloppies.fotopic.net/c232423.html 'Borderline' Floppies, 'Wannabe' Floppies, and any other oddities that might come this way! Thursday 15 July 2004: 'Borderline' Floppies, 'Wannabe' Floppies, and any other oddities that might come this way!

Floppy with 'go faster' spoiler on its back! Road is self-explanatory, but couldn't tell you *where* this is! Floppy 'concealed' in a far more complicated diagram - A650 (actually A6037 at this point) - Bradford A 'walking stick' on the A422, Edge Hill This sign is actually *before* the previous one, also on the A422, almost hidden in the trees - another walking stick! Pedestrian floppy sign outside St Pancras Station, London Mr Happy on A446 Going the other way, and it's a floppy, albeit one looking like an old person with a football! Definitely a 'wannabe' Floppy - A635 Eastbound, leaving Stalybridge A 'floppy' with an identity problem and an extra appendage? On A57(M), Manchester Complicated or what?! A startling 'right handed' example found in a Blackburn car park Now this one 'flops' to the left and turns to the right! Mr We-Don't-Wanna-Be-Floppys'? Queens Drive, Liverpool Now this really IS different! Mr Happy! On the A1 in Yorkshire Playboy Bunny sign where the M40 meets the M42 - visually descriptive but certainly unique! A 'crowbar'! Warning of a bend... B4451 of course! Not sure what you'd call this one! It goes in all directions! Westminster Bridge, London A floppy tree! Junction 9 of The Leeds City Centre Loop A complicated affair on the A650 in Tingley Taken at night (hence the blurriness and strange colour), a curious right-hander with a 'lid' on the end of it! On A638 leaving Wakefield for Doncaster Not a roundabout, not a right turn, but definitely confused! Mr 'I Swing Both Ways'? M6, Junction 7 Mr Wobbly! B645 near Raunds Not an official road sign but visible from the road - looks a bit like a gallows! Weird roundabout-tied-up-in-knots thingy in the centre of Wolverhampton Real oddity on the former A666 at Whalley... seems sort of apt, really! Mr Kinky! He's on the A623 between Stoney Middleton and Chapel-en-le-Frith in Derbyshire B6107 - note how the fine concrete lampost next to the sign is a sort of mirror image to the sign in shape! OK?! A635 Eastbound approaching Ashton-under-Lyne A kind of floppy in West London - certainly with 'floppy-ish' elements! Hmmm... now does that look like a circuit of a roundabout to you? Me neither! Not unless it has a bridge over it somewhere! We've had roundabouts - Leicester has a 'square'-about! On the A563 Ring Road A 'floppy'ish merge sign onto the M69 in Leicestershire

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]]> Thu Jul 15 2004 Non Motorway Floppies http://mrfloppies.fotopic.net/c230599.html They aren't only on motorways, you know! Tuesday 13 July 2004: They aren't only on motorways, you know!

Wrong way floppy on A623, Derbyshire Rather neglected but nicely floppy (complete with wart!) sign stuck in the trees on the A674 in Chorley A835 Northbound - looks like it's just about to tip it down with rain somewhere around Kingussie! A529 on the way to Audlem - nice, slightly squiffy one here! Real mixer-tap hairpin jobbie on the way to Penrith on the A686 Fab self-found example on South Gyle Broadway, Edinburgh, coming up to the Gogar Roundabout Almost like a giant cactus in the Arizona Desert! A38, Derbyshire Just behind the previous sign, is this little walking stick! Someone's nailed a bolt into the top of that cactus! A27, Hampshire A9 - not far from the floppy in Picture 14 - better weather though! A14 Junction 26 On the A41 - un-numbered junction to A4251 A somewhat 'angular' one on the A40 A61 just outside Chesterfield On the A610 in Derbyshire, South East of Codnor Also on the A610 in Derbyshire, SE of Codnor This one seems to be the other side of the junction from 'Mr Happy' (see What is it about the A14 for floppy signs? This one is Junction 29 Westbound And the A14 yet again! Junction 30 Westbound this time! A14 Junction 1 - a popular road for 'Mr Floppys' Perfect example on the A8, Edinburgh, near the Gogar Roundabout (different exit from Picture 18) A45 junction 11 A45 junction 10 - popular on the A45. Note the equally wonky lampost just beyond! A1 Cromwell north junction NI M1, Junction 13. Looks like it's the motorway or the unclassified road for this example in Northern Ireland! NI A2 at Whiteabbey. So you either take the floppy or end up at a dead end here! NI M2, Junction 2 Onslip. Bit worn out, and unusually right-handed example leading to a very oddly coloured motorway! A very floppy and curly floppy, seen on leaving the Tyne Bridge! Southern approach to Montrose on the A92, looking Northbound Rather worn-out floppy on the A90 Westbound beside (between Perth and Dundee). The sign has since been replaced by a shiny new floppy which will hopefully follow soon!

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]]> Tue Jul 13 2004 Motorway 'Mr Floppy' Signs http://mrfloppies.fotopic.net/c229780.html You can see how they got called Mr Floppy! Depending on how you look at them, they either look like a mixer tap in a kitchen sink, or more amusingly, a matchstick man in need of some Viagra! Monday 12 July 2004: You can see how they got called Mr Floppy! Depending on how you look at them, they either look like a mixer tap in a kitchen sink, or more amusingly, a matchstick man in need of some Viagra!

Impressive right-handed floppy at Northern end of the M606 in Bradford (crossing over s/b carriageway) Ooer Missus! M9 A404(M), Junction 9a M4 Junction 7 The one that started it all... M1 Junction 6 A beautiful example on the M6, Junction 34 NI M2, Junction 12 - Northern Irish example of a 'double' floppy. Very surreal night time photo with this and left bend sign apparently hanging in mid-air!

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