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You know, there should be more signs like this around Central Oregon. Whenever we see something ugly on the side of the road – like this cell phone tower that looks a lot like a robot tree – we can pull over, pull out an “UGLY” sign and place it near whatever ugly-ass thing we’ve stumbled upon. Come to think of it, we could use all sorts of signs like this – why stop at “ugly?” We could have all sorts of adjective-only signs around the community. It would be like Facebook comments, but in real life.

This article appears in Apr 29 – May 5, 2010.

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Ugly Sign

by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon
April 28, 2010

<h1>Ugly Sign</h1> <p class="byline">by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />April 28, 2010</p> </p> <p>You know, there should be more signs like this around Central Oregon. Whenever we see something ugly on the side of the road - like this cell phone tower that looks a lot like a robot tree - we can pull over, pull out an "UGLY" sign and place it near whatever ugly-ass thing we&apos;ve stumbled upon. Come to think of it, we could use all sorts of signs like this - why stop at "ugly?" We could have all sorts of adjective-only signs around the community. It would be like Facebook comments, but in real life.</p> </p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/opinion/ugly-sign-2135575/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=15353&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/opinion/ugly-sign-2135575/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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