The following signs are actual roadsigns I encountered while driving throughout Kuwait. While many are relatively simple, there are a few that may fuel your driving dreams to become nightmares of notices, your sunset strolls into dire signs of distress, and your amber waves of grain into jeering geodes of junkyards.

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This sign may look easy, but notice the way it's painted. A red ring surrounds a white field. Of course! It's a bull's-eye. 120 is NOT the maximum speed, as one may originally think it to be. It is the goal speed. You may drive above or below 120, but the closer you are to 120, the more right you are under the law. What crazy driving rules they have here.

This sign was so confusing, they not only had to put what it meant right below it in Arabic, but in English, too. For those of you surfing the web on your PDA, it's says "no stopping."

This sign means that you need to add more coal to your fire...about 200 units. I didn't have to worry because I was driving an internal combustion engine. Funny, though, how I didn't see any steam cars on the road.

This sign is a "Fun Ahead" sign. It means that you are to spin around in circles until you stop having fun.

One of the few color-specific signs. You are allowed to pass the car in front of you only if you drive a red car.

The biggest problem of driving in a country with a national language other than one you know is that the signs on the road could say, "All Arabic speakers merge left to avoid the pot-hole in the right lane...all Americans will suffer the bumpy road that way" and you would have no clue.

I understand this one...sort of.

This is the winner of the "Longest Road Name" Award. The full name of the highway doesn't even fit in one line!

And here is a close second.

This isn't a road sign, but it's a sign I saw and never figured out what it meant...

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