The musical group “Five Man Electrical Band” released a song in 1970 about all the signs that are posted around every town in America.

These signs are telling you what you can and can not do, what to wear, and how to act.

Sometimes though, signs can be hilarious as is proven by some of the businesses in Marshfield Missouri.

It was during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic when one world famous company decided to use their street signs to lighten up the mood of the town.

One of the employees at the Marshfield McDonalds wanted to give the town residents something to look forward to so they decided to be creative.

After clearing it with his management, a McDonalds employee rearranged their sign and invited the nearby Dairy Queen to a sign war.

“Hey DQ! Wanna have a sign war?” the post read.

Dairy Queen quickly fired back by telling them, “We would but we’re 2 busy making ice cream.”

The McDonalds team responded with “That’s cute our ice cream makes itself.”

Anybody who has been to a McDonalds, almost anywhere in the world in the last few years, knows good and well that McDonalds’ ice cream machines are often “broken”.

It is not surprise therefore, that the Dairy Queen quickly posted their hilarious (and true) response.

“You mean it actually works?” the sign read, they then followed up with a very sarcastic, “Shocker!”

McDonalds took the dig in good spirits though and responded with a simple, “Wow, salty” while also promoting their delicious snack by saying, “Like our world famous fries.”

The 2 fast food chains continued their war, giving the people of Marshfield something to look forward to daily.

And soon enough some of the other business around the town were joining the melee.

For example, the Arvest Bank decided to contribute by saying, “Ice cream machine broken? We have a loan for that.”

Even some of the more independent local businesses joined in.

A locally owned Mexican restaurant used a piece of bristol board taped to their door to join in.

“Ay Chihuahua!” It reads, “The sign war in town is heated, but our fajitas are sizzling!”

The people of Marshfield are a close community and everyone in the area took the sign war as something fun, not anything meant to disparage the other businesses.

Even some of the other big chains in the area decided to put in their two cents.

Wendy’s, a company known for using fresh and never frozen beef, called out McDonalds by saying, “Arch, how long does it take to thaw your frozen beef?”

Even Dominos got involved by posting, “Your signs are cheesy, just like our pizza!”

While the sign war may be fun for the employees and locals alike, it is also great advertising for their businesses.

Most of the signs knock the other companies in a mild way, while promoting their own superior products.

While the sign war has since ended, the locals are hopeful that it may start again someday and give them something to look forward to, and chuckle at, during the long days of Covid.

Check out more of the hilarious signs in the Facebook post below!

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Source: Facebook – Marshfield Area Chamber of Commerce, TODAY