“I saw a sign that said ‘Slow Deer Crossing.’ Why don’t the deer just run faster?”

A “SLOW—Deer Crossing” sign shouldn’t be read as “slow deer crossing,” but there are jokes. A Nancy comic strip on May 3, 1967, showed a fast deer sprinting in front of a “Slow Deer Crossing” sign. “He sure didn’t look slow to me,” Nancy said.
 
“I saw a sign that said ‘slow deer crossing’. Why don’t the deer just run faster?” was posted on Twitter by daniel on March 3, 2016. “While I was driving down the road today I saw a sign that read SLOW DEER and I thought to myself, well they should be easy to avoid” was posted on Reddit—Oneliners on March 30, 2019.
 
   
3 May 1967, Idaho Free Press and Caldwell News-Tribune (Nampa, ID), “Nancy” comic strip by Ernie Bushmiller, pg. A4, col. 5:
(Nancy sees a deer sprint by a “SLOW DEER CROSSING” sign,—ed.)
NANCY: HE SURE DIDN’T LOOK SLOW TO ME.
     
Facebook
Seamus Ruari O’Bradaigh shared a post.
May 25, 2016 ·
See the trouble. .. Slow deer crossing… slow deer dammit.. if haliburton highlands deer were only like…you know.. faster.. they could cross the damn road without getting hit.. just an idea but maybe we need to start feeding deer in Haliburton .. and spike the feed.. with like.. diet pills….
 
Twitter
daniel
@dandude2
I saw a sign that said “slow deer crossing”. Why don’t the deer just run faster?
10:21 PM - 3 Dec 2016
   
Twitter
kate
@katelynnelogan
Whenever I see the “slow deer crossing” sign, I imagine some big, derpy-ass deer in the middle of the road.
5:17 PM - 25 May 2017
 
Reddit—Oneliners
Posted by u/Jdaug53 March 30, 2019
While I was driving down the road today I saw a sign that read SLOW DEER and I thought to myself, well they should be easy to avoid.
COMMENTS
BarryZZZ
What the poorly worded sign intended to say was STUPID DEER they’ll jump right out in front of you.
 
Twitter
OneMoreJoke
@OneMJoke
While I was driving down the road today I saw a sign that read SLOW DEER and I thought to myself, well they should be easy to avoid.
11:10 PM - 30 Mar 2019