Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 15:20:12 -0700 From: "Josef C. Grosch" <jgrosch@xsvr2.cup.hp.com> To: Barnacle Wes <softweyr@xmission.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD keyboard Message-ID: <9607171520.ZM16496@xsvr2.cup.hp.com> In-Reply-To: Barnacle Wes <softweyr@xmission.com> "Re: FreeBSD keyboard" (Jul 17, 3:48pm) References: <199607172148.PAA15023@xmission.xmission.com>
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On Jul 17, 3:48pm, Barnacle Wes wrote: > Subject: Re: FreeBSD keyboard > jfieber@indiana.edu apparently scrawled: > > I spent most of the time in the far north, and up to Orkney. Not > > too many signs up there. Of course, there are many places in the > > states with even fewer. One of my favorite signs I found when I > > lived in rural southeast Washington (state) was: > > > > Caution > > No Warning Signs > > Next 2 Miles > > I-70 between Green River and Salinas, Utah, is flanked with the > following signs: > > No Services > Next 100 Miles > > Utah Highway Patrol has two troopers who partol this stretch; it's > amazing the number of people who refuse to acknowlege that "No > Services" means no gas, no water, no phone, no water, no place to stop, > nothing but sand and brown sun-baked rocks, and most importantly no > water. ;^) > > Utahns familiar with the area fall into two camps: one group wants > to expand the signage so even MS-Windows users can uderstand: > > Caution: No services next 100 miles. No phone, no gas, > ! and *no water.* There is absolutely *NO WATER* in the > next 100 miles of highway. > > Abort FillUp Ignore > > The other group, whch I belong to, maintains that people who break down > on this stretch of highway and don't even have drinking water with them > are too stupid to live, and strengthen our species by removing > themselves and their offspring the from the gene pool. Darwinism > thrives! > > On a stretch of particularly nasty road in the Boundary Waters of Northern Minnesota, there is a blind, one lane, hair pin turn across the face of a rock cliff. About 2 feet of clearence on either side. On one side, rock wall and the other side, a fourty foot drop the lake below. At this curve, which is on the Echo Trail and is know as "Ed Shave", A number of years ago there was a warning sign that said: Warning Dangerous Curve We're not kidding! I should add that it is imposible to backup once you are into this turn and logging truck come barrling around this turn on a regular basis. Last time I was in Ely, MN. which is near this turn I checked and the road dept had replaced the sign with one that did not include the last line. Josef -- Josef Grosch, 47LG4 | jgrosch@cup.hp.com | "Laugh while you can, monkey boy!" (408) 447-0467 | - John Warfin -
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