From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 17 15:20:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA25973 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 15:20:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hp.com (hp.com [15.255.152.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA25964 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 15:20:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xsvr2.cup.hp.com by hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA072632013; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 15:20:13 -0700 Received: by xsvr2.cup.hp.com (1.39.111.2/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA164982013; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 15:20:13 -0700 From: "Josef C. Grosch" Message-Id: <9607171520.ZM16496@xsvr2.cup.hp.com> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 15:20:12 -0700 In-Reply-To: Barnacle Wes "Re: FreeBSD keyboard" (Jul 17, 3:48pm) References: <199607172148.PAA15023@xmission.xmission.com> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.1 10apr95) To: Barnacle Wes Subject: Re: FreeBSD keyboard Cc: chat@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -