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This is a street sign in Newport Beach California. You can't go UP or DOWN from the right lane even if you could.
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uummm Newport Beach.. beautiful place to bike.
i should go check it out...
You don't love someone because they are beautiful, they are beautiful because you love them.
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Not being an American, I spent some time puzzling what UP and DOWN meant in an American context. It took me a while to realise that even American cars are, in fact, generally constricted to the same two dimensions as ours!
David
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Ho ho and tee hee....In America for some strange reason up is higher and down is lower. Because maps sometime hang on a wall we also say up north or down south you all. 
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[Updated on: Sat, 10 November 2007 00:36] |
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It's not immediately obvious to a foreigner how road markings are wrong, as we don't know what they look like when right. If you'd not commented on it, I probably wouldn't have given it a second glance, even though it seems a little bit odd on further reflection.
Come to think of it, if that sign hadn't been there, what would be to stop people driving across the junction backwards? It doesn't bear thinking about!
David
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cossie
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The road marking makes it clear that you can go pretty much wherever you fancy - BUT YOU SIMPLY CANNOT REVERSE!!!!
(Exits stage left, sniggering like a maniac.)
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
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Is it the word "Only" that is the funny thing? I'm not taking the piss, I just can't spot it.
Many years ago, I think in Newton, Mass, I was driving and came to a set of traffic lights at a crossroads.
Left, ahead and right arrows were shining red. The main light was green.
I was in the car with many (well, three) US citizens. None of them had any idea what was legal to do at this signal!
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Yes, it was "ONLY" that I found funny. If following the three arrows were the only legal things you could do, just what was it that was NOT allowed? I'll restrict my funnies to friends at the senior center from now on. :-/
[Updated on: Sat, 10 November 2007 15:38] |
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I don't want to be a party pooper, but could it be that the road painters were not the brightest ones in America and that they were told tp paint 'only' on the junction and that's what they did?
Hugs
N
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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Doesn't it suck when the joke is so obvious only the teller can see it!
Well if all three arrows were red but the main light was green we had no idea what to do. My suggestion was to panic!
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Would these be the same fellows who paint "shcool crossing"? ::-)
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But if I remember correctly in England the trains run up going towards London and down going out of London no matter which whay they're actually going. So only south of London do you go up to go up, and down to go down, and in Peterborough you go down to go up, and up to come back down. And from Bristol you go east to go up, and west to come back. The ticket seller in Oxford told me it was from olden times when everyone said "going up to Town" when they were going to London. And in school you don't get expelled you "get sent down." And I still don't totally understand cricket where you be in and out, and in but not out, and when everybody's been in and out the game's over. But it's fun to play so long as you remember to tap your bat on the ground behind the wickets when you run back and forth. They say bad things under their breath when you forget that. I never went down on a cricket player but I hear they have nice bats.
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cossie
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Our railways do always go up to London, but if you make a cross-country journey you may go up and down without changing direction. I leave yoo to work that out!
But when I travel to London, I take an up train to go down South, and when I return, a down train brings be back up North.
You only get sent down from University (elsewhere, you are just expelled). Even so, it may be less embarrassing than being sent up, which means that you are treated as a figure of ridicule.
And ignorance of the laws of cricket is a reason for pride in several parts of British society. But it IS useful to remember that if your side is in but you're out, you can find someone in the same situation with whom to sneak out, get 'em down and get it up. Or is that a bit too advanced?
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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cossie
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On fire! |
Location: Exiled in North East Engl...
Registered: July 2003
Messages: 1699
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... I hope you didn't think I was having a dig at you. I DID find it funny - can I join your Senior Center?
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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Sure, if you're UP to it!
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Delightful post!
In my own country everyone goes up to Jerusalem (and down to Tel-Aviv and anywhere else). But that is because geographically Jerusalem is perched high up on a mountainous ridge. Getting into the city during the rush hour is uphill agony.
J F R
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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