• incoherent (unregistered)

    Pedantic note: That's not "Highway 41" there. There is a US Highway 41, but it is well east of Texas. There is even a Texas State Highway 41, which goes through the Hill Country near San Antonio.

    But Slaton, Texas is near neither of those: it's near Lubbock in the north. What you're actually looking at there is the sign for FM 41, a "farm to market" road. FM roads are generally two-lane highways that go through the middle of nowhere, although in some cases (like this one) they turn into city streets.

    Captcha: duis. Yes, I'm sure there are plenty of those on FM 41.

  • P.M.Lawrence (unregistered)

    About Wan Thai Foods - the Wisconsin Tourism Federation has just changed its name (see http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/6242687/WTF-Wisconsin-Tourism-Federation-changes-name-after-internet-jokes.html).

    Oh, and here in Melbourne we have a couple of High Street Roads, roads leading off High Streets. Drinkwater Street Lane is probably just something of that sort.

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to erich
    erich:
    Candlejack:
    why's that dude trying to get pics of his sister in law?

    heh, my thoughts exactly. Creep alert...

    You guys have internets in your trailers?

    CAPTCHA: dolor, which suits this update perfectly, imho.

  • Sylver (unregistered) in reply to Filo Pastry
    Filo Pastry:
    Perhaps Google are trying to get a share of the Apple market.
    Now, that was funny
  • (cs) in reply to fgjtyi
    fgjtyi:
    Markp:
    RobFreundlich:
    Federico:
    anon:
    Some people might given those boxes the /boot, but I'd /opt for them. They'd find a place in my /home, maybe in the /lib-rary. I know if my /sys saw them she'd /bin them, but she always is /var-y mean.

    I could /root around for some more puns, /etc /etc, but I think I'll halt there.

    Great! Why did you stop the /proc-ess?

    At the prices they're charging, it's clearly a case of /usr-y.

    /sbin.

    Of course the prices are only /tmp-oraray!

    Maybe you can /src some /local-y ?

  • telmesrin (unregistered) in reply to Malenfant
    Malenfant:
    On the subject of street names, I am always tickled by one in Douglas on the Isle of Man. It is called Drinkwater Street Lane. Is it a street? Is it a lane? We're not sure, so lets call it both.

    Here in Columbus, Ohio, we have a Lane Avenue. I used to joke that we should also have an Avenue Street, a Street Drive, and a Drive Lane. Yeah, no one laughed then, either.

  • My Name? (unregistered) in reply to Nyquist
    Nyquist:
    fgjtyi:
    Markp:
    RobFreundlich:
    Federico:
    anon:
    Some people might given those boxes the /boot, but I'd /opt for them. They'd find a place in my /home, maybe in the /lib-rary. I know if my /sys saw them she'd /bin them, but she always is /var-y mean.

    I could /root around for some more puns, /etc /etc, but I think I'll halt there.

    Great! Why did you stop the /proc-ess?

    At the prices they're charging, it's clearly a case of /usr-y.

    /sbin.

    Of course the prices are only /tmp-oraray!

    Maybe you can /src some /local-y ?

    I /lost+found the /media in my /*/local/bin.

  • P.M.Lawrence (unregistered)

    Drinkwater Street Lane is just the lane behind Drinkwater Street, it appears from http://maps.google.com.au/maps?hl=en&q=Drinkwater+Street+Douglas+Isle+Of+Man&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=Drinkwater+St,+Douglas+IM1+1,+UK&gl=au&ei=fB_HSo_4Fpvu6gOutvDwBA&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1. There's a Hill Street Lane behind Hill Street nearby, too.

  • Cliff (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    White text on black background = a lot of toner was wasted in receiving that fax
  • JohnFx (unregistered)

    The comment for the badly formatted ad for business card publishing didn't make a lot of sense.

    Why wouldn't you patronize that company exactly? Because the NEWSPAPER screwed up on the typesetting?

  • (cs) in reply to P.M.Lawrence
    P.M.Lawrence:
    About Wan Thai Foods - the Wisconsin Tourism Federation has just changed its name (see http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/6242687/WTF-Wisconsin-Tourism-Federation-changes-name-after-internet-jokes.html).

    I am disappointed that no-one thought to change it to Federation of Tourism in Wisconsin.

  • Kirk (unregistered) in reply to JohnFx
    JohnFx:
    The comment for the badly formatted ad for business card publishing didn't make a lot of sense.

    Why wouldn't you patronize that company exactly? Because the NEWSPAPER screwed up on the typesetting?

    It got lost in translation, but the badly formatted ad was for the NEWSPAPER company. They want us to buy business cards from them, and they can't even get their own formatting right! And you should read the rest of the paper sometime...

  • (cs) in reply to DaveK
    DaveK:
    shinobu:
    I find the name unix ware very appropriate. It's written on the box that even FAT pollution is washed off very easily.
    Except we know that it didn't wash off all that easily, because we all know MS secretly funded SCO, don't we?

    If, by "we all", you mean "all of the grunt IT people who dislike Microsoft", and by "know" you mean "have a very good reason to suspect, while not actually having sufficient court admissible evidence", then yes!

    Unfortunately, the people who make major software purchase decisions in this world tend to not fall in the above group. It's unlikely that a lot of them would be converted if we did have enough court admissible evidence to prove it, and had a court ruling confirming that fact.

  • (cs)

    The climbing gear is obviously for climbing rocks on the moon, where wings are of no use.

  • (cs) in reply to Flatline
    Flatline:
    Um, the carnival one isn't a WTF either. The no smoking/drinking simply refers to the PARENTS of these 9-11 year olds.
    But at least the little ones are allowed to take up soliciting...
  • Geranimo (unregistered) in reply to Bim Job
    Bim Job:
    In unrelated news, and just to repeat anonymous above, you'd have to be a total tit to think of gargoyles as anything other than a gothic decoration to stonework. Stop playing with your D&D miniature trolls, and try and learn something, for a change.
    trolls? He wasn't playing with you... by the way you're confusing "Gargoyles" with "gargoyle". If you spell it pluralized and uncapitalized ("gargoyles"), it means that someone is attempting to remedy a throat ailment using salad dressing. EG "She has a cucumber slice stuck in her throat so she gargoyles".
  • Nick (unregistered) in reply to Club
    Club:
    I'm a prepress operator and I have seen the problem like on that ad many times. It happens because a company creates their ad and sends a PDF to the newspaper, the subeditor at the newspaper is a clueless idiot and doesn't know how to use InDesign, so when they place the ad and export the PDF of the page, they ignore the "OMG LINKS ARE MISSING" warning and save it anyway. InDesign "cleverly" uses its cache of the image in place of the missing link. It's cache just happens to be low quality and have no fonts embedded so the result is a Courier font-face in the default font-size which usually means it overflows the box it's in and the text is cut off.
    To me, this looks like the designer didn't outline their fonts and the RIP just replaced it with the default font. It still should have been caught somewhere along the line though.
  • Xythar (unregistered) in reply to Geranimo
    Geranimo:
    by the way you're confusing "Gargoyles" with "gargoyle". If you spell it pluralized and uncapitalized ("gargoyles"), it means that someone is attempting to remedy a throat ailment using salad dressing. EG "She has a cucumber slice stuck in her throat so she gargoyles".

    Absolutely. Don't listen to these Trolls, all Common Nouns should be capitalised in the English Language. To supply a couple of Corrections to your Post, your Example should read "She has a Cucumber Slice stuck in her Throat so she gargoyles".

  • Kelderek (unregistered) in reply to Emperor Obvious
    Emperor Obvious:
    Guy Dude:
    The gargoyle has *wings*, which should obviate the need for rock climbing equipment.

    Boy, do I feel stupid.

    So have penguins and ostriches. Ever seen those fly (or even glide)?

  • (cs)

    re 9-11 year olds.

    Have you been outside?

  • Pffft!!! (unregistered) in reply to Someone You Know

    [quote user="Someone You Know"][quote user="MC"][quote]It doesn't strike me as a particularly unusual name for a street. There are, for instance, two of them in downtown Buffalo.[/quote]

    Did there used to be only one?[/quote]

    Actually I was waiting for the bad pun that there used to be a single Division street, but that they divided it unequally, resulting in a long Division street and a short Division Street.

  • Chris M. (unregistered) in reply to Guy Dude
    Guy Dude:
    The gargoyle has *wings*, which should obviate the need for rock climbing equipment.

    Okay, I'm going to get really geeky here, because I'm a fan of the series this comes from. Gargoyles actually have great need of rock climbing, because they can't fly as such; they can only glide. Climing up rock is a favored way of getting height to glide from.

    On the other hand, gargoyle don't need equipment to rock climb because their claws make excellent built-in pitons, gouging out hand and foot holds even in solid stone as they climb. So they don't need this fancy-nancy equipment anyways.

  • (cs)

    Wait, all this time and nobody's commented on the... wonderful... street names in Atlanta yet?

    There's Peachtree Street, which splits off for a brief length to West Peachtree Street before merging back to become Peachtree Road. And then further north, Peachtree Road splits off into Peachtree Industrial Boulevard. This is, of course, completely ignoring side streets such as Peachtree Battle Avenue, Peachtree Memorial Drive, Peachtree Circle, and so on... And because of the way the roads split off, there are several intersections that could be referred to as the corner of Peachtree and Peachtree.

    You know how after you've stared at a word long enough, it starts to look nonsensical? Yeah, "Peachtree" is doing that for me right now.

  • Sir Wilhelm (unregistered) in reply to Guy Dude
    Guy Dude:
    No Name:
    The Google one looks fake. I don't understand the one about Division St. The gargoyle is climbing a rope, not a rock.

    The gargoyle has wings, which should obviate the need for rock climbing equipment.

    ITT: People who never watched The Gargoyles Series... and had no childhood at all.

  • (cs)

    O, your fax machine doesn't have a feature to negate in case of 50% or more black?

  • Grandpa's Long Drawers (unregistered) in reply to Xythar
    Xythar:
    Geranimo:
    by the way you're confusing "Gargoyles" with "gargoyle". If you spell it pluralized and uncapitalized ("gargoyles"), it means that someone is attempting to remedy a throat ailment using salad dressing. EG "She has a cucumber slice stuck in her throat so she gargoyles".

    Absolutely. Don't listen to these Trolls, all Common Nouns should be capitalised in the English Language. To supply a couple of Corrections to your Post, your Example should read "She has a Cucumber Slice stuck in her Throat so she gargoyles".

    But then we wouldn't be able to tell a Gargoyle from a gargoyle.

  • rwessel (unregistered) in reply to DWalker59
    DWalker59:
    "Do not remove this wall". Hmmm.

    I like the signs that say "This door must remain closed at all times". At ALL times? Then why is there a door there? Replace it with a wall, or brick it over.

    It's a stupid sign, since if there's anything useful on the other side -- empty space that can be used for filing, or anything that anyone might ever want to get to, then the sign is inappropriate.

    That sort of thing probably happens with some regularity when temporary partitions are used to segregate an area in which classified materials can be handled.

    That sort of "soft" division is not uncommon. On airfields, for example, there are often classified areas separated by nothing more than a line of red paint on the tarmac (since it's often a bad idea to build big walls across airfields). Anyone simply stepping across such a line without previously arranged permission (for example, you might be able to taxi an aircraft across such a line), as opposed to crossing at the appropriate checkpoint, will promptly find themselves face down on the ground making the intimate acquaintance of a group of well armed individuals with astonishingly undeveloped senses of humor.

    Obviously that only works in environments where everyone is basically trusted.

  • Grandpa's Long Drawers (unregistered) in reply to rwessel
    rwessel:
    That sort of "soft" division is not uncommon. On airfields, for example, there are often classified areas separated by nothing more than a line of red paint
    So when they paint these divisions on..... do they use primer?
  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    I think we've reached a new low here. Unrealistic kids toys? Bad photocopying? Do we start on GI Joe tomorrow?

  • Paul N (unregistered) in reply to DaveK
    DaveK:
    ... is the forum software.
    wtfed-up CS HTML:

    "If it were any other bank," Dave S writes, "it probably wouldn't be such a big deal, but I think SunTrust really needs to get that 'S' working."

     

    So, precisely WTF is the point of making each pic a link back to this exact same item on the exact same page?

    That kind of thing makes sense when it's a link back to the top of a really huge long page, but do we really need to cater to people who don't know how to scroll three lines up? I think not.

    Check again. The hrefs for the pictures are: #PPic5 #Pic1 #Pic2 #Pic3 #Pic4 #Pic5 #PPic1 #PPic2 #PPic3 #PPic4 #PPic4 #PPic5

    So, clicking the unix ware picture will take you to the secure wall picture, and clicking the yumyum picture will take you to the feedback picture.

    WTF???

  • oppeto (unregistered) in reply to Guy Dude
    Guy Dude:
    No Name:
    The Google one looks fake. I don't understand the one about Division St. The gargoyle is climbing a rope, not a rock.

    The gargoyle has wings, which should obviate the need for rock climbing equipment.

    Frankly, the sticker in the picture itself didn't obviate the need for framing in the descriptive text.

  • mutatpul - biotech FTW! (unregistered) in reply to Smyle
    Smyle:
    Yeah, well I live on "North St." (apparently named after somebody whose last name was "North"). Whoever did this should be shot. They're probably long since dead, but then they should be dug up and shot.

    I put into Google Maps (or MapQuest, or whatever) '108 North St.' and they come back with "Do you mean 108 N. 6th St.?" or something similar. I get packages addressed to '108 N. St.'

    So, instead of punishing people who are being stupid, you would defile a corpse? Whatever works for you, I guess..

  • abbas (unregistered) in reply to DaveK
    DaveK:
    Guy Dude:
    No Name:
    The Google one looks fake. I don't understand the one about Division St. The gargoyle is climbing a rope, not a rock.

    The gargoyle has wings, which should obviate the need for rock climbing equipment.

    It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple question of weight ratios!
    Is it a European or an African gargoyle?
  • Arenlor (unregistered) in reply to mutatpul - biotech FTW!
    mutatpul - biotech FTW!:
    Smyle:
    Yeah, well I live on "North St." (apparently named after somebody whose last name was "North"). Whoever did this should be shot. They're probably long since dead, but then they should be dug up and shot.

    I put into Google Maps (or MapQuest, or whatever) '108 North St.' and they come back with "Do you mean 108 N. 6th St.?" or something similar. I get packages addressed to '108 N. St.'

    So, instead of punishing people who are being stupid, you would defile a corpse? Whatever works for you, I guess..
    I'm actually more surprised that no one knows that a road/street/the_hell is often named after a person when their land is bought by the government in order to make the road/street/the_hell. We have a Fritz Street here because of that.

  • Greg (unregistered)

    My university campus is at the intersection of Union St and Division St. And the streets had these names before the university was founded, so the geekery is unintentional.

  • Deborah Swinney (unregistered) in reply to rwessel

    They have an armed response for the trusted people? What do they do to the untrusted ones?

  • rwessel (unregistered) in reply to Deborah Swinney
    Deborah Swinney:
    They have an armed response for the trusted people? What do they do to the untrusted ones?

    I was using "trusted" in a loose sense. That kind of "soft" barrier is not used when you have people around who you can't trust to obey the rules.

    Being trusted in this context doesn't mean you're authorized to enter any specific restricted area. You may very well be allowed to enter some, but not others. And the crossing of a marked secure boundary is basically always forbidden (yes, there are sometimes exceptions), since that would bypass the security checkpoint. It's analogous to an actual wall - even if you're authorized to be in the room on the other side of the wall, you should expect a rather severe reaction when you haul out your sawzall and cut yourself a new entrance.

  • iToad (unregistered)

    The fax page looks like a a stunt from back in the day, called the Black Fax of Death. Years ago, when the fax machine was new, you could burn out the thermal printhead by faxing about 40-50 sheets of solid black construction paper to the target machine.

    A friend of mine sent one of these to a lawyer's office during a legal dispute, and heard later that it actually worked.

  • regarding the yumyum article (unregistered)

    FIY: the domain name "ajinomoto" is a famous japanese company producing MSG...

  • TechSY730 (unregistered)

    Finally, I get to test out Google Fruit Stand (beta).

  • Ptorq (unregistered)

    I think I recognize that "do not move this wall" sign.

    It was in a local church, which had a large (like, 30,000 square feet large) storage area. They'd bought an existing warehouse building, refurbished the front half, and reserved the back for future expansion.

    Having all that room out back*, they decided to allow another non-profit organization use part of it to pack and ship CARE-type packages to military personnel deployed overseas. They got some ancient cubicle parts from somewhere, and built a sort of "corral" around the area that this happened in, including, yes, a semi-movable barrier across the entrance that wasn't actually fastened to the rest of the walls.

    The sign was intended as a reminder to church staff and volunteers that that area was "off limits" temporarily, and they couldn't just go in there and grab whatever looked interesting to them, which certain departments had a bad habit of doing.

    It may have not been that specific place, but I'd bet it's for a similar kind of "Honor system security" deal. No barrier? People go in, because they don't realize they're not supposed to. Barrier, no sign? People move it and go in because clearly it's meant to keep OTHER people out, not them. But a barrier with a sign will at least make most people think "Hmm, just maybe, as inconceivable as it seems, not even I am supposed to go in, even though there are boxes of delicious cookies sitting there."

    • Arlo Guthrie reference intentional
  • anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Smyle
    Smyle:
    Yeah, well I live on "North St." (apparently named after somebody whose last name was "North"). Whoever did this should be shot. They're probably long since dead, but then they should be dug up and shot.

    I put into Google Maps (or MapQuest, or whatever) '108 North St.' and they come back with "Do you mean 108 N. 6th St.?" or something similar. I get packages addressed to '108 N. St.'

    It's a small town - I should petition the city to change it.

    Psh. In a small town that I visited, there are both West South Ave and South West St - and the two don't intersect. South Ave runs east/west along the southern edge of town, but West St runs north/south directly through the middle, and doesn't quite reach South Ave at its southern end.

    You could be driving east into town on E 69th Ave, continue onto W South Ave, South Ave, and finally back onto E 69th Ave as you leave it. Or you could start at the intersection of W Ave C and S West St, drive north, and continue onto West St and then N West St, which is discontinuous because it's interrupted by a school.

    Thankfully, there's no North Ln or East Cir anywhere to further confuse the matter.

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