Terms We Take for Granted

[pdub]

They take down the "Flagman Ahead" sign, but not always the "Be Prepared to Stop" sign.

And the ones that I've seen most often on the interstates are the (whichever lane) closed X-mile(s) ahead so you start cruising and thinking strategy if there's lots of traffic. And then you may just get there and find that the lane is not closed at all, just all the cones thrown to the shoulder or median, like they did the work last night or whenever, but they're not doing it now.

And I've seen a solution to the "Bridge Freezes" signs but I can't remember where. The diamond-shaped sign was hinged in the middle and in warmer weather they fold it down to where now it's a triangle, green background instead of yellow and it says "Please Drive Safely." Those may even be in South Carolina, but I wouldn't testify to where I've seen those.

[Russell]

NC has / had some of those signs that were cut in half, you still have to send someone out there the flip it up.

[DanStokes]

Dan, one of my good friends found a "DEAF CHILDREN PLAYING" sign and proudly posted it on his barn... We play with cars, he has some machinery caused loss..

Can I get a "Knuckleheads Playing" sign for my shop? Haven't seen one but it would provide fair warning to all who enter.

Dan

[pdub]

Can I get a "Knuckleheads Playing" sign for my shop? Haven't seen one but it would provide fair warning to all who enter.

Dan

Not the same part of the body exactly, but maybe:

[JOES66FURY]

Can I get a "Knuckleheads Playing" sign for my shop? Haven't seen one but it would provide fair warning to all who enter.

Dan

If I still knew someone in the sign shop I would get you one made...he PCS'd some time ago. they make all the road signs on base...

[LORENSWIFE]

Here they will put permanent construction zone signs up while they are working and then leave them there forever, they come just before the signs that say "traffic fines doubled in construcion zones...

[moparmaniac07]

I've seen signs that said "bridge ices faster than road" and to me they make a lot more sense than "bridge may be icy". The bridge may be icy signs always get me in the middle of summer. No, I can say with certainty that the bridge is NOT icy.

[Russell]

Here they will put permanent construction zone signs up while they are working and then leave them there forever, they come just before the signs that say "traffic fines doubled in construcion zones...

Thats is true for a long term construction project they install signs at the start and end of project. Short term projects normally use sign stands.

[68scott385]

we drive on parkways but park on driveways

fire fighters fight fire
crime fighters fight crime
do freedom fighters fight freedom

yellow signs with speeds numbers are SUGGESTIONS not laws...in all 50 states

[Deaf Bob]

Vegetarians eat vegtables
What do humantarians eat?

[DanStokes]

Yum! Soylent green. What is Soylent brown made of?

I always thought speed limit signs were suggested MINIMUMS.

Dan

[pdub]

Yum! Soylent green. What is Soylent brown made of?

I always thought speed limit signs were suggested MINIMUMS.

Dan

It's a suggestion in Atlanta, on off-days. I've been going 100 mph on the beltway on a Sunday and getting passed on both doors.

Except for rush hour. Why do they call it rush hour when everybody's stopped?

[oletrux4evr]

I always thought speed limit signs were suggested MINIMUMS.

Dan

It's the same with airpspeed/mach indicators......that red line isn't really a limitation, it's a goal!

[Beagle]

Terms taken for granted..

DINK. Must be short for Humperdink.

Kenny Bernstein, long live the King! Budweiser's Top Fuel wheel man for most of my interesting years, there is still a bar right by my dad's house. Humperdink's. Paid for a lot of Kenny's road trips, as it should. It was Kenny's bar.

Sometimes when I say "DINK" it makes me think.

[pdub]

"Dink" is the sound your wedding ring makes when it comes off your finger by accident into the bed of the pickup truck when you're loading a whole lot of "we're moving" stuff and then you can't find it for all of the stuff you've already loaded.