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An illuminating highway sign
By adamg on Fri, 12/23/2016 - 12:35pm
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Everyone is a comedian.
Maybe comedian should be a licensed profession?
Attention Lori...using your phone while driving is illegal too
Taking pictures with your phone while driving is illegal as well.
ADAM, STOP POSTING PICTURES FROM PEOPLE BREAKING THE LAW.
HOW DO YOU KNOW
SHE WASN'T A PASSENGER AT THE TIME?
how do we know
she wasnt on a bicycle?
If this were a northbound shot ...
That would be entirely possible - I commute on the path that goes between the river and I-93N near that location.
Getting the angle to get the sign in view would be challenging from that side. It would definitely be possible to get a good shot of this from a bike from the rear parking lot of several businesses on Mystic Ave. (Johnstone Supply, by the tower for the electronic bill board, etc.)
Yesterday, Route 3 South
I wish I had a photo, but anyway it said...
AVOID COAL
USE YOUR SEATBELT
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
I saw that one too...
Rte 2 West, Belmont area. I didn't understand the message.
Santa gives coal to bad kids.
Santa gives coal to bad kids. Kids who don't use seatbelts are bad.
That makes sense!
I saw the "Avoid Coal" yesterday & I totally thought that it was a tree hugger kinda thing.
Bewildering MassDOT signs
Yup - they had that up yesterday on the board as you go into the Ted Williams Tunnel from South Boston. My brain wasn't making the link between the first message and the second, so I thought it was just "Avoid Coal." Very random statement when taken that way.
Older people don't use seatbelts
They also had the coal and switches in their stockings. Maybe that's why it was directed at them.
I interpreted
NO OUI to mean No Yes.
No...
...third-rate seventies skin mags...?
No Yes
This is almost as confusing as the coal one. I read it half in French: No Oui! (No Wee - No Yes).
...or missing punctuation:
...or missing punctuation:
Non? Oui!
So can't the various
So can't the various government agencies agree on a single alphabet soup - is it OUI, DUI, or DWI?
These are different things
And agencies seem to have consensus on OUI, as it also covers train drivers, riding lawnmowers and scooters, bicycles, etc. Every way to use the road except walking, pretty much.
Driving while intoxicated? But I just used cough syrup that was legally prescribed! Etc.
DUI? Well, then it is okay that I was operating a vehicle but not "driving".
I'm going to take this
I'm going to take this opportunity to just be thankful that it isn't purposely misspelled to sound like a caricature of a Boston person said it on a sitcom.
Could have been worse.
At least the signs weren't directing travelers to "Cod Cape"
Take the Tunnel!
Take the Tunnel!
Cultural and Generational Issues
I swear that these things are being set up by someone who is 65 years old and never left the Commonwealth.
Today's red 'RED NOSE ON RUDOLPH IS OKAY BUT NOT DRIVERS". Or something like that.
Here's the problem with that: red nose = "drunk" is kind of an older person thing. Unless old people are their target audience, they need to be a bit more direct to reach people who, say, never heard that because they are 22 years old or because they came from another country where it never was a slang thing.
Goes back to the "coal" sign: anyone under 50 or not raised in a narrow geographic area will say "wtf"?