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From: fred@gymble.UUCP (Fred Blonder)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: sign on long island
Message-ID: <328@gymble.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 21:49:37 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 12 21:49:37 1985
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  > From: mark@tove.UUCP (Mark Weiser)
  > Subject: sign on long island
  > Message-ID: <329@tove.UUCP>
  > 
  > While driving through the middle of Long Island I came across a
  > road sign which read:
  >
  >	Populated
  >	  Area
  >
  > The bizarre part was, and I have pictures of this sign from many
  > angles to prove it, there was not a house or any other sign of
  > human habitation to be seen.  Just Long Island scrub.

But if there were buildings around, it would have been obvious that the
area was populated, and no sign would have been necessary.
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