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From: fred@gymble.UUCP (Fred Blonder)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: somewhat strange highway sign
Message-ID: <331@gymble.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 23:35:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: gymble.331
Posted: Thu Sep 12 23:35:00 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Sep-85 08:09:10 EDT
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Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD
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  > From: dcm@busch.UUCP (Craig Miller)
  > Subject: somewhat strange highway sign
  > Message-ID: <501@busch.UUCP>
  > 
  > While driving to Washington, D.C. last week, I saw this sign in a
  > construction zone somewhere. It looked something like:
  > 
  >                   =================== 
  >                  ||                 ||
  >                  ||     T E S T     ||
  >                  ||                 ||
  >                   =================== 
  >				.
  >				.
  >				.
  > 
  > Testing signs, maybe?  Anybody got any idea what this is all about?

In Baltimore County there's a one-block-long street. At each end,
facing out, there's the sign: ``PAINT TEST AREA''. The road surface is
covered with parallel lane stripes, in various shades of white and
yellow, seperated by at most a few inches and sometimes overlapping,
with no regard to where the real lanes are.  The overall effect is
quite bizarre.

Alongside I-95 east of D.C., there are several signs of the form:

			-----------------
			|		|
			|    NOTICE	|
			|		|
			-----------------
			   "	    "
			   "	    "
			   "	    "


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