Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gymble.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!gymble!fred From: fred@gymble.UUCP (Fred Blonder) Newsgroups: net.bizarre Subject: Re: net.bizarre articles on roadsigns Message-ID: <333@gymble.UUCP> Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 20:43:42 EDT Article-I.D.: gymble.333 Posted: Fri Sep 13 20:43:42 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 14-Sep-85 17:04:41 EDT References: <332@gymble.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD Lines: 27 > From: Jim Hofmann > > What really bothers me, Fred is those signs you find near > construction areas. I mean here are all these guys sweating and > hard at work and you get really impressed by all this progress > going on (o.k. - you do get a little peeved by the traffic jams > sometimes caused) and then you get near the end and some > ANARCHIST(!!!!) has put up a sign saying: END CONSTRUCTION . . . You think THAT's bad? What about all those ``EXIT'' signs over the doors of theatres and restaurants? You see them everywhere there's likely to be a large group of people gathered. Who is it who wants us to leave as soon as we get there? Personally, I think it's space aliens who are trying to keep us humans from organizing and plotting against them. Have you noticed that they sometimes screw up and print the letter ``T'' upside down, but print the other three letters right side up? -- All characters mentioned herein are fictitious. Any similarity to actual characters, ASCII or EBCDIC is purely coincidental. Fred Blonder (301) 454-7690 Fred@Maryland.{ARPA,CSNet} seismo!umcp-cs!fred