I'll Think Of Something...Wanna Help?

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I was going to just delete this thread since I found what I needed but
since Hey Sal reminded me that this is OT and we can't just go
around deleting things...anybody want to help me think of something
to BS about in this one?
  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Delete, my sweet a** - you are in the OT, Steve. Did you forget that for a minute. It's just not polite to walk in here and say DELETE. You're here, now host a damned thread. Jeez.

    Which fonts did ya get, Steve?

    I like one called Flintstone but can't find it again. I used to do my resumes in it.
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    • Profile picture of the author LynnM
      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post


      I like one called Flintstone but can't find it again. I used to do my resumes in it.
      Is this it Sal? Flintstone Font | dafont.com
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    • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      Delete, my sweet a** - you are in the OT, Steve. Did you forget that for a minute. It's just not polite to walk in here and say DELETE. You're here, now host a damned thread. Jeez.

      Which fonts did ya get, Steve?

      I like one called Flintstone but can't find it again. I used to do my resumes in it.
      Yeah, you're right...What was I thinking...Okay, I'll think of something.

      Anybody want to help me think of something?
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    • Profile picture of the author Janice Sperry
      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      Delete, my sweet a** - you are in the OT, Steve. Did you forget that for a minute. It's just not polite to walk in here and say DELETE. You're here, now host a damned thread. Jeez.

      Which fonts did ya get, Steve?

      I like one called Flintstone but can't find it again. I used to do my resumes in it.
      Resumes in the Flinstone Font - that is a classic.

      You must have had a secret desire to never get hired and be self-employed.
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      • Profile picture of the author HeySal
        Originally Posted by JMS View Post

        Resumes in the Flinstone Font - that is a classic.

        You must have had a secret desire to never get hired and be self-employed.
        Actually, I got a very good response. They were bold and unique.

        Lynn - that's real close, but the one my typist used was stonier, looked chiseled.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dave Patterson
    Wanna talk about New Hampshire?

    Here's where I am this week...Beaver Pond Farm. Newport, NH. :: The Freshest and the Best...
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  • Profile picture of the author Kurt
    I'm not a big baseball fan, but how about Stephen Strasburg? In his very first major league game, he struck out 14 batters, including 7 in a row at one point, and didn't walk a single batter, all in 7 innings.
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    • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
      Originally Posted by Kurt View Post

      I'm not a big baseball fan, but how about Stephen Strasburg? In his very first major league game, he struck out 14 batters, including 7 in a row at one point, and didn't walk a single batter, all in 7 innings.

      The word on him is that he will be the best pitcher in baseball.

      From what I've seen so far, they may be right.
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  • Profile picture of the author Fernando Veloso
    What about basketball?

    Finals this week, isn't it?
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    • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
      Originally Posted by Fernando Veloso View Post

      What about basketball?

      Finals this week, isn't it?
      I suppose. I stopped following basketball when the Knicks AND the Nets
      both decided to suck wind.
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  • Profile picture of the author MissTerraK
    OK, since I've been fortunate enough to never have gotten a ticket, I try to obey all the traffic laws. But I have been pondering this one for awhile:

    Where does a new speed limit begin? Does it start at the speed sign, at some point beyond the sign, or where the sign becomes clearly visible?

    What do you think?

    Terra
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    • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
      Originally Posted by MissTerraK View Post

      OK, since I've been fortunate enough to never have gotten a ticket, I try to obey all the traffic laws. But I have been pondering this one for awhile:

      Where does a new speed limit begin? Does it start at the speed sign, at some point beyond the sign, or where the sign becomes clearly visible?

      What do you think?

      Terra
      Okay...now my head really hurts.
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  • Profile picture of the author KimW
    It starts AT the sign.
    At least here in Virginia!
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    • Profile picture of the author Dave Patterson
      Originally Posted by KimW View Post

      It starts AT the sign.
      At least here in Virginia!
      Same in Alabama....unless of course you happen to be a pretty blonde, then it starts....ummm, wherever...
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    • Profile picture of the author MissTerraK
      Originally Posted by KimW View Post

      It starts AT the sign.
      At least here in Virginia!
      So you're saying that in Virginia you could be driving 25 mph, but when the new sign reads 45 mph you gotta go "VROOOOOOOOOOOM" to reach that speed?

      How do you speed up 20 mph AT the sign?:p

      Terra
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      • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
        Originally Posted by MissTerraK View Post

        So you're saying that in Virginia you could be driving 25 mph, but when the new sign reads 45 mph you gotta go "VROOOOOOOOOOOM" to reach that speed?
        Rapid acceleration qualifies as reckless driving in most places.

        The key fact is that speed limits are a maximum.

        When the speed limit is 25, you're not legally permitted to go more than 25 miles per hour. If there is a new sign that says 45 ahead of you, the legal requirement is that you go no faster than 25 until you reach the sign, and then you are permitted to accelerate to 45.

        Deceleration is a little trickier. Going the other direction, when you see the sign for a speed limit of 25, once you've passed it - you're not allowed to go faster than 25. So you need to decelerate to 25 before you pass the sign.

        If you see a sign that says "speed zone ahead," that means the speed limit is about to change (usually decreasing) so you should start watching for it.

        In practice, police officers pretty much ignore most speed variations close to a speed limit sign. But most judges will give the police officer all kinds of hell for "trapping" you into a ticket by pulling you over too close to a sign, and some jurisdictions (California in particular) actually have laws against it.

        Oh, and back to the reckles driving thing... if you ever get a reckless driving ticket in Virginia, there's an almost identical law against improper driving that carries much lower maximum penalties. If you actually show up in court and protest that your driving was only improper and not reckless, most judges will automatically reduce the charge and fine you $100 - which is whole hell of a lot better than the reckless driving maximum of $1,500, 90 days in jail, a class 1 misdemeanor, and seven points on your license.

        (I get a lot of tickets.)
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        • Profile picture of the author MissTerraK
          Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post

          Rapid acceleration qualifies as reckless driving in most places.

          The key fact is that speed limits are a maximum.

          When the speed limit is 25, you're not legally permitted to go more than 25 miles per hour. If there is a new sign that says 45 ahead of you, the legal requirement is that you go no faster than 25 until you reach the sign, and then you are permitted to accelerate to 45.

          Deceleration is a little trickier. Going the other direction, when you see the sign for a speed limit of 25, once you've passed it - you're not allowed to go faster than 25. So you need to decelerate to 25 before you pass the sign.

          If you see a sign that says "speed zone ahead," that means the speed limit is about to change (usually decreasing) so you should start watching for it.

          In practice, police officers pretty much ignore most speed variations close to a speed limit sign. But most judges will give the police officer all kinds of hell for "trapping" you into a ticket by pulling you over too close to a sign, and some jurisdictions (California in particular) actually have laws against it.

          Oh, and back to the reckles driving thing... if you ever get a reckless driving ticket in Virginia, there's an almost identical law against improper driving that carries much lower maximum penalties. If you actually show up in court and protest that your driving was only improper and not reckless, most judges will automatically reduce the charge and fine you $100 - which is whole hell of a lot better than the reckless driving maximum of $1,500, 90 days in jail, a class 1 misdemeanor, and seven points on your license.

          (I get a lot of tickets.)
          Very intriguing!

          Here's my question to you Caliban:

          If you know the traffic laws that extensively, then how in the heck do you get a lot of tickets?

          I myself have been pulled over 7 times, but have never received a ticket. I don't want to be pulled over again though, as 7 is a perfect number.

          @ Steven How is your headache now? LOL!

          Terra
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          • Profile picture of the author Dave Patterson
            Originally Posted by MissTerraK View Post


            I myself have been pulled over 7 times, but have never received a ticket.

            Terra
            See what I mean? (Please read my above post..)
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          • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
            Originally Posted by MissTerraK View Post

            Very intriguing!

            Here's my question to you Caliban:

            If you know the traffic laws that extensively, then how in the heck do you get a lot of tickets?

            I myself have been pulled over 7 times, but have never received a ticket. I don't want to be pulled over again though, as 7 is a perfect number.

            @ Steven How is your headache now? LOL!

            Terra
            I can picture you and Caliban as husband and wife in a sitcom.

            Does that answer your question?
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            • Profile picture of the author drewman2010
              Good answer!
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            • Profile picture of the author MissTerraK
              Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim View Post

              I can picture you and Caliban as husband and wife in a sitcom.

              Does that answer your question?
              Ummm,

              You have quite a vivid imagination! Try as I might, I cannot picture that at all, LOL!

              Now I have a headache!

              Terra
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          • Profile picture of the author Bill Farnham
            Originally Posted by MissTerraK View Post

            I myself have been pulled over 7 times, but have never received a ticket. I don't want to be pulled over again though, as 7 is a perfect number.
            Hmmm...Pulled over 7 times and 7 'happy endings'.

            Coinkydinky?

            Methinks not...

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            • Profile picture of the author MissTerraK
              Originally Posted by Bill Farnham View Post

              Hmmm...Pulled over 7 times and 7 'happy endings'.

              Coinkydinky?

              Methinks not...

              ~Bill
              LOL, KJ! :p

              What exactly are you saying? You don't think it was luck? That I'm not a lady of favor?

              Terra
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          • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
            Originally Posted by MissTerraK View Post

            If you know the traffic laws that extensively, then how in the heck do you get a lot of tickets?
            I break them. Isn't that obvious?

            I have political objections to certain laws, like the carpool lane. Mathematically, it doesn't work. It makes things worse. It's a pie-in-the-sky idea that is just plain stupid. So I drive in the carpool lane whether I've got other people in the car or not. And I get tickets. (Here in Washington, the average police officer doesn't know which section of the law to cite, so I can pretty much walk into court and say "it's an improper citation of the law" and get them thrown out.)

            Another one that gets me is too low of a speed limit in certain areas. There are little stretches of road that go through an incorporated township and the speed limit is 35 for a half mile. I don't think it's sensible to drop a speed limit from 65 to 35 for half a mile, so I don't slow down. A lot of other people don't, either. And we get tickets. Most jurisdictions have this nifty little thing in the laws that says more than 20 (sometimes 25) over the limit is reckless driving.

            And the third big one is badly striped roads. There's a particular intersection in Redmond, Washington which merges two lanes into one lane for about thirty feet, then splits into three lanes. The shoulder of the single-lane area on both sides is plenty wide enough to make it a two-lane area, but when they painted the roadway, they just arbitrarily decided to force everyone into a single lane. So I drive on the shoulder, as does everyone else, and every few months a pair of police cruisers pull up and drop off a pair of officers that walk down the lanes and give everyone tickets if their tyres are over the line.
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            • Profile picture of the author MissTerraK
              Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post

              I break them. Isn't that obvious?

              I have political objections to certain laws, like the carpool lane. Mathematically, it doesn't work. It makes things worse. It's a pie-in-the-sky idea that is just plain stupid. So I drive in the carpool lane whether I've got other people in the car or not. And I get tickets. (Here in Washington, the average police officer doesn't know which section of the law to cite, so I can pretty much walk into court and say "it's an improper citation of the law" and get them thrown out.)

              Another one that gets me is too low of a speed limit in certain areas. There are little stretches of road that go through an incorporated township and the speed limit is 35 for a half mile. I don't think it's sensible to drop a speed limit from 65 to 35 for half a mile, so I don't slow down. A lot of other people don't, either. And we get tickets. Most jurisdictions have this nifty little thing in the laws that says more than 20 (sometimes 25) over the limit is reckless driving.

              And the third big one is badly striped roads. There's a particular intersection in Redmond, Washington which merges two lanes into one lane for about thirty feet, then splits into three lanes. The shoulder of the single-lane area on both sides is plenty wide enough to make it a two-lane area, but when they painted the roadway, they just arbitrarily decided to force everyone into a single lane. So I drive on the shoulder, as does everyone else, and every few months a pair of police cruisers pull up and drop off a pair of officers that walk down the lanes and give everyone tickets if their tyres are over the line.
              Aha!

              So it's for the principle of the thing!

              It's so refreshing to see a citizen lay down his "driving reputation" and the rising cost of his insurance rates for the betterment of all mankind in the highways and byways of our great country! :p

              Terra
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        • Profile picture of the author KenThompson
          Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post


          (I get a lot of tickets.)

          That's what I was thinking. This guy knows waaay too much
          about this.

          If you have a lot of esoteric knowledge in this area, then maybe
          write an ebook about it. Some years ago a guy wrote an ebook
          about how to beat a traffic ticket in court, or something like that.
          I heard he did ok with it, profit wise.
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          • Profile picture of the author myob
            Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post

            (I get a lot of tickets.)
            Speeding tickets have helped me sell several old jalopies. They look like a pieces of junk, but I get them "certified" by the California Highway Patrol that they can go 90+ mph up hill.
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