Talk:781: Ahead Stop - Revision history

42.book.addict at 18:52, 5 November 2024

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 The phrase suffers from parallax. Being near the first words you can't read the phrase in the correct order but the words further away make more sense, so you read:
-"HIGHWAY ENGINEERS THINK BACKWARD I READ".
+"HIGHWAY ENGINEERS THINK BACKWARD I READ". [[User:Weatherlawyer| I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait]] ([[User talk:Weatherlawyer|talk]]) 17:23, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
 In Idaho you can see signs which say:

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 :Pedestrians should yield to cyclists, surely. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.216|141.101.98.216]] 11:44, 27 November 2020 (UTC)
 ::Pedestrians <b>always</b> have the right of way. Cars, trucks, buses and cyclists <i>all</i> have to yield to pedestrians! [[User:The Cat Lady|-- The Cat Lady]] ([[User talk:The Cat Lady|talk]]) 10:24, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
 The phrase suffers from parallax. Being near the first words you can't read the phrase in the correct order but the words further away make more sense, so you read:

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	What Americans call periods were represented by STOP in telegrams [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=124683 StraightDope] or in British English: a full stop [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_stop wikipedia]. [[User:Elvenivle\|Elvenivle]] ([[User talk:Elvenivle\|talk]]) 03:06, 27 September 2017 (UTC)		What Americans call periods were represented by STOP in telegrams [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=124683 StraightDope] or in British English: a full stop [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_stop wikipedia]. [[User:Elvenivle\|Elvenivle]] ([[User talk:Elvenivle\|talk]]) 03:06, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
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		+	The Star Wars reference in the title text also implies that the one who wrote the text used yoda-speak (I read it in yoda's voice).[[Special:Contributions/172.68.238.109\|172.68.238.109]] 17:24, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

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 ::"grammar highway" [[Special:Contributions/173.245.53.166|173.245.53.166]] 19:50, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
 :Pedestrians should yield to cyclists, surely. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.216|141.101.98.216]] 11:44, 27 November 2020 (UTC)
 The phrase suffers from parallax. Being near the first words you can't read the phrase in the correct order but the words further away make more sense, so you read:

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 :"highway grammar" that's a good one! [[User:Saibot84|Saibot84]] ([[User talk:Saibot84|talk]]) 05:25, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
 ::"grammar highway" [[Special:Contributions/173.245.53.166|173.245.53.166]] 19:50, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
 The phrase suffers from parallax. Being near the first words you can't read the phrase in the correct order but the words further away make more sense, so you read:

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	How can someone say there is not many periods on the highway, has anyone done a study of how many woman are not menstruating while in a vehicle compared to those that are? I would think that at any one time there is a significant amount of periods on any given roadway. {{unsigned ip\|108.162.216.166}}		How can someone say there is not many periods on the highway, has anyone done a study of how many woman are not menstruating while in a vehicle compared to those that are? I would think that at any one time there is a significant amount of periods on any given roadway. {{unsigned ip\|108.162.216.166}}
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		+	What Americans call periods were represented by STOP in telegrams [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=124683 StraightDope] or in British English: a full stop [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_stop wikipedia]. [[User:Elvenivle\|Elvenivle]] ([[User talk:Elvenivle\|talk]]) 03:06, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

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	Sometimes the result is poetic. Last weekend I saw "BRIDGE LOW TRUCKS NO" on a highway. [[User:Gmcgath\|Gmcgath]] ([[User talk:Gmcgath\|talk]]) 00:00, 29 June 2017 (UTC)		Sometimes the result is poetic. Last weekend I saw "BRIDGE LOW TRUCKS NO" on a highway. [[User:Gmcgath\|Gmcgath]] ([[User talk:Gmcgath\|talk]]) 00:00, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

−	How can someone say there is not many periods on the highway, has anyone done a study of how many woman are not menstruating while in a vehicle compared to those that are? I would think that at any one time there is a significant amount of periods on any given roadway.	+	How can someone say there is not many periods on the highway, has anyone done a study of how many woman are not menstruating while in a vehicle compared to those that are? I would think that at any one time there is a significant amount of periods on any given roadway. {{unsigned ip\|108.162.216.166}}

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	Sometimes the result is poetic. Last weekend I saw "BRIDGE LOW TRUCKS NO" on a highway. [[User:Gmcgath\|Gmcgath]] ([[User talk:Gmcgath\|talk]]) 00:00, 29 June 2017 (UTC)		Sometimes the result is poetic. Last weekend I saw "BRIDGE LOW TRUCKS NO" on a highway. [[User:Gmcgath\|Gmcgath]] ([[User talk:Gmcgath\|talk]]) 00:00, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
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		+	How can someone say there is not many periods on the highway, has anyone done a study of how many woman are not menstruating while in a vehicle compared to those that are? I would think that at any one time there is a significant amount of periods on any given roadway.

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	To save you the bother, I googled guberif and found it is firebug spelt backwards, which I should have realised for myself, and comes from a 70+ year old marketing campaign. So now you know. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.245.70\|108.162.245.70]] 22:55, 22 June 2017 (UTC)		To save you the bother, I googled guberif and found it is firebug spelt backwards, which I should have realised for myself, and comes from a 70+ year old marketing campaign. So now you know. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.245.70\|108.162.245.70]] 22:55, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
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		+	Sometimes the result is poetic. Last weekend I saw "BRIDGE LOW TRUCKS NO" on a highway. [[User:Gmcgath\|Gmcgath]] ([[User talk:Gmcgath\|talk]]) 00:00, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

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	Please do not reenact the title text. {{unsigned ip\|108.162.237.44}}		Please do not reenact the title text. {{unsigned ip\|108.162.237.44}}
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		+	To save you the bother, I googled guberif and found it is firebug spelt backwards, which I should have realised for myself, and comes from a 70+ year old marketing campaign. So now you know. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.245.70\|108.162.245.70]] 22:55, 22 June 2017 (UTC)