**spamTrapper 02.70** Re: **spamTrapper 02.76** Standing, Stopping and Parking in the US

[Roger Shuy]

on 5/23/05 4:22 PM, sagehen at sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM wrote:

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>>> NO PARKING HERE TO CORNER is also a familiar sight in NYC.
>>>
>>> The most understandable is DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT PARKING HERE, seen
>>> on Fifth Ave. & 44th (I think) St. about 25 years ago.  Is it still
>>> there ?  Who was the genius behind it ?
>>
>> I always assumed it was in the spirit of Ed Koch, whoever was
>> actually responsible for creating.  It's his voice I hear scolding me.
>>
>> L
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>>>
>>> Most infuriating are those which detail "alternate side of the
>>> street parking," and believe me, if you don't know what that means,
>>> you don't want to know.  Just don't try to park on the street in
>>> Manhattan.  Ever.
>>>
>>> JL
>>>
>>> Wilson Gray <wilson.gray at RCN.COM> wrote:
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>>> Poster: Wilson Gray
>>> Subject: Re: **spamTrapper 02.76** Standing, Stopping and Parking in the
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>>> I've always enjoyed this pair:
>>>
>>> Saint Louis: NO THROUGH STREET
>>>
>>> Los Angeles: STREET NOT THROUGH
>>>
>>> They both mean "DEAD END," of course.
>>>
>>> As a child, I was totally confused by Saint Louis's NO PARKING HERE TO
>>> CORNER street signs, which I understood to mean NO PARKING HERE [IN
>>> ORDER] TO CORNER. For years, I wondered exactly what it is that one
>>> does, when one "corners." I was also impressed by the efficacy of this
>>> traffic law, since I never saw so much as a single car park in such a
>>> space and then follow that act by cornering.
>>>
>>> -Wilson Gray
>>>
>>> On May 23, 2005, at 10:47 AM, Sally O. Donlon wrote:
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>>>> Subject: Re: **spamTrapper 02.76** Standing, Stopping and Parking
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>>>> My favorite traffic sign in New Orleans reads: LEFT TURN PERMITTED ON
>>>> GREEN. It perplexed me for months because I wondered when else one
>>>> would turn.
>>>>
>>>> sally donlon
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> The one that startled me the first time I saw it was DRIVE THROUGH WINDOWS
> ONLY.
> A. Murie
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It isn't a street sign, but I have been equally amused by a notice on
special deals for products that appear to violate sanitation laws:  VOID
WHERE PROHIBITED.

Roger