LL-L "Signs" 2004.05.19 (08) [E]

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From: Ruth & Mark Dreyer <mrdreyer at lantic.net>
Subject: LL-L "Names" 2004.05.19 (05) [D/E]

O.K. Lowlanders,

    Just wandering a leeetle off the subject, something from the edge of the
Highlands. Long ago, now, I took a trip through Scotland in a borrowed car.
There, along the side of Loch Ness (that is a body of water with a powerful
presence), on a tarmac road just above the shore, every few hundred yards,
is a road sign just ahead of a narrow gravel path crossing the road. They
read, "Caution: Heavy plant crossing."

    I can just see one of those huge Douglas Firs wading down through the
shadows and mists to the water to drink---.

    Yrs,
Mark.

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Signs

Mark, Lowlanders,

In Australia (and many other places outside North American) a bump in the
road (designed to slow down vehicles) can be referred to as a "hump" in the
road.  Imagine the amazement an American visitor experienced when we drove
up a driveway into a park in Fremantle, Western Australia, and saw a sign
saying "HUMP!"  I was quick to explain that it was a warning rather than an
invitation or a command ...

(It's one of those things you've got to understand, 'cause I ain't gonna say
no more.  ;->)

Regards,
Reinhard/Ronh

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