# Highway Sign in Pennsylvania. Hmmmm. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 8, 2004, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highway-sign-in-pennsylvania-hmmmm/258877 "2004-08-08T12:45:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highway-sign-in-pennsylvania-hmmmm/258877/21 "2004-08-09T02:35:25Z")
> [@MsRobyn](#): > > Hahahahaha… what is this “work” of which you speak? 😃 > Robin The work involves displaying PA natural attractions such as: PA State horse: DETOUR\>\>\> PA State sign: REDUCE SPEED-CONSTRUCTION AHEAD PA State mineral: Asphalt PA State bird: The reflective jacketed highway flagger, _Flaggus waggus_. Bird is known by its distinctive call: _Stop. Slow. Stop. Slow._ Bird inhabits statewide environs where road cones and barrels are found. Birds may be captured using tar lures and the “backup alarm” call: _beep, beep, beep._ Often found in groups of 6 or more, sleeping during daytime hours in yellow trucks. ---
**Author:** ![Abbie\_Carmichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Abbie\_Carmichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abbie_Carmichael)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highway-sign-in-pennsylvania-hmmmm/258877/22 "2004-08-09T02:47:05Z")
Here in West Virginia We have signs in a series Always on the interstate Usually they rhyme And tell you not to litter or buckle up They’re really annoying ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highway-sign-in-pennsylvania-hmmmm/258877/23 "2004-08-09T02:53:31Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > My favorite thing about the roads in Pennsylvania are the dots painted onto the highways, with the accompanying signs telling you to keep five dots distance between you and the car in front of you. > > Last year I drove to NYCDope with my friends **dynosaur** and **typo\_mna**. Dyno was driving and found it absoutely impossible to do this (he’s from Chicago, what can I say?). Typo and I spent the entire trip through PA (and yes, it does seem like a million miles) harrassing him about the dots. Is that why they’re always talking about the IDOT here? _rimshot_ ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highway-sign-in-pennsylvania-hmmmm/258877/24 "2004-08-09T03:09:10Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > That whore has been working around here too. Okay, that made me snort. I have to admit. I mean, would I drive more dangerously if I thought all the adults working road crews were unmarried childless men and women? Those signs torque me off, I tell ya. Still and all, I love where this thread is going. I can’t **wait** for someone living in Spain to let us know that Mommy has travelled overseas. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highway-sign-in-pennsylvania-hmmmm/258877/25 "2004-08-09T15:21:47Z")
Down in Missouri, I think it was, there were a bunch of signs saying “Don’t throw trash on the side of the road.” They couldn’t just say “No littering”? We wondered if it was legal to stop, open the door, and set the trash on the road, then drive away… ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highway-sign-in-pennsylvania-hmmmm/258877/26 "2004-08-09T15:33:58Z")
Related to all this, of course, is the fact that PennDOT road crews are to be cut in half next year. Seems some contractor invented a shovel that can stand up all by itself. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highway-sign-in-pennsylvania-hmmmm/258877/27 "2004-08-09T16:37:55Z")
> [@Mr. Moto](#): > > Related to all this, of course, is the fact that PennDOT road crews are to be cut in half next year. > > Seems some contractor invented a shovel that can stand up all by itself. So next spring, only half of the potholes will be made into road bumps-the rest will remain potholes. _Oh, the humanity!_ :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highway-sign-in-pennsylvania-hmmmm/258877/28 "2004-08-09T16:44:29Z")
> [@Mr. Moto](#): > > Related to all this, of course, is the fact that PennDOT road crews are to be cut in half next year. So I’m the only one who envisioned a road crew of dirty jeans and scuffed workboots, all cut off at the waist? ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highway-sign-in-pennsylvania-hmmmm/258877/29 "2004-08-09T17:04:07Z")
> [@Mr. Moto](#): > > Related to all this, of course, is the fact that PennDOT road crews are to be cut in half next year. > > Seems some contractor invented a shovel that can stand up all by itself. But how will coffee places survive? PennDOT obviously didn’t think this one out very well. Robin ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highway-sign-in-pennsylvania-hmmmm/258877/30 "2004-08-09T17:05:31Z")
Instead of for the next million miles I guess they could make them more regional, like… Buckle Up When Approaching Intercourse ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highway-sign-in-pennsylvania-hmmmm/258877/31 "2004-08-09T17:33:00Z")
All time favourite sign, seen all over northern Germany when I was there for the summer about 6 years ago: an official ‘caution, children playing’ sign that was only a black silhouette of a teddy bear what had been squashed down the middle by an enormous tire tread. Bloody marvelous. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highway-sign-in-pennsylvania-hmmmm/258877/32 "2004-08-09T17:52:33Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Down in Missouri, I think it was, there were a bunch of signs saying “Don’t throw trash on the side of the road.” They couldn’t just say “No littering”? Maybe no one there knew what “littering” was? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highway-sign-in-pennsylvania-hmmmm/258877/33 "2004-08-09T18:09:47Z")
> [@Ms Boods](#): > > All time favourite sign, seen all over northern Germany when I was there for the summer about 6 years ago: an official ‘caution, children playing’ sign that was only a black silhouette of a teddy bear what had been squashed down the middle by an enormous tire tread. > > Bloody marvelous. Now that’s just naaaaaasty. (I want one for my apartment… 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highway-sign-in-pennsylvania-hmmmm/258877/34 "2004-08-09T18:49:01Z")
Washington has signs that say “Litter and it will hurt”. Funny, I feel fine! 😉 I drove 2000 miles this last weekend thru California, Oregon and Washington. I’m actually glad to be back to work. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highway-sign-in-pennsylvania-hmmmm/258877/35 "2004-08-09T21:34:58Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > Now that’s just naaaaaasty. > > (I want one for my apartment… 😃 ) I’ll tell you…I had been on my best behaviour for weeks with my host family, as they were well known in the neighbourhood as very serious, academic, somber people (I was in the only house in Europe during the 1998 World Cup who didn’t like footy :eek:) – and I dunno…but when I first saw that sign, I just bloody lost it. Weeks of pent up giggles. I haven’t been invited back. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Norse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/big_norse/32/9954_2.png) [@Big\_Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Norse)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highway-sign-in-pennsylvania-hmmmm/258877/36 "2004-08-09T22:40:31Z")
My all time favorite sign was one on a bridge entering Boston (this was years ago) that said: Slow Down When Flashing It did have two yellow lights on it, but still… ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highway-sign-in-pennsylvania-hmmmm/258877/37 "2004-08-09T23:45:50Z")
I’m always amused by the signs that say “Slow Children at Play.” Maybe if they ate their Wheaties they’d be faster. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highway-sign-in-pennsylvania-hmmmm/258877/38 "2004-08-10T00:35:06Z")
> [@Abbie Carmichael](#): > > Here in West Virginia > > We have signs in a series > > Always on the interstate > > Usually they rhyme > > And tell you not to litter or buckle up > > They’re really annoying Burma Shave. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highway-sign-in-pennsylvania-hmmmm/258877/39 "2004-08-10T00:45:10Z")
One of my all-time favorites was in my grandparents’ town in North Central Arkansas. This was an official yellow warning sign, posted next to a part of the highway that crossed a river: “Road unsafe when underwater” I guess ADOT doesn’t have very much faith in the intelligence of the locals. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highway-sign-in-pennsylvania-hmmmm/258877/40 "2004-08-10T00:48:38Z")
I have nothing good to say about a state which is apparently so corrupt that they **force** you to drive through downtown Breezewood just so that you can \*\*\* stay on I-70\*\*\*. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highway-sign-in-pennsylvania-hmmmm/258877.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highway-sign-in-pennsylvania-hmmmm/258877.md?page=3)