# Highways Forever Response

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highways-forever-response/566040>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [January 1, 2011, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highways-forever-response/566040 "2011-01-01T09:55:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![John\_W.Kennedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_w.kennedy/32/1031_2.png) [@John\_W.Kennedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_W.Kennedy)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highways-forever-response/566040/41 "2011-01-07T00:56:41Z")

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Witchypoo, as I recall, simply went with “porange”.

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**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highways-forever-response/566040/42 "2011-01-07T15:46:44Z")

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Well, if you typically pronounce the a in orange a little differently, you can rhyme with “door flange”.

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**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highways-forever-response/566040/43 "2011-01-07T19:37:34Z")

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> [@Irishman](#):
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> Well, if you typically pronounce the a in orange a little differently, you can rhyme with “door flange”.

That, from a man named for the land of poets? Birthplace of **Van the Man**? 😉  
My goodness!

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**Author:** ![Wolja1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ac91a4/32.png) [@Wolja1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolja1)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highways-forever-response/566040/44 "2011-01-08T03:10:48Z")

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Pretty sure getting rid of winter, masterful put down that it was :), doesn’t fix the problem.

Then you get the heat it and then heat it some more cycle which doesn’t do roads a lot of good. When you get it so hot the ashphalt melts with the differential heating to the base you get some of the same issues.

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**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highways-forever-response/566040/45 "2011-01-08T09:42:28Z")

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> [@Wolja1](#):
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> Pretty sure getting rid of winter, masterful put down that it was :), doesn’t fix the problem.
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> Then you get the heat it and then heat it some more cycle which doesn’t do roads a lot of good. When you get it so hot the ashphalt melts with the differential heating to the base you get some of the same issues.

Some of the same issues, but nowhere near as bad I would think. Here in the UK this is the third consecutive severe winter (by our standards anyway - December was the coldest since 1890!) and you can really see the effect on the roads. Round here they’d just finished patching up the potholes left by last winter in mid-November, and two weeks later it was snowing again…

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