I knew of that one and the best-known one in front of Pike Place Market, but apparently there are 8 others:
The concept has existed for decades but used sparingly in Seattle. About 10 intersections have the all-walk system in place, including First and Pike across from Pike Place Market.
Still with my first wife for 51 years I also have no “exes” to tattle on, so I’m going to borrow one from Phyllis Diller.
Her first husband was so dumb “He couldn’t count to 21 unless he was naked.”
Or so she claimed.
I was recently traveling with my grandniece. And she is at the age where she is learning the rules, one of which is “Red light means stop. Green light means go.” Which she informed me of every time I turned right on red. And I would try to explain to her that it’s sometimes okay to turn right on a red light. And she would just repeat to me that a red light means stop.
I was thinking “I’m debating traffic law with a three year old.”
You fit in well here on the Dope.
Do i qualify by having a post thats been revived from the dead at least twice?
Stop signs mean stop, too, but that doesn’t mean you have to stay stopped forever.
“Oh, no problem, officer. I’m just waiting for the STOP sign to change to GO.”
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-( probably a Bennett Cerf joke book in the 50s )
I admit that when I was a kid, I could not understand ‘Do Not Pass’ signs. I thought you couldn’t go pass the sign.
My Mom and Dad never explained it to me. I think they thought I was doing the 1966 version of trolling.
That’s what I was going to say. Tell her, ‘I did stop.’
When my kids were little I had them convinced the STOP signs with a white outline were optional. I even cruised through a few on back roads. Then one day my daughter realized they all had white outlines.
Some sovereign citizen she’ll ever be
First I’d heard the term. But I remember an intersection in Champaign or Urbana IL that would stop traffic in all directions for pedestrian crossings. They were handing out jaywalking tickets to anyone who crossed diagonally. I recall the chucklefuck police chief being quoted in the paper about “creating a culture of compliance.”
Then they put up a “diagonal crossing ok” sign and it was suddenly safe. No changes to the signals though.
Yale used to offer official paper translations (for a fee.)
Now it’s apparently all digital.
https://registrar.yale.edu/students/diplomas/translation
Never mind the dumbness of needing to see the actual diploma when a transcript shows the relevant information. But I remember applying for a job in Germany that was asking for high school standardized test scores. Apparently they ask for those even if you have a PhD and years of experience.
True, but I’ve never seen a 5’ 6" player on a top 20 basketball team, either, at least not a scholarship player. The odds that he was telling the truth are slim and none, and slim is heading for the door.
Sounds like it was just for the sex, so that makes it okay. LOL
A friend emigrated to Canada about a decade ago. They wanted to see his high school test scores, even though he had a Bachelor’s degree.
Muggsy Bogues at 5’3" had a scholarship to Wake Forrest and played 14 years in the NBA, so it’s possible… just not very likely.
She thought I wouldn’t notice she was 7-8 months pregnant when I returned from a 9-month deployment.
When I applied (unsuccessfully) for a von Humboldt Stiftung ages ago, they wanted copies of diplomas, even though they were easily photoshopped, even in those days. When I asked a German postdoc in our lab, he was mystified by transcripts; he said they had no equivalent.