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When road editing gets stressful, here are road-related jokes and funny things.

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Signage or lack thereof

  • [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7702913.stm Welsh translation gone wrong]
  • [http://www.uvm.edu/landscape/search/details.php?ls=08639&sequence=000&set_seq=10&imageSet=1192551268-4714e364c6021&AddRel= What kind of U.S. Route shield is this?]
  • Road signs they didn't teach you in drivers' ed class:
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20071012171437/http://media3.guzer.com/pictures/good_luck_sign.jpg Good Luck](internet archive) Credited as being in Bensonville, IL. CNN notes a similar sign on Grande Drive (Denali, Alaska) commenting that "Grande Drive is a single road leading to the top of Sugarloaf Mountain. There are no intersecting roads."[http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/08/travel/gallery/denali-road/index.html Clever road signs to make you smile] CNN
  • [http://www.hickerphoto.com/data/media/29/ad_42145n.jpg Watch for Moose]
  • [http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/x/8/iraq_roadsigns.jpg Baghdad]
  • [http://www.funnyville.com/funny-pictures/traffic.gif Relationship Signs]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928055925/http://newmexiken.com/images/2006/12/WarningSign.jpg Freaky]
  • [http://web.archive.org/web/20070711175613/http://deafjoke.tv/wp/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/sign_driving.jpg Don't Sign and Drive]
  • Just plain funny road signs:
  • [http://www.richardpettinger.com/funny/funny_road_signs/navigation.jpg Annoying Sign]
  • [http://www.richardpettinger.com/funny/funny_road_signs/secret_nuclear_bunker.jpg Don't Tell Anyone You Found It]
  • [http://www.richardpettinger.com/funny/funny_road_signs/parking.jpg Only at McDonalds]
  • [http://web.archive.org/web/20110723064731/https://webspace.utexas.edu/aps65/images/london/roadsign.jpg Innuendo?]
  • [http://web.archive.org/web/20070927215835/http://www.myspaceantics.com/thumb/hookers-adopt-a-road.jpg At Least the Road is Clean]
  • [http://www.okroads.com/062503/i40caexit120.JPG It's a Misnomer]
  • [http://web.archive.org/web/20070929062152/http://www.schadeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/State%20Prison%20Airport.jpg Well Escapees Can't Get Away Easy]
  • [http://www.alpsroads.net/roads/ma/ma_16/route.jpg This Route Must've Been a Bully in High School]
  • [http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2006/08/pointlessSign_600x371.jpg It Actually Makes Sense]
  • [http://jokes4u.mycybernet.ca/sign06.jpg You Have to Think About This One]
  • [http://iconglobe.net/blog/imgup/crossing.jpg Look at Me Cross the Road]
  • Road sign goofs:
  • [http://www.guy-sports.com/fun_pictures/two_way.jpg I Can Only Go One Way]
  • [http://web.archive.org/web/20070224123406/http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/~jgrim/photos/wx/photos/funny_sign1.jpg No Kidding?]
  • [http://www.saynotocrack.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/funny_sign2.jpg Must Be Trying to Cut Emissions]
  • [http://web.archive.org/web/20150418185132/http://www.driveandstayalive.com/images/signs/arrow-left_keep-right.jpg Your Other Right]
  • [http://web.archive.org/web/20071026090706/http://njhurst.com/~natiel3/trips/2006merredin/sc_kiddingme.jpg How Did the Tire Tracks Cross?]
  • [http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2006/12/21/PH2006122101126.jpg Some Things Never Change]
  • Roadtrip America's Top 100 Funny Road Signs (some of them):
  • [http://www.roadtripamerica.com/signs/buckleup.htm Thanks Y'all]
  • [http://www.roadtripamerica.com/signs/thunder.htm Nature Calls]
  • [http://www.roadtripamerica.com/signs/underwater.htm Hold Your Breath]
  • [http://www.roadtripamerica.com/signs/break.htm Hazards of Life]
  • [http://www.roadtripamerica.com/signs/short.htm Where All the Guys with Porches Live]
  • [http://www.roadtripamerica.com/signs/gators.htm They'd Run Faster But They Only Have One Leg]
  • [http://www.roadtripamerica.com/signs/caution.htm You're Supposed To?]
  • [http://www.roadtripamerica.com/signs/jctfu.htm Fun with Missouri Supplemental Routes]
  • [http://www.roadtripamerica.com/signs/dontdrink.htm One Too Many Huh?]
  • [http://www.roadtripamerica.com/signs/boring.htm How They Get Californians to Go Home]
  • [http://www.roadtripamerica.com/signs/entrance.htm Dare I Enter?]
  • [http://www.roadtripamerica.com/signs/rabbit.htm Roadkill Warning?]
  • [http://www.roadtripamerica.com/signs/bigbone.htm Great for Dogs... and some Men!]
  • [http://www.roadtripamerica.com/signs/paved.htm Paving must be rare in these parts]
  • [http://www.roadtripamerica.com/signs/astreet.htm Not Going to Tell Which One?]

References

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Poking fun at [[Department of Transportation|DOT]]'s (PERIOD's and DECIMAL's too!)

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  • A nice alternative left turn treatment: [http://static.flickr.com/103/304387953_3e41e86945_o.jpg]
  • [http://web.archive.org/web/20061005090729/http://www.udot.utah.gov/download.php/tid=1348/SR-305.pdf "Sometime between 1988 and 1990 this route was deleted by Transportation Planning because it was found there is no way to inventory said route."] Oops!
  • [http://www.pahighways.com/humor.html Hilarious Pennsylvania Road Humor!! Trust me you're going to enjoy this!]

Highway oddities

  • Interstate 95 in the District of Columbia
  • Million Dollar Bridge, a bridge in Alaska that was built in the early 1900 and renovated in 2004, but truly goes nowhere.
  • [http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=15&ll=28.002283,-82.326972&spn=0.014247,0.024333&t=k&om=1 If you squint, a turbine looks sort of like a swastika.]
  • The extension of Charles Street north from downtown Baltimore was once known as the Charles Street Avenue, a turnpike operated by the Charles Street Avenue Company. Beyond the end of the turnpike, it was known as Charles Street Avenue Road. Other names at times included Charles Street Avenue Extended and Charles Street Avenue Boulevard. A piece of Charles Street Avenue [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=charles+street+avenue,+towson,+md&sll=39.401382,-76.617708&sspn=0.023147,0.045147&ie=UTF8&ll=39.401382,-76.620412&spn=0.023147,0.045147&z=15&iwloc=addr&om=0 still exists].

Internal workings of road article editing

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  • Join the Antarctica Highways WikiProject. It's a WikiProject devoted to developing articles on highways, roads, and penguin paths on the continent of Antarctica. Since there is little government enforcement on the landmass, road rules and routes are often disputed. Don't be surpised to see edit wars and heated naming convention debates here, so bring your helmet and knee pads.
  • [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AArticles_for_deletion%2FL3121_road&diff=260985018&oldid=260838737 Interesting AFD comment] (Note from author: It was all in good faith :-P --Triadian (talk) 00:38, 31 December 2008 (UTC))
  • Count how many times the word "route" is used in this article
  • [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=U.S._Route_52_Business_(Harvey,_North_Dakota)&oldid=334877694 US 52 BUS in Harvey, ND is apparently a "Banned Route"]. We're not certain whether this resulted from US 52 BUS's radical views, or merely tendentious editing.

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:So many concurrencies

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[[Google Maps]]

  • As a joke, Google Maps will provide directions when a clearly impossible route between North America and Europe (for example, between New York and London) is desired; however, one of the steps is "Swim across the Atlantic Ocean", with a travel time (29 days, 0 hours) and distance (3462 miles/5,572 km) calculated accordingly, between Le Havre in France and Boston in America. The longest route currently known (using the swimming) thus obtained is 15289 miles (24605km) from Zabaykalsk, Chita Oblast, Russia to Overland Dr, Unalaska, AK with coordinate input. [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&saddr=49.6,117.35&daddr=53.87500,-166.425000&sll=62.267923,-66.445312&sspn=113.825992,256.640625&ie=UTF8&z=2&ll=52.268157,-38.671875&spn=127.300835,256.640625&om=1&layer=h] Note that we cannot go in the other direction.
  • [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=%22Shopping+Center+Highway+11%22,+Landrum,+SC&sll=35.052476,-82.250353&sspn=0.983673,2.109375&ie=UTF8&z=14&g=%22Shopping+Center+Highway+11%22,+Landrum,+SC Shopping Center Highway 11?]

Games for the whole family

1. Play the State Game! Find each state as a license plate.

2. The Alphabet Game! Find all of the letters of the alphabet in order from road signs.

3. The Bug Game! Whenever you see a bug, punch someone and yell "Slug Bug!".

4. I'm Going on a Trip! Pick a category (e.g. animals) and start at A and go all the way to Z. The catch, you have to repeat all of the animals. So if the first person said "Alligator" then the next person has to say "Alligator, Bear" and so on.

5. I Spy... (or Eye Spy if you want to get fun). Annoy the heck out of everyone by forcing them to play this child's game.

Partisan politics (Let the wigs fly!)

  • The British government should be criticized for making their citizens pay to drive in downtown London. It is horrible and atrocious and an indignity... wait why is this page now on the IWF blacklist?

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