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1) that thread is nearly 4 years old
2) It's in chit chat... which means...
3) it was a joke
If I remember right, it was a tongue in cheek response to a spate of "real" "help me steelz" threads that were running around at the time.
4) Thanks for the laugh and trip down memory lane.
-tg
That was only a couple years ago.
Memory lane is a lot shorter than I remember.
Well it is just a lane after all... it wasn't an expressway or any kind of high-speed limited-access high-volume transportation corridor...
-tg
Now, it's no more than a cul-de-sac.
@Shaggy
I agree. always ending up where you started.
That would be a round-a-bout, surely.
@Funky
No, i much better like the Cul-de-sak reference better, because after you go around you leave. Some people get stuck in Round-a-bouts
Cul-de-sac is a dead end street with no exit. They are frequently built with something of a circle, or just a wide space, at the end to make it easier to turn around, but a Cul-de-sac is inherently just a dead-end.
But most cul-de-sacs around here have a circle, forcing you around, instead of just dead ending.
You are more modern. There's no rule about that circle, it is just for convenience. Around here, our cul-de-sacs end up in canals. That's convenient, too.
Back in the corn state, the cul-de-sacs were kind of oblong shaped, not so much circular... 'round here though, we don't have cul-de-sacs at all. Most cases, the roads just kind of end... not dead end mind you... they just... end...
-tg
My parents cul-de-sac has a round-about at the end. Everyone drives round it the wrong way.
I've always wondered what the French have against hessian bags that they feel the need to reduce their numbers in such dramatic fashion.
The literal translation of cul de sac is "arse of bag", which is a charming way to describe the street where you live. :rolleyes:
I tend to refer to mine as a close.
I rather expected that to fall foul of the swear filter.
Now that I think about it, I live on the corner of a main street (just down from Maine street, just to confuse people) and a cul-de-sac. So, I live on a corner at the entrance to a cul-de-sac. Considering what InvisibleD just stated, you might say that I was a....well, actually you probably might not be able to say that.
Oh... you want to talk about confusing... here... the streets in the downtown area are named like this:
East 5th North Street ... and there is also a West 5th North Street... Oh and of course a East 5th South Street and West 5th South Street.... sha-wha?
Streets running east-west... on the east side of Main, are "East" and on the west side of Main are "West" ... north of the tracks, they are "North" and south of the tracks they are "South".... and then they are numbered... so based on the name alone, you can tell what quadrant of town it is... it takes some getting used to... especially when trying to read the signs while driving... At least it's only the east-west streets... the north-south ones have your typical names: Grant, Central, Center, Old Center, Short Center, etc. Probably just as well... I can just imagine telling someone: I'll meet you on the corner of West 5th North Street and North 4th East Street...
-tg
There is a bit of a pattern to that, though I can see that directions would be utterly impossible. That place must drive dyslexia folks crazy.
Around here we just like to repeat/change/and interleave names. For example, I used to work off of Powerline road, but there were two of them in town. They were perpendicular to each other in direction, but didn't actually meet at any point (one terminated at some point before it hit the other, though I'm still not sure which one it was). Another road I travel frequently changes names every couple blocks. Over the course of about four miles, it has at least five different names for different segments. The street I live on continues most of the way across town, but you can't drive the length of it, because there is a stretch of a mile or so where it doesn't exist at all (crossing an entire housing development and a canal). Another road that I worked on extended for many miles, but not continuoustly, since there was a large lake in the middle. The road ended on one side of the lake, then continued on the other side of the lake. Depending on exactly which address you were looking for, you could be on the right road, but unable to reach your destination without a boat.
Back where I used to live in So Cal (Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga, Upland area), there's a road called "Arrow Route"... at some point heading west, it intersects a road and changes name to "Arrow Highway" ... at the same time, 2 miles south, another street continues on westward called "Arrow Route" ... I'm sure the turn-by-turn of GPS systems love that one.
I've seen several of those lakes in the middle of a street... that's usually caused by the Army Corp Engineers... at least it was in NE... they added a bunch of flood control dams on some streams... after the area starts to fill, several roads would suddenly find themselves cut off.
-tg
I'm not sure whether that is the case here, or not, though it is entirely possible. The lake does have two dams on it (one dam isn't good enough for some lakes), so it is at least partially man-made. What I'm not sure about is whether the lake existed before the dams, or not. For that matter, I'm not sure whether the lake existed before the road, or not.
There was a lake in my road for a few days last month. Come to think of it, it was in a few of my neighbours living rooms too.
Well I guess my cul-de-sac just had a colonic then. Thankfully I live far enough up it to have avoided the irrigation. I guess I'm kind of near the appendix.Quote:
The literal translation of cul de sac is "arse of bag", which is a charming way to describe the street where you live
In Utah, the addresses correspond to the number of blocks to the intersection of Center St and Main St (each city and town have their own Center St and Main St), as well as the direction from that intersection. Even the roads are numbered. The east-west roads have a number that tells you how many blocks north or south you are from Center St, and the north-south roads have a number that tells you how many blocks east or west you are from Main St.Quote:
Originally Posted by techgnome