black cats and broken mirrors next to go

I say let's keep Friday the Thirteenth, black cats, ladders, broken mirrors, and the like -- and get rid of the New Testament, the Old Testament, and all the supposed holy books.

The minor superstitions can actually provide a bit of fun -- and something to laugh at. Those major superstitions are killing us.

Well dyslexia, I think he has a point. A road sign is much more of an economic deterrent to a town or city than say, SARS here in Toronto. Maybe they should have a summit here regarding this issue.

well yeah Cav perhaps you could change the name of Toronto to perhaps New Orleans

That might help....also, perhaps they may want to look into the fact that maybe the reason nobody is shopping in their towns is because they all suck...

Also, chicks in Toronto won't flash their boobs for beads, but in a good peeler bar, they will rub their muff in your face for $20. Maybe that should be our new slogan for economic recovery. Whaddya think?

Wow, talk about spooky.

Wouldn't it be great if some enterprising town on route 666 renamed themselves "Hell", so that Route 666 could be known as "The road to Hell".

Wasn't Route 666 the road being travelled in "Natural Born Killers?"

By the way, in case you are wondering, the city with zip codes beginning 666 is Topeka, Kansas. Too bad route 666 doesn't go there.

"Toronto, the numero uno muff diving town. Be there or be nowhere!"

I think that the old "step on a crack, break your mothers back" supersition has gone the way of the edsel.

This is late, but I am catching up after a computer crash....
Maybe they could rename the road Route 69. It has a delightful connotation, unless the governor has something against nicely fitting numbers. LOL

Route Pisces? Hmm....

Precedent: Highway 17 between San Jose and Santa Cruz, CA was originally Highway 13. It's a narrow, windy, mountain road, with typically 70mph traffic, many accidents and casualties.

The "fish-hook" interchange coming into Santa Cruz is continually listed as one of the most dangerous portions of road in California.

But the Chamber of Commerce at the seaside resort town of Santa Cruz protested very loudly, and they changed it to 17 instead. Oh well.





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What about the 13th floor on many buildings?

Already goes through the middle of Oklahoma - quite fitting, "Heartland USA"

I am very, very familiar with Highway 17. Fun road, that. And 13 would have been a much more appropriate moniker.

Not so thrilling since they put in that center divider, though. I skidded into an oncoming lane one rainy night before they built the damn thing. Sure, a median would have lowered the odds that I would have died that night, but as it turns out, I didn't, and having a wall there would have scratched up the sport striping on my 1979 Datsun King Cab. Damn safety Nazis.



Er, what was the question?

Damn. I bet those signs are stolen more than the ones for Weed, CA.

Where can I find a "Highway 69"?
· Interstate Highway 69:
o Port Huron, Michigan
o Lapeer, Michigan
o Burton, Michigan
o Flint, Michigan
o Lansing, Michigan
o Charlotte, Michigan
o Marshall, Michigan
o Coldwater, Michigan
o Angola, Indiana
o Auburn, Indiana
o Garrett, Indiana
o Fort Wayne, Indiana
o Anderson, Indiana
o Indianapolis, Indiana
· U.S. Highway 69:
o Albert Lea, Minnesota
o Ames, Iowa
o Des Moines, Iowa
o Kansas City, Missouri
o Fort Scott, Kansas
o Pittburg, Kansas
o Miami, Oklahoma
o Vinita, Oklahoma
o Wagoneer, Oklahoma
o Muskogee, Oklahoma
o McAlester, Oklahoma
o Durant, Oklahoma
o Denison, Texas
o Sherman, Texas
o Greenville, Texas
o Tyler, Texas
o Jacksonville, Texas
o Lufkin, Texas
o Beaumont, Texas
o Port Arthur, Texas
· Alabama State Highway 69:
o Guntersville
o Arab
o Cullman
o Tuscaloosa
· Arkansas State Highway 69:
o Batesville
o Newport
· Colorado State Highway 69:
o Walsenburg
· Connecticut State Highway 69:
o Bristol
o Waterbury
o New Haven
· Idaho State Highway 69:
o Meridian
o Kuna
· Indiana State Highway 69:
o Mount Vernon
· Louisiana State Highway 69:
o White Castle
· Tennessee State Highway 69:
o Savannah
· Wisconsin State Highway 69:
o Madison
o Monroe

Poem 69

Written by Evans A Criswell
November 27, 1996

Sixty-nine, sixty-nine!
As a number, you're quite fine,
with divisors three and twenty-three
and a square root between eight and nine.
Right-side-up or upside down,
you stay the same when flipped around.
Your neat properties are overlooked today
by the younger generation who likes to clown.
You are the subject of many a joke.
At sixty-nine much fun we poke.
If a conversation is getting dull,
we liven it up with a sixty-nine joke.
Your two digits are like peas in a pod.
They make a cute pair, but not a quad.
Sixty-eight is the speed limit of a woman,
because at sixty-nine she blows a rod.

What is the square root of 69?
8 something.

What is the speed limit on Highway 69?
Lickety-split!

What is 138?
Dinner for four.

What is 68?
Do me and I'll owe you one.

Why is 77 better than 69?
You get 8 more.

What is 6.9?
A good thing broken up by a period.

damn, bill, i gotta write those down, maybe get them tattooed on so's i'll have them handy at a moment's notice.


didn't the (movie) m.a.s.h. nurses cheer "sixty nine / is divine" during the football game?

I happen to take US Highway 69 on my morning commute to work every day. Honest! It's a perfectly normal highway, except that during the rush hour the traffic sucks.