Re: "No loitering"

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Re: "No loitering"

jerry_friedman@yahoo.com

28 Apr 2009 22:18

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> > There's an old joke about a tourist asking for directions; the local
> > says, "If I wanted to get there, I wouldn't start from here." I often
> > use this as a metaphor for adding functions to software.

I imagine the Brits are right in saying this an Irish dialect joke
before the New England "Ya cahn't get theah from heah" version.

"Sure and if I wanted to go to Ballyragget, 'tisn't from here I'd be
starting at all!"

> "You can't get there from here" is an alleged New Englandism,
> more specifically Vermont.

Or Maine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_and_I

I didn't hear audio versions of the "Bert and I" stories till the
early '80s, and didn't know they went back to the '50s.

Urban accent: Say, mister, does this road go to Portland?
Down-east accent: Nope. Stays right here.

--
Jerry Friedman
Shalam ching!

Otto Bahn	27 Apr 2009 15:28
>> There are two places in Durham that have the following sign: >> [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > says, "If I wanted to get there, I wouldn't start from here." I often > use this as a metaphor for adding functions to software. "You can't get there from here" is an alleged New Englandism, more specifically Vermont. --oTTo--

Adam Funk

27 Apr 2009 10:30

> There are two places in Durham that have the following sign:
>
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
>
> You can't get there from here!

That's Athens.

There's an old joke about a tourist asking for directions; the local
says, "If I wanted to get there, I wouldn't start from here." I often
use this as a metaphor for adding functions to software.

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Otto Bahn	24 Apr 2009 15:48
>>This brings to mind a sign posted in front of a parking place at the >>four corners in the center of town: [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > CHILDREN > PLAYING There are two places in Durham that have the following sign: +------------+ \| Duke --> \| \| <-- Durham \| +------------+ --oTTo-- You can't get there from here!

barbara@bookpro.com	23 Apr 2009 11:10
>> Signs saying >> [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > >For whatever reason, there was often a police car parked there. Recently, the road to my neighborhood sprouted a couple of SLOW CHILDREN PLAYING signs. I thought we weren't allowed to call them "slow" anymore. BW

Matthew L. Martin

23 Apr 2009 11:00

> Signs saying
>
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>
> I do not think it means what they think it means.

This brings to mind a sign posted in front of a parking place at the
four corners in the center of town:

NO
PARKING
POLICE
CARS
ONLY

For whatever reason, there was often a police car parked there.

Matthew (I wackytyped four corners at the center of time. BAND NAME)

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dearcilla	23 Apr 2009 04:13
Signs saying "No loitering in lobby by management" are posted all over the vestibule of a downtown drugstore I frequent. I do not think it means what they think it means.

Re: "No loitering"

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