| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jul 25 06:55AM -0700 On 7/23/20 8:56 PM, Mark Brader wrote: > version as shown here. It has one meaning that """is""" found > only in Germany and a related meaning in other countries. > Give *both* meanings. emergency parking only, no parking > 2. Sign A also has two meanings, related to each other, used in > different countries. Give *both*. speed limit 60 km/hr speed limit 60 mph > 3. Explain sign H, seen on freeways. emergency parking only > too confusing. But you can figure it out, so you tell us: > which other sign on the handout """is now""" used with the same > meaning intended for S? Q (and those are T-squares, not hammers) > 8. Sign J mentions a specific town, Champeix, but in countries such > as France and Germany it also has a general meaning that would > be the same no matter what place was mentioned. What's that? no travellers services at <town> > 9. What is sign C? no entry > 10. And to finish the round with appropriate punctuation, what is > sign T? warning > I've sorted the round in order of the handout, thus interspersing > the 11 decoys with the others. Answer for the decoys as well if > you like for fun, but for no points. Shirley, you jest -- Dan Tilque |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Jul 25 02:44PM > http://c8.alamy.com/comp/DBC4R4/manually-operated-railway-level-crossing-at-cantley-norfolk-england-DBC4R4.jpg > (That particular one is still like that according to Google Street > View, but there aren't many left any more.) That may be what it's supposed to look like, but it also looks very much like railroad tracks. -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 25 06:24PM -0500 Mark Brader: >> the gates were swung horizontally (by hand) and were across either the >> road or the railway at all times, depending on whether or not a train >> was either crossing or approaching... Dan Blum: > That may be what it's supposed to look like, but it also looks very > much like railroad tracks. Not when you notice that the fence pickets are asymmetrical. -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "The only proven use of antimatter is the production msb@vex.net | of Nobel Prizes in physics." -- Henry Spencer |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Jul 25 06:37PM -0500 Mark Brader: > > the gates were swung horizontally (by hand) and were across either the > > road or the railway at all times, depending on whether or not a train > > was either crossing or approaching. See: Erland Sommarskog: > Yeah, those I've never seen. I'm not surprised. I'm not sure how many countries ever used them; I think Germany is another one that did. > And you could ask what the point is have these gates across the railway. > If they are in that position when the train comes, it cannot end well. In that case they'd just get smashed. But the crossing guard or signalman would presumably be responsible for the cost of replacing them, and he doesn't want that to happen. Therefore he has a strong incentive to close them across the road. > In Sweden, at least, there is a second sign for railway crossing, which > impossible to mistake for something else, since it features a steam > locomotive. But to know what it means, you have to know what a steam locomotive looks like! I think I've seen a similar sign in the US somewhere at some time, probably indicating a train *station*, but I may be misremembering. > This is a crossing *without* gates or bars, so be careful! We have those on this continent too, though normally only on minor roads. -- Mark Brader | "How, you may ask, did the mind of man ever excogitate Toronto | anything so false and foolish? The answer is that the msb@vex.net | mind of man had nothing to do with it..." --A.E. Housman My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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