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Subject:Re: TECHWR-L Digest - 26 Jan 1997 to 27 Jan 1997 From:"Wayne J. Douglass" <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 29 Jan 1997 09:33:28 -0800
At 08:58 AM 1/29/97 -0800, Dave Farkas wrote:
>If you're looking for a good minimalism parable, I'd suggest recalling the
>old warning on matchbooks: "Close cover before striking."
>
Almost any road sign would serve as well.
In the North: "Bridges Freeze Before Roads"
In the South: "Get Right With God"
Alas, here in California where the state, in its infinite wisdom, has
decreed that road signs painted in the pavement will be phrased as if
drivers read lines from the bottom up because that's how they encounter
them, these signs would read:
Before Roads
Bridges Freeze
and
With God
Get Right
--Wayne Douglass
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