A nice collection of dinner on the hoof, but needs added big hairy Heelan' coos*.

* Highland Cows for the acent impaired

Quote from: fsn on 08 December 2016, 07:46:33 AM
Is that enough of an address? Could Mr 37 find you from that? Is it like those documentaries with Clint Eastwood where he's told "'bout 100 miles across the desert" and remarkably he finds exactly what he's looking for?

Wow! Americans are so geographical. 

Point taken. To be more precise "go North until you come to the fourth Mail Pouch painted barn (the one near the Exxon station), turn right, cross the big river, then keep going till you find the MickeyD's with the triple drive-through, turn right and proceed up the mountain 'till you hear a large colony of honking geese. We are the third house on the left". Yup - that should do it.

 

d Guy,

No worry on my part as I perfectly understood your directions. I will be coming from the other direction so was just going to turn left at the third Burma Shave sign and figured I'd find you no problem.

Terry

That'll do it! 

Quote from: Terry37 on 09 December 2016, 12:46:20 AM

turn left at the third Burma Shave sign and figured I'd find you no problem.

Oh great!!! Come here to see about animals.... Now I have Tom Waits singing 'Burma Shave' echoing around my head...



'I want to get there before the sun comes up in Burma Shave'

Has this 'Thread Derailment' broken any records?

 

Derailment record?
Probably not.
Even if fsn,
Started this rot!

Burma Shave

Just got an email from Pendraken that my zoo order has just been shipped - thanks, Leon 

(OK - back on track)

Quote from: Terry37 on 09 December 2016, 12:46:20 AM
d Guy,

No worry on my part as I perfectly understood your directions. I will be coming from the other direction so was just going to turn left at the third Burma Shave sign and figured I'd find you no problem.

Terry

Sorry, but my maths OCD has kicked in. It would only be the 3rd Burma Shave sign if there were in total 6 Burma Shave signs. Otherwise, you may take the wrong turning. 

And the signs need to be double sided.   

Quote from: fsn on 09 December 2016, 08:01:01 AM
And the signs need to be double sided.   

But most aint !!!! I'd just use my bad tempered Garmin.

Now if I had a Republican Roman army I'd be requesting cooows with flaming torches on their horns.

Leon, can we have flaming cows, and incendiary pugs, please?

Pugs, Will ?

Cheers - Phil

The short legs mean they don't move fast, but the noise when alight is truly terrifying....

IanS

Dashed autocorrect, I meant incendiary PIGS!! 🐷

Perhaps the pugs are to set fire to the pigs.

Quote from: fsn on 09 December 2016, 08:01:01 AM
Sorry, but my maths OCD has kicked in. It would only be the 3rd Burma Shave sign if there were in total 6 Burma Shave signs. Otherwise, you may take the wrong turning. 

And the signs need to be double sided.   

The signs where single sided and only readable from one direction. Often as not there was no sign sequence on the opposite side of the road (and even if there were they would likely go unnoticed in your direction of travel).
In the old days - pre-Interstate - the Burma Shave signs were well-known navigational points (you remembered the jingles). In the example I gave and counting from the first sign encountered, "Even if fsn" would be the third sign. BTW - my example has a total of five signs. These were placed about a quarter mile apart. As a kid they were much valued - breaking the tedium of the road with a poetry lesson! 😀



In the land between me and Terry a flaming pig is called a "barbecue"


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