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[ladder13]

 

[soFlaNative]

Thanks ol'hat!

 

[BC38]

Thanks Rudi, that told me the same locale as my earlier post.
Googled Indian Hills and found many pics of the same marquee.
Good stuff.

I like the one that says "A perfectionist walked into a bar.
Apparently it wasn't set high enough."

Pretty cool. We have a local rental-storage place that has a big reader-board like that, that can be seen from Interstate 90 as you drive by. The person who updates it has a great sense of humor - a lot like the one in your photo.
I'll have to snap a couple of pictures of their witticisms and post them here. I've literally burst out laughing more than once when driving down the highway reading what they put on that sign.

 

[Kevin J.]

I miss the 70's.

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[Rudi]

Umm, bacon!

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[timjake]

For the scale modeler/miniatures folks

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[oldbrownhat]

Many of us can relate to this.

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[oldbrownhat]

Oh, I like that. "Revenge is sweet, but it's not fattening"

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[oldbrownhat]

Like counting in French. All fairly reasonable until you get to "seventy", where it begins to go pear-shaped:

...Once you hit seventy, French numbers take a wild turn. In French, the number seventy is soixante-dix, or "sixty ten" in English. As you count to eighty, you continue to add using the teens: soixante-douze or "sixty twelve", soixante-treize or "sixty thirteen", etc.

Unfortunately, the irregular trend continues and eighty is literally translated as "four twenty". Unlike seventy, as you count to ninety, you add numbers one to ten. So eighty-two, quatre-vingt-deux, is translated as "four twenty-two". Following this trend means that ninety, quatre-vingt-dix, is translated as "four twenty ten". From 90 to 100, ninety-one, for example, is quatre-vingt-onze, or "four twenty eleven"...​

Still, I suppose it's easier than doing algebra with Roman numerals.

 

[oldbrownhat]

Reminded me of this, which, if my computer date stamp is correct, is from 2002:

 

[LVSteve]

Like counting in French. All fairly reasonable until you get to "seventy", where it begins to go pear-shaped:

...Once you hit seventy, French numbers take a wild turn. In French, the number seventy is soixante-dix, or "sixty ten" in English. As you count to eighty, you continue to add using the teens: soixante-douze or "sixty twelve", soixante-treize or "sixty thirteen", etc.

Unfortunately, the irregular trend continues and eighty is literally translated as "four twenty". Unlike seventy, as you count to ninety, you add numbers one to ten. So eighty-two, quatre-vingt-deux, is translated as "four twenty-two". Following this trend means that ninety, quatre-vingt-dix, is translated as "four twenty ten". From 90 to 100, ninety-one, for example, is quatre-vingt-onze, or "four twenty eleven"...​

Still, I suppose it's easier than doing algebra with Roman numerals.

Several languages also have a strange, often jarring, representation of the number forty. It's a linguistic oddity for which I have yet to find an explanation.

 

[Rudi]

Gotta love the coyote.

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[RobertJ.]

My sister sent me this. I knew these guys were older than they let on:

 

[Golddollar]

Like counting in French. All fairly reasonable until you get to "seventy", where it begins to go pear-shaped:

...Once you hit seventy, French numbers take a wild turn. In French, the number seventy is soixante-dix, or "sixty ten" in English. As you count to eighty, you continue to add using the teens: soixante-douze or "sixty twelve", soixante-treize or "sixty thirteen", etc.

Unfortunately, the irregular trend continues and eighty is literally translated as "four twenty". Unlike seventy, as you count to ninety, you add numbers one to ten. So eighty-two, quatre-vingt-deux, is translated as "four twenty-two". Following this trend means that ninety, quatre-vingt-dix, is translated as "four twenty ten". From 90 to 100, ninety-one, for example, is quatre-vingt-onze, or "four twenty eleven"...​

Still, I suppose it's easier than doing algebra with Roman numerals.

Wow, that takes me back to 7th grade French. That would wrap your tongue around your eye teeth.