From: MWB on

"mario in victoria" <mario5491(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Pearly Soames wrote:
>> MWB wrote:
>>>> Wrong, mainiac. The vehicle in the rotary has the right of way pretty
>>>> much everywhere. the point is that yeild doesn't mean stop. If you
>>>> must,
>>>> then you do. The idea is to keep traffic flowing.
>>>>
>>>> BTW, it isn't "flat" here.
>>>
>>>
>>> Wrong Flatlander
>>>
>>> Not in MAINE, we yeild to the vehicle in the rotary.
>>>
>>
>> Uh, I believe that's what he said. So who's the blind boy?
>>
>>
>
> Well, if they can't spell 'yeild...'
>
> mario in victoria
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> humor and pedantry

I'm watching the race and typing. Cut me some slack.


GO MAINE

Mark


From: Pearly Soames on
MWB wrote:
> "mario in victoria" <mario5491(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:y0Bin.306$wr5.205(a)newsfe22.iad...
>> Pearly Soames wrote:
>>> MWB wrote:
>>>>> Wrong, mainiac. The vehicle in the rotary has the right of way pretty
>>>>> much everywhere. the point is that yeild doesn't mean stop. If you
>>>>> must,
>>>>> then you do. The idea is to keep traffic flowing.
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW, it isn't "flat" here.
>>>>
>>>> Wrong Flatlander
>>>>
>>>> Not in MAINE, we yeild to the vehicle in the rotary.
>>>>
>>> Uh, I believe that's what he said. So who's the blind boy?
>>>
>>>
>> Well, if they can't spell 'yeild...'
>>
>> mario in victoria
>> --
>> humor and pedantry
>
> I'm watching the race and typing. Cut me some slack.
>

OK, hillbilly.


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From: NK on
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:10:28 -0800, mario in victoria
<mario5491(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

>What are 'rotaries?'

Roundabouts.

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From: Pearly Soames on
OceanView wrote:
> NK wrote in news:qhtlo5dp0oqqng1p2tev4v58jh3que1eti(a)4ax.com:
>
>> On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:10:28 -0800, mario in victoria
>> <mario5491(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> What are 'rotaries?'
>> Roundabouts.
>>
>
> I forgot about that one. I always think of Bermuda, where it was scary as
> hell going left around them. A newlywed couple was killed the weekend I
> was there going the wrong way around.
>

I almost got killed in Guatemala City once when a cab driver went the
wrong way around because "it was faster".

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From: mario in victoria on
OceanView wrote:
> NK wrote in news:qhtlo5dp0oqqng1p2tev4v58jh3que1eti(a)4ax.com:
>
>> On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:10:28 -0800, mario in victoria
>> <mario5491(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> What are 'rotaries?'
>> Roundabouts.
>>
>
> I forgot about that one. I always think of Bermuda, where it was scary as
> hell going left around them. A newlywed couple was killed the weekend I
> was there going the wrong way around.
>

While driving in England several years ago I spent a month going around
a roundabout, confused and terrified by going in the wrong direction
(for me) and WHERE IS THAT GEAR-SHIFT LEVER????????

mario in victoria
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