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Achewood => Achewood => Topic started by: theinevitable on July 06, 2007, 04:58:41 am
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egh. Nothing special. Normally I dig these, but... this one had nothing.
http://achewood.com/index.php?date=07062007 (http://achewood.com/index.php?date=07062007)
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Hey, kid, where the link? I me whas-sa-matta fuh you? Seriously, fig you inev. WTF?
Also, I love how cute and furious the otter looks holding his sign.
Also, Onstad seems to want us to buy his products.
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Yes, Daddy's bank account is low so he trots out the cute otter to prod the minions into coughing something into the coffers, I guess?
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I sense today was a bad week at Chez Onstad. Maybe I'll buy a shirt as a thank-you for that Comic Sans strip.
Anyway, is the middle "FREDERICK IS CRAPPY!" panel hilarious to anyone else? I love the idea of "crappy" as a word you'll surely regret later.
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Hmmm. I think when I get home I'll dig out the ol' credit card and buy that "What We Need More Of Is Science" shirt that I've been meaning to buy since I started reading Achewood.
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Hmmm. I think when I get home I'll dig out the ol' credit card and buy that "What We Need More Of Is Science" shirt that I've been meaning to buy since I started reading Achewood.
Don't encourage him, otherwise he'll pull more Fig You Fridays to make more money.
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Oh man, English addresses. English addresses. Man. Those are some crazy things. English addresses.
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I normally don't go in for these at all but this one got me chuckling.
Come on people, Creamharrow.
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I LOVE Friday Facts!
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Meanwhile in the US: five figure house numbers.
Curtail your damn streets, people!
What's infuriating is five figure house numbers on streets which do not have anywhere near 1,0000 houses! What do they need such big numbers for! Start at ONE, people!
OK, I have a four figure house number on a street which is only maybe six blocks long and does not have 1000 houses, much less the 8,000 that my block numbers imply. But that's different. Four figures is respectable.
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What's infuriating is five figure house numbers on streets which do not have anywhere near 1,0000 houses! What do they need such big numbers for! Start at ONE, people!
Or TWO if you're on the even side of the street. Think of the madness if the numbers just went up in order. Chaos. CHAOS.
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Oh man, English addresses. English addresses. Man. Those are some crazy things. English addresses.
I'm moving to Twine Ailment. It is my destiny.
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What's infuriating is five figure house numbers on streets which do not have anywhere near 1,0000 houses! What do they need such big numbers for! Start at ONE, people!
You people are all wrong. Having the upper digits of the street number correspond with the number of the crossing street means you have extra information about the location of the address encoded within the address itself. "11907 Lamar Ave." is going to be near 119th and Lamar. It's an awesome system and I won't sit idly by while it is disparaged.
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You people are all wrong. Having the upper digits of the street number correspond with the number of the crossing street means you have extra information about the location of the address encoded within the address itself. "11907 Lamar Ave." is going to be near 119th and Lamar. It's an awesome system and I won't sit idly by while it is disparaged.
I agree, but I think Wombat meant out in the exurbs where there aren't really cross streets and they definitely aren't numbered. I know planned communities seem to just pull house numbers out of a hat.
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I agree, but I think Wombat meant out in the exurbs where there aren't really cross streets and they definitely aren't numbered. I know planned communities seem to just pull house numbers out of a hat.
Though I will admit that the system breaks down around here. In eastern Kansas our east-west streets increase in number as you go south. The very low numbers are up near the river in Kansas City, KS, and increase to the mid 100s in the southern suburbs. I just checked on Google Maps, and that numbering scheme continues through 399th St., which is about halfway to the Oklahoma border. I think at some point you need to admit that you're no longer in the KC metro area and come up with your own numbering scheme.
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Fun fact! It took us almost two years to get up our house numbers on our new house. My sis gave use some crappy solar-light address numbers as a housewarming gift- they never worked, and then for quite a while I just couldn't make up my mind. Everyone liked to complain about it, but I was like "Yeah, well hear you are in my house, so I guess things worked out okay." Our street starts at 200 - across the cross-street is a park (a very old park) flanked on either side by the continuation of the streets that flank us. I always wonder if there were any phantom houses there before the first world war (the park is a Vimy Memorial park). Our street also goes up to the thousands, with the higher numbers being in the seriously crime-ridden part of town. The news always reports which section of the street the crime occurred on, like: "in the 800 block of..." It's always nice to know how many blocks away the murder was from our house! Cheery!
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I agree, but I think Wombat meant out in the exurbs where there aren't really cross streets and they definitely aren't numbered.
Yeah. I think there is a secret reason that our numbers are all in the 8000s but since no one knows what it is, what's the point. However, this secret plan also means that there are similar numbers all over the neighborhood - so there's a house on my street numbered 8402, and one around the corner with the same number, and one in the parallel street with the same number.. Which just results in confusion especially when the regular mailman is on vacation.
Someone needs to look up something about Japanese addresses and post it. They are the craziest. But I am supposed to be working.
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My parents address works like Wombat's. All the houses on her street have the same numbers as the houses one street over, which also has a very similar name (North Lake Dr and Lake Ridge Pl). UPS gets mixed up especially often for some reason.
My neighborhood is all nice and orderly. Numbered streets run EW and the named streets are in alphabetical order. So it's super easy to figure out how far away something is. Unless it's like crazy far away an the alphabet has had to reset 2 or 3 times.
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"Washington DC is the only city on earth where you can be at exactly the right address and still only have a 25% chance of being where you are." -- Adam Brodsky.
He said this at a show because he was all excited that it only took him 2 tries to find the club. Apparently he has a habit of going to, say, 7th and V, NE instead of 7th and V, NW. This can potentially be very dangerous.
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In Price Utah the streets are numbered in both directions and then divided into n/s/e/w. I lived on N 1100 E. I never could figure it out.
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my neighborhood has one main road in basically a circle. I live at 15433.
What pisses people off is that I think of it as a circle, and it should be a circle, but there a bunch of weird turns in one part-- if you don't turn, you end up on a dead-end. Unnecessary. I often forget one or more of these turns when giving people directions.
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I lived in a condo in Newport News, my street number was 12695. We then moved to our house in Charlotte, on a cul-de-sac that will maybe have nine houses on it. My street number is now 12606.
I tried to figure out why that happened, and I realized all the other streets are numbered a bit differently. There won't be any other house on any other street numbered 12606. That will make it easy for the homeowner's association to collect their dues, since each file number can just be the street number, but yeah, I'd much rather be 6 than 12606.
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Someone needs to look up something about Japanese addresses and post it. They are the craziest. But I am supposed to be working.
All I remember about Japanese addresses was a fleeting terror, followed by an abiding amazement that the Japanese postal service and food-delivery guys ever successfully get anything anywhere. That may be all I ever need to know.
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This is probably enough to explain why you felt that way:
With the exception of major roads, Japanese streets are not named. Instead, cities and towns are subdivided into areas, subareas and blocks, similar to the insulae system of the Roman empire. To complicate the matter, houses within each subarea were formerly not numbered in geographical sequence but in the temporal order in which they were constructed.
from http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2224.html (http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2224.html)
The buildings are numbered chronologically - isn't that just wonderful?
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Aw man. So good.
"R2DTrousers" is actually pronounced "CAN'D"
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Though I will admit that the system breaks down around here. In eastern Kansas our east-west streets increase in number as you go south. The very low numbers are up near the river in Kansas City, KS, and increase to the mid 100s in the southern suburbs. I just checked on Google Maps, and that numbering scheme continues through 399th St., which is about halfway to the Oklahoma border. I think at some point you need to admit that you're no longer in the KC metro area and come up with your own numbering scheme.
Can'd for the fun KC factoid :). I knew the numbers were pretty high once you go south of Olathe, but I had no idea they went clear to 399. Kind of ridiculous.
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Can'd for the fun KC factoid :). I knew the numbers were pretty high once you go south of Olathe, but I had no idea they went clear to 399. Kind of ridiculous.
I found a 403rd Street... which looked like it was about 100 miles south of the city proper. And I thought annexation in Charlotte was ridiculous.
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The buildings are numbered chronologically - isn't that just wonderful?
OOHHHHHHHH SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTT
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Golfhaus-- the intersection of Queens and Queens and Providence and Providence is my family's favorite.
Also: the fact that there are like 10 queens.
also: the fact that Sharon Rd. intersects Sharon Ln.
also: ok, basically, streets in charlotte are crazy.
I really want to find a picture of this one traffic interchange in St Louis... there are lights... but it's a roundabout? and there are also roads going straight. through the roundabout.
basically I laughed so hard, but was terrified.
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"On The Corner of Providence and Providence" by theinevitable - a coming of age novel.
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Golfhaus-- the intersection of Queens and Queens and Providence and Providence is my family's favorite.
Also: the fact that there are like 10 queens.
also: the fact that Sharon Rd. intersects Sharon Ln.
also: ok, basically, streets in charlotte are crazy.
I really want to find a picture of this one traffic interchange in St Louis... there are lights... but it's a roundabout? and there are also roads going straight. through the roundabout.
basically I laughed so hard, but was terrified.
Yeah, I learned about that when I told people my temporary housing was off of Park, and everyone at work said, "Which one?" and then I said "the one near Woodlawn?" and they said, "yeah, which of those?"
Park and Park South was a favorite.
Exactly who the hell was Sharon, and why does he/she have ten roads named after them?
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In my city's storied history, we once had a red light district, with streets named after the more famed ladies of the night. These streets still have lovely ladies names - Gertrude, Agnes, Isabelle, etc. and are still where one would go to pick up a lady, though the official red light district is gone. the isabelle
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The main navigational confusion in Los Angeles is that, at this point, nearly every other block has an unofficial or semi-official "neighborhood name" constructed in attempts to bring up their property values slightly.
In Van Nuys, there is a neighborhood that started calling itself "Balboa Lake" to try and get better property values than Van Nuys and... it didn't clear it properly with the city and now people are getting sued for listing themselves as "Balboa Lake" in real estate guides.
Balboa Lake isn't a lake, it's a small pond affiliated with the water district in some manner.
And it is in no way part of the "Balboa Lake" neighborhood.
The "lake" is a mile or two south, in Encino.
So basically it is a neighborhood that does not exist, named after a lake that isn't a lake and the neighborhood in no way contains or touches said lake. Also, people in Encino are trying to sue them for appropriating the name because the lake that does not exist IS in their poorly defined neighborhood.
It's a pretty awesome time to be alive.
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Around here people are usually really good at pulleing this off. For example when AOL moved their HQ to Ashburn they decided they didn't like the name, so they claimed to be based in the fictional town of Dulles. So other businesses like Carmax followed suit, claiming to be in the fictional town of Dulles. Finally the post office caved and now has like 5 ZIP codes for a place that shouldn't even exist.
The neighborhood thing happened in Arlington. You can mail a letter addressed to Roslyn, VA even though it's just a neighborhood in Arlington and the PO doesn't care. Again, it even has its own ZIP code.
From what I understand most any place with "North" in the name in Maryland is the same way. North is usually code for "higher property values" lest you think your doctor lives in the slums of Potomac. No, she lives in North Potomac, thankyouverymuch.
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Around here people are usually really good at pulleing this off. For example when AOL moved their HQ to Ashburn they decided they didn't like the name, so they claimed to be based in the fictional town of Dulles. So other businesses like Carmax followed suit, claiming to be in the fictional town of Dulles. Finally the post office caved and now has like 5 ZIP codes for a place that shouldn't even exist.
Didn't the Redskins pull that off back in the day by creating something like Raljon, MD?
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Didn't the Redskins pull that off back in the day by creating something like Raljon, MD?
This is true. It didn't really take, though. When JKC announced the renaming the media talked a lot about how lame it was and how residents were resisting the new name. Although they had to use Raljon in chyrons &c if they didn't want to lose their press passes. Snyder switched it back to Landover after he bought the team, at the same time that he sold the naming rights to the field. At the time I remember hearing that he did that because the contract forbid any future team owner from renaming the stadium from JKC but I could just be remembering wrong.
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the one with hookers in Charlotte is Trade and Tryon.
but, I don't know if I buy that... that's like The Downtown Corner. I cannot imagine that it wouldn't be noticed if you picked up a lady there.
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This is true. It didn't really take, though. When JKC announced the renaming the media talked a lot about how lame it was and how residents were resisting the new name. Although they had to use Raljon in chyrons &c if they didn't want to lose their press passes. Snyder switched it back to Landover after he bought the team, at the same time that he sold the naming rights to the field. At the time I remember hearing that he did that because the contract forbid any future team owner from renaming the stadium from JKC but I could just be remembering wrong.
Because of this rule, the Redskins still technically play in Jack Kent Cook Stadium. They play ON Fedex Field, which is in the stadium and had no naming rights restrictions. The press doesn't mention this, because if you want a press pass, you don't say Jack Kent Cook Stadium.
I always thought Snyder was a devious dick for doing this, but apparently his predecessors did the same thing with that Raljon whatever, so he's less of a dick in my eyes for that. Dude still needs to stop running the Redskins like a fantasy team though...
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Also: Atlanta sure does have a lot of Peachtree streets.
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Because of this rule, the Redskins still technically play in Jack Kent Cook Stadium. They play ON Fedex Field, which is in the stadium and had no naming rights restrictions. The press doesn't mention this, because if you want a press pass, you don't say Jack Kent Cook Stadium.
I always thought Snyder was a devious dick for doing this, but apparently his predecessors did the same thing with that Raljon whatever, so he's less of a dick in my eyes for that. Dude still needs to stop running the Redskins like a fantasy team though...
Schools do this sort of thing all the time but so they can require that all of the names be used. For example my school had The Carl Smith Center, Home of David A. Harrison III Field at Scott Stadium. Which was printed in its entirety on every ticket. Meaning actual seat and section numbers had to be in printed at like .3 pt to fit onto the ticket. Apparently the "center" is the stadium, field, and parking lot combined. Hell, I'm surprised the parking lots don't have their own name.
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Hell, I'm surprised the parking lots don't have their own name.
They will, just as soon as a donor decides it's sexy to associate the family name with a big square of gridded blacktop and high-mileage Chevy Cavaliers.
My addresses have all been fairly normal, except for the time I had an upstairs apartment and had to add "and a half" to the house number. I thought this was pretty common, but it always got a laugh from phone operators when I had to give them my address and it made for some hijinks when I tried to fill in address fields online. 1/2? .5? And a half? Those are too valid characters, dammit, or else Lou downstairs is gonna get my bills and highbrow literature periodicals.
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They will, just as soon as a donor decides it's sexy to associate the family name with a big square of gridded blacktop and high-mileage Chevy Cavaliers.
My addresses have all been fairly normal, except for the time I had an upstairs apartment and had to add "and a half" to the house number. I thought this was pretty common, but it always got a laugh from phone operators when I had to give them my address and it made for some hijinks when I tried to fill in address fields online. 1/2? .5? And a half? Those are too valid characters, dammit, or else Lou downstairs is gonna get my bills and highbrow literature periodicals.
From what I've seen while apartment shopping it's more common to see B instead of 1/2. Although that might require the original address to add an A.
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I'm glad I'm the only one who took "Go sit on a fig!" the places it wasn't meant to go:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=figging
I like to have some reassurance that the world is still a little bit innocent.
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I'm glad I'm the only one who took "Go sit on a fig!" the places it wasn't meant to go:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=figging
I like to have some reassurance that the world is still a little bit innocent.
Something I did not need to know.
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In most of Utah, where I used to live, the NS and the WE streets are numbered. The numbering scheme designates how far away an address is from a certain part of the city. My old address, 2538 W. 7380 So., indicates that I lived approximately 25.5 blocks west and not quite 74 blocks south of the landmark for the Salt Lake valley, which is, of course, the LDS Temple. Which is not the center of town.
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I used to live at 46 1/2 Knappen Ave. I loved living at a half address. It was the upper half.
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I used to live at 46 1/2 Knappen Ave. I loved living at a half address. It was the upper half.
Shouldn't that be, "the better half" ?
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Shouldn't that be, "the better half" ?
Heh... "that's what your WIFE SAID! Hurr hurr hurrrrrr."
Sorry, couldn't resist.