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Old 05-21-2006, 12:28 PM   #11
MaggieL
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Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia)
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Originally Posted by marichiko
I'm trying to remember - Jag would know - but I don't think road signs are printed in 5 different languages. They use those universal symbol thingies.
I recall when those universal symbol thingies were introduced in the US; hailed as evidence that the UN-compliant jet-age nuclear-fueled metric future utopia was upon us.

Perhaps their best outcome was a National Lampoon parody a decade later, offering examples for "Village made entirely of soap, 5 km", "Do not use cheese as wheel chocks" and "While not expressly forbidden, the sounding of klaxons annoys the bears".
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