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10-07-2008, 03:03 PM
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That's funny...but those kind of muisunderstandings don't just happen in the South. We were right here at home in No. CA when hubby asked the waitress for the specials. She told us about two delicious sounding specials. My husband said "I'll have the latter". She looked at him funny and said "WHAT??!" My husband said "the latter of the two." She said "What's a ladder got to do with it??" We tried not to laugh and said "Nevermind, I'll have the fish".
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10-07-2008, 03:08 PM
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Originally Posted by kygman
Going down I-24 towards Ga. we stopped at a small town at one of the exits. It's been a while but I think it was down around Monteagle. Step daughter asked for a salad with ranch dressing on the side. We wondered why the waitress looked kind of funny about the order. Then the salad came. And the ranch dressing was poured just on one side of the salad! We were almost laughing too hard to eat!
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That's hysterical! You should send that story in to Reader's Digest. |
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10-07-2008, 04:46 PM
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Well, I am not an outsider but I wanted to share anyway. We spent a lot of time growing up between Kingsport and our place on Watauga Lake. So, we would pass through Elizabethton each way. While there are a lot of flea markets in east TN there used to be a lot more than there are now. We always kept beagles growing up for hunting dogs and we always were worried and flea and tick issues. So on one of our trips we were driving down the main drag in E-ton and my brother exclaimed: "Look, there's a tick market!".
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10-07-2008, 06:39 PM
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Originally Posted by SmokyMtnGal
Well, I am not an outsider but I wanted to share anyway. We spent a lot of time growing up between Kingsport and our place on Watauga Lake. So, we would pass through Elizabethton each way. While there are a lot of flea markets in east TN there used to be a lot more than there are now. We always kept beagles growing up for hunting dogs and we always were worried and flea and tick issues. So on one of our trips we were driving down the main drag in E-ton and my brother exclaimed: "Look, there's a tick market!".
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That's adorable!  |
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10-08-2008, 06:48 AM
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Yes , that's true, and sometimes the cars would build up and it took 2 lights to gets across!  |
I live in NJ and those jughandles are a pain the .... |
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10-08-2008, 07:31 AM
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I live in NJ and those jughandles are a pain the ....
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Did you ever try some in Toms River NJ especially on route 37? Talk about cars backed up on some of them.I hated them, but for me , they don't make me nervous like the middle lane turns, |
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10-09-2008, 11:43 AM
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No, the other London
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Ok, I must ask. What is a jughandle?? Is that a lane shaped like one or something?  |
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10-09-2008, 12:41 PM
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Ok, I must ask. What is a jughandle?? Is that a lane shaped like one or something? |
It's easier just to look it up on wiki; there is even a (bad) photo of both a jughandle and a reverse jughandle. |
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10-09-2008, 02:49 PM
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Ok, I must ask. What is a jughandle?? Is that a lane shaped like one or something? |
YES KIND OF if you need to cross a highway to get on the oppisite side there is a turn on your side of the highway that will curve around just like a jug handle,it usually has a light there, you then can cross over the highway.I hope that helps a little   |
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10-09-2008, 04:52 PM
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No, the other London
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Originally Posted by phyll
YES KIND OF if you need to cross a highway to get on the oppisite side there is a turn on your side of the highway that will curve around just like a jug handle,it usually has a light there, you then can cross over the highway.I hope that helps a little |
Oh wait, I know what that is now. We have those here, we don't call it a "jughandle." |
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