You Say, “Pix or It Didn’t Happen”? Here Ya Go.
Well, the road trip is over. But on the way back, I had a chance to verify something.
I previously posted an article about an, um, “interestingly-named” town in Florida. Well, in case anyone thought I – or Google Maps – might be pulling yer leg, here ya go: photographic proof.
Yeah, the picture sucks, and is fairly blurry. Sorry – but YOU try driving in traffic with one hand while snapping a photo of a smallish road sign with the other. At the time, stopping in the middle of the road to get a better shot was NOT a viable option. It’s at least fairly readable.
As I said previously: only in America!
Category: Pointless blather, Who knows, WTF?
EASY there Hondo, how do we know if you aren’t being tracked by ASS-ASS-INs hired by The Dutch Rudder Gang? One of them DID say they nearly got Hack and Ex-PH2! /sarc
If you’re talking about the only self-proclaimed trail assassin I’ve heard of lately, I can’t say I’m particularly impressed with his abilities. He hasn’t been able to find West Virginia in 3 years – and it’s clearly shown on every Rand McNally road atlas I’ve ever seen. Most GPS systems know where it is, too.
I think the TAH “Downfall” parody was right about the law of gravity keeping him from getting lost while skydiving. If I ever meet the author of that bit, the first beer is on me.
I did remember to fart in his general direction when I passed through the part of Florida where he rests his half-bald and semi-functional head at night, though.
Unless you fly in, seems to me there are signs at the state borders, too. Pretty hard to miss, even on the back roads from Pittsburgh to Canton.
Heh!
I’ve seen pictures of bigfoot that weren’t as blurry.
😛
How do I post that picture of a UFO i took last year over the back cornfield? It is teleporting Bigfoot up in a beam of light
Ok. I don’t have pictures but I just spent three hours standing security overwatch from my front deck. My wife said that she heard someone calling for help from the property next to us. She took a pistol and her German shepherd and drove down the road to get the the sound. Two minutes later she comes tearing back up the drive and honking her horn. I went out to see what she wanted. She said that a coyote had chased a mulie doe up the hill and passed our garage. She opened her car door and handed me a newborn fawn. She had found it laying in our driveway. She knows not to touch them, but she was afraid the coyote would come back for it. We took it back down where she found it and laid her in the deep grass at the side of the road. I got a chair and parked myself on the front deck with my trusty SSK and watched the lower field to keep the predators at bay. About three hours later Mama deer came back. The fawn had not moved a muscle during the time I watched, but she got up and followed her mother toward the deeper cover. We watched this doe start her labor about dark last night so the baby was less than 10 hours old when her mom was jumped this AM. Contrary to what you may have been told, a deer will accept her fawn even if a human has touched it.
So, was it the doe or the fawn that called for help? I. am. so. confused.
I assume that it was the doe. The fawn didn’t make a peep except when I got back in the car with her. She mad a very soft bleating like a goat.
Cool, thanks for sharing that with us.
Nature is so indifferent and sometimes our meddling causes more harm than good.
This time I see it is good.
Thanks for sharing and also for saving the life of that baby fawn.
I quit hunting after I got out of the Army, I decided it is much more sporting to shoot at things that can shoot back at you!!!
Thunderstixx – I feel the same way. I gave up hunting shortly after I got out. Just didn’t enjoy it anymore. I don’t need the meat and I’m too lazy to dress them out. I still love the outdoors, it’s just for me anyway, it’s more of a challenge now to “hunt” animals with my camera.
I hunt. I use paint ball guns with bright orange dye. It’s just my way of sticking it to the drunken rednecks who will shoot at anything unless it’s wearing a safety color.
Muahahahahaha.
And yes, I am one of those guys who don’t mind watching the world burn.
I see I’m not alone in thinking that way.
Excellent story Roger.
At one time I was the only field mechanic for a logging operation at Appleton Cove, Alaska. In the Spring, the does and fawns would be in the middle of the logging roads because, if so, they could see the big bad bear coming before it ate them. I don’t know how many times I would come upon a little fawn laying in the middle of the dirt road, with mama just barely in the treeline. Those fawns would not move. I’d have to set the brake, get out, and shoo the little baby towards its mama. Once or twice, that didn’t work and I had to carry it and set it down in the ditch. Ducks and geese with their young were the same way. To all of them, the roadbed provided visibility and early warning for the approach of predators. The bears were thick at Appleton Cove. To my knowledge all the crusty old loggers I worked with that drove trucks or equipment stopped and gave the right of way to the little furry and feathered ones. (BTW there was helicopter logging going on there too and my favorite pilot guy was a Loach driver in the RVN… awesome dude. Good times)
From Wikipedia:
The community got its name by residents saying “t ain’t” Oviedo and “t ain’t” Chuluota.
Yup…lived right around the corner from that sign…tain’t Ovedo, and tain’t Chuluota. Honda, if you’re still in Central FL I’d be happy to buy a you a cold one if you are anywhere near Patrick AFB.
PAFB?
That is REAL close to me.
Live a mile from the south gate. The PAFB Marina Tiki is one of the best bars in the area.
That would put you in un-incorporated Satellite Beach, right?
I am in the incorporated area.
Nice to meet you, neighbor.
Hey neighbor…yup, live in the surf slum
Yeah, that’s reputedly the origin of the name.
But as Poetrooper and some others can attest, the, um, “informal” definition of the term “taint” was well-known long before the early 1970s. I find it hard to believe that the county board of supervisors was completely unaware of that definition when they approved the name.
Then again, maybe they were indeed ignorant of the word’s alternate meaning. At one time, the Army had a TRADOC organization with the acronym “CACACOA” (it might still exist for all I know). That literally translates to “dunghoe” in Spanish. (smile)
Hats off Honda … Well played. Well played indeed.
The girls at one of the restaurants are worried you are driving and taking pictures while texting.
They just worship your posts Hondo.
Be safe.
Your post cracks me up. But I am worried your swooning employees might fall and hit their head on the restaurant floor. In this case I think reflective belts are definitely in order. Letting them read Hondo’s posts without any PPE….think of the liability man.
Oh, you have no idea. If HONDO didn’t post it then its not worth reading. HONDO is always right.
I think I could get them to do a “Draw HONDO” day. You have no idea how many times I have heard, “Ya, but HONDO said…..”.
Well, it was a bit of a risk I wouldn’t normally take.
But traffic was pretty light – the only thing that prevented me stopping was a guy approaching me from the rear at a considerable distance. So I grabbed the camera, snapped one quick shot as I passed, then continued.
Had there been a good place to pull over and take it stationary, I’d have done so for safety and picture quality reasons. No such place appeared to exist nearby.
An unbeliever who still refuses to believe Elvis is dead took one look at this sign and said it was a secret code, meant to be read backwards by “believers” who read it as:
Elvis Tonight. She swears she is a psychic who regularly keeps in touch with him. She also reported self-made war hero Michael Conley was Audie Murphy’s reincarnation. How is it these people talk me into shelling over $30 for such useless information?
They said that Virginia is for lovers, but I think that Intercourse, PA is for lovers. Makes me wonder what the name of the Intercourse high school football team is named.
“Teen Parents”, perhaps? (smile)
Seriously: kids there appear to go to Leacock Elementary School (mascot: Indians). They appear to go to high school in Pequea Valley High School, whose mascot is the Braves.
That’s the non-Amish population, of course. Intercourse is in the middle of PA’s Amish country. The Amish population there home school, ending at the 8th grade if I recall correctly.
Nice place to visit. Spouse and I did a holiday weekend there recently. Winters can be pretty nasty, though.
And if you can’t get any in Intercourse, you can always head over to Loyalsock.
Yes, it exists, just the other side of the river from Williamsport.
Don’t forget “Bird-in-Hand”. It’s just down the road from Intercourse.
Seriously.
And in Illinois they have Normal and Oblong.
Supposedly a true wedding announcement:
“OBLONG BOY MARRIES NORMAL GIRL”
This is clearly a sham.
The text on the sign has been made intentionally blurry in order to hide the obvious photoshop work. I’m a former governor. I was a navy seal. A professional fighter. And I’ve never seen a blurry picture of a road sign.
If you guys want to accept the official story that Taintsville exists, well (guffaw) you go right ahead.
Here’s a better, more informative view of the sign:
🙂
I bet the False Commander and CEO of All-Points Logistics, Phony Phil Monkress, has a corporate, taxpayer-funded vacation home there.
Would that qualify as “livin’ the dream” for him, GT?
As long as it is taxpayer-funded based on his nefarious LEO, SEAL and Native American claims.
I feel sorry for those folks. When Phildo shows up or All-Points Logistics tries to open a satellite branch, Phildo will attempt to rob them blind.
And with a name like “Taintsville”, Phildo WILL be looking for some action.
North Carolina has a nice town called Rock Ridge. I HAD to pull over for a picture of that.
“Somebody go back and get a shitload of dimes”
I guess not a few of us here belong in this store:
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