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tpop1 06-01-2012 09:00 AM
As scene in The Villages
 
Sometimes it's the little touches that makes life interesting.

http://i968.photobucket.com/albums/a...atesignuse.jpg

Don't we now live in a "close enough is good enough" world!

KEVIN & JOSIE 06-01-2012 09:02 AM
Maybe the person hired did not speak English.....unsure what direction to install the signage. :1rotfl:

Golfer in Sanibel 06-01-2012 09:03 AM
:clap2:

rubicon 06-01-2012 09:26 AM
And your point is?:1rotfl:

pooh 06-01-2012 09:26 AM
:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

Taltarzac725 06-01-2012 09:29 AM
These gate arms seem to get hit rather frequently by vehicles. I understand that there is a $300 charge if you hit one??

ajbrown 06-01-2012 09:32 AM
Well it is an outbound gate, so everything would be reversed :clap2:

mac9 06-01-2012 11:01 AM
Because the gates are broken so frequently, I think that TV has just started recycling the broken gates. Upside down might be the only way that the gate would fit in its new location. Other than it being funny, why would it bother you?

skyguy79 06-01-2012 02:47 PM
Perhaps, just perhaps it's a special gate made specifically for the round-a-bout challenged! :shocked:

gmcneill 06-01-2012 02:53 PM
C'mon, gang!

The gate was made for those of us who are head over heels happy about living in TV!

jojo 06-01-2012 04:25 PM
:clap2::clap2:
Quote:
Originally Posted by gmcneill (Post 500140)
C'mon, gang!

The gate was made for those of us who are head over heels happy about living in TV!

Irish Rover 06-01-2012 06:49 PM
Be glad someone is putting the gates back up. Quit bit---ing!

skyguy79 06-01-2012 08:10 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by gmcneill (Post 500140)
C'mon, gang!

The gate was made for those of us who are head over heels happy about living in TV!
Didn't you mean.....
:1rotfl:
¡Λ┴ uı ƃuıʌıl ʇnoqɐ ʎddɐɥ slǝǝɥ ɹǝʌo pɐǝɥ ǝɹɐ oɥʍ sn ɟo ǝsoɥʇ ɹoɟ ǝpɐɯ sɐʍ ǝʇɐƃ ǝɥ┴

¡ƃuɐƃ 'uoɯ,Ɔ

pooh 06-01-2012 08:27 PM
:clap2:
Quote:
Originally Posted by skyguy79 (Post 500244)
Didn't you mean.....
:1rotfl:
¡Λ┴ uı ƃuıʌıl ʇnoqɐ ʎddɐɥ slǝǝɥ ɹǝʌo pɐǝɥ ǝɹɐ oɥʍ sn ɟo ǝsoɥʇ ɹoɟ ǝpɐɯ sɐʍ ǝʇɐƃ ǝɥ┴

¡ƃuɐƃ 'uoɯ,Ɔ
:clap2::clap2::clap2:

asianthree 06-01-2012 08:32 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by pooh (Post 500254)
:clap2:

:clap2::clap2::clap2:
now thats funny

gmcneill 06-01-2012 09:38 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by skyguy79 (Post 500244)
Didn't you mean.....
:1rotfl:
¡Λ┴ uı ƃuıʌıl ʇnoqɐ ʎddɐɥ slǝǝɥ ɹǝʌo pɐǝɥ ǝɹɐ oɥʍ sn ɟo ǝsoɥʇ ɹoɟ ǝpɐɯ sɐʍ ǝʇɐƃ ǝɥ┴

¡ƃuɐƃ 'uoɯ,Ɔ
I am dutifully impressed by and amazed at your skills, Skyguy!

Like with a magician's talents, I don't want to know how you do the things you do; I just appreciate that you do!

skyguy79 06-01-2012 09:41 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by gmcneill (Post 500274)
I am dutifully impressed by and amazed at your skills, Skyguy!

Like with a magician's talents, I don't want to know how you do the things you do; I just appreciate that you do!
Thanks G, but it's really not magic at all. I'd tell you how it's done, but you said you didn't want to know! :1rotfl:

gmcneill 06-01-2012 09:50 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by skyguy79 (Post 500277)
Thanks G, but it's really not magic at all. I'd tell you how it's done, but you said you didn't want to know! :1rotfl:
:bowdown:

thank you!

Gerald 06-02-2012 06:18 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by tpop1 (Post 499992)
Sometimes it's the little touches that makes life interesting.

http://i968.photobucket.com/albums/a...atesignuse.jpg

Don't we now live in a "close enough is good enough" world!
great photo. LOL thank you for posting it.

RichieLion 06-02-2012 08:53 AM
Under the new directives which required The Villages (in order to continue the use of the gates on it's roads, which are public roads) to extend the length of the gates so that everyone, resident and non-resident, must stop for the gates; the directive also prohibited the use of the "welcome home" sign on the entrance gates.

The Villages merely reversed many of the gate arms in the spirit of frugality.

tpop1 06-02-2012 09:27 AM
Just a couple of comments......
 
1) I do not know how the title of the thread got changed from "As Scene in The Villages to "As seen...?" Someone with the ability to change it did not get it and did not feel the need to ask!

2) At least one person missed the fact that I posted the photo in "Just for Fun." Guess he missed the intended whimsy!!!

3) Point two leads to the reason that some people post something then are never heard from again.....foul language :chilout in reply to an obvious lark. Go figure!

gmcneill 06-02-2012 10:14 AM
Tpop1: FWIW, I appreciated the play on words in your original title. I have to believe they many others did also! I posted my response following the lead of your light-hearted observation.

Taltarzac725 06-02-2012 10:34 AM
The Belvedere exit gate does a kind of hop before opening all the way. I guess I was thinking about this when I joined onto this light-hearted thread.

My first post on this thread was about the $300 charged for knocking down a gate. I am afraid that the exit gate at Belvedere is not going to go through its hop at the end and instead come down in front of my vehicle as I am driving through it.

I am very curious how Skyguy got the message to reverse.

tpop1 06-02-2012 11:51 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by gmcneill (Post 500418)
Tpop1: FWIW, I appreciated the play on words in your original title. I have to believe they many others did also! I posted my response following the lead of your light-hearted observation.
Most posters got it and most posts carried on the whimsy!!!:clap2:

Made me smile!!!:p:p

Thanks,

One did not!!!

gmcneill 06-02-2012 03:55 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Taltarzac725 (Post 500425)
The Belvedere exit gate does a kind of hop before opening all the way. I guess I was thinking about this when I joined onto this light-hearted thread.

My first post on this thread was about the $300 charged for knocking down a gate. I am afraid that the exit gate at Belvedere is not going to go through its hop at the end and instead come down in front of my vehicle as I am driving through it.

I am very curious how Skyguy got the message to reverse.
Oh no! We have a "curious minds want to know" conflict! ;)

Skyguy, please give me a spoiler alert if you decide to share your knowledge.
Yes...I am still holding out hope that Santa, like Elvis, still lives.

Trish Crocker 06-02-2012 05:34 PM
I'm sure the sign is intentionally made this way so you can read it in your rearview mirror...now, as for Skyguy...amazing!! (I'm still trying to figure out how to underline stuff without erasing it!)

skyguy79 06-02-2012 05:42 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by gmcneill (Post 500530)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Taltarzac725 (Post 500425)
The Belvedere exit gate does a kind of hop before opening all the way. I guess I was thinking about this when I joined onto this light-hearted thread.

My first post on this thread was about the $300 charged for knocking down a gate. I am afraid that the exit gate at Belvedere is not going to go through its hop at the end and instead come down in front of my vehicle as I am driving through it.

I am very curious how Skyguy got the message to reverse.
Oh no! We have a "curious minds want to know" conflict! ;)

Skyguy, please give me a spoiler alert if you decide to share your knowledge.
Yes...I am still holding out hope that Santa, like Elvis, still lives.
George, Taltarzac really left me with a dilemma. Do I give him the secret or do I protect you from it! Oh the decisions one has to make!!! Anyway, here it is for Taltarzac. However, you'll have to take on the personal responsibility of not learning by exercising self control and not click the following link! Good luck with that! :1rotfl:

Upside Down Text | Flip Text, Type Upside Down, or Backwards Text

p.s. If anyone uses this, please use it sparingly. It can be quite annoying if it's overdone!

skyguy79 06-02-2012 05:57 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Trish Crocker (Post 500571)
I'm sure the sign is intentionally made this way so you can read it in your rearview mirror...now, as for Skyguy...amazing!! (I'm still trying to figure out how to underline stuff without erasing it!)
Trish, underlining is simple. Just place your cursor over the word you want to underline then double click it to highlight it ~or~ place it at the beginning of want you want to underline then hold down you left mouse button and drag across across what you want to select until it's highlighted. Then after releasing the mouse button, (in either case) go up and click the U that's above on the left side. Just remember that what you underline can be mistaken as a link by other users.

Trish Crocker 06-02-2012 06:06 PM
:loco:Thanks Skyguy..Steve just reminded me that the sign is upside down (umm, maybe I have a weird form of dyslexia..I didn't see it as upside down, only backwards..hmm...) Oh well, I guess you have to read it in your rearview mirror while standing on your head in your golf cart....but that brings us to the other posts, the one's about happy hours in the squares..I'm soooo confused

doccrocker 06-02-2012 06:15 PM
To all concerned with my lovely wife's comment, I'll make darned sure that at least she isn't actually driving the cart when she contorts to read the gates.

gmcneill 06-02-2012 11:09 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by skyguy79 (Post 500575)
George, Taltarzac really left me with a dilemma. Do I give him the secret or do I protect you from it! Oh the decisions one has to make!!! Anyway, here it is for Taltarzac. However, you'll have to take on the personal responsibility of not learning by exercising self control and not click the following link! Good luck with that! :1rotfl:

Upside Down Text | Flip Text, Type Upside Down, or Backwards Text

p.s. If anyone uses this, please use it sparingly. It can be quite annoying if it's overdone!
A link! You had to post the link!!! ;)

I am doomed!

"The Link" will sit there, in this forum, calling to me like a Siren to a sailor. I feel like Pinto in Animal House, listening to conflicting whispers in either ear.

Should I? Shouldn't I? I'm having a Vinnie Barbarino flashback; I am so confused!

I want to know the secret. I need to know the secret! But what if I can't handle the truth??

"The Link"...

If only I'd have deleted your post without reading it. I would have never seen it. Then, just like Darwin's, "The Link" would be missing.

If only I'd have closed my eyes repeatedly as I read your post. Then "The Link" would be a (b)link, and it would be gone in an instant.

If only I'd simply said, Get the "L" out of here! as soon as I read your post. Then "The Link" would only be ink. I could grab a quill pen, dip into the ink, write it down, and then throw it away.

If only I'd frozen your post and then dropped it into a tall glass. Then "The Link" would be a (p)link. I could email the (p)link to pturner and let her deal with it.

To Link, or not to Link? Aye. That is the question. Or if not the question, it's certainly a Temptation. Or maybe it's just my imagination, runnin' away with me....

getdul981 06-03-2012 07:26 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by gmcneill (Post 500671)
A link! You had to post the link!!! ;)

I am doomed!

"The Link" will sit there, in this forum, calling to me like a Siren to a sailor. I feel like Pinto in Animal House, listening to conflicting whispers in either ear.

Should I? Shouldn't I? I'm having a Vinnie Barbarino flashback; I am so confused!

I want to know the secret. I need to know the secret! But what if I can't handle the truth??

"The Link"...

If only I'd have deleted your post without reading it. I would have never seen it. Then, just like Darwin's, "The Link" would be missing.

If only I'd have closed my eyes repeatedly as I read your post. Then "The Link" would be a (b)link, and it would be gone in an instant.

If only I'd simply said, Get the "L" out of here! as soon as I read your post. Then "The Link" would only be ink. I could grab a quill pen, dip into the ink, write it down, and then throw it away.

If only I'd frozen your post and then dropped it into a tall glass. Then "The Link" would be a (p)link. I could email the (p)link to pturner and let her deal with it.

To Link, or not to Link? Aye. That is the question. Or if not the question, it's certainly a Temptation. Or maybe it's just my imagination, runnin' away with me....
Ever heard of Shroedinger's cat?

skyguy79 06-03-2012 08:43 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by gmcneill (Post 500671)
A link! You had to post the link!!! ;)

I am doomed!

"The Link" will sit there, in this forum, calling to me like a Siren to a sailor. I feel like Pinto in Animal House, listening to conflicting whispers in either ear.

Should I? Shouldn't I? I'm having a Vinnie Barbarino flashback; I am so confused!

I want to know the secret. I need to know the secret! But what if I can't handle the truth??

"The Link"...

If only I'd have deleted your post without reading it. I would have never seen it. Then, just like Darwin's, "The Link" would be missing.

If only I'd have closed my eyes repeatedly as I read your post. Then "The Link" would be a (b)link, and it would be gone in an instant.

If only I'd simply said, Get the "L" out of here! as soon as I read your post. Then "The Link" would only be ink. I could grab a quill pen, dip into the ink, write it down, and then throw it away.

If only I'd frozen your post and then dropped it into a tall glass. Then "The Link" would be a (p)link. I could email the (p)link to pturner and let her deal with it.

To Link, or not to Link? Aye. That is the question. Or if not the question, it's certainly a Temptation. Or maybe it's just my imagination, runnin' away with me....
:1rotfl: :1rotfl: UNCLE! :1rotfl: :1rotfl:

graciegirl 06-03-2012 09:41 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by gmcneill (Post 500671)
A link! You had to post the link!!! ;)

I am doomed!

"The Link" will sit there, in this forum, calling to me like a Siren to a sailor. I feel like Pinto in Animal House, listening to conflicting whispers in either ear.

Should I? Shouldn't I? I'm having a Vinnie Barbarino flashback; I am so confused!

I want to know the secret. I need to know the secret! But what if I can't handle the truth??

"The Link"...

If only I'd have deleted your post without reading it. I would have never seen it. Then, just like Darwin's, "The Link" would be missing.

If only I'd have closed my eyes repeatedly as I read your post. Then "The Link" would be a (b)link, and it would be gone in an instant.

If only I'd simply said, Get the "L" out of here! as soon as I read your post. Then "The Link" would only be ink. I could grab a quill pen, dip into the ink, write it down, and then throw it away.

If only I'd frozen your post and then dropped it into a tall glass. Then "The Link" would be a (p)link. I could email the (p)link to pturner and let her deal with it.

To Link, or not to Link? Aye. That is the question. Or if not the question, it's certainly a Temptation. Or maybe it's just my imagination, runnin' away with me....
Boy Howdy!!


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