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   In article <99fkh9t5o8482ac681ad3uqn1hnt29721h@4ax.com>, Don Kirkman   
    wrote:   
   > On Sat, 08 Mar 2014 09:53:43 +1300, Your Name    
   > wrote:   
   > >In article <310kh9ppqq3iv2p0gkb68ffkpraotghcmr@4ax.com>, Don Kirkman   
   > > wrote:   
   > >> On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 05:13:20 -0600, Neil Ellwood   
   > >>  wrote:   
   > >> >On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 18:14:32 +1300, Your Name wrote:   
   > >> >> In article , Arif Khokar   
   > >> >>  wrote:   
   > >> >>> On 03/04/2014 03:02 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   > >> >>> > The signs are almost certainly there for a reason   
   > >> >>>   
   > >> >>> Rather than try to determine what the reason is, you just assert that   
   > >> >>> it's there for a "reason"  I could put a stop sign up myself at some   
   > >> >>> arbitrary intersection and you'll still come along and say that stop   
   > >> >>> sign is there for a reason.   
   > >> >>>   
   > >> >>> That doesn't really lend credence to your position.   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >> I don't have to "determine what the reason is". I couldn't care less   
   > >> >> where they put Stop signs, and it doesn't even remotely change the FACT   
   > >> >> that the law says to stop at one, whether selfish pig-headed morons   
   like   
   > >> >> it or not.   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >> The damn things aren't that cheap, so they don't go around just   
   sticking   
   > >> >> one wherever they feel like it. There *IS* a reason - if you want to   
   > >> >> know what it is, then go and ask the people in charge of putting it   
   > >> >> there.   
   > >> >   
   > >> >In the UK there are two differing signs. One is a stop sign that is   
   > >> >compulsory to stop at and the other is a give way sign where other   
   > >> >traffic   
   > >> >has the right of way but if there is no other traffic there is no need to   
   > >> >stop.   
   > >>   
   > >> In my state, California, Stop signs are red and hexagonal, Yield signs   
   > >> are yellow and triangular.  I assume most US states have similar   
   > >> distinctions.   
   > >   
   > >You'll probably find the Stop sign is octaganal.  :-)   
   >   
   > Yes, I would, and I should also have been able to quote it from   
   > memory.  :-)   
      
   Actually, you'll probably find it's octag*O*nal ... d'oh!  :-)   
      
   I nearly posted about Stop signs being "hexagonal" last week and had to   
   pause to do a quick count in a picture.   
      
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