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   From: twsherman@REMOVE_THISsouthslope.net   
      
   On 3/7/2014 2:53 PM, 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.  :-)   
   >   
   > Most countries have the two types of intersection sigs and the shape   
   > (if not the colour) of traffic signs is a semi-agreed international   
   > standard. Usually, but not always, speed limit signs are circular,   
   > warning signs are trianglular (inverted to Give Way / Yeild signs) or   
   > diamond shaped, information signs are rectangular, and main routes have   
   > a small shield-like shape.   
   >   
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