So you're saying that maybe if he had those 2 or 3 extra toes he might have been able to swim ashore and live?
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So you're saying that maybe if he had those 2 or 3 extra toes he might have been able to swim ashore and live?
Yeah, but the flooding caused the toilet to back up and now it's got this funky black stain I'm going to have to buy rubber gloves to clean.
Honolulu, Hawaii: one of only a handful of cities in America where it doesn't matter what time of the day it is; if you're in your car, you'll be stuck in traffic.
I have a question about Hawaii that has bugged me for awhile. How the hell can it have an interstate? What state does it connect Hawaii to?
Indiana had I-465, which doesn't connect directly to any other state?
Honestly, I'm confused by Hawaii's interstates at a whole. They have the whole interstate symbol, but they're all H1, H2 and H3. Isn't the h usually denoting highway, not interstate?
Most interstates and major highways don't have letters at all. The added H is a Hawaii thing.
it was a bad idea to weigh myself before opening oreos and a worse idea for whoever decided two is the serving size for oreos.
the Interstate system is based off of road design as well as funding mechanisms. hawaii can have an interstate because of the way it is designed and paid for.
only interstates with 2 numbers are main roads - 3 digit interstates that begin with an even number go around a city and 3 digit interstates starting with an odd number are usually a spur from a main road.
And interstates that end with a zero go roughly east<==>west, those ending with a 5 go roughly north<==>south.
Also, the interstate numbers increase from south to north, and from west to east. Not sure why they decided to do it west to east; east to west would seem more logical...
they did it opposite the existing highway system (white shield with black numbers) so people would not get confused. since the highway system was here first -started in the east - they started from the west with the interstates.
Got it...never thought of that...
Similar to the way that they designed touch-tone phone pads to be the opposite of adding machines...
People who did ten-key by touch could "dial" the original versions faster than the circuits could handle, so they reversed the numbers to slow them down.
Similar to the way that they designed touch-tone phone pads to be the opposite of adding machines...
People who did ten-key by touch could "dial" the original versions faster than the circuits could handle, so they reversed the numbers to slow them down.
That had phones that weren't touch dial? What sorcery is this you speak of?
Well, lemme tellya, sonny-boy...
The first touch tone phones came out when I was in 8th grade. We still had phone numbers that started with two letters. Some people were even on party lines still.
The state of Washington had 2 area codes. Now there are five - three in the Seattle metro area alone, one for the southwest portion, and one for everything east of the Cascades (that one hasn't changed).
The first touch tone phones came out when I was in 8th grade. We still had phone numbers that started with two letters. Some people were even on party lines still.
The state of Washington had 2 area codes. Now there are five - three in the Seattle metro area alone, one for the southwest portion, and one for everything east of the Cascades (that one hasn't changed).
cell phones changed this but it always bugged me.
why can i call 4 area codes in the twins cities and it all be local calls but i can call the same area code in Iowa (say Marshalltown to Newton - both 641) and it be long distance.
no one ever gave me a clear concise answer.
why can i call 4 area codes in the twins cities and it all be local calls but i can call the same area code in Iowa (say Marshalltown to Newton - both 641) and it be long distance.
no one ever gave me a clear concise answer.
My kids went to jr high & high school at Ballard. The consolidated towns were Kelley, Slater, Huxley, and Cambridge. Huxley, Slater and Kelley were all covered by the locally owned & operated Huxley Telephone Co-op; Cambridge was not. This was before cell phones, so calling Cambridge from any of the other towns was a long distance call.
Afternoon phone calls (one son had a girlfriend that lived in Cambridge) were VERY expensive.
Afternoon phone calls (one son had a girlfriend that lived in Cambridge) were VERY expensive.
Believe it or not, we used to be able to dial the numbers in town using just the last five digits. And from campus, we could call anyone in the capitol complex (Wallace building, etc) without dialing long-distance. Anyplace else in Des Moines was long distance, tho.
But technically, wouldn't Hawaii have an "intrastate" highway? Because it doesn't connect with any other state.
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