Next you’ll be telling us there’s a Tunch Boulevard.
I’m thinking of something more like “Tunchville”, with a sign entering town using the “Tunch is Watching You” logo design.
10.
Morbo
My last name’s a road in Mio, MI, but I doubt there’s one with the correct combo anywhere.
11.
Tax Analyst
John, does that traffic sign attached to the street sign say “No Right Turns Allowed”?
12.
Poopyman
Thank God! Finally a blogpost with substance!
I was getting bummed out down below. But then again, I’m a -cynic-realist.
This is obviously photoshopped, because everyone knows that -Fairbanks-Alaska is one big glacier, and that looks way too nice to be a glacier.
13.
Church Lady
The sign appears to be listing to the right just a little. No doubt just like our blog host on occasion. I guess the sign is John Cole +3 or more.
14.
mantis
I can see Putin rearing his head!
15.
demo woman
Earl is one nasty storm and hopefully it does not shift further west. For those on the east coast, stay safe.
16.
Egypt Steve
One of our crack correspondents
Thank god — I thought I was the only one around here on crack.
17.
licensed to kill time
I think that road ends up in Curmudgeon Cove, where a cranky but good-hearted fellow lives surrounded by animals who destroy his furniture. It is well known as a refuge for a snarling mass of vitriolic vicious jackals, though town officials have had little success in clearing them out and have adopted a policy of simply walking on by the place in an attempt to leave their beautiful minds untroubled.
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wasabi gasp
Keep an eye out on that corner for some check-waving dude from PayPal.
You can just type in your name into Google maps and it will tell you if there any roads that share it… probably not going to work so well for a Joe Smith though… but there are several more roads named after the illustrious John Cole.
For example, contrary to what he’s been telling us, John Cole’s place is in Louisiana! And yet he’s a Steelers fan!
For myself, I’m happy there is a Hamnertown Road in Alabama.
22.
peach flavored shampoo
Did you double-check that street using Google Maps? Otherwise photoshop?
23.
Poopyman
@Royston Vasey: Google tells me that there IS a Tunch Road, apparently, but it’s on a continent I haven’t visited. There is an Askari Bank, Ltd there though.
24.
Dork
Figures that you’re just a plain old boring “road”, and not some kick-ass “avenue” or “terrace”, or….gulp…PARKWAY.
Surprised you’re even paved.
25.
Poopyman
@peach flavored shampoo: It’s there! And it has a little road running off it – “Penguin Lane”. Ain’t Cole cute?
26.
Trinity
LOL…With all the madness going on in the world, I so need this blog.
27.
Poopyman
@Poopyman: BTW, the Google Street View was evidently taken in Spring or Fall, because it’s twilight with the sun below the horizon to the SW.
NEW ORLEANS, La. – The Coast Guard is saying that a mile-long oil sheen is spreading from the site off an offshore petroleum platform that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana.
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The site of the explosion is west of where BP’s massive spill occurred.
Eight Pakistani military officers were in the U.S. for a meeting at Central Command in Tampa. But, unfamiliar with the American custom that dark-skinned people aren’t allowed to speak to one another on planes, due to terrorism, one of the officers said something during the flight.
Why can’t they just ride their camels and mules everywhere? Stop scaring the real ‘muricans, who are big fans of John Wayne, carry guns and want their country back and….. OH LOOK, brown people, RUN!
Does anyone have a link to a post or comment where the vagaries of the commenting system here (such as how you deal with paragraph breaks in blockquotes) were explained? I need to bookmark it.
38.
RedKitten
The community also contains Funk Road, and Moosetrot Avenue. That place is just so full of win I can’t stand it.
39.
SteveinSC
No, Fairbanks is in the middle of Alaska. You can’t see shit from your road. Only if Putin rides in on Sputnik, can you see him. @arguingwithsignposts: Oh yeah, Drill Baby Drill.
40.
fasteddie9318
Holy shit, you couldn’t let the poor Palins live in peace, could you? You just HAD to go up there and buy a street for yourself, huh? I hope Putin’s gigantic inflatable head strikes your street first, and see if Taad, Track, Tuck, Zarg, Blorg, and the rest of the Palin militia show up with their harpoon guns to save you.
Blockquote Tutorial
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Place two underscores at the beginning of each empty line between paragraphs and it shall never spill out of the box.
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Place two underscores directly above your blockquote and it shall not go bold.
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Begin your blockquote directly below a line of text or reply link and it too, shall not go bold.
This is the search I ran to find the above.
Or just put this search string in google or bing: site:balloon-juice.com block quote double underscore
Haha! That’s my tutorial! Built on the shoulders of giants monkeyboy and Steeplejack.
This is a really funny thread where people are working out the Blockquote Dilemma. There are some obsessive folks here, yearning to know the secrets and mysteries of FYWP.
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Sentient Puddle
I don’t get the alt text. Are you implying that you’re high on cocaine?
47.
roshan
@licensed to kill time: I am sorry, forgot to credit you.
Hey Jens, pass on the thanks to Licensed, not me.
@roshan: No worries, it was just funny. I was off searching for a link for TooManyJens, got distracted by re-reading that post from a year ago and then came back here to see you had posted my tutorial after all. Made me laugh!
TooManyJens: oh gawd, Michael Gass and the laughing helicopters….well, at least he gave us the gassellipses…also fax the credenza !
50.
eemom
lolz! This is the best thread in weeks. Who’d’a thunk a humble street sign could be this much fun.
The cul de sacs in my neigborhood have mostly girl names, and one of them has mine, but not the one I live on. If there’s anyplace that has my last name, it’s probably a goat crossing in some remote Greek mountain village.
51.
suzanne
This is off-topic, but forgive me.
Some of you know that I just finished my Master’s degree in May. Governor Brewer’s signature is on my diploma. That pisses me off. Dumbshit never finished college herself. So to be a pain in the ass, I started a Facebook group….please join. :)
That is really all together too awesome! Were I you, I would be sorely tempted to book a flight to my road and steal my sign.
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Stillwater
@arguingwithsignposts: Only an hour ago, they were saying there was no spill resulting from the explosion. Now a mile long sheen. If the standard BP-sanctioned-BS is operative here, ‘no spill’ will laboriously morph into 1000, 5000, then finally 50,000 barrels a day as those pesky ‘facts’ become harder to deny.
I am interested to hear that you have crack correspondents, and would like very much to become one. Please tell me how much crack you pay, and I will send you my resume forthwith.
That sign may be listing to the right, but I don’t think Fairbanks *can* get much further to the right without falling off the edge of the world, which is flat from what I hear. To make matters worse, we just lost Lisa Murkowski who lost in the primary to Joe Miller. He was endorsed by the Tea Party, Sarah Palin, and Mike Huckabee. He’s scary as shit. I’ve never even heard of the democrat who’s running, but I’ll be voting for him.
I pass John Cole Road regularly and took the picture, and you won’t see much on that road except brush and mosquitoes. It’s pretty low and swampy. No Russia for you!
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Origuy
There’s a spot on the map in Brown County, Indiana, named after my great-great grandfather, who’s buried in the cemetery there. The only other appearances of the name are on the road that goes by and a water tower. Kinda cool to see your name on a water tower without having to climb up and spray-paint it there.
Oh, and the name appears on the map of Nigeria, too, but I don’t think there’s a family connection.
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Zuzu's Petals
Speaking of the Mad Sow, the new Vanity Fair piece suggests former fangirl/blogger Rebecca Mansour is Palin’s Facebook and Twitter ghostwriter:
But [Mansour’s] voice, or at least a voice that sounds much like hers, was about to turn up in another venue. When it was first set up, in January 2009, Palin’s Facebook page might as well have been a file cabinet for official press releases (“Palin Pushes Parental Consent Legislation”) written mostly in a stiff, third-person form. The same was true of her Twitter feed, which went live in April. After Mansour’s voice disappeared on C4P, however, Palin’s voice on Facebook and Twitter started sounding increasingly provocative and irascible. A company called Aries Petra Consulting was formed in September and registered to Mansour’s home address, but under someone else’s name. (In astrology, Aries is the ram—or “RAM.”) SarahPAC’s first payment to the firm was made in October, about two weeks before Palin began her book tour. By then, Palin’s new virtual voice was growing in intensity. The more shrill it became, the more news Palin made: “QUIT MAKING THINGS UP DNC” … “OBAMA ADMINISTRATION’S ATROCIOUS DECISION: HORRIBLE DECISION, ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE” … “ARE YOU CAPABLE OF DECENCY, RAHM EMANUEL?” The payments to Mansour were not made public until February 1, 2010, when SarahPAC had to disclose its quarterly filings with the Federal Elections Commission. The day before the disclosure, knowing what was coming, C4P made an official announcement acknowledging that both Mansour and Russo had left the site months earlier and gone to work for SarahPAC. This summer, in her capacity as a SarahPAC staffer, Mansour insisted to a reporter that “anything that goes out under [Palin’s] name is hers.” Palin’s virtual voice does sometimes have the ring of authenticity. But often it sounds less like Palin herself than someone else’s fantasy version of Palin at her most vitriolic. On one occasion Palin’s virtual voice contradicted remarks she made in a TV interview two days later.
Oh, and evidently Palin is a lousy tipper and has probably never shot a moose.
Isn’t it fun when you finally wrestle that damn blockquote to the ground and choke the bold and the paragraph spillage right out of its groaning throat?
–Oops. that did not work, just a small street outside of Wartenburg. but if you type “warternburgstrasse” you will get a few hits, including a pretty dumpy spot in Berlin.
My rather unique first name is a street in SF. The first week I lived in the Bay Area and was in SF, someone asked me if I knew where Such & Such (my name) Street was. That made me smile. I was sorely tempted to steal my sign, but I did not.
81.
Origuy
@asiangrrlMN:
They sell a lot of those signs at the tourist gift shops. Mostly they are copies, but sometimes you can find the real thing after the city has replaced them.
Svensker
You really CAN see Russia from this blog?
Royston Vasey
Next you’ll be telling us there’s a Tunch Boulevard.
neill
must be why i got you bookmarked right beside bérubé…
Comrade Jake
I would have preferred to see Balloon Juice Boulevard, personally.
eemom
cool!
ETA: Someone local could probably do a little research and find out which John Cole the road was named after. There IS more than one, right?
stinkfoot
Must be an old pic, cuz the sign’s tilting to the right.
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Comrade Javamanphil
But Sarah Palin can see this blog from her house! Run!
PaulW
If anyone can find a Wartenberg Way, I’ll gladly pay you in cat hairs for a photo of it…
Tax Analyst
@Royston Vasey:
I’m thinking of something more like “Tunchville”, with a sign entering town using the “Tunch is Watching You” logo design.
Morbo
My last name’s a road in Mio, MI, but I doubt there’s one with the correct combo anywhere.
Tax Analyst
John, does that traffic sign attached to the street sign say “No Right Turns Allowed”?
Poopyman
Thank God! Finally a blogpost with substance!
I was getting bummed out down below. But then again, I’m a -cynic-realist.
This is obviously photoshopped, because everyone knows that -Fairbanks-Alaska is one big glacier, and that looks way too nice to be a glacier.
Church Lady
The sign appears to be listing to the right just a little. No doubt just like our blog host on occasion. I guess the sign is John Cole +3 or more.
mantis
I can see Putin rearing his head!
demo woman
Earl is one nasty storm and hopefully it does not shift further west. For those on the east coast, stay safe.
Egypt Steve
Thank god — I thought I was the only one around here on crack.
licensed to kill time
I think that road ends up in Curmudgeon Cove, where a cranky but good-hearted fellow lives surrounded by animals who destroy his furniture. It is well known as a refuge for a snarling mass of vitriolic vicious jackals, though town officials have had little success in clearing them out and have adopted a policy of simply walking on by the place in an attempt to leave their beautiful minds untroubled.
wasabi gasp
Keep an eye out on that corner for some check-waving dude from PayPal.
Poopyman
@Tax Analyst:
“NO DUMPING”
You Don't Say
Anyone know the sign-ins for our fantasy football? I can’t find a tag for it. TIA.
J.W. Hamner
You can just type in your name into Google maps and it will tell you if there any roads that share it… probably not going to work so well for a Joe Smith though… but there are several more roads named after the illustrious John Cole.
For example, contrary to what he’s been telling us, John Cole’s place is in Louisiana! And yet he’s a Steelers fan!
For myself, I’m happy there is a Hamnertown Road in Alabama.
peach flavored shampoo
Did you double-check that street using Google Maps? Otherwise photoshop?
Poopyman
@Royston Vasey: Google tells me that there IS a Tunch Road, apparently, but it’s on a continent I haven’t visited. There is an Askari Bank, Ltd there though.
Dork
Figures that you’re just a plain old boring “road”, and not some kick-ass “avenue” or “terrace”, or….gulp…PARKWAY.
Surprised you’re even paved.
Poopyman
@peach flavored shampoo: It’s there! And it has a little road running off it – “Penguin Lane”. Ain’t Cole cute?
Trinity
LOL…With all the madness going on in the world, I so need this blog.
Poopyman
@Poopyman: BTW, the Google Street View was evidently taken in Spring or Fall, because it’s twilight with the sun below the horizon to the SW.
PurpleGirl
LOL. A reason to laugh is always good.
wasabi gasp
@Dork: Cul-de-sac
General Stuck
Looks like the road paved with good intentions to me.
danimal
Time for some serious journalism.
Is there any evidence that Sarah Palin has ever taken a ride on John Cole Road?
Inquiring minds want to know…
General Stuck
Up ahead. Bridge to Nowhere.
quaint irene
Hey, don’t piss Palin off. According to Vanity Fair, she can RUIN YOU!
mr. whipple
@danimal:
We need to alert Sully of this.
arguingwithsignposts
OT, but how’s that offshore drilling working out for ya, La.?
roshan
What could go wrong with a Pakistani military delegation flying from D.C. to Tampa for a meeting with the U.S. Central Command?
How about getting kicked off a flight after being mistaken for terrorists by a scared passenger?
Why can’t they just ride their camels and mules everywhere? Stop scaring the real ‘muricans, who are big fans of John Wayne, carry guns and want their country back and….. OH LOOK, brown people, RUN!
TooManyJens
Does anyone have a link to a post or comment where the vagaries of the commenting system here (such as how you deal with paragraph breaks in blockquotes) were explained? I need to bookmark it.
RedKitten
The community also contains Funk Road, and Moosetrot Avenue. That place is just so full of win I can’t stand it.
SteveinSC
No, Fairbanks is in the middle of Alaska. You can’t see shit from your road. Only if Putin rides in on Sputnik, can you see him. @arguingwithsignposts: Oh yeah, Drill Baby Drill.
fasteddie9318
Holy shit, you couldn’t let the poor Palins live in peace, could you? You just HAD to go up there and buy a street for yourself, huh? I hope Putin’s gigantic inflatable head strikes your street first, and see if Taad, Track, Tuck, Zarg, Blorg, and the rest of the Palin militia show up with their harpoon guns to save you.
Allison W.
I found this:
http://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/article_13e827fd-68fe-5f6b-8547-7b4a2a18fb22.html
Not sure if its the same guy.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
Huh. There’s a street bearing my very uncommon and obscure last name about 40 miles from where I was born.
Of course it’s a dead-end near a cemetery.
roshan
@TooManyJens:
See here.
This is the search I ran to find the above.
Or just put this search string in google or bing: site:balloon-juice.com block quote double underscore
TooManyJens
@roshan: Awesome, thanks!
licensed to kill time
@roshan:
Haha! That’s my tutorial! Built on the shoulders of giants monkeyboy and Steeplejack.
This is a really funny thread where people are working out the Blockquote Dilemma. There are some obsessive folks here, yearning to know the secrets and mysteries of FYWP.
Sentient Puddle
I don’t get the alt text. Are you implying that you’re high on cocaine?
roshan
@licensed to kill time: I am sorry, forgot to credit you.
Hey Jens, pass on the thanks to Licensed, not me.
TooManyJens
@licensed to kill time: With bonus laughing helicopters!
licensed to kill time
@roshan: No worries, it was just funny. I was off searching for a link for TooManyJens, got distracted by re-reading that post from a year ago and then came back here to see you had posted my tutorial after all. Made me laugh!
TooManyJens: oh gawd, Michael Gass and the laughing helicopters….well, at least he gave us the gassellipses…also fax the credenza !
eemom
lolz! This is the best thread in weeks. Who’d’a thunk a humble street sign could be this much fun.
The cul de sacs in my neigborhood have mostly girl names, and one of them has mine, but not the one I live on. If there’s anyplace that has my last name, it’s probably a goat crossing in some remote Greek mountain village.
suzanne
This is off-topic, but forgive me.
Some of you know that I just finished my Master’s degree in May. Governor Brewer’s signature is on my diploma. That pisses me off. Dumbshit never finished college herself. So to be a pain in the ass, I started a Facebook group….please join. :)
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/pages/Get-The-Governors-Signature-Off-My-Diploma/122447154473508
arguingwithsignposts
@TooManyJens:
Wow, I hadn’t realized Michael Gass made a repeat appearance in that thread.
We may never see a troll of that quality again. {sigh}
Comrade Rich
Here’s one I pass on my way to my folks’ house. Seems like a place some we talk about here could relate to.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Laporte,+IN&sll=41.723924,-86.648483&sspn=0.17322,0.215607&ie=UTF8&cd=1&hq=La+Porte,+LaPorte,+Indiana&ll=41.678585,-86.685519&spn=0.021796,0.026951&z=15&layer=c&cbll=41.678578,-86.685389&panoid=t7L1_cLPuEpSX7zPmnI5Sg&cbp=12,111.62,,0,5
It’s a dangerous intersection. Someday someone’s gonna get a great photo of an accident next to the sign.
Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther
That is really all together too awesome! Were I you, I would be sorely tempted to book a flight to my road and steal my sign.
Stillwater
@arguingwithsignposts: Only an hour ago, they were saying there was no spill resulting from the explosion. Now a mile long sheen. If the standard BP-sanctioned-BS is operative here, ‘no spill’ will laboriously morph into 1000, 5000, then finally 50,000 barrels a day as those pesky ‘facts’ become harder to deny.
Calvin Jones and the 13th Apostle
@peach flavored shampoo: It’s not photoshop. See here:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=&vps=1&jsv=271c&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=34.450489,79.013672&ie=UTF8&geocode=FfEp3gMd2Q849w&split=0
Citizen_X
Dear Mr. Cole:
I am interested to hear that you have crack correspondents, and would like very much to become one. Please tell me how much crack you pay, and I will send you my resume forthwith.
Sincerely,
Citizen_X
licensed to kill time
@Citizen_X: Snortle!
ed drone
@Citizen_X:
Well, in Scotland, “crack” is conversation, just like this hyar blog-threadie thingie, so you’ve already got as much crack as you’re gonna get.
Ed
slag
It’s a sign!
Way to go Casey Jones.
Katie
That sign may be listing to the right, but I don’t think Fairbanks *can* get much further to the right without falling off the edge of the world, which is flat from what I hear. To make matters worse, we just lost Lisa Murkowski who lost in the primary to Joe Miller. He was endorsed by the Tea Party, Sarah Palin, and Mike Huckabee. He’s scary as shit. I’ve never even heard of the democrat who’s running, but I’ll be voting for him.
I pass John Cole Road regularly and took the picture, and you won’t see much on that road except brush and mosquitoes. It’s pretty low and swampy. No Russia for you!
Origuy
There’s a spot on the map in Brown County, Indiana, named after my great-great grandfather, who’s buried in the cemetery there. The only other appearances of the name are on the road that goes by and a water tower. Kinda cool to see your name on a water tower without having to climb up and spray-paint it there.
Oh, and the name appears on the map of Nigeria, too, but I don’t think there’s a family connection.
Zuzu's Petals
Speaking of the Mad Sow, the new Vanity Fair piece suggests former fangirl/blogger Rebecca Mansour is Palin’s Facebook and Twitter ghostwriter:
Oh, and evidently Palin is a lousy tipper and has probably never shot a moose.
Zuzu's Petals
@roshan:
Okay, here goes:
ETA: Yay !
licensed to kill time
@Zuzu’s Petals:
Isn’t it fun when you finally wrestle that damn blockquote to the ground and choke the bold and the paragraph spillage right out of its groaning throat?
Zuzu's Petals
@licensed to kill time:
Yes. It’s abused me one too many times. I’m gonna set its bed on fire.
R-Jud
@Katie:
He’s apparently the mayor of Sitka. My aunt, who’s since moved to Juneau, knew him and said he is really sweet.
I dunno if “sweet” is exactly what you want in a senator, but it sure beats “bugfuck crazy”.
licensed to kill time
@Zuzu’s Petals: FarrahZuzu! Blockquote be very afraid.
Zuzu's Petals
@licensed to kill time:
I’m just waiting for it to get passed-out drunk.
TooManyJens
@R-Jud:
Too bad that’s too long to fit on a bumper sticker.
Svensker
JRT attacks balloons
CynDee
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Yes, and I can see your pets from inside my house.
The tutorial: It works, it works!!
licensed to kill time
@Zuzu’s Petals:
Soon you will be starring in a special Lifetime movie, The Burning Blockquote.
Next on Oprah, we interview Zuzu’s Petals about her long years of abuse at the hands of that bastard Blockquote.
Zuzu's Petals
@licensed to kill time:
Ready for my closeup!
Xenos
@PaulW: Here it is, in Berlin.
Keep the cat hairs, please. I am allergic.
–Oops. that did not work, just a small street outside of Wartenburg. but if you type “warternburgstrasse” you will get a few hits, including a pretty dumpy spot in Berlin.
Katie
@R-Jud:
I think bugfuck crazy is far too mild for Miller…..
schrodinger's cat
@Royston Vasey: There is no Tunch boulevard but a Tunch planetary system instead.
Rob In Dayton
John Cole Place, Monroe, LA
John Cole Road, Batesville, MS
John Cole Lane, Benton, KY
Yutsano
@Svensker: JACK RUSSELL TERRORIST!!
I’m calling Homeland Security. :)
asiangrrlMN
My rather unique first name is a street in SF. The first week I lived in the Bay Area and was in SF, someone asked me if I knew where Such & Such (my name) Street was. That made me smile. I was sorely tempted to steal my sign, but I did not.
Origuy
@asiangrrlMN:
They sell a lot of those signs at the tourist gift shops. Mostly they are copies, but sometimes you can find the real thing after the city has replaced them.
Chuck Butcher
@asiangrrlMN:
Email me, I should be in MN in a couple days. I have a lack of connection right now – library at the moment.