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Started by doug.landau
Tue, 08 Jan 2013 09:32
Off-topic: What is the word for ...
Author: doug.landau
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 09:32
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 09:32
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Sorry for the off-topic post, but I googled and gave up in frustration: What is the word for the meter-high posts that pop up under the cars of people who have disobeyed no parking and do not enter signs in Europe? Thank you dkl
Re: Off-topic: What is the word for ...
Author: Bob Vaughan
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:55
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:55
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In article <730c94fc-4c60-4d93-81f4-bff46427fb6f@googlegroups.com>,
<doug.landau@gmail.com> wrote:
>Sorry for the off-topic post, but I googled and gave up in frustration:
>
>What is the word for the meter-high posts that pop up under the cars of people who have disobeyed no parking and do not enter signs in Europe?
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>Thank you
>
>dkl
Are you thinking of a pneumatic bollard?
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Re: Off-topic: What is the word for ...
Author: doug.landau
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 23:53
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 23:53
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> >What is the word for the meter-high posts that pop up under the cars of people who have disobeyed no parking and do not enter signs in Europe? > > > > > Are you thinking of a pneumatic bollard? Yes! That answers my next question too. Thank you.
Re: Off-topic: What is the word for ...
Author: Whitey McWasp III
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 03:17
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 03:17
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCSsope5vOA wrote in message news:730c94fc-4c60-4d93-81f4-bff46427fb6f@googlegroups.com... Sorry for the off-topic post, but I googled and gave up in frustration: What is the word for the meter-high posts that pop up under the cars of people who have disobeyed no parking and do not enter signs in Europe? Thank you dkl
Re: Off-topic: What is the word for ...
Author: Bob Vaughan
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:09
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:09
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In article <ke7f0o$er3$1@speranza.aioe.org>,
Whitey McWasp III <none@example.com> wrote:
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCSsope5vOA
>
>
>wrote in message
>news:730c94fc-4c60-4d93-81f4-bff46427fb6f@googlegroups.com...
>
>Sorry for the off-topic post, but I googled and gave up in frustration:
>
>What is the word for the meter-high posts that pop up under the cars of
>people who have disobeyed no parking and do not enter signs in Europe?
>
>Thank you
>
>dkl
>
You can also hang out on the Stanford campus at Serra and Galvez, and watch one
in operation every time the Margarite shuttle bus goes through.
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