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In article <18APR199401444624@lheavx.gsfc.nasa.gov>,
JOSE SUAREZ <suarez@lheavx.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
> When I first drove on the beltway in 1990, HAZMAT threw me for a loop. In a 
> couple of days, however, I figured it out from context (lane limitations). 
> But on the beltway last week, there was a temporary road sign with the 
> electronic, lighted display board, that *really* got me thinking: NO SHLOR.

   Hey, at least these two won't kill you if you read them wrong.
   Try to interpret "NO MERGE AREA" at 50mph on an on-ramp, thinking:
   Geez, I wonder if that means I don't have to merge "(NO MERGE) AREA"
   or I must merge or get killed "NO (MERGE AREA)".  The dump truck
   barrelling down the right lane explained it all.  Luckily, I was
   looking over my shoulder hit the brakes in time.

   I've never seen this sign before outside MD/Capital Beltway.
   It's really dangerous and confusing.  How about:

	DANGEROUS MERGE AHEAD
	SHORT RAMP

   or my favorite:

	YIELD or DIE.

   Richard Chang