cool

Subby = Winnar!

God dammit someone already ate the boobies...

I was going to skip reading the article to be the first to say that there where streetlamps everywhere..... glad I decided to RTFA.

/moving along.

I don't get it!

/runs and hides

*were

/post-proofreading. It's how I roll.

Someone should write a manifesto about this.

Bravo, subby.

Bravo.

Btw, is subby a fellow H-Towner, or just one who happened to come across the link?

When I read UFO, I was thinking Un Farkable Objects -- ie the super-ultra-mega-fugly, inbred, trailer-park women you would most likely find in WV.

And some good writing there -- is it 52% or 36%. Just shows its harder to say alot with a little than the other way around. With all the numbers in the article, I would say someone just got done learnin' their third R. Naught, naught, naught...

Its not hard to check the lights, unless you are visually impaired. Seems to me the cops would notice them and call it in. But maybe the lights around the donut shop all work?

What a waste of news print -- they owe me a monitor ink refill. The Pope's Obit wasn't that long...

All those poor, poor farkers who werent here on that day :(

Good times. I didn't even have to post to enjoy it, lurking was enough.

I like lurking. Makes me feel safe.

Strange tag for broken streetlights - meh.

/yeah, I get the reference
//I stand by my initial 'meh'

ImFromSnohomish: All those poor, poor farkers who werent here on that day :(

I was just thinking this. You sleep in late once and all of a sudden you missed the newest cliche.

A Hell of a s t r e t c h .

I once worked for a well-to-do suburban town. They changed all of their stop light, light bulbs twice each year. These would be placed in the dumpster at the town corp yard. I would harvest them, and reuse them in and around my home.

That was more than 25 years ago, but even now, I still find these bulbs working in an overhead fixture or lamp. They had a distinct spherical shape and were not "frosted" as are typical consumer bulbs.

I do not know if this is relevant to the thread, but it is one of only two light bulb stories I know that do not beginn with, "How many ___________ does it take . . . .?"

It may be that the guys who change light bulbs in W.V. only work during the day shift, but that is just a guess.

Mrs_Duggar's_Vagina: I don't get it!

/runs and hides

Some TFer couldn't figure out what they had taken a picture of so they posted their shot of a blurry streetlamp and asked the class to help them figure out what it was. They probably regret that again here today.

/Welcome to FARK, you'll have to forget any real life if you want to keep up

ImFromSnohomish: All those poor, poor farkers who werent here whom were'nt hear on that day :(

Sorry. Pet peeve.

/was here on another day too

Nice, subby!

Once, while driving though that state, I saw a little kid standing on a corner next to a street lamp (which may have been out of operation, who knows?) licking a stick of butter as a snack. WV is a different kind of place, 'nuff said.

/almost heaven, WV.

Hometown! whoohooo

/getting a kick

porkloin sez:

I once worked for a well-to-do suburban town. They changed all of their stop light, light bulbs twice each year. These would be placed in the dumpster at the town corp yard. I would harvest them, and reuse them in and around my home.

Our local hardware store used to sell "traffic light" bulbs. They were as you described and worked well in those yard lights with the electric eyes that seem to eat bulbs like candy. Now that Lowe's and Home Depot have run the mom-and-pop places into the ground, my front yard is dark.

Traffic light bulbs are more vibration resistant, and has a longer life (at the cost of lower efficiency) because the filament is run at a lower temperature.
They are being increasingly replaced by LEDs, which are extremely efficient, long-lasting and vibration proof.

/done with my semi-random spewing of facts

I can't believe nobody did this yet.

This is an excellent submission

poor f@f. It'll never die.

"There are two types of streetlights in this area. One is a square-shaped light that sits on the end of a tall, brown pole. These lights, known to city officials as "UFO" lights, date back to a couple of years ago after a paranoid resident mistook it for an alien craft of some kind."

Whoopa Fadoopa Once, while driving though that state, I saw a little kid standing on a corner next to a street lamp (which may have been out of operation, who knows?) licking a stick of butter as a snack. WV is a different kind of place, 'nuff said.


stick of margarine? could've been me.

CalvinMorallis Btw, is subby a fellow H-Towner, or just one who happened to come across the link?

kind of--Marshall grad.

I read that as VW city...

TOSViolation: Sorry. Pet peeve.

Dang, you're right. Thanks, learn something new every day :)

I blame the Mothman.

Mrs_Duggar's_Vagina: I don't get it!

/runs and hides

Original streetlight thread (new window)

Follow-up (new window)

/enjoy

I was here that day, so I'm really getting a kick, etc....

Yeah, I still can't think of that thread without full on busting out laughing.

H'town chick here! Now living across the river cause Htown is SOOOO mismananged!!

Those daggone streetlights have been out for awhile now.
But I'm not gonna complain about the broken/missing parking meters around town!! Free Parking!! Woo!

Marshall grad also....ATO

that might have been me with the stick of butter

Street lights out, traffic signals out, potholes everywhere, deer rotting on the side of the road, trash blowing around, boil water alerts monthly. The place just crumbles beneath your feet. It's like living in the 1800's.

I am a Huntington farker (YA RLY!) and needless to say, I am getting a kick out of these replies.

Read some of the replies....this is my favorite:

"Every other building build is either a bank or medical office, there's no where to work no where to have fun"

Not sure about other localities but here if I see a street light out I write down the number of the telephone pole it's on and call it into the city. They'll take care of it. Called 4 in last Monday, they were replaced by Thursday.

Bureaucracy at its finest.

"The streetlights are out!"

"Tell Public Works to start an investigation!"

/ Infocom, I'm looking at you...

Huntington's not a bad little town. If someone threatened me with death and I had to live in the tri-state again, that'd be my first choice.

Huntington's not a bad little town. If someone threatened me with death and I had to live in the tri-state again, that'd be my first choice.

I've lived in Huntington. I'd pick death.

Is F@F even still around? I don't think I've seen him much.

/Was here for that day
//read Fark every day actually
///For the last 3 years

Did anyone else notice in that photo, that the photo was taken infront of the law office that burned down last year and was never fixed?

//fellow Huntington-ionian
///is that a word?
////Go herd!

they're dark on purpose... the hookers need places to stand...

radioman_: Huntington's not a bad little town. If someone threatened me with death and I had to live in the tri-state again, that'd be my first choice.

I've lived in Huntington. I'd pick death.

I grew up outside of Ashland. I meant that it would take the threat of death to get me to move back there, and that Huntington is the least shiatty place in the area.

I still have family and friends in the area, which is the only reason why I would choose living there over death.

I love my Huntington, damn it.

/Marshall Grad Student

Mrs_Duggar's_Vagina: I don't get it!

/runs and hides

Here's the legendary UFO/streetlight thread

And the follow up thread...It IS a streetlight

Can I interest you in a thread about a certain farker getting his ballsack stuck between the slats of a chair?

Bathia_Mapes - I would not mind seeing the thread [again] about the man and his er, ordeal if you happen to have the link handy.