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(ABC News) Obvious Out-of-state crews blamed for putting up signs in South Carolina advising tourists looking for a fun time to go to another state   (abcnews.go.com) divider line 67
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Gyrfalcon [TotalFark] 2008-06-29 12:53:34 AM  
Yay!

/really got to speak to the mods about this flood control thingie.

 
swamp_of_dumb 2008-06-29 12:54:58 AM  
I think all the signs to post in this thread pointed the wrong way.

 
Ikimasen 2008-06-29 12:55:57 AM  
Sweet. I'm from NC, and I approve.

/Okay, directing people away from the college is bad. Directing people away from SC, though...

 
tjfly 2008-06-29 12:56:41 AM  
Out of state crews: QFT

/SC is the worst. Clemson sucks. Okay, so maybe Charelston is cool.
//SC is OH's cousin for US armpittery

 
tjfly 2008-06-29 12:58:05 AM  
Ikimasen: Sweet. I'm from NC, and I approve.

/Okay, directing people away from the college is bad. Directing people away from SC, though...


Where from NC? Raliegh here.

 
black_knight 2008-06-29 01:00:57 AM  
Why did this not get img1.fark.net?

 
Ikimasen 2008-06-29 01:01:04 AM  
Not to get hunted down and murdered, but Greenville.

 
tonesskin [TotalFark] 2008-06-29 01:03:12 AM  
Which direction was it pointing? Hopefully not north (unless it meant to skip a couple of states)! Or south! Or west (unless it meant to skip about 10 states)!

 
Larofeticus 2008-06-29 01:03:38 AM  
Hey there is um some good stuff worth going to here...

the whig has 50 cent tacos on tuesdays! thats pretty good!

other than that it's all too many confederate flags and not enough gadson flags.

 
Ikimasen 2008-06-29 01:05:20 AM  
Laro, your state is just for buying fireworks.

 
Calvin Coolidge 2008-06-29 01:09:25 AM  
South Carolina: The Cradle of Secession™

 
berylman 2008-06-29 01:09:45 AM  
It really was pointing the correct direction, you just had circle the earth once in a straight line.

 
Dinzie [TotalFark] 2008-06-29 01:12:18 AM  
Columbia South Carolina? Tourist attractions? Bwah ha ha!

 
Great Janitor 2008-06-29 01:15:53 AM  
As someone who spent 4.5 years in South Carolina as a child before moving to a better location, I approve of these signs.

We moved from England to South Carolina.
We then moved from South Carolina to Alaska
Yes, Alaska is better than South Carolina.

 
TheMega 2008-06-29 01:17:04 AM  
Which way did he go? Which way did he go?

/not obscure?

 
Archie DeBunker [TotalFark] 2008-06-29 01:18:08 AM  
Gyrfalcon: Yay!

/really got to speak to the mods about this flood control thingie.


It's a space filler. Do you not get it? Space must be filled.

/I clicked the Alltel ad. I didn't learn more.
//I am still un-decided about the new chicken sandwich at McD's.

 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark] 2008-06-29 01:25:55 AM  
tonesskin: Which direction was it pointing? Hopefully not north (unless it meant to skip a couple of states)! Or south! Or west (unless it meant to skip about 10 states)!

Up.

 
Tritonean 2008-06-29 01:28:57 AM  
Ikimasen: My condolences, spent 10 years in that town...got out as soon as I could after High School.

Yeah, SC not a great state on the whole...but a friend is trying to talk me into moving to Charleston

 
10.0.0.1 [TotalFark] 2008-06-29 01:32:55 AM  
I was in Rock Hill, SC about 6 weeks ago and they were advertising Asheville, NC as a "getaway".

I'm thinking that SC must be pretty farked if Asheville is looking like a good idea. But my stay there proved this thought of mine to be incorrect.

 
beoweasel 2008-06-29 01:32:57 AM  
Tritonean: Ikimasen: My condolences, spent 10 years in that town...got out as soon as I could after High School.

Yeah, SC not a great state on the whole...but a friend is trying to talk me into moving to Charleston


Well, I've lived in SC all my life, and I can honestly say that Charleston is the only good thing about it. Sadly, I live in the Upstate, which is far away from the coast.

 
Tritonean 2008-06-29 01:42:34 AM  
beoweasel: Well, I've lived in SC all my life, and I can honestly say that Charleston is the only good thing about it. Sadly, I live in the Upstate, which is far away from the coast.

Been to Charleston a few times (including an incredibly brief stay at a certain college down there) and it found it much better than the upstate.

But then again I lived rather close to BJU and I was the liberal jew with an activist lesbian mother and a dad married to a black woman.

/was a fast runner
//steel toed boots were my amex...never left home without 'em!

 
coprolite 2008-06-29 01:44:42 AM  
Come on down to Florida where you have a good chance to be featured in a Fark thread.

 
HoratioGates 2008-06-29 01:46:28 AM  
There used to be a giant 'Local Attractions' road sign on Rt. 890 out side of Schenectady, N.Y. It was blank.

 
GiGi1976 2008-06-29 01:49:11 AM  
Greenville here, beoweasel! Live in Berea to be exact.

It's home to me. We have a house right on the ocean at Myrtle Beach. I love it there.

 
SharkUW 2008-06-29 01:50:10 AM  
Sorry guys. I'm gonna have to hang out with you guys for the next month. It's nothing personal, but y'all farked up.

 
arghyematey 2008-06-29 01:51:38 AM  
I'm actually proud of saying I'm from South Carolina, just so I can mention that I lived Charleston (well, and Beaufort).

For being such a small city, it's actually a pretty happening place. There's an interesting art scene, lots of good-looking, fashionable people and there are TONS of great restaurants. And, of course, it's basically on the beach.


The rest of SC is awful, of course. But if I were going to leave the state, why stop at North Carolina or Georgia? It's really not like either of those states are any better. If you're getting out, get the HELL out, and don't head for Florida either. Trust me, as someone that currently lives in Orlando. :(

 
Vanetia [TotalFark] 2008-06-29 02:04:50 AM  
As someone who lived in SC (near Charleston) for two years, I approve their message.

That place is hell. In the summer it's hell's hell. That's where Satan sends people who need to be punished more than he can provide on his own turf. He sends them to a place where it's so humid that you don't walk; you swim. And little bugs peck at your flesh while you do it.

I would never recommend SC as a vacation spot to anyone. Unless I really hated that person.

 
Ace Attorney 2008-06-29 02:05:24 AM  
tjfly: Out of state crews: QFT

/SC is the worst. Clemson sucks. Okay, so maybe Charelston is cool.
//SC is OH's cousin for US armpittery


You sir, just made yourself a whole lot of powereful enemies. Duke Sucks

TheMega: Which way did he go? Which way did he go?

/not obscure?


ummmmmmm.... That way!

/nothings to obscure for FARK

 
StopArrestingMe [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-06-29 02:14:50 AM  
Just don't suggest they go to Six Flags over Georgia.

 
Oakland A's FTW! 2008-06-29 02:22:08 AM  
Can we get some of those signs here in California?

 
EngineerAU 2008-06-29 02:23:59 AM  
A city official, Steve Gantt, says a Columbia worker will now tail along with the North Carolina crews installing the city's more than 100 new signs.

So let me get this straight: they outsource the work of putting up signs to a private company. That company can't do its job right so now a public employee is going to have to assigned to each sign crew to make sure they do it right.

 
Bathia_Mapes [TotalFark] 2008-06-29 02:30:36 AM  
Wouldn't it have been cheaper & less of a headache to hire someone from the area to put up the signs. There would have been far less of a chance of this happening too it would seem.

 
Espertron 2008-06-29 02:32:27 AM  

Instead of First in Flight for the NC slogan, how about...


North Carolina: Just like South Carolina, but without all the suck.

 
hyperspacemonkey 2008-06-29 02:34:09 AM  
Ace Attorney: ummmmmmm.... That way!

/nothings to obscure for FARK


Wow! It's rare to see Bugs get his butt kicked for most of the episode.

 
Epsilon [TotalFark] 2008-06-29 02:36:33 AM  
This story is BS. Just like how when I have nothing better to do in Vegas I stand around with signs pointing East saying, "This way to L.A." and then all the suckers end up in Phoenix.

Yeah, right.

 
Jeni1090 2008-06-29 02:49:43 AM  
I wish the signs would have pointed back towards Ohio

//very sick of tourists at the moment

 
Occam's Chainsaw [TotalFark] 2008-06-29 02:58:17 AM  
10.0.0.1: I was in Rock Hill, SC about 6 weeks ago and they were advertising Asheville, NC as a "getaway".

I'm thinking that SC must be pretty farked if Asheville is looking like a good idea. But my stay there proved this thought of mine to be incorrect.


Trust me, when you're in Rock Bottom for any length of time, Detroit's a fun getaway.

And WTF you doing talkin' smack about Asheville? It's one of the better medium-sized cities in NC. Beats the shiat out of:
*Durham
*Greenville
*New Bern
*Fayetteville
*Lumberton
*Hickory

 
Gamecocks 2008-06-29 03:07:50 AM  
I don't understand the hate towards Columbia, sure it's the armpit of the south and uncomfortably hot 10 months out of the year, but we have really good bars.

 
goofoffgoose 2008-06-29 03:23:04 AM  
img262.imageshack.us

 
mreuther 2008-06-29 04:08:38 AM  
What did they give these guys when they signed the contract, a bar napkin?

Usually, government bids are written so that people from outer space couldn't get lost.

 
GunshipPolitico 2008-06-29 04:23:17 AM  
tjfly: Out of state crews: QFT

/SC is the worst. Clemson sucks. Okay, so maybe Charelston is cool.
//SC is OH's cousin for US armpittery


Honorable Mention for New Mexico?
\It's a like a place for people who hate life to live

 
EWNTom 2008-06-29 04:58:43 AM  
tjfly: Ikimasen: Sweet. I'm from NC, and I approve.

/Okay, directing people away from the college is bad. Directing people away from SC, though...

Where from NC? Raliegh Raleigh here.


FTFY. So, what part of the North did you emigrate to our fair capital from?

 
MissMayhem 2008-06-29 08:47:21 AM  
Coming from South Carolina, I'd have to say that I wouldn't blame them for posting such signs. Next chance I get, I'm getting the hell outta Spartanburg and this state, for that matter!

/born in NJ
//misses it, too
///still gets tattoos in NC

 
Bendal 2008-06-29 09:04:03 AM  
I too live in NC, and approve of those sign installers. Other than Charleston, the rest of SC isn't really visit-worthy.

/Like Charleston though.
//Especially Hyman's Seafood Restaurant
///Want to go back soon

 
Espertron 2008-06-29 09:06:00 AM  
Occam's Chainsaw: And WTF you doing talkin' smack about Asheville? It's one of the better medium-sized cities in NC. Beats the shiat out of:
*Durham
*Greenville
*New Bern
*Fayetteville
*Lumberton
*Hickory


THIS

 
CodeNameWench 2008-06-29 09:20:01 AM  
Espertron: Occam's Chainsaw: And WTF you doing talkin' smack about Asheville? It's one of the better medium-sized cities in NC. Beats the shiat out of:
*Durham
*Greenville
*New Bern
*Fayetteville
*Lumberton
*Hickory

THIS


Agreed. I just moved to Asheville and I love it.

 
Arthur Jumbles [TotalFark] 2008-06-29 09:22:22 AM  
Ummmmm.... why is an out of state group putting up S.C. signs? Are the people of S.C. too stupid to put up their own signs? Is it because they can't read?

 
Espertron 2008-06-29 09:39:42 AM  
CodeNameWench: and Occam's Chainsaw

Asheville rocks! A very beautiful city in a very beautiful area of North Carolina.

I'm also very fond of Raleigh (lived there), Boone (lived there), Wake Forest (live there currently), Kill Devil Hills, Nags Head, Kitty Hawk, Brevard, Banner Elk, Corolla, Pinehurst, Troy, Blowing Rock and Ocracoke.

 
Fark Farkety Fark Fark Fark 2008-06-29 09:54:26 AM  
South of the Border unavailable for comment.

 
10.0.0.1 [TotalFark] 2008-06-29 09:59:33 AM  
Occam's Chainsaw: And WTF you doing talkin' smack about Asheville?

Sorry, but there's a few Farkers from there that constantly biatch about it. Just playin'!

 
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