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(Pasadena Star News)		Go left at the fork in the road - it's eighteen feet tall, you can't miss it (pasadenastarnews.com)		56
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jehovahs witness protection

2009-11-05 03:24:26 PM

"It's a guerilla installation,"
i136.photobucket.com

altinos

2009-11-05 04:01:58 PM

pilsberry

2009-11-05 04:03:15 PM

forked farked whatever

Labrat407

2009-11-05 04:06:26 PM

That fork is big enough for the Pylon monster to use!

Cool idea. Props to those who pulled it off.

vudukungfu

2009-11-05 04:09:07 PM

guerilla art
guerilla art
guerilla art
guerilla art

Thud'nBlunder

2009-11-05 04:09:46 PM

Yogi Berra says I should take it.

hedztalez

2009-11-05 04:13:59 PM

Apparently the road was spooning too much. Cause it wound up getting forked.

nytmare

2009-11-05 04:15:28 PM

until you come to...

daggy.name

THE FORK IN THE ROAD

soupsup

2009-11-05 04:15:55 PM

So. Much. Win.
Today is a beautiful day.

Big Jimmy Oswald

2009-11-05 04:17:04 PM

Bear left...

spyderqueen

2009-11-05 04:20:09 PM

I came for Muppet Movie references and was instantly satisfied.

the_pratt

2009-11-05 04:23:45 PM

Thanks altinos.

/Ahh, a bear's natural habitat
//a Studibaker

MartinaMcSorley

2009-11-05 04:29:19 PM

Woot! I drove over to see it the other day, before the bureaucratic drones take it down. It's very well done!

HopScotchNSoda

2009-11-05 04:31:14 PM

nytmare: until you come to...
THE FORK IN THE ROAD

Take the Slauson cut-off, get out of your car, cut off your slauson, get back in your car, and continue to Sepulveda.

Dirtybird971

2009-11-05 04:32:24 PM

That joke/concept is older than the man it's proported to honor.

Dirtybird971

2009-11-05 04:34:11 PM

they might as well put a car there with a "S" drawn on it.

HopScotchNSoda

2009-11-05 04:37:18 PM

the_pratt: Thanks altinos.
/Ahh, a bear's natural habitat
//a Studibaker

www.whysanity.net

Movin' right along
Foot-loose and fancy free.
Gettin' there is half the fun;
come share it with me.

Scene recorded from someone's television, but the quality is decent as those things go.

akya

2009-11-05 04:40:31 PM

I remember once getting into an argument over whether it was more correct to call a 3 pronged fork a 3 pronged fork or a threek.

It clearly can't be both.

/discuss

KingKauff

2009-11-05 04:44:57 PM

Dirtybird971: they might as well put a car there with a "S" drawn on it.

And have a snail drive it, eh?

wxboy

2009-11-05 04:45:09 PM

akya: I remember once getting into an argument over whether it was more correct to call a 3 pronged fork a 3 pronged fork or a threek.

It clearly can't be both.

/discuss

That's a pitchfork.

BigDogDude

2009-11-05 04:48:38 PM

Thank you, nytmare. I was afraid I was the only geezing horndog on Fark. You earn my sincere admiration for making the Boobies of Carol Wayne. Mmmmmm.....Carol Wayne.

buckeyebrain

2009-11-05 04:53:59 PM

Approves

nytmare

2009-11-05 05:14:52 PM

MartinaMcSorley: Woot! I drove over to see it the other day, before the bureaucratic drones take it down. It's very well done!

Who is the bigger drone ... the procedural bureaucrat, or the prankster who thinks objectifying an ancient pun is somehow creative?

mortimer_ford

2009-11-05 05:17:36 PM

Stop calling it guerrilla art. It's not a Central American revolutionist with a cheap rifle. It's some losers running around with Che Guevara T-shirts and they can't wait to come forth and take the credit for it and cheapen a good idea.

Gulper Eel

2009-11-05 05:23:40 PM

Meh. It's been done. Rock City, NY:

img.groundspeak.com

There's also a kickass restaurant down the road a piece.

mvalpreda

2009-11-05 05:27:00 PM

Past the fork in the road and right under the big W.

www.cinemassacre.com

gravy chugging cretin.

2009-11-05 05:33:11 PM

mortimer_ford: Stop calling it guerrilla art. It's not a Central American revolutionist with a cheap rifle. It's some losers running around with Che Guevara T-shirts and they can't wait to come forth and take the credit for it and cheapen a good idea.

Did they bother getting out of their pajamas before they did it?

marzbarz

2009-11-05 05:34:05 PM

Lovethe Mad, Mad, Mad Mad worl reference

SupaTroopa

2009-11-05 05:34:12 PM

The article says: "It's about 18 feet tall and looks like stainless steel."

The picture says: "... giant fork is estimated to be about 12 feet high"

HOW TALL IS IT?!?!?

/don't really care just being picky

Fano

2009-11-05 05:37:23 PM

Came for Tex Avery references :(

/was born with a silver spoon in my mouth

Osomatic

2009-11-05 05:43:04 PM

Gulper Eel: Meh. It's been done. Rock City, NY:

But is it actually at a fork in the road?

chookbillion

2009-11-05 05:50:45 PM

Dirtybird971: That joke/concept is older than the man it's proported to honor.

That's the first thing I thought. I was a little surprised to read all the 'wow, that's great!' type comments.

Rubberband Girl

2009-11-05 05:55:08 PM

FTFA - It turns out the fork is an elaborate - and expensive - birthday prank in honor of the 75th birthday of Bob Stane, founder of the Ice House comedy club, who now owns the Coffee Gallery Backstage in Altadena.

I say it should stay. It's a neat visual pun, it makes a great landmark for anyone who is lost and, frankly, the picture indicates the area could use a little something.

MBooda

2009-11-05 05:55:27 PM

What? No geocache there yet?

Pasadena geocachers, you're slippin'.

The All-Powerful Atheismo

2009-11-05 06:05:01 PM

the_pratt: Thanks altinos.

/Ahh, a bear's natural habitat
//a Studibaker

Yup came for this.

fark the casbah

2009-11-05 06:08:55 PM

Page is forked.

\all week
\\veal

tuxedobob

2009-11-05 06:18:49 PM

In the article it sounds like no one's really complaining about it. That almost seems strange.

Apparently The Muppet Movie was released about 3 months after I was born. That must be why I don't remember it. >_>

ZAZ

2009-11-05 06:25:44 PM

"It's not a public danger - unless someone drives into it."

That's why it's probably gone as soon as a Caltrans lawyer notices. There are safety standards for objects near the highway and the fork probably doesn't meet them.

Telephone poles are exempt for some reason. I have seen a guard rail placed behind a pole. The rail protects drivers from hitting the bridge structure, which is the DOT's responsibility. It does not protect them from the pole, which is somebody else's problem.

blistafinga

2009-11-05 06:31:34 PM

akya: I remember once getting into an argument over whether it was more correct to call a 3 pronged fork a 3 pronged fork or a threek.

It clearly can't be both.

"Anytwo five elevennis?"

Thosw

2009-11-05 06:38:33 PM

Big Jimmy Oswald: Bear left...

Right frog.

spinpsychle

2009-11-05 06:39:40 PM

Nothing on the roads is a public danger until someone drives into it.

Gulper Eel

2009-11-05 06:49:39 PM

Osomatic: But is it actually at a fork in the road?

It is. Routes 199 & 308.

Juniper Jupiter

2009-11-05 06:54:31 PM

Kermit: Hey, Fozzie, I want you to turn left if you come to a fork in the road.
Fozzie: Yes sir, turn left at the fork in the road.

images4.wikia.nocookie.net

Fozzie: Turn leeeeft!
Kermit: I don't believe that.

/Best sight gag EVAR.

kdizzler

2009-11-05 06:54:49 PM

Meh, Mine's bigger.

i809.photobucket.com

/Springfield, MO
//World's Largest
///Ladies Love it.

wakitu

2009-11-05 07:02:02 PM

The gentleman for whose birthday this was created, Bob Stane, is a friend of mine (I have taken photos of his place, Coffee Gallery Backstage, and some of the performers who have appeared there), so when I heard about this I ran over there and took some photos for him.