Day 145
Norville Barnes was here
August 18th, 2010
I'm walking across America.
That's the idea, at least. I'm walking westward from New York City for nine months or so. If everything goes according to plan, I'll be in Oregon when the clock runs out. If nothing goes according to plan, maybe I'll end up in Peru or Mongolia or Pennsylvania. You can read all about the details of my trip if you're so inclined.
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Hahaha I love the hula hoop
Wait does this mean people that are hula hooping are crossing?
You know. For kids!
Norville Barnes? Is that an alias for Norman Bates (still thinking of that delapidated MOTEL sign).
(I know…I know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hudsucker_Proxy)
Thanks Candice In Alabama, read that one!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hudsucker_Proxy
Didn’t get the reference, guess I missed this one in high school. Seems like a horrible idea for a movie…
Now there would be something to try… hula hooping on your walk…. cute decoration to a regular sign… I bet it makes folks do a double take…
hudsucker proxy – hula hooping. good one! Norville came up with an invention he has been working on which appears to be a simple circle, a ‘hula’ hoop,
So Matt was referring to the guy who invented the hula hoop. I was about to do a google search on the name. Thanks, Charlie.
Aloha Norville. Love modified street signs. Remember the deer with the red nose….Good one two.
Good ol’Norville…
Okay, I don’t get it. Not at all. Somebody please explain it to me. Who is Norville Barnes or what is it?
The sign you just gotta laugh at though. I’d be looking for people hula-hooping to cross by!
Here’s a little…Hula Hoop…Hoopla…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng3XHPdexNM
Jim
Thanks for sharing this, as it brought back memories of my childhood. My father sold hula hops at his Western Auto Store. I grew up in this business and remmeber them fondly. Those were the days!
Did the authorities make you jump through a bunch of hoops to continue your trek? Sometimes people make you go around circles to get to where you need or want to go.
Your reference brought a HUGE smile to my face.
Oh so the hula hoop is a sticker? I remember the picture a while back, I liked it better when I thought someone had drawn it :P much more creative. Although its neat to see it elsewhere
I wonder where the Frisbee players are supposed to cross the road?
The hula hoop in reference to the band The String Cheese Incident. People aka Kids who listen to SCI get those stickers and put them on those signs. They have a large hula hoopin following.
JS is right. These are definitely Cheese kids playing with a pedestrian sign. http://www.hooping.org/archives/000214.html
How funny! I love learning new oddities like this. ;-)
These signs will be common place in Las Vegas before too long. City officials are trying to ban the use of hula hoops on the strip. http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/las-vegas-gets-wound-up-as-it-considers-hula-hoop-ban/19584057