Comments on: Blinded By The Lights

By: Bud Sluter

Bud Sluter — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 23:22:02 +0000

DOUG, IT SOUNDS AS IF YOU NEED A CHECK LIST BEFORE YOUR NEXT TRIP TO AZ. AS YOU START PLANNIBG, FIRST CHECK THE INSIDE JACKET POCKET OF YOUR SPORTS JACKET AND REMOVE THE 2 ROUND TRIP PLANE TICKETS. IF YOU DON’T FIND THEM, I GIVE UP. YOU ARE A HOPELESS CASE.

By: Sweeps

Sweeps — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:48:54 +0000

Oh, gosh. Bennderedundat. I dutifully slowed down to the prescribed FORTY-FIVE mph going through a tiny central SD town a few years ago, but I made the mistake of resuming the cruise just past the T-intersection in town (2 blocks ahead of the higher speed limit sign), and of course my speed shot up to over the speed limit almost as soon as I resumed it. The local sheriff caught me, and graciously knocked 5 mph off the ticket he gave me. Otherwise, I’d have had to go to court instead of sending in the $90 check (at a time when I could least afford it). I told some choir friends about it, and the school district’s business manager chuckled and said “that county really needs it for their schools.” HEY! I think I’ve hit on the solution! If everyone speeds on the highways and lo-ways, maybe school funding wouldn’t be such a problem!! No? Oh well, it’s a thought! (Welcome home, BTW!)

By: JD

JD — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:49:24 +0000

The Scottish Goldfish with his $2 stopwatch probably already knows this – Divide 3600 by the number of seconds it takes to travel one mile. That’s your speed in MPH.

By: Sas

Sas — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 06:01:10 +0000

Just a money maker – pure and simple. They don’t care about safety – they are just mobile IRS agents for governments that can’t control their spending!!! I like these small towns that move their speed limits signs way out of town so they can trap you coming in too fast way outside of town or speeding up too quickly leaving. The signs are out so far it is ridiculous, and in no way could be unsafe – just perfect speed traps!

By: Hemmingsen

Hemmingsen — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 13:31:37 +0000

I never heard that he played Gunsmoke. I believe you’re confusing him with William Conrad, not to be confused with Robert Conrad. Are any of you watching the PBS series Pioneers of Television? You should see what these folks look like now. But the mirror of time ain’t too kind to any of us.

By: Scottish Goldfish

Scottish Goldfish — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 05:39:11 +0000

Cruise control is a wonderful invention, but I still have to remember to watch for those “blink and you miss it” towns with their poky speed limits. On a trip I took in another century, my speedometer quit working. I used the stopwatch function on my $2.00 watch to calculate the speed of the car I was following, adjusting my speed to approximately the limit of the moment (no cruise control in that car). About 1500 miles into the speedometerless part of the trip, approaching Omaha but still in Iowa, I noticed a reduction in speed limit. I slowed down. The guy I was following didn’t. Very soon, I came over the top of a hill to see the guy I’d been following sitting along the side of the road with a car with flashing lights behind. Sorry, but I found it necessary to chuckle at his misfortune.

By: dennisgene

dennisgene — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 02:18:20 +0000

I go to oklahoma a couple of times a year and I take highway 81. I am always releived to get through Nebraska. I see speed limit signs that say 55 miles an hour and nothing is within a couple of miles from the highway. I figure they are speed traps so I always slow down to 55. But it irrates me.

By: michael

michael — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:52:25 +0000

Just don’t forget to pay that ticket, Doug. I forgot about the $175 speeding ticket I got in Nevada a couple summers ago. I was reminded of it when a Sioux Falls traffic cop pulled me over for expired tags six months later. That Nevada ticket had grown to $578 by then–and also required a court appearance. No fun!

By: Doug Lund

Doug Lund — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 20:48:04 +0000

Don. It was actually William Conrad who played Matt Dillon on the radio version of Gunsmoke. Producers thought he was too short and fat to play a lawman on TV. But Conrad got the last laugh when he was chosen to portray Detective Frank Cannon on the TV series Cannon, which ran for five seasons on CBS in the early seventies.

By: Per Pål P

Per Pål P — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 20:15:59 +0000

Jaaa…Jaaa…Jaaa Grouse….You are absolut right….But, GMAX09…You might need to consider your diet….you’re probably eating things like fruits and veggies….98% lean meats….drinking skim melk etc….Your body is just simply turning those things into fat…Your body is most likely craving some gude norshing mat…like Lutefisk with lots of melted butter….lefse with butter and sugar….Fattigmann…fried in REAL grease…gammeløst…fløtbrød…rømmegråt–made with real fresh cream and served with plenty of butter and sugar and a little cinnamon….And then the “water of life”…aquavit…. Just a thought! Per Pål