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>>One of the first stories which I heard when I came here was about the attempt, some time in sixties, to introduce kilometers on the roads. So the speed limit signs were rewritten into kilometers per hour - and most of the drivers kept reading them as if these were in miles.
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>Those, anyway, who weren't using them for target practice. ;)
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>Alan

Alan;

Something interesting happened during our two week vacation in central and notrh eastern Oregon. I noticed that many road signs did not have holes shot through them. Maybe the people are too poor to buy bullets, the signs are replaced daily or some folks just gave up shooting signs?

Tom