Comments on: Played The West

By: David Brett

David Brett — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 09:26:00 +0000

My wife was given a Australian $125 speeding fine the other day - for doing 63 km/hr in a 60 km/hr zone

Maybe she should have claimed parallax error.

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 16:03:00 +0000

LOL, Dick. When I saw McCook, I thought, wow, he didn't even make it to "western Nebraska". If you go about 100 miles north and west, then you'll run into the "real" West. Oh, yeah, they have their Barney Fife's, too.

It used to be easy to spot outsiders in Nebraska, because the license plate had the county number at the beginning. For instance, Omaha was always 1, Lincoln 2,... Scottsbluff was 21, Alliance was 65, etc. So, even in-state "city-slickers" stood out in the county.

By: Jamie Collins

Jamie Collins — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:15:00 +0000

Thanks Dick. I won’t ask what the ‘Weekend Picks’ thing is all about!

By: Dick

Dick — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 18:16:00 +0000

Thanks for the translation Jamie. Here's the rest: Warnings are tickets that have no consequences (fines, court appearances). City slickers are what small town people think of big city people - they don't like them.
1 mile ~ 12 blocks. I have no idea how many kilometers (kilometres) that is.
Barney Fife was a policeman on a US situational comedy (played by Don Knotts). He was really full of himself and his authority as a police officer went to his head; even though his jurisdiction was a very small town.
Nebraska is divided into 108 counties. Furnas was the name of the county were I was pulled over.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:21:00 +0000

Hi Dick! Sorry to hear that your trip was not the best but it’s pretty much the same over here too. The local constabulary know exactly where to lie in wait. It’s a shame that most people caught are usually not the type of folk that make problems, at the same time the real troublemakers have a pretty good idea about how to not get caught themselves.

By: Jamie Collins

Jamie Collins — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:14:00 +0000

Here is a glossary for readers who are citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ('Limeys'):

putting on a pool table = putting on a barbilliards table
on US Highway 6 = on the M6
they don't give warnings to city slickers = I've no idea what this means
about five blocks = I've no idea what this means
Barney Fife = I've no idea who this person is
nine freaking miles = I couldn't possibly say before the 9pm watershed
Furnas County = Gwynedd, perhaps?