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Residents of Oregon town say shape of traffic posts is offensive (OF COURSE there's a picture)
KOMO-TV (Seattle) ^ | July 6, 2007 | Melica Johnson

Posted on 07/06/2007 1:43:49 PM PDT by Stoat

Residents of Oregon town say shape of traffic posts is offensive

Residents of Oregon town say shape of traffic posts is offensive

By Melica Johnson and KATU Web Staff
 

KEIZER, Ore. - The City of Keizer is taking heat for installing a group of cement posts designed to protect pedestrians from cars, but which some say is a phallic symbol.

A total of 52 of the posts were installed at a busy intersection in Keizer and they are getting a lot of second glances.

A number of residents have complained to the city that the posts resemble male genitalia.

"I can't disagree with that," said City Manager Chris Eppley.  "They certainly did not turn out the way we anticipated."

According to Eppley, the posts were ordered from a catalog and looked much different on paper.

"They're a standard style," Eppley said.  "I think in the right context they look fine.  They just happened not to (look fine) here."

The city is looking into retrofitting the posts with metal collars and chains that run between them, which they hope will change the look.  If not, they said the posts will have to go.

"If that fix doesn't work and I still think they look inappropriate, we'll have wasted $20,000 and we'll have to do something different," Eppley said.

Of course, the city could always keep them up and use them for sex education, at least according to one woman we spoke to. "My son said he wanted to hang a sign on it that says 'always use protection,'" she said.


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KEYWORDS: keizer; militantfeminism; oregon; trafficposts
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To: Stoat

Seems to me that there are an awful lot of people with not enough to think about if that’s the best they can come up with. This is too funny.


41 posted on 07/06/2007 1:57:48 PM PDT by Clara Lou (Fred Thompson, '08-- imwithfred.com)
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To: Stoat

Sorry. When I saw it, my first reaction was not “Dude, that’s a dick”.


42 posted on 07/06/2007 1:57:58 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Stoat; HairOfTheDog
Should change the name of the town to

43 posted on 07/06/2007 1:58:05 PM PDT by 2Jedismom (http://kimsbug.blogspot.com/)
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To: Stoat

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar!"


44 posted on 07/06/2007 1:58:49 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (The Democrat Party: radical Islam's last hope)
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To: Quiller
"I've got an idea -- maybe integrate some water art -- an occasional fountain from each one at random intervals?"

Hooooo, boy! :-)

45 posted on 07/06/2007 1:58:50 PM PDT by jackibutterfly
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

ROFLOLOLOL. Only too true, too true!!:}


46 posted on 07/06/2007 1:59:09 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Father of a 2nd BCT 10th Mountain Soldier fighting the terrorists in the Triangle of Death)
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To: Stoat

It looks like a grain silo to me.


47 posted on 07/06/2007 1:59:29 PM PDT by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
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To: Stoat
It kind of looks like the Dol hareubang you find in South Korea's Cheju province.


48 posted on 07/06/2007 1:59:50 PM PDT by Tamar1973 (Riding the Korean Wave, one BYJ movie at a time! (http://www.byj.co.kr))
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To: Stoat
I wonder what they say about the Oregon state capitol building.


49 posted on 07/06/2007 2:00:09 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.)
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To: jackibutterfly

Pope’s hat, a well known example.


50 posted on 07/06/2007 2:00:13 PM PDT by KingLiberty (As 12th Imam I declare 'Give me liberty or give me. . . twins would be nice.')
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To: jackibutterfly

Exactly. There are several like that sitting at the doors of our local grocery store. Have been for years. Apparently someone forgot to complain. Or, maybe people’s minds have been on something more meaningful.


51 posted on 07/06/2007 2:00:16 PM PDT by Clara Lou (Fred Thompson, '08-- imwithfred.com)
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To: 2Jedismom
"Hey, I think they look great!"


52 posted on 07/06/2007 2:00:45 PM PDT by quark
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To: Stoat
Let us hope these Oregonians never take a trip to monument valley.


53 posted on 07/06/2007 2:00:50 PM PDT by T.Smith
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To: Stoat

I remember hearing once upon a time that the shape of dish detergent bottles and the like (things normally handled by women) have a, uh hum, natural basis.


54 posted on 07/06/2007 2:01:33 PM PDT by NewHampshireDuo (Earth - Taking care of itself since 4.6 billion BC)
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To: KingLiberty

Just which Pope’s hat are you talking about? [pic please]


55 posted on 07/06/2007 2:01:47 PM PDT by Clara Lou (Fred Thompson, '08-- imwithfred.com)
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To: The Worthless Miracle

“Ma’am, I understand you want to file a complaint against the man in the apartment across the alley for indecent exposure, but I can’t see his window from here.”

“Well, officer, it you stand on the top this step stool in front of my bathroom window and lean as far as you can to the left, you can see it.”


56 posted on 07/06/2007 2:02:31 PM PDT by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: Stoat
And then there is the English cucumber, which comes wrapped in a condom, in every store I've seen it!


57 posted on 07/06/2007 2:03:25 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (We all need someone we can bleed on...)
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To: Stoat

I am suing them for using likeness (to scale, even) for these posts.


58 posted on 07/06/2007 2:03:36 PM PDT by RockinRight (FRedOn. Apply Directly To The White House!)
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To: T.Smith

Now, that’s what I call “intelligent design!”


59 posted on 07/06/2007 2:03:58 PM PDT by quark
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To: Clara Lou

The mitar, I think they call it. I’ve never posted a picture, don’t have the equipment at this site and don’t know if I know how at my others.


60 posted on 07/06/2007 2:04:22 PM PDT by KingLiberty (As 12th Imam I declare 'Give me liberty or give me. . . twins would be nice.')
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