Comments on: Morning Cup of Links: Mock Duck

By: C

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:10:00 +0000

The No Left Turns story reminds me of a lady I used to work with – we all thought she was a little nutty because she would have her husband map out routes for her that specifically avoided left turns…maybe she was on to something!

By: nikki

nikki — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:19:00 +0000

After I read the no left turns story, a song from Dr. Demento’s radio show got stuck in my head.

“Two wrongs don’t make a right, but three lefts do…”

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:19:00 +0000

I didn’t think you kids would even be familiar with the phrase, much less hear it too much these days.

By: TBV

TBV — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:03:00 +0000

Good call, Meri. But “NOT!” stopped being funny 15 years ago. “My Bad” has a much shorter “irritating half life”.

On the subject of left turns, there’s a book titled “No Left Turns”, written by a former FBI agent. Its title is from the rumor that J. Edgar Hoover hated taking left turns, so whenever an agent had the task of driving JEH, he had to map out the trip so no left turns were taken. The author made a point to say that nobody knew if the “no left turns” rule was true, but they were all so terrified of “Mr. Hoover” that nobody had the guts to ask him.

By: Witty Nickname

Witty Nickname — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:23:00 +0000

My Grandpa refused to make left turns also. That story reminds me of him. He read an article in Time Magazine about how UPS spends millions of dollars routing their trucks so they don’t have to make left turns unless absolutely possible.

UPS does it because it saves gas, Grandpa was just chicken.

By: Meri

Meri — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:13:00 +0000

I loved the story “A life without left turns”

Also enjoyed the piece on Housing Homeless Drinks.

@TBV – I’d have to say “My bad” irks me more than “Not!” :-)

By: TBV

TBV — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:29:00 +0000

Please, can’t we all agree to stop using the phrase “…NOT!” It’s just not funny anymore. See what I did there? I put “not” in the middle of the sentence to denote a negative. Try it.

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:57:00 +0000

I’m all about the WILB, as I do tend to concentrate more after a dose of mental floss, etc.