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Nice, and while that's not the word we would use here in the UK, it's definitely one we know. I'll let Kornfeld post this one.
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Haven't heard that word in a very long time - since cars had ones that lifted out on the side and blinked. Or more often, didn't.
TRAFFICATOR
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Ah the semaphore
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As kids we often had to open a window and hold it up before the turn!
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Yep. I was about to add "YUAT" 
The term was current when I got my licence in 1965, when hand signals were still in use, and not all cars had these new-fangled blinkers.
(And I botched the clue. It should have been "...indicates. )
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We'll let you off Pete - it's been a while
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I suspect we're all a bit rusty.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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To be fair, you're not wrong.
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That reminds me where I've first read about the device (not that I've ever seen one): it was a travel book written by respected anthropologist Bengt Danielsson[^] about a road trip he took in Australia in the '60s. When his European car was to be approved for driving in Australia, the official complained that it doesn't have "trafficators" which at the time were compulsory on Australian roads.
In the same book he said that in less populated areas, there weren't many road indicators and the main road could be identified by the number of beer bottles on the side. Was that true or just travel fiction meant to tarnish the sterling reputation of Aussie drivers? 
Mircea
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The first could be a left-hand-drive vs right-hand-drive issue. Until fairly recently it was extremely difficult to use a LHD vehicle on Aussie roads. Certainly hand signals (which were fine in RHD cars then) would not have worked.
The second one sounds a bit "urban myth". I could imagine it for say a mining camp sort of place, but not main highways.
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indicate: Some eggs are broken or about to break on the field of combat.
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Badfinger
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I came across an article today re/ mad cow disease. An hour or so later I was learning of the origins of QR Codes via Veritasium. Several minutes into the video it is stated mad cow disease is part of its history. Quite a coincidence. Even further I also read today an article re/ Rudy Giuliani. Quite a coincidence.
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Are you implying that Rudy Giuliani is a mad cow? Because if you are you should remember that he was also a lawyer ... and probably still knows quite a few ... 
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OriginalGriff wrote: implying that Rudy Giuliani is a mad cow
Mad - possibly. A cow - definitely not.
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A bull maybe, considering the amount of BS he was dishing out. 
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His Honor[^] Maybe he will sue his daughter as well.
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Happens all the time when surfing
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Thank you for this useful information.
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It wasn't a coincidence 
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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For some reason, the mental image that came to mind when I read this caused me to wonder why anyone would think of mad cow disease while trying to catch a wave!
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At dinner on Friday night, Snoop Dogg's name was mentioned, then Willie Nelson, then Kris Kristofferson as an outlaw. I hadn't heard that name in years. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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It's call "synchronicity" and is actually a psychological effect.
In normal life, you probably encounter hundreds or thousands of random references to topics in a single day. Simply by being random, there are going to be occasions when the same topic comes up twice, or more, in close proximity. Because you read the article of mad cow disease, your subconscious was primed to notice the reference in the Veritasium video and flagged your conscious mind that it might be unusual. On another day, when you hadn't read an earlier article, you might not even have really noticed it.
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