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#6351 | | Pittsburgh driver's test
(3) When stopped at an intersection you should
(a) watch the traffic light for your lane. (b) watch for pedestrians crossing the street. (c) blow the horn. (d) watch the traffic light for the intersecting street.
The correct answer is (d). You need to start as soon as the traffic light for the intersecting street turns yellow. Answer (c) is worth a half point.
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#6352 | | Pittsburgh driver's test
(4) Exhaust gas is
(a) beneficial. (b) not harmful. (c) toxic. (d) a punk band.
The correct answer is (b). The meddling Washington eco-freak communist bureaucrats who say otherwise are liars. (Message to those who answered (d). Go back to California where you came from. Your kind are not welcome here.)
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#6353 | | Pittsburgh driver's test
(5) Your car's horn is a vital piece of safety equipment. How often should you test it?
(a) once a year. (b) once a month. (c) once a day. (d) once an hour.
The correct answer is (d). You should test your car's horn at least once every hour, and more often at night or in residential neighborhoods.
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#6354 | | Pittsburgh Driver's Test
(7) The car directly in front of you has a flashing right tail light but a steady left tail light. This means
(a) one of the tail lights is broken; you should blow your horn to call the problem to the driver's attention. (b) the driver is signaling a right turn. (c) the driver is signaling a left turn. (d) the driver is from out of town.
The correct answer is (d). Tail lights are used in some foreign countries to signal turns.
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#6355 | | Pittsburgh Driver's Test
(8) Pedestrians are
(a) irrelevant. (b) communists. (c) a nuisance. (d) difficult to clean off the front grille.
The correct answer is (a). Pedestrians are not in cars, so they are totally irrelevant to driving; you should ignore them completely.
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#6356 | | Pittsburgh driver's test
(9) Roads are salted in order to
(a) kill grass. (b) melt snow. (c) help the economy. (d) prevent potholes.
The correct answer is (c). Road salting employs thousands of persons directly, and millions more indirectly, for example, salt miners and rustproofers. Most important, salting reduces the life spans of cars, thus stimulating the car and steel industries.
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#6357 | | She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook. -- Tommy Manville
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#6358 | | Sho' they got to have it against the law. Shoot, ever'body git high, they wouldn't be nobody git up and feed the chickens. Hee-hee. -- Terry Southern
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#6359 | | Some men are heterosexual, and some are bisexual, and some men don't think about sex at all... they become lawyers. -- Woody Allen
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#6360 | | Some of the most interesting documents from Sweden's middle ages are the old county laws (well, we never had counties but it's the nearest equivalent I can find for "landskap"). These laws were written down sometime in the 13th century, but date back even down into Viking times. The oldest one is the Vastgota law which clearly has pagan influences, thinly covered with some Christian stuff. In this law, we find a page about "lekare", which is the Old Norse word for a performing artist, actor/jester/musician etc. Here is an approximate translation, where I have written "artist" as equivalent of "lekare". "If an artist is beaten, none shall pay fines for it. If an artist is wounded, one such who goes with hurdie-gurdie or travels with fiddle or drum, then the people shall take a wild heifer and bring it out on the hillside. Then they shall shave off all hair from the heifer's tail, and grease the tail. Then the artist shall be given newly greased shoes. Then he shall take hold of the heifer's tail, and a man shall strike it with a sharp whip. If he can hold her, he shall have the animal. If he cannot hold her, he shall endure what he received, shame and wounds."
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