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lspencer534
10-20-2012, 5:08pm
A 6-foot-tall fork appeared at an intersection in Carlsbad, CA, on Tuesday. A city crew removed it Wednesday -- apparently the sculpture is a code violation [they can't take a joke]. The pranksters then put up a sign...which was removed as well.

http://i702.photobucket.com/albums/ww22/lspencer534/fork.jpg

Reminds me of Johnny Carson's Art Fern.

mrvette
10-20-2012, 5:13pm
Typical self important .gov , fork em and the lawyers they road in on.....


and I"m DEAD SERIOUS.........:seasix::leaving:

OddBall
10-20-2012, 5:15pm
forkin' bastards.

DAB
10-20-2012, 5:16pm
Johnny Carson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Art Fern, the "Tea Time Movie" announcer, [14] whose theme song was "Hooray for Hollywood". Carson once admitted on camera that this was his favorite character, based on late-afternoon TV hosts who would deliver commercials throughout the movie. Each sketch usually featured three long commercials interrupted by silent, four-second clips from antique films. When the camera returned from each clip, Art was always caught off-guard and immediately reminded viewers that they were watching a film favorite. The movies always had unlikely casts and even less likely titles: "Slim Pickens, Patti Page, Duke Wayne, and Charlton Heston in another classic Western: 'Kiss My Saddle Horn'!" Carson originally played the fast-talking huckster in his own voice (as Honest Bernie Schlock or Ralph Willie), and finally settled on a nasal, high-pitched, smarmy drone, reminiscent of Jackie Gleason's "Reginald Van Gleason III" character. The character, now permanently known as Art Fern, wore a lavish toupee, loud jackets, and a pencil mustache. Actress Carol Wayne became famous for her 100-plus appearances (1971–1982) as Art's buxom assistant, the Matinée Lady. While Art gave his spiel, she would enter the stage behind him. Art would react to her attractive body, wincing loudly: "Ho — leeeee!" After Carol Wayne's death in 1985, Carson kept Art Fern off the air for most of the next year, and finally hired Danuta Wesley and then Teresa Ganzel to play the Matinée Lady. Carson also used these sketches to poke fun at the intricate Los Angeles interstate system, using a pointer and map to give confusing directions to shoppers, often including points where he would unfold the cardboard map to point out, via the appropriate picture, when the shopper would arrive at "the fork in the road". Another freeway routine in the same theme centered around the fictional "Slauson Cutoff". Art Fern would advise drivers to take a series of freeways until they reached the Slauson Cutoff, and would then advise them to "Get out of your car, cut off your slauson, get back in your car," often followed by peals of laughter from the audience, led by McMahon.

mrvette
10-20-2012, 5:27pm
Johnny Carson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Carson)

Slauson cut off, for some reason I remember that.....been a while....


:seasix::hurray::dance::lol:

lspencer534
10-20-2012, 5:37pm
Slauson cut off, for some reason I remember that.....been a while....


:seasix::hurray::dance::lol:

Alternate Route for 405 - YouTube

Jeff '79
10-20-2012, 5:38pm
What the fork !!!??

lspencer534
10-20-2012, 5:41pm
What the fork !!!??

I can't hear you!

Jeff '79
10-20-2012, 5:43pm
I can't hear you!

I can't yell any louder....:D

Fork Face

lspencer534
10-20-2012, 5:52pm
I can't yell any louder....:D

Fork Face

Oooohhhh! That hurt! :issues: :rofl:

Mike Mercury
10-20-2012, 6:56pm
http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/250x250/23104092.jpg

JRD77VET
10-20-2012, 7:03pm
What the fork !!!??

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v78/JRD77VET/funnies/WTF/wtfork-1.jpg