When unexpected expenses come up and you don’t have the cash you need, emergency loans can help you through the tough time. Things happen and we aren’t always financially prepared for them. Medical emergencies can take a toll on your pocketbook. Perhaps your car—your only transportation to your job—breaks down and needs a major repair. Your old refrigerator might suddenly give up and quit working.

Many people in the same situation as you have turned to emergency loans to help get them through a financial crunch. These might include single parents who find themselves short of money and are having trouble making ends meet until the end of the month, even finding it difficult to feed their children. Perhaps the utility bill needs to be paid, and the provider is threatening to turn off the power. Working students, part-time workers and minimum wage workers have tight budgets, and they may find themselves in need of some quick cash.

Emergency loans are a no-hassle way to get the money you need. Many lenders allow you to apply online. This means you don’t have to wait in any lines. You won’t have to provide multitudes of paperwork or fax documents to the bank. The online process also speeds up the loan process. Once you’ve filled out your application, which can be done in a matter of minutes, you will get an answer almost immediately. Upon approval of your loan, you’ll be told how much you can borrow and what your interest rate and fees are. A typical loan amount for these types of loans ranges from $250 to $2500.

Emergency loan companies also provide a variety of convenient payment options such as automatic withdrawl from your checking account or a payroll deduction. From the application process to making your payments, these loans are all about convenience and quick access to cash.

Marijuana has inspired a lot of artists to great heights. Now that the move toward legal marijuana is in full swing, that art can actually be a powerful force in changing cannabis policy. By combining interesting facts with a colorful presentation, these infographics make it easy to see the absurdities of prohibition. Be it the lost tax revenue, the absurd jail sentences, or the prohibition of medicine that upsets you, there is something here to help you prove your point.

What Time Is It?

Ask any stoner and they’ll tell you the same thing: it’s time that marijuana was legalized. But if you’ve never been convinced by the slack-jawed, baked musings of a political hippy, then maybe the numbers will change your mind. Check out the shifting scene of American drug politics, and make the decision for yourself.

Potential

During an economic period like the one we’re experiencing right now, politicians typically look for any way to increase revenue, and for a politician revenue equals taxes. The usual approach to this is simply to raise the existing taxes a little bit to gain money. What if, however, we were able to introduce a completely new market to tax? How much money could be gained that way? Now you know.

How It Works

I don’t think any of us need an infographic to let us know that marijuana makes people hungry, paranoid, or forgetful. But if you’re anything like me, you’ve always wondered why. If you’ve always been curious of what exactly is happening to your brain after you burn a bowl, here’s the answer.

State Laws Compared

Do you have glaucoma? How about insomnia? Well, what about anorexia, cancer, or AIDS? If you do, and you find some relief by smoking marijuana, then these are the places to look at. If one ounce is enough, these would all probably suit your needs. Otherwise, you might need to go buy a half pound in California or a “60 day supply” (think of the potential) in Washington.

National Pride

Everybody knows which countries smoke the most weed. Jamaica, the Netherlands, and Canada are clearly the world’s stoners, right? You might wanna check again, and get ready to give some props up for Papa New Guinea.

Modern Uses

It’s easy to forget that the cannabis plant is useful for more than just its buds. Cannabis may hold the answer to problems as far reaching as limited food supplies, to the energy crisis, to deforestation. If you consider yourself a political smoker, I suggest memorizing these numbers. They are very useful things to know when battling a drug warrior.

Total Effects

Where is the current marijuana plan taking us? We’re losing money, we’re throwing innocent people in jail, and we’re keeping sick people from getting the medicine they need. If you want to see the extent of the damage, look no further.

Unfair?

Making marijuana illegal is a pain for all stoners. The insult with the injury, however, comes in the fact that alcohol and tobacco are both perfectly legal. Where exactly does marijuana end up on the scale of “dangerous” drugs? Here’s the numbers.

Timeline

Finally, here it is. The complete compendium of the legal movement of marijuana through our country. From benign industrial product, to evil devil weed, and now at intriguing chemical intoxicant, see the progression of weed from the very beginning.

Growing grass can be very important to the environment, its provides a magnificent green surface to enjoy in many different ways. Haven’t you ever wonder what goes into or even how grass seeds seem to spring up from the earth? This graphic takes in-depth look in the Grass Growing Process.

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Driving is always such a chore. The same motions, the same sounds, and often the same scenery, time and time again. It’s such a bore. That’s why these kind people have decided to try to bring a few smiles to the road. They may be gross, silly, or just weird but all of these private number plates are worth a laugh or two.

Timmay!

For South Park fans only. “Timmay!!”
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Upside Down

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Metallica

Too much metal for one license plate!
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Virginia. . . Sort Of

Man, I hate going to Virginia. It always smells so fishy.
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Late

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The Dark Prince

So Satan drives a BMW, huh? Nobody ever said he didn’t have class.
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Eat The Kids

And if you’re still hungry, go ahead and start on grandma. If we don’t eat her soon she’s going to spoil.
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Two Girls One Cup

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Dr. Long

Over compensating a little, aren’t we chuckles?
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If you’d like to spread a little joy yourself, just visit http://dvlaregistrations.direct.gov.uk/ to see what’s available.

The Internet has made almost everything easier. It’s made it easier to play, easier to learn, and WAY easier to jack off. Unfortunately, it has also made it easier to do absolutely nothing with your time. Here are some common symptoms of someone who spends too much time online:

Bathroom Surfing

You value your precious Web surfing time so much that you can’t lose one precious second. You find yourself thankful for laptops, netbooks, and mobile phones with Web browsers that allow you to multitask shitting and surfing at the same time. Consequently, you also find yourself taking longer than normal dumps just so you can finish checking your updated RSS feeds. But please wash your hands. There’s enough crap on the Internet already.

Mountain Dew Clothes

You feel so strongly about your beverage choice that you just have to let the people know. When you slip on that Dew shirt and head out the door, you feel confident that people will understand what really fuels you. Anyone who sees you wearing that shirt immediately realizes that you are the kind of person that will remain awake for two and a half days to finish your guild battle. Some say it even makes the wearer immune to asthma attacks and grants a +2 bonus to endurance.

Multiple E-mail Accounts

You’re embarrassed.You should be. You’re in a pine walled office, adding SexyStud69@hotmail.com to a professional resume. However, you want to show all the ladies online what a complete tool you are so you still want to keep it. What a dilemma. Fortunately, you’ve created different e-mail account for every plausible scenario that you might have to use one: one for registering for services online, one for family, one for work, and one for your best friend’s mom.

First Viewings

You are so connected to the internet community that you never need to be told about the latest Online phenomenon. You were probably one of the people that found the video. You may have to spend six hours a day surfing through miles of 4chan dialogue, but you got to be one of the first people to watch that fat kid trip over his lightsaber. Unfortunately, you were also one of the first people to ever ask “Wait, those two girls are going to do what with that cup?”

Firefox Dependency

You have downloaded a Firefox add-on for almost everything you’ve ever needed. You have add-ons that educate, record, manipulate, and download. If you encounter a problem, the first place you check for solutions is the add-ons list. If you can’t find a solution there, the problem probably wasn’t worth solving in the first place. Unfortunately, this dependency may cause you some problems when it comes time to fry up a ribeye.

World of Warcraft

You knew that being a great hero of Azeroth would take dedication. You understand the suffering that is necessary to shape a true champion. And so you grind. Hours at a time, you ignore the hunger, you ignore the carpal tunnel, and you ignore the boredom that has destroyed lesser men. Someday it will all have been worth it when you are the most feared man in World (of Warcraft).

Foreign Friends

Most of your friends have names that I probably can’t pronounce. When you want to hang out with the guys and play a little poker, you need to first establish connections to Korea, India, and Vietnam. Luckily, that’s not hard at all for you. You can remember fondly all of the times you’ve had with your friends, all the quests, games, and discussions. Of course, it would be easier if you all spoke the same language. . .

Too Much Information

The newspaper hasn’t been on your table for a few years now. You don’t miss it though, because you have made sure to follow a different blog for every single topic of your interest. Sure you have to read fifteen blogs every day, but you don’t mind. You can set up your laptop where the newspaper used to go and read the news while you chow your Rice Krispies. Just like old times.

Second Life Career

You tried to explain your career to your mom once and she just laughed. Apparently she doesn’t understand the true value of rabbit ears in fun colors. How could she though, when she’s never really experienced the world of Second Life? If she had, you’re sure she would realize that accessorizing avatars for money actually makes more sense than any job you’ve ever had. After all, do what you know right?

Techno-Snobbishness

You know it’s strange behavior, but post offices, VCR’s, and those mice with the rubber balls inside them always make you a little frustrated. At what point, you wonder, will our society be able to just put its past behind it and embrace the joys of modernity? If it makes everyone feel better you would certainly not be adverse to a public museum of old and inefficient methods of getting things done. It might be good for perspective.

Vanishing Syndrome

Vanishing Syndrome is another common ailment of people who spend too much time online. It is characterized by an absence of any direct human interaction and the appearance, to the rest of reality, of not existing. Like MDD, Vanishing Syndrom is easily cured. Simply obtain as many single dollar bills as possible and some sort of transportation. Transport the patient to a strip club as quickly as possible and watch the real world work its magic.

Forgetting To Blink

Everything happens so quickly Online, it’s only reasonable for you to want to keep an eye on it every second. Who knows what you might miss in that fraction of a second that you’ve got your lids down. Just be aware that to the uninformed viewer you may look much more zombified than you feel. If they give you any shit, just record them watching Monday Night Football. That should shut them up.

The Assprint

Your chair has always been there for you. It’s been the support that you’ve needed through countless battles and conversations. In fact, you and your chair have developed such a deep bond that it actually carries physical scars from bearing you into battle. The ass groove runs deep in your chair, hugging your curves tightly and giving you that security you need to confidently face down any virtual competition.

Waking Up On The Keyboard

The condition is often reffered to as MDD, or “Mountain Dew Defficiency.” It starts when you wake with a start and a crink in your neck. You look around and realize that not only are you still dressed, but you’re still sitting in your office chair. Empty Dew cans generally litter the vicinity of the afflicted whose face may still carry keyboard marks. Luckily, the condition is easily remedied and is only fatal for whichever team you’re battling with when you hit the deck.

Epic Arguments

You, on some level, understand that arguing on the Internet almost never accomplishes anything. You get that it is an exercise in vanity to some degree and that it will be forgotten by almost everyone within a week of ending. You also realize, though, that if you quit now the little shit from Vermont wins. You have spent days before, reviewing cases, studying journals, and whatever else was necessary to prove your point. It doesn’t matter who you’re fighting with or what you’re fighting about, you know you’re right and, by God, you’re going to win.

Battlestarsexy9

This guy is your nemesis. Superman had Lex Luther, G.I. Joe had Cobra, and you have Batllestarsexy9. This guy pops up anywhere you ever post and immediately attacks. You can’t count the number of hours you’ve spent putting this asshole back into his place, and you can’t even remember the argument that initiated your feud. All you know is that Battlestarsexy9 must be destroyed at all costs. Oh, by the way, he makes fun of your name too.

HTML Dreams

Your unconscious mind likes to take you where you are most comfortable and powerful. For you, that means the world of HTML. Walk around and enter a few new lines of code into the elm tree and watch it sprout maple leaves. Enter some new lines into the stream and watch the beer flow strong. Add a few new lines into your girlfriend and watch her bra size double. It’s a good life.

Those that make the rules and those that break them are always in direct competition. The nature of the game insists that as one group progresses in some fashion, the other must also progress in order to survive. Today, the police are as advanced as we have ever feared they could be. Rather than be discouraged by this fact, however, it is up to the modern rule breaker to get competitive and look for new ways to be just as advanced as the law. Here are some ways for the modern brigand to use the Internet to get back into the game.

RESEARCH CHEMICALS

Research chemicals are chemicals that are, holy crap, still being researched. Most of these chemicals are of no importance unless you really need a new cholesterol medicine, but a choice few are worth looking at. 2-CT-7, 4-HO-DiPT, and 2C-I are all classified as either tryptamines or phenethylamines (the two classifications that also encompass LSD and Mescaline), and are considered research chemicals. What this means to the average lawbreaker, is that these chemicals have been proven to be psychoactive but are still too new to be illegal. So the market flourishes. Since “Operation Web Tryp,” which saw several research chemical providers in prison, the number of sellers has certainly declined, but providers do still exist. **** Please be aware that these chemicals really are still being researched. This means that no one is one hundred percent sure how any person may react to their ingestion. Unlike magic mushrooms or LSD, there is no history of safe usage and no anecdotal assurance. Research chemicals still have the potential of being very harmful and even deadly. Use caution.****

GAMBLING

The Internet has made an Indian reservation out of every computer room in the country. I know it’s not exactly the same as sitting down at the poker table and having a game, but if its the gambling that you crave, look no further. Just try typing Online casino into a search engine and see how many results you get. There are literally millions of sites that are always ready to hook you up with a real game with stakes as high as you’re comfortable with. Plus, you can get as drunk as you want and no one will be able to watch you fall out of your chair.

THEFT

Twenty years ago, stealing a car was considered the ultimate feat of solo theft. Grand theft auto was the practice of the only the elite and/or reckless criminal and carried with it a stigma of power in the criminal world. Today, the improved alarms, locks, and starting mechanisms of our vehicles make car theft nigh impossible. But, when Satan closes a door, he opens a window. Now, with some technological prowess and a complete lack of morals, any Tom, Dick, or Mary with a computer can actually steal a person’s entire identity. In a matter of hours, these thieves can then liquidate this person’s every asset and transfer all of the wealth to a secure account in Jamaica or Haiti. Never thought you’d miss your car-jacker, huh?

To keep an eye on things you should get a free credit score and report. This would bring you a good idea of how you may or may not be being abused.

PHARMACEUTICALS

Prescription drugs that are not prescribed to you are never ever legal for you to own or buy in the United States. Those are just the rules. The Internet, however, allows the criminal of today to simply take his wallet to a country where it is legal. A quick search will bring up hundreds of listings of pharmacies from China, India, or Canada who are all more than willing to sell you drugs you weren’t prescribed. Of course, buying any kind of pharmaceutical from a foreign country is considered illegal in the U.S., so there is some obvious risk, but most sites offer discreet, fast shipping to dampen the risk as best they can. **** Pharmaceuticals bought online, especially from foreign-run or shady companies, may not be exactly what you ordered. Occasionally such companies cut their medications with other substances that may be very harmful if ingested. Always use caution.****

VANDALISM

So much has been created on the internet that it only makes sense that someone would want to tear it down. That’s just the nature of society. Someone always feels the need to destroy what other people create. In the parking lot, this manifests as spray-paints and baseball bats, but on your computer it shows up as trojans and viruses. Someone wrote the program that ate all your files and sucked all of y0ur memory. Someone sat at their computer for hours just to design a program that would make your computer malfunction. Mindless destruction, ladies and gentlemen, in the twenty first century.

MARIJUANA. . . SEEDS

Buying marijuana seeds online operates under the same protection that buying pharmaceuticals does. Many countries have kindlier views of marijuana than the United States, and many of these see no problem with selling the seeds of the cannabis plant. All that the enterprising scoundrel must do is visit these countries via the Internet and ask for these seeds to be sent to the front door. Obviously the seeds must then be grown to be of much use, but after they are grown you will be glad you bought professional.

STALKING

Isn’t it wonderful when someone else does your work for you? Imagine for a moment that you are a stalker. First you have to hide in the bushes and follow your victim home. Then you have to start hiding outside their house all the time, taking pictures, breathing heavily and just doing the stalker thing. Then you need to start hanging the pictures all over your walls and building miniature dolls that look like you and your victim. Sure it’s a good time, but it’s also exhausting. Today’s stalker has it so easy. Today, a quick visit to MySpace or Facebook can be just as useful as a month or two spent in the bushes. Plus, if you decide to stalk someone with a blog too it’s like grabbing the photo book and the diary all at once. It’s a good time to be creepy.

Drugs

Many legal substances can be purchased online, not all of which are harmless. One of the more popular legal highs is a substance called Salvia divinorum or “Salvia” for short. This plant hails from Mexico and boasts impressive side effects for a drug that’s perfectly legal for anyone to buy. Some of the side effects include:

• radical perspective shifting
• increase in sensual and aesthetic appreciation
• creative dreamlike experience
• insight into personal issues
• powerful open and closed eye visuals
• general change in consciousness (as with most psychoactives)
• altered perceptions
• change in body temperature, flushing
• sensation of physical push, pressure, or wind
• sensation of entering or perceiving other dimensions, alternate realities
• feeling of ‘presence’ or entity contact
• dissociation at high doses, walking or standing

With so much happening in health care right now there is a lot of confusion about the way health care systems work in other countries. Cut through the clutter and find out the real 411 on health care in Canada (and why it’s not as bad as you might think).

One of the most celebrated functions of the Internet is an unprecedented ability for people to connect. This has led to social networks, online dating, and, it turns out, a lot of people connecting over really strange things. Here are some of the more interesting clubs that the Internet has helped give life to:

The Handlebar Club:

“Do you have a handlebar mustache? Then the Handlebar Club is the club for you!” So reads the front page of http://www.handlebarclub.co.uk, across a giant drawing of a mustache. Keep browsing and you’ll find a gallery of pictures of men with mustaches, articles on which wax is gentlest on mustaches, an entire mustache FAQ page, and a history of the great handlebar mustache. Please refrain from insulting the mustache though. . . these men really love their lip hair.

The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement:

I know you’re waiting for some punchline but, really, The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement is exactly what it sounds like. At the site http://www.vhemt.org/, you can find a few cute videos, a weak picture logo, and page after page of reasons why the Human race ought to let itself be stamped out. Overpopulation, they postulate, can be directly blamed for almost every ecological hardship facing the world today as well as child hunger, social inequality, and other problems. These problems, they claim, will simply keep getting worse until every human being in the world makes the “enlightened” decision to stop breeding.

Hook A Canuck:

As advertised at the end of Michael Moore’s “Sicko,” www.hookacanuck.com/, is a site that allows Americans to search for love in Canada. Alright, so it’s actually about the free health care way more than the love, but Americans are still marrying Canadians because of this site. The site is currently under construction, but promises a speedy return to action.

The Boba Fett Fan Club:

In the Star Wars universe, Boba Fett is revered beyond his status as a minor character. He is the man that tracked the Millennium Falcon, the guy that sold Han Solo to Jabba the Hutt, and the guy that actually made Darth Vader back down a bit. So really, the Boba Fett fanclub, http://www.bobafettfanclub.com/, is no surprise. On the site  you can easily find a complete history of the bounty hunter, games, videos, and so very much fanart. Discussions about armor, weapons, or various bounties are normal fare, so confusion is common. Just trust that since it’s Boba, it’s gotta be cool.

The National Mouse Club:

The National Mouse Club is charged with the essential task of setting the basic standards for show mice. They also help organize most of the “mouse shows” that have become so popular in England, and track all of the winners on their site. I know it initially seems ridiculous, but after a little thought I really couldn’t say why it is any more ridiculous than a dog show. In fact, given how much easier it is to take care of and breed mice than dogs, I think that these people have probably figured some things out. You can visit www.thenationalmouseclub.co.uk/ for any information you want on “fancy mice.”

The American Geocaching Organization:

The American Geocaching Organization is the one-stop authority on the modern treasure hunting hobby, geocaching. Geocaching is, in essence, a large-scale game of hide and seek, played with electronic bugs and GPS devices. The game begins when someone hides an item somewhere in the wilderness with an electronic “travel bug” attached to it. After the item is planted, the AGO tracks the location of the travel bug and displays an approximate location online. Anyone who wants to is welcome then to use their GPS device to track the item until someone finds it. At this point the cycle is reset. You can visit www.geocaching.com/ to see any geocahces near you, or to find any equipment you might need.

The American Cornhole Association:

Cornhole is a game similar to horeshoes, played by throwing a bean-bag through a small hole on a slanted board. The game originated in Kentucky and is still played predominately in the south, but the size and scope of cornholers has been growing for years. The sport is easy to love and easy to play, as all you need for a game is an easily home-made board, a few bean-bags, and as much beer as is available. A pair of overalls is recommended, but not required. The American Cornhole Association, www.americancornhole.org/, keeps a record of current player standings, and keeps a running calendar with all of the dates of upcoming cornhole tournaments, so its easy to jump right into the community.

The Antique Button Collecting Club:

Finally, a reason for the elderly to spend some time Online. A simple visit to www.antiquebuttoncollecting.com/ makes it easy to browse pictures of buttons, talk about buttons with other enthusiast, and even to trade antique buttons with other collectors. The site index includes champleve buttons, Chinese boxwood buttons, and antique military buttons. Whatever your antique button tastes you’re sure to be satisfied with The Antique Button Collecting Club.

The North American Man Boy Love Association:

There are men who love boys. We have always known it, and it has always made us uncomfortable. Now, thanks to the Internet, these men can connect with one another at www.nambla.org/ and share all of their stories, their legal problems, and the poems they love most about man boy love (yes, there really is a section of poetry about man boy love). Along with personal testimonials and poetry are several pages that try to show that love between a man and a boy is biologically motivated, psychologically ordinary, and spiritually gratifying. These seem to be at least well researched, but do little to lessen the really creepy vibe of the site.

Nobody’s perfect; and that becomes painstakingly clear when seeing some of the funny, nonsensical and idiotic emergency exit signs. Not only did these signs make it past the drawing board, most of them are still there. (Isn’t there someone out there watching for this kind of thing?). Aside from these signs being just plain silly, they are in fact an extremely dangerous problem. Exit exist to provide a safe route of escape for people, and we’ve all seen what happens when exits aren’t available.

Confusing Emergency Exit Signs

Please stroke the door and use your Jedi mind tricks to exit this building.

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Spell much? FAIL.

You would think that someone at the factory might’ve noticed this error. Or maybe the guy who installed it migth’ve noticed it. But for some reason it’s still there.

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Hope there isn’t a fire here.

I wouldn’t want to be in this building if something disastrous ever happened.

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Some Exit Signs Just Make Good Sense

To exit, all the members of your group must run at each other?

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Exits Aren’t For Everybody

That seems like discrimination….

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“WRONG WAY” or “GNORW YAW” ……???

How something like this happens we don’t know.  Signs like this are sure to cause some problems on the road.

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You’re in Bison Country Now

This way towards the bison, no wait, Bison only exit.  Human + Bison joint exit?

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Whatever you do, don’t book this room.

We’re not sure if this is an exit, a janitors closer or an actual room but either way this room is for inconveniently placed.

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No comment.

Most people know left from right, but apparently this operator never learned which one is which.

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Follow Your Evacuation Procedure

LOL, the caption really says it all here.

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A Simple Exit Sign

Ah, now this is a good example of an emergency sign. To exit please run down into a wall? Or maybe jump down the elevator shaft?

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The Hide-A-Exit

Another expertly hidden exit. (you have to push in the fourth brick from the floor to  exit)

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Hoked On Fonics

Every word but “Exit” is misspelled on this highway sign in Wisconsin.

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The Vortex Exit

The exits are pointing towards each other, so either there’s no exit or there’s a space/time vortex in that doorway.

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