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Author Topic: Did Clarkson get it wrong ?  (Read 1333 times)

Offline Lucky_Lou

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Did Clarkson get it wrong ?
« on: February 26, 2014, 01:05:21 PM »
Top gear has started  again and the first few shows have been pretty good with visits to unusual and dangerous places such as Afghanistan Chernobyl and Paris....... this week Jeremy showed a motorway/ Freeway sign which he said was in Texas and he would like to buy the person responsible a drink, when you Google the sign it says its in Tennessee........ who is right ?? the sign on the show did not have the Memphis caption.
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Offline Rob Valdez 79 R65

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Re: Did Clarkson get it wrong ?
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2014, 07:21:17 PM »
Memphis has been the one in the news this winter.

The trouble is, they get so much ice, and there is just no dealing with that stuff!

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Re: Did Clarkson get it wrong ?
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2014, 07:56:10 PM »
If that sign was posted on a Tejas highway, it would have been done via Texas Department of Transportation and would likely have made all the TV news stations.

Although it's just weird enough to have come from Austin.
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Re: Did Clarkson get it wrong ?
« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2014, 02:51:02 PM »
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The trouble is, they get so much ice, and there is just no dealing with that stuff!

Um, yes there is. We do it year after year. No big deal if you are prepared.

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Re: Did Clarkson get it wrong ?
« Reply #4 on: March 14, 2014, 03:01:25 AM »
I had a very nice ride out at the weekend with temperatures a balmy 18c+ this time last year I had 2 ft of snow in my garden and Woolley Edge just up the road had 10ft snow drifts. I suppose if you regularly experience various conditions it does become "normal" but when I am out on the road I am always aware of the muppets who are clueless to the conditions.
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Re: Did Clarkson get it wrong ?
« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2014, 11:27:28 AM »
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...I had 2 ft of snow in my garden and Woolley Edge just up the road had 10ft snow drifts...

Snow??!!  I didn't know y'all got any snow, just thought it rained all the time...  :P
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