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From: speaker@gymble.UUCP (Speaker to Animals)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: sign on long island
Message-ID: <334@gymble.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 14-Sep-85 23:08:31 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 14 23:08:31 1985
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In article <329@tove.UUCP> mark@tove.UUCP (Mark Weiser) writes:
> While driving through the middle of Long Island I came across a road
> sign which read:
> 
> 	Populated
> 	  Area
> 
> The bizarre part was, and I have pictures of this sign from many angles to 
> prove it, there was not a house or any other sign of human habitation
> to be seen.  Just Long Island scrub.
> 	-mark

Who said anything about human habitation?  Obvously the scrub of Long
Island has a very strong lobby in the Long Island legislature.