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Flashing Lights [image-heavy]

Princess AlicePrincess Alice
edited 2012-12-07 19:21:08 in General
For some reason I've always been fascinated by signs accompanied by flashing lights.

Sometimes they only flash to indicate that the sign's message is currently applicable:

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(Delaware, Ohio)

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(Newnan, Georgia)

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(Minerva Park, Ohio)

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(Reynoldsburg, Ohio)

Other times they serve to provide emphasis to an always-applicable sign by drawing attention to it:

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(Pataskala, Ohio)

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(New Albany, Ohio)

Anyway, I thought it might be cool to go around and find as many different kinds of signs I can accompanied by flashing lights, then compile them into a web page of some sort. Would that be of interest to anyone besides me?
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  • Corporal ForsytheCorporal Forsythe
    Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
    Do I have a treat for you

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    the 62 again. I've posted this before but if you look past the 62 here you'll see a pedestrian warning diamond sign with really bright-ass LEDs. Past that and the scope of this picture is this rather bizarre speed limit warning sign that uses this bizarre and really bright circular blue light thing to get your attention. I'll grab a photo of that next time I'm down there, if you'd like. 
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Central Avenue said:

    Would that be of interest to anyone besides me?


    I don't have anything I can think of to contribute, but I would indeed be interested to see the different ways in which flashing lights are used on signs.
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Corporal Forsythe said:Do I have a treat for you
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    the 62 again. I've posted this before but if you look past the 62 here you'll see a pedestrian warning diamond sign with really bright-ass LEDs. Past that and the scope of this picture is this rather bizarre speed limit warning sign that uses this bizarre and really bright circular blue light thing to get your attention. I'll grab a photo of that next time I'm down there, if you'd like. 

    Oh, neat! I actually know of one place that has     stop signs with flashing LEDs in the border like that--they added a stop sign in the middle of an existing road and wanted to try everything they could to draw attention to it!

    I don't think I've ever seen the speed limit thing you mentioned. I'd be interested in seeing that.


    Fouria G said:

    I don't have anything I can think of to contribute, but I would indeed be interested to see the different ways in which flashing lights are used on signs.

    Thanks. I know some people like to see me do things relating to my interests, even if they don't share them, so I wondered if that was the case here.
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    say, would you like a picture of the talking/beeping wait/go buttons we have around here?
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    They have talking ones now? I've seen the beeping ones before, but not those.

    Sounds cool!
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    i'll take a pic next time i'm out.


    also maybe a pic of some of the new light rail stations, though those would go in another thread obvs
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    edited 2012-12-07 22:53:40
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Yay, thanks! ^_^

    As for flashing lights with signs, I also have this:
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    That's the new style. I wish I had a photo of the old style, which was a black-on-orange sign that said

    TRAFFIC ALERT
    WHEN FLASHING
    TUNE TO 1200 AM
  • TreTre
    edited 2012-12-07 22:58:08
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    I can't help but put this here. Consider it a soundtrack to the anorakia, albeit a thinly-fitting one.

  • lee4hmzlee4hmz
    ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    I had this in mind, myself:

  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    I thought this was going to be some kind of epileptic's nightmare
  • SpaceySpacey
    i wish to come up with a song lyric for this signature, but no song lyrics are coming to mind
    Imipölex G said:

    I thought this was going to be some kind of epileptic's nightmare


  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    (crossposted)

    I found more photos of signs with flashing beacons in my collection.

    Kexruct will be pleased to know they're from Tennessee.

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    (I still have the original files straight from the camera, so the ones that make it into the final product will be cleaned up a bit more than these shrunken Photobucket uploads)
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    This is kinda cool:


    Also it's in Anonus's neck of the woods.
  • Yarrun XIXYarrun XIX
    Whores! we want "poems that kill."
    Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
    guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
    and take their weapons leaving them dead
    Imipölex G said:

    I thought this was going to be some kind of epileptic's nightmare


  • splashsplash
    edited 2012-12-12 01:08:23
    Yarrun said:

    Imipölex G said:

    I thought this was going to be some kind of epileptic's nightmare


  • Unknown
    edited 2012-12-12 07:25:00
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  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    I saw that scene.

    ...it did nothing for me.
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    Porygon was always my fave 'mon growing up.
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  • HexartesHexartes
    Central Avenue said:

    (crossposted)


    I found more photos of signs with flashing beacons in my collection.

    Kexruct will be pleased to know they're from Tennessee.

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    (I still have the original files straight from the camera, so the ones that make it into the final product will be cleaned up a bit more than these shrunken Photobucket uploads)
    Do you know where they're from?
  • ProfessorGatorProfessorGator
    edited 2012-12-12 14:40:39
    Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
    Cream said:

    The funny thing is that "Porygon" and "Polygon" are literally the same thing in Japanese, so they could have just said Polygon.

    Relatedly, "Lapras" is a corruption of "Laplace."
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  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    edited 2012-12-12 15:39:11
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Kexruct said:

    Do you know where they're from?

    Interstate 75 southbound, somewhere between exit 42 and exit 25.

    I know, not terribly specific... >_>
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