Sign @ MindSay 
please
...Use rear entrance.
(This entry is inspired by Zipdrive's Entry "Jumping on the Sign Bandwagon")
We didn't take any pictures of the major damage. Simply because we didn't go near the major damage and the fact we were detoured around the major damage and accidents.
The first picture is of down trees near someones house. They got really lucky none of their trees went on their house!
The second picture is the back of my van! It was luckly a clean shatter break! The bad thing about it was all the glass was IN my van!
The third picture is of one of the down trees at the zoo!
the fourth picture is a destroyed bean field and the fifth picture is a destroyed corn field. The bean field MAY have a chance of coming back on it's own but nobody knows for sure!
The sixth picture is one of the rural fremont NE fire trucks we followed into Fremont! That truck doesn't get used much and is usually for parade routes only but they keep it operational when something like this happens if they need more trucks like yesterday.
The seventh picture is someone's house on a country road we attempted to take. They had down trees all over the place, busted out windows, and all that tin in their yard is from someone's tin shed. There was no houses near them and that tin lined their tree line and one peice of the tin was up on their roof!
The eight picture is of the Platte River. Looks real pretty huh! Well this is a very rare picture of the Platte. Most of the time the Platte is NOT this high and is full of sandbars. As you can see it is very high and yes a few sandbars but you are careful you can usually ride a dirt bike, fourwheeler or even walk across the platte in certain areas! Not this year!
The ninth picture is someone elses farm/ranch! their over all house was okay but their field and picket fence that lead up to their house and their corn field destroyed!
The tenth picture is of the detour stop sign! As you can see it was broken in half!
The eleventh picture is not a very good picture but it shows an over turned upside down irrigation system. Every other field had one like this but this was the closet we could get to one!
There is nothing creative about this one. It's just fun. I happened upon this sign outside a bike rental shop while the hubby and me were on vacation. Apparently, the sign was supposed to say: Bike Rental and Shuttle. It looks like some letters fell off the 'shuttle' and someone picked the "i" from 'bike.' Ha!
I love signs.
Merriam-Webster's word of '07: 'w00t'
By STEPHANIE REITZ, Associated Press Writer Tue Dec 11, 5:55 PM ET
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - Expect cheers among hardcore online game enthusiasts when they learn Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year. Or, more accurately, expect them to "w00t."
"W00t," a hybrid of letters and numbers used by gamers as an exclamation of happiness or triumph, topped all other terms in the Springfield-based dictionary publisher's online poll for the word that best sums up 2007.
Merriam-Webster's president, John Morse, said "w00t" was an ideal choice because it blends whimsy and new technology.
"It shows a really interesting thing that's going on in language. It's a term that's arrived only because we're now communicating electronically with each other," Morse said.
Gamers commonly substitute numbers and symbols for the letters they resemble, Morse says, creating what they call "l33t speak" — that's "leet" when spoken, short for "elite" to the rest of the world.
For technophobes, the word also is familiar from the 1990 movie "Pretty Woman," in which Julia Roberts startles her date's upper-crust friends with a hearty "Woot, woot, woot!" at a polo match.
Purists of "l33t speak" often substitute a "7" for the final "t," expressing a "w007" of victory — an "in your face" of sorts — when they defeat an online gaming opponent.
"W00t" was among 20 nominees in a list of the most-searched words in Merriam-Webster's online dictionary and most frequently submitted terms from users of its "open dictionary."
The choice did not make Allan Metcalf, executive secretary of the American Dialect Society, say "w00t."
"It's amusing, but it's limited to a small community and unlikely to spread and unlikely to last," said Metcalf, an English professor at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Ill.
The 2006 pick, "truthiness," also has its roots in pop culture. It was popularized by Comedy Central satirical political commentator Stephen Colbert.
Some also-rans in the 2007 list: the use of "facebook" as a verb to signify using the Web site by that name; nuanced terms such as "quixotic," "hypocrite" and "conundrum"; and "blamestorm," a meeting in which mistakes are aired, fingers are pointed and much discomfort is had by all.
I had a completely different reaction to this news after I read it a second time at another site. For those who are still interested, read on...
"w00t" crowned word of year by U.S. dictionary
By Jason Szep Tue Dec 11, 7:21 PM ET
BOSTON (Reuters) - "w00t," an expression of joy coined by online gamers, was crowned word of the year on Tuesday by the publisher of a leading U.S. dictionary.
Massachusetts-based Merriam-Webster Inc. said "w00t" -- typically spelled with two zeros -- reflects a new direction in the American language led by a generation raised on video games and cell phone text-messaging.
It's like saying "yay," the dictionary said.
"It could be after a triumph or for no reason at all," Merriam-Webster said.
Visitors to Merriam-Webster's Web site were invited to vote for one of 20 words and phrases culled from the most frequently looked-up words on the site and submitted by readers.
Runner-up was "facebook" as a new verb meaning to add someone to a list of friends on the Web site Facebook.com or to search for people on the social networking site.
Merriam-Webster President John Morse said "w00t" reflected the growing use of numeric keyboards to type words.
"People look for self-evident numeral-letter substitutions: 0 for O; 3 for E; 7 for T; and 4 for A," he said. "This is simply a different and more efficient way of representing the alphabetical character."
One Web site, www.thinkgeek.com, already sells T-shirts with the word "w00t" printed on the front.
"w00t belongs to gamers the world over. It seems to have been derived from the obsolete 'whoot' which essentially is another way to say 'hoot' which itself is a shout or derisive laugh," Think Geek said on its Web site.
"But others maintain that w00t is the sound several players make while jumping like bunnies in Quake III," it added, referring to a popular video game.
Online gamers often replace numbers and symbols with letters to form what Merriam-Webster calls an "esoteric computer hacker language" known as "l33t speak." This translates into "leet," which is short for "elite."
A separate survey of words used in the media and on the Internet by California-based Global Language Monitor produced a different set of winners on Tuesday. "Hybrid" took top honors as word of the year with "climate change" the top phrase.
Global Language Monitor, which uses an algorithm to track words and phrases in the media and on the Internet, said "hybrid" had broad connotations of "all things green from biodiesel to wearing clothes made of soy to global warming."
Runner-up was "surge," based on the "surge" of 30,000 extra U.S. troops deployed to Iraq since mid-June, followed by the word "Bluetooth," a technology used to connect electronic devices via radio waves.
"The English language is becoming more and more a globalized language every year," said Global Language Monitor president Paul Payack, noting that this year's list included words also culled from India, Singapore, China and Australia.
(Additional reporting by Arthur Spiegelman in Los Angeles, editing by Eric Walsh)
If you have read this far, I will tell you now, if you care to hear it, my reactions to these two different posts on the same subject. The first one, I was all...."Yea! w00t! Way to go! You rock!" I was being facetious. A light subject but, interesting, so an amusing ( I thought ) response to it.
Then I came on the second article and it struck me in a more serious way. Informative and thought provoking. Educational. It made me go...hmm...
This is an excerpt from the first article that struck me wrong after reading it a second time, to decide if I wanted to replace it with the second one I had found...
"The choice did not make Allan Metcalf, executive secretary of the American Dialect Society, say "w00t."
"It's amusing, but it's limited to a small community and unlikely to spread and unlikely to last," said Metcalf, an English professor at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Ill. "
It was possibly an opportunity missed by executive secretary of the American Dialect Society to say something to make me go hmmm... instead of just making light of it.
This excerpt from the second article put it in the hmm...catagorey.
"The English language is becoming more and more a globalized language every year," said Global Language Monitor president Paul Payack, noting that this year's list included words also culled from India, Singapore, China and Australia.
So, w00t! to w00t. A sign of the times.
Or should that be w007 ? w007 2 w007...?
Really, I'm just trying to keep up...
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