Re: OT: the singing road

Video you click on....
 
http://snurl.com/3s2xt 
 
Donna

--- On Fri, 9/19/08, Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net> wrote:

From: Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [CHAT] OT: the singing road
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date: Friday, September 19, 2008, 9:48 PM

couldn't find it.
Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message -----
From: "james singer" <islandjim1@comcast.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 9:22 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] OT: the singing road


> That's neat. And of course people are complaining--it's that
elitist
> Rossini, after all, and not John Rich.
>
>
> On Sep 19, 2008, at 1:38 PM, Jesse Bell wrote:
>
>> Wow.....amazing.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 9/19/08, Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CG/SCSRT <
>> cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil> wrote:
>>>
>>> I read about this weird thing in our local paper. It seems that
Honda
>>> came out to film a commercial, and what they did was modify the
>>> road so
>>> that as you drive on it the vibration on your tires plays a song.
>>> Bizarre huh?  The local paper picked up the story after a few
people
>>> called.  I went to check it out last night. I was expecting some
low
>>> kind of rumbly noise I guess, but it really does play a song,
>>> although
>>> of course it's not like listening to your stereo.  It takes
maybe
>>> 10-15
>>> seconds at 50mph and plays the recognizable bit from the William
Tell
>>> Overture (aka The Lone Ranger theme).
>>> Anyway although it is quite a ways from any houses the sound
travels
>>> pretty far at night and the people living closest are complaining,
so
>>> they're going to pave it over. You can hear it at this link.
>>>
http://www.necn.com/Boston/Arts-Entertainment/Final-curtain-for-CAs-sing
>>> ing-highway/1221657554.html
>>>
>>> Cyndi
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Jesse R. Bell
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