Daily conversation: What is the worst possible answer?

[The_Ginger]

That's a thing of beauty!

Why, thank you! It becomes even more beautiful when you consider the actual Jackson County Road 2/18 that we are upgrading...
https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?lat=38.970379&lon=-81.774330&zoom=17#map=17/38.970374/-81.774330

[Mapmikey]

19 JAN 2026

What would make Limon more worthy of its status as an I-70 control city?

A garden center who names itself Sprite because of its popular Limon-loam soil offerings.

[PColumbus73]

19 JAN 2026

What would make Limon more worthy of its status as an I-70 control city?

An Olive Garden sponsored by Rothman

[1995hoo]

19 JAN 2026

What would make Limon more worthy of its status as an I-70 control city?

If it were pronounced more like "lee-MON," as in, "She wore lee-mon." If U2 have a song about your town, it's probably worthy of control city status.

[kphoger]

Give I-70 at least 3 traffic light controlled surface intersections in Lemon. It will slowly turn into Breezewood, which is then worthy of control city status.

Man, you are good at this.

An Olive Garden sponsored by Rothman

Low-hanging fruit.  The obvious answer.

[The_Ginger]

Man, you are good at this.

Why, thank you!

[freebrickproductions]

January 18, 2026: Choose a route to upgrade (e.g. state → US, state → Interstate, British A → M) without changing its number.

Northern Irish A2 -> Northern Irish M2

19 JAN 2026

What would make Limon more worthy of its status as an I-70 control city?

Host 24 hours of Lemons there:
https://24hoursoflemons.com/

[MikeTheActuary]

19 JAN 2026

What would make Limon more worthy of its status as an I-70 control city?

A Buc-ee's.

[kphoger]

A Buc-ee's.

A Buc-ee's with a second Taco Bell and an Olive Garden sponsored by Rothman inside?

[PColumbus73]

A Buc-ee's.

A Buc-ee's with a second Taco Bell and an Olive Garden sponsored by Rothman inside?

A Bu-cee's with a smaller Buc-ee's with a second Taco Bell and an Olive Garden sponsored by Rothman and a Dollar General inside?

[ModernDayWarrior]

January 18, 2026: Choose a route to upgrade (e.g. state → US, state → Interstate, British A → M) without changing its number.

19 JAN 2026

What would make Limon more worthy of its status as an I-70 control city?

Upgrade US-24 to I-24. Two birds, one stone.

[kphoger]

A Bu-cee's with a smaller Buc-ee's with a second Taco Bell and an Olive Garden sponsored by Rothman and a Dollar General inside?

No.  The fact that Limon has a population of <4000 and also has a Dollar General is one mark against its status as a control city.  Replace the Dollar General with the combo Buc-ee's/Buc-ee's/Taco Bell/Rothman Olive Garden.

[vdeane]

19 JAN 2026

What would make Limon more worthy of its status as an I-70 control city?

Sign I-27N along US 287 in Colorado south of I-70.  Not upgrade, just sign the route as-is.

[Max Rockatansky]

19 JAN 2026

What would make Limon more worthy of its status as an I-70 control city?

Make it Los Banos so they build that fucking Interstate over Minaret Summit finally!

[TheCatalyst31]

19 JAN 2026

What would make Limon more worthy of its status as an I-70 control city?

What do you mean "more worthy"? It's already the most important control city on I-70 in Colorado. That's why nobody calls Denver the Hub City.

[pderocco]

January 18, 2026: Choose a route to upgrade (e.g. state → US, state → Interstate, British A → M) without changing its number.

In west Texas, the highway between Sierra Blanca and US-180 becomes a US Route, just because I want to see the shields.

There's already a route 15.

[pderocco]

19 JAN 2026

What would make Limon more worthy of its status as an I-70 control city?

A Topgolf. It worked for Thornton

Find a fort there, and put a historical plaque on it. It worked for Cove Fort.

[GaryV]

19 JAN 2026

What would make Limon more worthy of its status as an I-70 control city?

Add another panel on every other control city sign with instructions to say
"try doing that with a cola nut"
in a Caribbean accent.

[kphoger]

Add another panel on every other control city sign with instructions to say
"try doing that with a cola nut"
in a Caribbean accent.

Yep, you won this round.

[PColumbus73]

01/22/2026:

What numbering system would you create for flight routes?

[Big John]

01/22/2026:

What numbering system would you create for flight routes?

polynomials

[kphoger]

01/22/2026:

What numbering system would you create for flight routes?

Sequential, based on departure time.  Number pool is worldwide.  All times are GMT.  All numbers reset to 1 at 00:00 GMT.  Numbers are based on actual departure time, not scheduled departure time.  All numbers get adjusted as flights are bumped up, delayed, added, or canceled.

[formulanone]

01/22/2026:

What numbering system would you create for flight routes?

Flight numbers' first digit will be determined by the second digit of the departing area code of the airport. The second digit comes from the third digit of the zip code of the local maintenance facility for the aircraft. The third digit of the flight number is the sum of the registration numbers, using Atbash and the word PALNE (it was inventionally mispelled to confuse laypeople from coming up with convenient flight numbers), but only the final digit is used if it exceeds ten. The last digit is the total number of passengers and crew with j, q, or z in the middle of their given names (capital letters do not count). In the event of duplicate flight number, one of them can use an "X" as the second character.

For international codeshare flights, they will use use the postal code in place of the zip code and +1 used in front of the flight number. For transit and ferry flights, they will use tally marks and present them to each air traffic control tower as they fly by, and wave the appropriate number of fingers to the local facility to denote they do not have passengers and to annoy obsessive FlightRadar24 watchers.

In the extraordinary case where 191 is the determined flight number, they will use 3512E for eastbound flights, and 3512W for flights from Minneapolis to Dallas.

[1995hoo]

01/22/2026:

What numbering system would you create for flight routes?

Hexadecimal numbering. All flights to Liverpool will be assigned decimal flight number 64180 so that the hexadecimal flight number customers see will be "FAB4."

[JayhawkCO]

01/22/2026:

What numbering system would you create for flight routes?

One that uses the physical address on the ground and then another number for elevation, i.e. 34125 x 123 Main St., Flyover, KS 64321.