Daily conversation: What is the worst possible answer?

[kphoger]

And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

This is the first known "crash-prone roundabout" in history, and (true story) is the place where the mule stumbled, Uzzah reached out to steady the Ark of the Covenant, and the LORD sayeth "what did I tell you about touching that" and smote him. It was more of a smite-prone roundabout.

Modern readers take this verse to mean "haha, they thought pi was 3.0 back in the day" which is not correct. Using LIDAR technology, archaeologists located this site in 2015 and it was actually a square, 7.5 cubits on a side, meaning that the actual value of pi in biblical times was 4.

Wow, that was awesome!  I like how it being "the place where the mule stumbled" is incorrect but also close enough in line with the biblical account to make me double-check myself (one was in Jerusalem and the other was on the road to Jerusalem—but probably fairly close).

[Big John]

18 AUG 2026

What is the "three-fourths error"?

Three people are always wrong at an all-way stop.

[kphoger]

18 AUG 2026

What is the "three-fourths error"?

The missing apostrophe here:  https://maps.app.goo.gl/kMtByoTGFnDcr5y19

[ModernDayWarrior]

18 AUG 2026

What is the "three-fourths error"?

Not simplifying to lowest terms.

[kphoger]

Not simplifying to lowest terms.

Heh.  I thought of posting something like that too.  I knew there was no 6/8, and I didn't feeling like hunting for a 9/12.

[1995hoo]

18 AUG 2026

What is the "three-fourths error"?

That's when you try to make a "cloverleaf U-turn" at an interchange where one of the loop ramps was removed and was not replaced with a left-turn movement.

[Scott5114]

18 AUG 2026

What is the "three-fourths error"?

When a street grid includes a 4th Street, 4th Avenue, and 4th Terrace.

[formulanone]

18 AUG 2026

What is the "three-fourths error"?

Isn't that a baseball umpire mistake?

[TheCatalyst31]

18 AUG 2026

What is the "three-fourths error"?

Spending three-fourths of your free time posting on road forums instead of having a social life.

[Mapmikey]

18 AUG 2026

What is the "three-fourths error"?

not pronouncing it "34th" like it is supposed to be...

Once it occurs it would take a miracle to overcome it...

[GaryV]

18 AUG 2026

What is the "three-fourths error"?

When a street grid includes a 4th Street, 4th Avenue, and 4th Terrace.

And they build a roundabout at their intersection. The Google Lady giving directions sounds like a variation of the "Who's on first?" routine.

[kphoger]

Daaaaaaang......

These members also had really clever answers:
1995hoo
Scott5114
Mapmikey

But the worst possible answer was definitely this one ...

Spending three-fourths of your free time posting on road forums instead of having a social life.

... for obvious reasons.

[kphoger]

19 AUG 2026

What does this sign mean?

[I-57/Route 66 Fan]

19 AUG 2026

What does this sign mean?

Pay a toll in 1 Hour.

[formulanone]

19 AUG 2026

What does this sign mean?

Maximum time spent slicing a pizza. 

[1995hoo]

19 AUG 2026

What does this sign mean?

Stop at your own risk because in one hour, someone will be dropping a round object here and you, or your car, may suffer damage.

[kphoger]

19 AUG 2026

What does this sign mean?

It's a COVID-era parking sign, from when churches were not allowed to gather in person but worshipers could park outside the building and watch the pastor or priest on screen instead.  Baptized members were instructed to park in designated spaces equipped with Eucharist-dispensing machines.  The one-hour time limit on this example was because there was more than one church service each Sunday.

[I-55]

19 AUG 2026

What does this sign mean?

Milk the wheelbarrow for at least 1 hour with smooth, downward strokes

[Sapphuby]

19 AUG 2026

What does this sign mean?

Auditions for the mini Indiana Jones set start in an hour here

[Big John]

19 AUG 2026

What does this sign mean?

bounce the ball for an hour.

[JayhawkCO]

19 AUG 2026

What does this sign mean?

Lightly tap your egg for an hour on the surface below to get it to crack.

[xonhulu]

19 AUG 2026

What does this sign mean?

Galactus will crush the Earth in 1 hour because you didn't watch the Fantastic Four movie.

[kphoger]

20 AUG 2026

Propose a solution to the I-35/35E/35W mess in Dallas–Fort Worth and the Twin Cities.

[Big John]

20 AUG 2026

Propose a solution to the I-35/35E/35W mess in Dallas–Fort Worth and the Twin Cities.

Tear down those freeways and them FM (Texas) and County Highways (Minnesota)

[1995hoo]

20 AUG 2026

Propose a solution to the I-35/35E/35W mess in Dallas–Fort Worth and the Twin Cities.

"E" and "W" are confusing to people with no sense of direction. Instead, the routes will use the cities' first names to clarify where the roads go. Thus, I-35D and I-35F in Texas and I-35S and I-35M in Minnesota. ("S" is even more advantageous because it can refer to the individual after whom the city is named both before and after his experience on the road to Damascus.)

This system could then be expanded to beltways and other such routes. For example, instead of using I-495 and double-posting the eastern side with I-95, the Capital Beltway could be numbered I-95V and I-95M for the two states served. Or I-695 in Maryland could be I-695T (for Towson) and I-695I (for Impassable, denoting the former location of a certain bridge).