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steepholm ([personal profile] steepholm) wrote2012-01-04 05:39 pm
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Doing the Zebra

Okay, I'm doing this mostly to see whether I can work out how to post a poll, but I am interested in the results, as it's a moral quandary that has stumped me for years...

[Poll #1808368]
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[identity profile] kalimac.livejournal.com 2012-01-04 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Supposedly it's an acronym.

[identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com 2012-01-04 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you know of what? Apparently there have been Pandas and Puffins too - quite the menagerie.

[identity profile] kalimac.livejournal.com 2012-01-04 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I believe the "P" stands for "Pedestrian", the "L" for Light, and that's as far as I got.
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[identity profile] ashkitty.livejournal.com 2012-01-04 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes! It's supposedly for PEdestrian LIght CONtrolled. Last year when I was getting my UK license I was reading all this stuff going 'why on earth do they have such cutesy weird names for crosswalks...?' ;)

[identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com 2012-01-04 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
So I've been misspelling it all this time? It's actually a Pelicon crossing?

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[identity profile] ashkitty.livejournal.com 2012-01-04 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
No, you've been spelling it right. Having come up with PELICON, someone then thought, 'Oh! Like a pelican!' and called it that.

[identity profile] endlessrarities.livejournal.com 2012-01-07 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Not to mention Toucans...
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