Re[2]: [SOC] Fwd: It is very Strange, isn't it?

[David Ackrill]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Bartlett"

> Here's a conundrum that has always puzzled me. In the UK, a street that
has
> only one exit is described as a 'cul-de-sac'.

In the Pocket Oxford Dictionary, it's defined as a "street or passage closed
at one end" From the French, meaning Sack Bottom.

Most cul-de-sac roads have a circular turning circle at the closed end.
Hence, they look from above like a sack.

If you want to insult a town, city or other place, you suggest that you
drove to the place and, under the place name, was a sign saying cul-de-sac.
It suggests that there's only one way in, and it is pretty boring when you
get there.  HI.

de Dave (G0DJA)