One afternoon, a retired air force pilot and his family were driving through Texas on a vacation. They pass a road sign. One of the children remarks on the fact that the sign is named after a newspaper comic.

After about five minutes, they pass another sign, which reads, "Golf Road". As soon as they pass it, the man turns to his wife and says he knows what the next sign will say, and that he'll bet her twenty dollars that he's right. She agrees, and they drive on. After passing the next road sign, the wife finds that her husband is right, and hands him twenty dollars.

What did the last sign say and how did the man know?

My only guess is that the first sign said "9 Chickweed Lane," the next road showed up at 8¾ miles or something so that he could be sure it was the next road, and sure enough, Chickweed Lane was at the 9-mile mark.

.. I really hope that's not the answer, though, cause it's kind of lame.

Other street-related strips that come to mind are "Ballard Street" and "Grand Avenue," and possibly "Liberty Meadows" and "Speed Bump." I don't see how those could work, though.

Posted by DJ on 2003-08-27 17:06:52