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Chris -- 2025-05-10
I have seen this periodically for the last several years, as in lowlanders being terrified of roads in the Rockies that don’t have any “guide rails”. Of course, in NJ it often looks as though the guard rails are being used as guide rails for bumper cars.
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Nice.
Compare guide wire for guy wire here
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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