Please, please, please, please, please tell me this is a joke. . .

[Brian_Expat]

http://www.hoosiergazette.com/News/Nov2004/news003.htm

There are plans to extend the interstate from Indianapolis through southwestern Indiana all the way through Texas into Mexico in the coming years. While most believe this highway will be good for the state’s economy, religious conservatives believe “I-69” sounds too risqué and want to change the interstate’s number.

Hostettler, a proponent of the interstate extension, agrees. “Every time I have been out in the public with an ‘I-69’ button on my lapel, teenagers point and snicker at it. I have had many ask me if they can have my button. I believe it is time to change the name of the highway. It is the moral thing to do.”

As a matter of fact, naming the highway’s extension I-69 is a violation of the Interstate Highway System’s rules for numbering roads. Interstates numbers are to increase from west to east. If the extension through southern Indiana is named I-69, then 69 will be west of I-65, a direct violation.

“Naming the road I-63 not only follows numbering guidelines, it doesn’t have the sexual undertones that I-69 has,” says Hostettler

It's better than starting a war under false pretenses, but still. . .

[hatrack]

1. It's a joke - spoof out of Indiana nt

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[lizzieforkerry]

2. Why does he wear an I 69 button on his lapel?

[pk_du]

3. It IS a joke....hoosiergazette is a parody site

see many earlier posts over last few days on here re this one

[DemoVet]

4. Where can I get an "I-69" button?

[DeadHead67]

5. Tell me, what exactly did you expect ? . . . .

. . .Remember when Ashcroft insisted on covering the breast on a statue he was speaking in front of? Did it ever occur to anyone that it's these asswipes whose heads are full of salacious thoughts due to suppression, and or denial of, the sexual in their lives?

[Kali]

6. that may be a joke

But here in Arizona they DID change highway 666 to 191. True story - I live 12 miles from a section of it.

[Bill McBlueState]

7. numbering violation

naming the highway’s extension I-69 is a violation of the Interstate Highway System’s rules for numbering roads.

Ahh, who cares about numbering violations. After Bud Shuster decided the interests of his central PA constituency were best served by forcing their new interstate to be called I-99, any attempt to preserve the numbering system is old-fashioned.