DOTS: A really old manhole cover

"If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent" (essextee) 07/26/2019 at 09:54 • Filed to: None

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SaigaShooter - He's got an Impreza > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 07/26/2019 at 10:01

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That’s actually pretty neat, bit heavy as an art piece though.

Aremmes > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 07/26/2019 at 10:01

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I see many like that around the Philadelphia region. Some of them say Keystone Bell, while s ome newer ones say Bell Atlantic.

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 07/26/2019 at 10:03

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Please! It’s 2019 folks, I think it’s time to call them gender-neutral holes.

Actually surprised no one has complained about this on twitter yet.

Sovande > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 07/26/2019 at 10:05

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Logo was designed in 1969, so at most it’s 50 years old.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 07/26/2019 at 10:06

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Literally on the street. Good jorb.

MUSASHI66 > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 07/26/2019 at 10:06

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*This needs way more than one star I can grant

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 07/26/2019 at 10:07

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/07/18/berekeley-bans-gendered-words-manhole-becomes-maintenance-hole/1764901001/

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 07/26/2019 at 10:09

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Can  we even TRY satire any more?

MUSASHI66 > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 07/26/2019 at 10:10

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This one has seen better days as well. New York in last September

Ash78, voting early and often > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 07/26/2019 at 10:11

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EssExTee beat me to it. Yes, places already have a beef with this.

I’m all for gender neutrality, but I see “Man” (gender) and “Mankind” as two different things. Related, yes. But I’m so sick at my job of having to say things like “Person hours” instead of “Man hours.” We are a very large, very progressive workplace that takes that stuff seriously.

“Our team is a little short on manpower at the moment” is a no-no.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Sovande 07/26/2019 at 10:11

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That's old

The Ghost of Oppo > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 07/26/2019 at 10:12

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I wouldn’t be surprised if whoever the manufacture of manhole covers is, is still using decades old casting molds

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 07/26/2019 at 10:22

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Yay I did something right

Nibby > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 07/26/2019 at 10:24

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gender neutral holes, the way I like ‘em

MrDakka > Nibby 07/26/2019 at 10:32

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Makes 'em easier to fill?

ttyymmnn > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 07/26/2019 at 10:40

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Do you know why personhole covers are round and not square?

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > ttyymmnn 07/26/2019 at 10:40

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Because a circle can’t fit t hrough itself

ttyymmnn > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 07/26/2019 at 10:41

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Exactly. It’s so you don’t drop the cover down the hole. 

ranwhenparked > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 07/26/2019 at 10:44

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I suppose it could also be as recent as 1984, when the Bell System was broken up. Or later, if any of the new local phone companies had old stock to use up before ordering new covers.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > ranwhenparked 07/26/2019 at 10:45

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That's still a decade older than I am.

TheRealBicycleBuck > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 07/26/2019 at 10:45

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I always thought the Baton Rouge manhole covers were neat.

People are stealing the water meter covers in New Orleans and selling them on EBay. They aren’t manufactured any longer, so any of them for sale are likely to have been stolen.

https://www.wdsu.com/article/woman-steals-iconic-water-meter-covers-uptown/9520489

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > ttyymmnn 07/26/2019 at 10:51

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I have talked to contractors and laborers that are continually amazed by this.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 07/26/2019 at 10:52

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If it’s sewer we still call them manholes. Other buried treasure I like to call them “access ways”. I don’t see this changing any day soon, thanks Berke ley .

ranwhenparked > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 07/26/2019 at 10:54

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Damn

user314 > The Ghost of Oppo 07/26/2019 at 11:06

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Actually, they don’t use solid molds at all:

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 07/26/2019 at 11:06

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When I was in high school I knew a very skinny girl named Emily. My friends and I were skateboarding one day, learning to Ollie over manhole covers. Then we noticed the little water main covers. And I said “that’s not a man whole cover, it’s too small for a man” my buddy said “Emily could fit in there” and we both said “it’s an Emily hole cover, ha that sounds dirty”  and to this day I call them “ Emily hole covers”

Sovande > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 07/26/2019 at 11:16

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Agreed.

The Ghost of Oppo > user314 07/26/2019 at 11:31

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Hmm interesting, today I learned!