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You had one job to do and you blew it twice! 🤦🏻♀️ (Original Post)
Heartstrings
Jul 2019
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Niagara
(7,627 posts)1. Oops
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)2. Only the best people print the signs
If you were to walk on the sidewalk, could you actually get in trouble? I mean, what the hell is a "sildwalk" anyway?
Niagara
(7,627 posts)3. I was thinking it was a typo for a...
*drum roll please*
Wildwalk!
It sounds like fun.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)5. Wildsilk! Slickwalk!
We could have a lot of fun!
Niagara
(7,627 posts)6. Slickwalk!
I like that one!
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)4. No idea....
🤔🤔🤔🤔
csziggy
(34,136 posts)7. I thought maybe they misspelled slidewalk!
Slidewalk
A moving sidewalk; a conveyor belt for people.
This term refers to a way of moving large numbers of people over a relatively short distance (over flat surface).
The slidewalk is also a Heinlein favorite; you'll find references in his 1947 story It's Great to be Back!, his 1948 story Gentlemen, Be Seated and his 1948 novel Space Cadet:
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=352
A moving sidewalk; a conveyor belt for people.
This term refers to a way of moving large numbers of people over a relatively short distance (over flat surface).
He had stepped on to the corridor slidewalk and had coasted halfway to the elevator before he realized that Phy had followed him and was plucking timidly at his sleeve.
From Sanity, by Fritz Leiber.
Published by Astounding S-F in 1941
The slidewalk is also a Heinlein favorite; you'll find references in his 1947 story It's Great to be Back!, his 1948 story Gentlemen, Be Seated and his 1948 novel Space Cadet:
They went on up to the subsurface level and took the crosstown slidewalk out to the rocket port. The slidewalk tunnel broke the surface at one point, becoming a pressurized shed; a view window on the west looked out on the surface of the Moonand, beyond the hills, the Earth.
It's Great to be Back!
It was a dull trip-climb on a scooter, ride down a completely featureless tunnel, climb off and go through an airlock, get on another scooter and do it all over again. Mr. Knowles filled in with sales talk. "This is temporary," he explained. "When we get the second tunnel dug, we'll cross-connect, take out the airlocks, put a northbound slidewalk in this one, a southbound slidewalk in the other one, and you'll make the trip in less than three minutes. Just like Luna City-or Manhattan."
Gentlemen, Be Seated
Don left the booth and looked around for a cab stand. The station seemed more jammed than ever, with uniforms much in evidence, not only those of pilots and other ship personnel but military uniforms of many corps-and always the ubiquitous security police. Don fought his way through the crowd, down a ramp, along a slidewalk tunnel, and finally found what he wanted. There was a queue waiting for cabs; he joined it. Space Cadet
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=352
Video of a "slidewalk" from the 1900 Paris Expo:
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)8. Moonwalk on the slidewalk!
csziggy
(34,136 posts)9. Well done!