There were some wild flowers growing along the little road to our house and one of my wife’s cousins asked me what kind of flowers they were ... and I told them they were “Sidearoadus,” (Side of Road Us, for you non-botanical types) ... flowers along the “Side of the Road.” Well they went around and told all their friends that we had these rare flowers never before seen in Indiana, and they were “Sidearoadus.” Now it took a couple of weeks for that to spread around the county until somebody explained to them that I was joshing with them. Pay back is due anytime and so I figure I was getting my leg pulled with these seed signs.
If you look really close at these signs you start to get an idea of what is happening here. Yep they were playing a little trick on ‘ol Greg. I remember the Burma Shave signs that were along the road. They had a little sayings and all that You really looked out for those signs when you were traveling as a kid, and everybody in the car read them as they went by, out loud, every single time.
Well the other day one of the farmers was going by the field below and I was coming the other way on the dirt county road, and he was laughing his head off. I figured that he must have read these signs and there was some kind of Burma Shave thing, you know, a message and it was humorous. So I went to work.
Now I have this condition. I can “see” things (just like that Beautiful Mind guy), patterns and some kind of repeating key. That must be the secret to this Seed Sign Burma Shave Message. Like the one above. I really went to work on it. I took all of the letter and numbers and ran they through a cryptography algorithm (Not Al Gore) and then I noted that there was some message there. That Golf Course sign, since it was at the beginning I figured it must be some kind of “begin message” sign or a punctuation thing.
