Hi Viatologists,

The United States is not the centre of the universe... It's just a
part of it. The Worldwide Transportation Library (WWTL) reflects that
fact and is proud to demonstrate photographs and videos of
international roads.

That all said, you shouldn't be surprised that our visitors come from
all walks of life! The United States does not account for the
majority any longer. Thanks goodness too! In the first two days of
July, 64% of our hits have come from the United Kingdom, France, and
Germany. (Thank you, merci & danke.)

U.S. traffic only accounts for 6% of this month's 4,174 hits. I've
never been more pleased because this demonstrates an 'evenly-
distributed' global interest in viatology. Keep in mind, the USA only
accounts for 4.4% of the world's population.

Long in short... As you're presenting information on roads to the
public, don't forget that you have a global audience that's interested
in what the world--not just your country--has to offer.

For the world's largest sampling of road videos and photographs, visithttp://wwtl.info.

Joyeux fête du Canada.
Happy Fourth of July,
Joyeux fête national française.

Carl Rogers
"Environment first, transportology second"
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Indeed. Doesn't it register in his pea-brain that he *never* gets any
responses other than derision, condemnation and out-and-out insults?
Give it up!

Hi Viatologists,

You really thing that he would go to all the work of putting up and
maintaining that bullshit website, and then promoting it for all these
years so religiously, as a joke? That's a little hard to believe.  For
what little it may be worth, my opinion is that he is a kook rather then
a troll.

Carl Rogers wrote:

Hi Viatologists,

What an annoying little twit you are.

Hi Viatologists,

On 7/2/2009 10:55 AM Don Freeman spake thus:

Carl Rogers wrote:

Hi Viatologists,

What an annoying little twit you are.

Indeed. Doesn't it register in his pea-brain that he *never* gets any
responses other than derision, condemnation and out-and-out insults?
Give it up!

David Nebenzahl wrote:
On 7/2/2009 10:55 AM Don Freeman spake thus:

Carl Rogers wrote:

Hi Viatologists,

What an annoying little twit you are.

Indeed. Doesn't it register in his pea-brain that he *never* gets any
responses other than derision, condemnation and out-and-out insults?
Give it up!

All of that is "attention"

She craves attention.

She will die if you all deprive her of the attention she lives on.

Larry Sheldon wrote:
David Nebenzahl wrote:
On 7/2/2009 10:55 AM Don Freeman spake thus:

Carl Rogers wrote:

Hi Viatologists,

What an annoying little twit you are.

Indeed. Doesn't it register in his pea-brain that he *never* gets
any responses other than derision, condemnation and out-and-out
insults? Give it up!

All of that is "attention"

She craves attention.

She will die if you all deprive her of the attention she lives on.


I don't think so, Carl does not fit the profile of a USENET troll.
Rather then feeding off the responses to his posts, he is oblivious to
them. He lives in his own little self-contained world and pays no
attention to any incursions into it. For, as far as he is concerned,
no one exists outside of it.

Larry Sheldon wrote:
David Nebenzahl wrote:
On 7/2/2009 10:55 AM Don Freeman spake thus:

Carl Rogers wrote:

Hi Viatologists,

What an annoying little twit you are.

Indeed. Doesn't it register in his pea-brain that he *never* gets any
responses other than derision, condemnation and out-and-out insults?
Give it up!

All of that is "attention"

She craves attention.

She will die if you all deprive her of the attention she lives on.


I don't think so, Carl does not fit the profile of a USENET troll.
Rather then feeding off the responses to his posts, he is oblivious to
them. He lives in his own little self-contained world and pays no
attention to any incursions into it. For, as far as he is concerned, no
one exists outside of it.

Don Freeman wrote:
Larry Sheldon wrote:
David Nebenzahl wrote:
On 7/2/2009 10:55 AM Don Freeman spake thus:

Carl Rogers wrote:

Hi Viatologists,
What an annoying little twit you are.
Indeed. Doesn't it register in his pea-brain that he *never* gets
any responses other than derision, condemnation and out-and-out
insults? Give it up!
All of that is "attention"

She craves attention.

She will die if you all deprive her of the attention she lives on.

I don't think so, Carl does not fit the profile of a USENET troll.
Rather then feeding off the responses to his posts, he is oblivious to
them. He lives in his own little self-contained world and pays no
attention to any incursions into it. For, as far as he is concerned,
no one exists outside of it.

How do you know he doesn't feed of the responses? Just because he doesn't
reply doesn't mean he's not having a laugh at your expense.


You really thing that he would go to all the work of putting up and

On Jul 2, 12:37 pm, Don Freeman <freem...@cosmoslair.com> wrote:



There may come a day when there is an interest in freeways.  If so,
then Carl has a handle on it.

You know, there are many of us, much less skilled at --- or needy for

You know, there are many of us, much less skilled at --- or needy for
--- self-promotion, who have been providing information for those with
an "interest in freeways" (and many lesser roads) far longer and in
greater depth than the subject of this thread.

Not to mention providing a significantly better quality of information.

Steve Riner wrote:

You know, there are many of us, much less skilled at --- or needy for
--- self-promotion, who have been providing information for those with
an "interest in freeways" (and many lesser roads) far longer and in
greater depth than the subject of this thread.

No kidding!

And certainly without the gratuitous rudeness and filth.

He's sung an ode to a shrubbery; and once when Eric Bryant did a parody of
one of his night-time videos, olde Cal 'corrected' it and posted the
'correction' for a short time until he realised that he'd made a fool of
himself(one of the rare instances of that). He decides what highways
should be called, usually contrary to convention: Calling US Highways
'Federal Routes' and so on.

Well, true. His videos do absolutely nothing for me. As someone who
is fascinated by old roads, both abandoned ones and those which exist
today but have historic roots, I am interested in things like freeways
that may have been laid out on old immigrant trails, etc.
Unfortunately, Carl does absolutely nothing useful here.

He also self-declares as an expert in English, French, German and
Italian. This is somewhat surprising, I speak three of those languages
and have seen Mr Rogers attempts to communicate in those languages.
Umm... now call me daft but his attempts read like someone put the
English text into Babelfish then cut and paste the crap that came out.

On the two videos that I have seen of him trying to speak a foreign
language his skills have been about on a par with the average British
tourist - misprnounce every word, use the wrong tense and shout then
revert to bad English.

He also puffs himself up as a professional transport photographer then
produces not only photographs that are amazing only from the point of
view of dullness of subject matter, lack of comprehension of how to
frame a subject or even a basic grip of how to light a subject but also
for the fact that he can't even seem to master basic exposure control on
a (presumably) automatic camera.


His self-belief is quite amazing.

His actual talent almost non-existent.

One language that he doesn't claim proficiency in, curiously, is Spanish. Given
the part of the country he's in, you think that he'd have some knowledge
of at least the local dialect. I had a fun little row with him over the name
of the California town: Los Banos, which he insisted meant 'the bathrooms' as
in the wc-which is the *modern* meaning of the expression(a shortening of 'cuarto
de bano'); obviously that's not the case, it means 'the baths'.