Hostettler mounting campaign to change the name of Interstate 69

Hoosier Gazette ^ | Nov. 19, 2004 | Austin Wayne

[Owl_Eagle]

Hostettler mounting campaign to change the name of Interstate 69

            By August Wayne, THG News

John Hostettler, the Congressman representing the 8^th district of Indiana, has been convinced by local religious groups to introduce legislation in the House that would change the name of an Interstate 69 extension to a more moral sounding number.

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 is a win-win situation.”

The change will more than likely be introduced in committee when Congress convenes after the first of the year.

[Owl_Eagle]

We had a Route 69 in Centeral PA, but when it was widened, we renamed it to "The Hershey Highway".

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[DM1]

ok this is just plain dumb

[Owl_Eagle]

I know how you guys are into highways, interstates, thoroughfares, etc.

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[Armedanddangerous]

That is just the funniest damn thing I've heard all week.

[Constitution Day]

It's good to see that Rep. Hostettler is working on a life-and-death issue. ::eye roll::

[John Jorsett]

The main reason to change it is that it would save a fortune in signs. They keep getting stolen.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Let's let the gays own the language, shall we?

Always make sure you have a knee-jerk reaction to anything, even a number, that might have a dual meaning to people with dirty minds.

[RightMike]

there is a 69 hwy here in kansas, and no one has EVER talkeda bout it. i drive on it every day. geez..stupid

[Crusher138]

Thank was my first thought. How do they keep the signs up?

[steplock]

the number should be changed to save the taxpayer's money! The kids are going to stealing the signs constantly.

[NeoCaveman]

It's good to see that Rep. Hostettler is working on a life-and-death issue. ::eye roll::

It's a parody.

But I do wonder if the I 69 buttons are legit. I could get a lot of Christmas shopping done early.

[OUSoonerFreeper]

I am originally from Oklahoma (now in TN) and there is a Highway 69 that runs North-South through the entire state.

I would hate to think that they would try to change the name of it for some stupid reason.

[TheBigB]

“Every time I have been out in the public with an ‘I-69’ button on my lapel, teenagers point and snicker at it."

Oh....good...grief.

[jigsaw]

Sounds like the proverbial Route of All Evil.

[HamiltonJay]

Oh come on, one of the best stickers on my helmet is the "I69" sticker.... don't change the name... then it will merely be a sexuaully suggestive advertisment....

[KoRn]

Ok, go ahead and change it to Route 666 lol.

[dmz]

Viagra?

[Terabitten]

Heh... gays don't own that particular number lol....

[TheBigB]

Hoosier Gazette articles are drawn from different sources and some are fictitious or satirical. The Hoosier Gazette uses invented names in some stories, except in cases where public figures are being satirized. Any other use of real names is accidental and coincidental. The reader should suspend belief for the sake of enjoyment.

[cardinal4]

How do they keep the signs up?

Viagra?

[CrazyIvan]

At the intersection of Rt69 and Rt666 the road gets real kinky.

[geege]

Same here in NJ....Route 69 because Route 31....also...people were stealing the "69" signs:0)

[Constitution Day]

Well, it fooled me. "Hoosier Gazette" sounded like a real source.

[Safetgiver]

I heard the speed limit was lickety-split, right?

[cripplecreek]

Well La ti freakin da man.

[Red Badger]

yOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK!.....

[lindor]

“Every time I have been out in the public with an ‘I-69’ button on my lapel, teenagers point and snicker at it.

Oh my!

[TheBigB]

It did me for a bit, too.

[dmz]

Beat you by 61 (too bad not 69) seconds.

[Owl_Eagle]

Hmmm... fooled me too.  Although, as everyone knows, I don't EVER bother to read the article.

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[Spiff]

I used to live in Indiana right by Highway 69. It was a popular thing among people who saw the sexual connection to steal highway signs for...I don't know, whatever they planned to do with them.

One year when I was a kid in our tiny town (well it was tiny then) of Fishers, Indiana (located at the junction of Hwy 37 and Hwy 69) someone decided to open a topless bar right in the middle of town. And guess what they called the place... Junction 69. It was closed down within 6 months. Ah, memories.

[Savage Beast]

These people have gone over the edge.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I used to live right off an exit of I-69 in my young and
single days...made for a great schlocky pickup line!

(the exit was Davison, Michigan...Michael Moore's hometown...so the Interstate number designation was the least of their problems!)

Interstate 69 takes you straight to Canada....is there some irony there?

No doubt as soon as they change it some perv-o will invent a new activity and dub it a "63"!

[Mike Fieschko]

Hostettler: I-69 Name Change a Hoax

Wish I knew how to make the font larger.

[Knute]

Someone needs to chill out!

[hchutch]

LIGHTEN UP, HOSTETTLER!!!!

Aren't there more pressing issues to deal with?

[Zaxis]

I'm sorry, I can't resist : The headline of the article should be
"Hostettler Mouthing Campaign To Change The Name Of Interstate 69"

[TheBigB]

Psssst...it's a parody.

[MineralMan]

Silly nonsense. Numbers mean nothing, except in someone's dirty mind.

[FreedomCalls]

If he thinks that is bad, wait until he travels this road:

[redcountyrepublican]

ROFLMAO

[68skylark]

I think there are a few Freepers who don't know this is a joke.

I thought most were smarter than that. But I know I've fallen for a few hoaxes myself in the past.

[E Rocc]

They are renaming the freeway near the Clinton Library "I-68" (he "owed her one").

-Eric

[HenryLeeII]

Hostettler mounting campaign to change the name of Interstate 69

Yes, in order to change the name of Highway 69, I think its very important to mount a campaign!

[PAR35]

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.

Not in every case. I-85 is west of I-75 from Atlanta south to Montgomery, Ala. I 59 is east of I 65 from Birmingham to Chattanooga.

The Blue states do it as well. I 89 is east of I 91 for its run through New Hampshire.

[null and void]

They should change it to I-77. You get 8 more...

[null and void]

Does anyone know where I can get a button?

[MikeD]

Actually, there is an I-77 running from Cleveland, through Charlotte, to at least Columbia SC.

As for I-69, it starts off as an east-west highway in Michigan, then goes north-south as it goes around Lansing. Where it crosses/merges with I-96. I kid you not.

MD, former Lansing resident

[Once-Ler]

I want the letters and numbers OICU812 removed from language...and there are too many lakes named Devil's Lake in the US...What is that? Some kind of Freemason/satanic cult thing!?!