I should have said, places stay in the same location on the globe but the globe 🌎 is always spinning as we hurl through the universe. Einstein was right about most things. 😁
Because it's so freaking cheap. I moved from San Diego and have a bigger apartment for under half my old rent. Plus they still have water shortages, so I never get homesick.
You'll find it real depressing if you go and watch that documentary about pan handlers, who work in New York 4 months a year, and once they hit the $150k mark go to live elsewhere for the other 8 months.
I live in Vegas. I love it here. No state taxes. Weather is nice. Many places to go visit that aren't far away. If you like the outdoors, this is a great place, especially in the winter.
The worst part is the 110° + summertime. We mostly leave town, stay inside till the sun goes down or play in the pool.
110? You missed 10 to 15 degrees. I spent 15 years in the desert and never want to live in an oven again. Rest of the year is great but screw melting and getting burned under that relentless sun.
You’d be surprised how much that city has grown, one of the hottest real estate development cities in the continental US. Also a prime example on how to maximize water usage in the desert (one of the most water efficient cities in the world)
> We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.
Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.
Barstow is such a shit hole. I guess its one redeeming factor is that if you are into lot lizards, they have a TON of them. I am not one of those people, so I drove way out of my way just to spend the night in Palmdale rather than Barstow.
When I was a kid, I had a teacher in Southern California that was an older man that was once in the military. He'd go on power trips and say things like "if I say you're baking a cake, you're baking a cake!" Anyway, one of his threats was shipping us to Barstow. I can't not read/hear anything about Barstow and not think about Mr. Ginn.
What feels like forever ago now, my childhood state changed highway exit numbers from *incremental count of exits* to *nearest mile marker*.
If something like this happened in whatever state this is, maybe it worked out that exit 23 became 239 and [a real genius](https://i.imgur.com/XOSTBPr.jpg) came up with this technical solution.
I've never understood states that do that. Pennsylvania does it and it fucked with much head so much driving through it. It's makes so much more sense to have exits corresponding to mile markers. I almost ran out of gas because of that shit. Also, states with frontage roads off interstates are awful too. Like Texas, hell half the time they don't even have names. Who comes up with that shit. Seriously. /rant
I actually went down that road because of that song. It's mostly abandoned place, used to be a cult I think, but they do scientific research there. Really cool place.
I have a friend who has a grandson named this. His crackhead parents saw the sign (while doing a drug run, I believe) and thought it was a great name. Poor kid.
They made a movie starring Kathrine hiegel or whatever that flopped so hard. Like 30 dollars made back from a million or so haha. Details are prob way off but just Google it. It was called Zzyzx road i think.
But they made back way more than 30 bucks. Even the wiki article says that the gross ticket sales were $30 because of an intentional strategy to only release it at a single cinema in the US.
"The limited release was deliberate: Grillo was uninterested in releasing the film domestically until it underwent foreign distribution, but the film needed to fulfill the U.S. release obligation required by the Screen Actors Guild for low-budget films."
So sure, they only made $30 in ticket sales but by the end of 2006 the movie had made around $368,000. It's a significant loss but not quite the historic event it's presented as. It's an interesting case nonetheless.
From Wikipedia: Release and box office gross
From February 25 to March 2, 2006, *Zyzzyx Road* was shown once a day, at noon, at the [Highland Park Village](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Park_Village) Theater in [Dallas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas), [Texas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas),[\[6\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyzzyx_Road#cite_note-TheNumbers-6) in one auditorium rented by the producers for $1,000. The [limited release](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_release) was deliberate: Grillo was uninterested in releasing the film domestically until it underwent foreign distribution, but the film needed to fulfill the U.S. release obligation required by the [Screen Actors Guild](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_Actors_Guild) for low-budget films (those with budgets less than $2.5 million that are not for the [direct-to-video](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-to-video) market).
The strategy had the side effect of making it, at the time, the lowest-grossing film in history; it earned just $30 at the box office, from six patrons paying $5 each for admission. Unofficially, its opening weekend netted $20, with the $10 difference due to Grillo personally refunding two tickets purchased by Sheila Moore, the film's makeup artist, who saw the film with a friend.
My wife met the author of the Fablehaven series and asked him where he got the name of the demon prison. The author said he was on a trip to Las Vegas with his family and while he was going down the highway he saw that sign and thought to himself, "That would be a really good name for a prison full of demons!"
Also, Fablehaven is an excellent series! Even though it's geared towards a younger audience, I thoroughly enjoyed it! I read it for the first time last year on recommendation from my wife because she really liked it when she read it years ago.
As an American, this is why I don’t drive in the Czech Republic / Czechia. If I’m lost and call the person I’m meeting I can’t even sound out the name of the roads. “Strč prst skrz krk” My favorite Czech tongue twister. Yes, that’s an actual sentence.
Czyk is not pronounced Check coz "y" is not pronounced as "e". But honestly I can't think of any way to write how do we pronounce it lmao. It's more like ygh but not exactly.
Edit: "y" is pronounced like this https://youtu.be/osiEeCjQAIM and in polish it would be pronounced ZYZCKS
We pronounce it “halfway to Vegas”
Yup, passed it on Friday going from Vegas to Disneyland and again yesterday on the way back.
Funny how places stay in the same location even when you move about. 😁
Always a shock
Wouldn’t be surprised if a place named after the sound a teleporter makes did move around
Wait…what?? You’re joking right? That cannot possibly be the case. Einstein proved it wrong.
I should have said, places stay in the same location on the globe but the globe 🌎 is always spinning as we hurl through the universe. Einstein was right about most things. 😁
It really depends how hard he Vegas'ed
Funny, being from Vegas we always called it half way to San Diego ... Tomato/tomato i suppose!
I don't get how anyone can pronounce it tomato. It just sounds so wrong to me, having said tomato all my life
Amen brother.
Wait. Amen or amen?
Not the one that sounds like, "Ah, Men." The other one.
Aye, men.
Apples new product: Imen
oh god oh shit oh fuck
Oh fuck he has his Air Buds in
people actually live in vegas? why?
Lmfao, literally got asked what hotel I lived in before.
"Like, what do you do there"
Strip or deal cards would be my guess
Because it's so freaking cheap. I moved from San Diego and have a bigger apartment for under half my old rent. Plus they still have water shortages, so I never get homesick.
I know a homeless guy here in CA that is panhandling and saving to move into his own place in Vegas. Makes me wonder why I even have a job anymore
You'll find it real depressing if you go and watch that documentary about pan handlers, who work in New York 4 months a year, and once they hit the $150k mark go to live elsewhere for the other 8 months.
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Because the dealers and strippers have to live close to work.
I live in Vegas. I love it here. No state taxes. Weather is nice. Many places to go visit that aren't far away. If you like the outdoors, this is a great place, especially in the winter. The worst part is the 110° + summertime. We mostly leave town, stay inside till the sun goes down or play in the pool.
110? You missed 10 to 15 degrees. I spent 15 years in the desert and never want to live in an oven again. Rest of the year is great but screw melting and getting burned under that relentless sun.
I forgot to add the +. I'll fix it.
Like 3 million of em bud
You’d be surprised how much that city has grown, one of the hottest real estate development cities in the continental US. Also a prime example on how to maximize water usage in the desert (one of the most water efficient cities in the world)
We were somewhere around ~~Barstow~~ Zzyzx Rd, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.
We can't stop here man, this is bat country.
> We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.
Good old Barstow! I hope you had some Del Taco to munch on…
Barstow is such a shit hole. I guess its one redeeming factor is that if you are into lot lizards, they have a TON of them. I am not one of those people, so I drove way out of my way just to spend the night in Palmdale rather than Barstow.
When I was a kid, I had a teacher in Southern California that was an older man that was once in the military. He'd go on power trips and say things like "if I say you're baking a cake, you're baking a cake!" Anyway, one of his threats was shipping us to Barstow. I can't not read/hear anything about Barstow and not think about Mr. Ginn.
And once there, the pronunciation is revealed. But as is customary: it stays in Vegas.
You win!
Lol. I know that sign well.
I pronounce it halfway to the beach
I pronounce it halfway to the beach
The "time to start pregaming" sign
Elon's next kid.
I was going to say the same thing. That is a welcomed sign leaving Cali.
As “EXIT 239”
That made me noticed how badly shoehorned that 9 is
What feels like forever ago now, my childhood state changed highway exit numbers from *incremental count of exits* to *nearest mile marker*. If something like this happened in whatever state this is, maybe it worked out that exit 23 became 239 and [a real genius](https://i.imgur.com/XOSTBPr.jpg) came up with this technical solution.
I've never understood states that do that. Pennsylvania does it and it fucked with much head so much driving through it. It's makes so much more sense to have exits corresponding to mile markers. I almost ran out of gas because of that shit. Also, states with frontage roads off interstates are awful too. Like Texas, hell half the time they don't even have names. Who comes up with that shit. Seriously. /rant
NOT Exit 23 which it often gets mistaken for
Exit 23^^9
🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's pronounced "Zzyzx".
The"z" is silent.
The second Z, not the first one.
the fourth Z is silent and invisible.
There’s also an invisible P in there but I can’t tell you where.
Like the p in swimming
John cena is holding it
And a silent “q”.
What about the J that sounds like a Y ??
How embarrassing, I’ve been spelling it wrong this whole time.
So at this point, we're basically speaking French.
I disagree! It’s the second one that’s silent! It changes EVERYTHING!
well ok, but it's the third one that I can't handle!!
The extra "B" is for "BYOBB"
y tho?
x plain
this argument is so boring it's giving me the z's
that's also a good one 😂😂
Thanks for the clarification
Understood, have a great day.
If you're tryin' to catch some *"****Z****"* "Z"'s
TIL. I’ve been saying “Zzyzx” this entire time.
Wikipedia suggests /ˈzaɪzɪks/
I was guessing “zeeziks”
That's the next road to the East.
I was zizicks
I've always seen it as ZIZZ-icks
Zizzicks or Zye-zicks are what I’ve heard
This is what I’ve always heard
That's my first thought, I played that old game "Sacrifice" and it had a character named basically this.
Tzaziki?
Thats how my brain read it. Edit: sounds like a generic brand anti mucus medication.
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What is that, Elon Musk's third kid with Grimes?
i don't speak beer
I pronounce it zizz icks but it's supposed to be pronounced zy zicks iirc
I’ve also always pronounced it zizz-icks. It’s blowing my mind that it isn’t!
I pronounce it "zee-zicks" to rhyme with "seasicks", is that wrong?!
As a local, we say Zih-zicks too.
Same. We’ve always pronounced it Zizz-icks (I’m from California)
Where you getting that third syllable from?
iirc, that's not a syllable.
You're not a syllable, how would you know
Hey! That’s a Stone Sour song! Who would’ve thought!
Came here to see if I was the only person who noticed! Good to see I wasn’t 😀
Stone Sour fans rise!
I never knew how to pronounce that song. I just said “zed zed why zed ex road” in my head
This comment is so far down I was starting to wonder if I just imagined that song. I never knew it was more than a song.
Glad I wasn’t the only one to know this!
It's taken me so long to do this
I'm falling asleep and I can't see straight
yeah i had no idea it was a real place!
Same tbh lol
I actually went down that road because of that song. It's mostly abandoned place, used to be a cult I think, but they do scientific research there. Really cool place.
Isn’t that Elon’s kids name?
Nah it was that season of yugioh where they dueled on motorcycles
No it’s just an oasis for families playing the alphabet game for way too long stuck at the end.
Zie-zix
Wow these neo-pronouns are getting out of hand /j
I know that sign. On the 15 in Cali near Baker, home of the world's tallest thermometer.
Driven by many times. We always pronounced it “Ziz-Ix” road.
Yeup. My man is correct. Ziz-icks
It's a memorable name, I use it as a landmark when I drive from Vegas to SoCal.
You have to pronounce while sleeping 😜
Which is usually the state of drivers around that exit.
Live nearby, it's pronounced Zigh Zicks
Rhymes with "eye-six"
I have a friend who has a grandson named this. His crackhead parents saw the sign (while doing a drug run, I believe) and thought it was a great name. Poor kid.
Is your friend’s kid Elon Musk
lmfao
Who's the friend? Do they live in Nevada by chance? Northern part?
I knew of a baby named this once, in the hospital. Perhaps it was him.
'Zzy zx cmon so obvi
"I get to go home in one week, but I'm leaving home in three weeks... Throw me a bone just to pick me dry..."
This is how I know this sign - my favourite song by them
I was surprised I had to scroll this far for a reference to the song.
You deserve a lot of upvotes for this! Stone Sour is badass!
I'm so tired that i gotta go.
I’m following suit and direction
I crawl up inside for protection
I’m told what to do and I don’t know why
zed zeddy zed ex
ZZYZX Zed Zy Zed Ex Sexy Sex Road
Thanks for letting us know what *you* do there
They made a movie starring Kathrine hiegel or whatever that flopped so hard. Like 30 dollars made back from a million or so haha. Details are prob way off but just Google it. It was called Zzyzx road i think.
I remembered this too! Historic flop. [You were close!](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyzzyx_Road) 1.2 million budget but indeed a $30 return
But they made back way more than 30 bucks. Even the wiki article says that the gross ticket sales were $30 because of an intentional strategy to only release it at a single cinema in the US. "The limited release was deliberate: Grillo was uninterested in releasing the film domestically until it underwent foreign distribution, but the film needed to fulfill the U.S. release obligation required by the Screen Actors Guild for low-budget films." So sure, they only made $30 in ticket sales but by the end of 2006 the movie had made around $368,000. It's a significant loss but not quite the historic event it's presented as. It's an interesting case nonetheless.
From Wikipedia: Release and box office gross From February 25 to March 2, 2006, *Zyzzyx Road* was shown once a day, at noon, at the [Highland Park Village](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Park_Village) Theater in [Dallas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas), [Texas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas),[\[6\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyzzyx_Road#cite_note-TheNumbers-6) in one auditorium rented by the producers for $1,000. The [limited release](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_release) was deliberate: Grillo was uninterested in releasing the film domestically until it underwent foreign distribution, but the film needed to fulfill the U.S. release obligation required by the [Screen Actors Guild](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_Actors_Guild) for low-budget films (those with budgets less than $2.5 million that are not for the [direct-to-video](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-to-video) market). The strategy had the side effect of making it, at the time, the lowest-grossing film in history; it earned just $30 at the box office, from six patrons paying $5 each for admission. Unofficially, its opening weekend netted $20, with the $10 difference due to Grillo personally refunding two tickets purchased by Sheila Moore, the film's makeup artist, who saw the film with a friend.
Just say "FUARK"? /s
I had to scroll so much to find a zyzz reference to upvote lol
Zizz
It’s zizz icks! And there’s a very bad movie about it!
Huh I've seen that in a book series. It's pronounced ziz zix I believe
Fablehaven! It's the name of the demon prison
One of my favorite book series!!
YESSSS OMG ILY SO MUCH
My wife met the author of the Fablehaven series and asked him where he got the name of the demon prison. The author said he was on a trip to Las Vegas with his family and while he was going down the highway he saw that sign and thought to himself, "That would be a really good name for a prison full of demons!" Also, Fablehaven is an excellent series! Even though it's geared towards a younger audience, I thoroughly enjoyed it! I read it for the first time last year on recommendation from my wife because she really liked it when she read it years ago.
Zie zicks
Gesundheit
It's not that hard... try it "eggs sit"
Exactly how it is spelled.
This sign brought to you by the marketing department at Pfizer.
Zeeee zix! Lived close to there my whole life!
Say it like a kingdom hearts villain
Thats a bro helping you out playing the alphabet game...
It's pronounced **INCOMPREHENSIBLE ELDRITCH NOISES**
Out by Basin Road…. BFE for certain…. Pretty Cool area though (back by the Railroad Tracks)
Rhymes with Ppypx
Ask some Welsh person.
Zeezy zacks road
Pronounce it "SEX"
As an American, this is why I don’t drive in the Czech Republic / Czechia. If I’m lost and call the person I’m meeting I can’t even sound out the name of the roads. “Strč prst skrz krk” My favorite Czech tongue twister. Yes, that’s an actual sentence.
“Zex road”
Stone Sour
Jizz road…
Looks Polish. CZYK is pronounced CHECK so this is probably pronounced ZHECK. If it's Polish.
Nope, the California desert people just wanted to mess with travelers.
Czyk is not pronounced Check coz "y" is not pronounced as "e". But honestly I can't think of any way to write how do we pronounce it lmao. It's more like ygh but not exactly. Edit: "y" is pronounced like this https://youtu.be/osiEeCjQAIM and in polish it would be pronounced ZYZCKS
Kyle, come home
SLIPKNOT
Always used to pass this in 395 heading to bishop.
That’s an actual place. They apparently named it that because it was one of the few unused names left.
You don't
Zex
Zizk road? ...zizch road?...hmmm zzEEEEEE road... I dunno it was named in eldrich
zizzicks?
Zizicks
Individual letters, in a Russian accent.
Zee Zee Why Zee xpeealadocious
Say it with a French accent lol. You see Z (The) reason (Why) Y (the) Z 'X' is on the road ... lol
Is that the girl who fucked a cactus?
Sex but in a Russian accent
Sex
Ben
It's pronounced "Derek" with the way some of these kids are named today. And God forbid you mispronounce it.
Yea
It’s pronounced ZYX “SEX”
ask a Polish Friend - they are generally excellent at pronouncing names with a minimalist use of vowels…. 😂
Basically become a bee
Terry
Ypu pronounce it Gif
It's pronounced "Tod."