Continuing the metaphor: orange traffic cones are like the Legos strewn around the floor for the enjoyment of our feet. Potholes are teenage acne. Tickets are tuition bills.
A little cross-strip banter –
Hey, I don’t care that it’s been debunked, we can still have jokes based on it!
Comics I Don't Understand 
Whenever I see a claim in the form of “Quality {ABC} since {whenever}” on a product label, I often think that the actual chronology probably went something like:
18xx – Family business established;
19yy – Bankruptcy (or disinterested progeny);
20xx – Naming rights purchased from the heirs by a major corporation that is trying to disguise their products as being from a local operation.
P.S. I was a little surprised to see a “new” XKCD that I had never seen before, especially since “Wordle” is a little out of fashion(†) as the butt of comic jokes. I must have missed it when Monroe published “Control Group” in February 2022.
P.P.S. (†) – I was even more surprised to discover that “Wordle” is the GoComics equivalent of a Googlenope. Searching for the term at GoComics produces absolutely nothing.
Kilby (1): That’s pretty cynical isn’t it? Also (sigh) pretty realistic.
They are dropping in the Adopt-A-Highway program here (or possibly reworking it) because of problems. One is that some people pay the initial fee, then never pick up any trash. There have been cases of the adopting organization not being well vetted, including one in the memory of an executed cop-killer.
Isn’t Adopt-A-Highway just a way to get your company name on a little billboard on the highway for not a lot of money?
At least in MO, you were supposed to maintain the stretch by picking up trash. Looking at their website, MODOT seems to have a Sponsor program where you get a sign and pay for a contractor to do the cleanup.
At what age do you think it’s appropriate to tell a highway it’s adopted?
– Zach Galifianakis.
Telling a highway it’s adopted?
“I-90, do you have a minute? I just need to tell you, I’m not your real street-sweeper.”