I’m a member of the yahoo mailing list since the very beginning. In the last five years (maybe more) it has been nearly dead. Maybe not for being a yahoo group but from being a mailing list and people like forums. This forum has more activity in a day then the mailing list in a year.
Sorry, non-native English speaker here: what does “cue the tumbleweeds” mean?
It is a common image in American Western films to have abandoned towns in a dry/desert area with tumbleweeds rolling down the street
Crickets. 
Tumbleweeds are something that you always saw in old westerns when they showed a ‘ghost town’. Dried brush that tumbles along with the wind. Nobody around to clean them up.
Thanks @craftyjon, @hermit
I have a dictionary to look up what a tumbleweed is 
What I couldn’t find was the expression “cue the tumbleweeds”.
Thanks for teaching new expressions in English, not only KiCad.
Turnabout is fair play:
In your native culture, is there a common visual or graphic metaphor that symbolizes abandonment, emptiness, desolation, etc?
Dale
Here we go (literal translation)
Está hecho un solar = It has become a bare soil
Está hecho un erial = It has become a wasteland
Más solo que la una = more lonely than one o’clock
I like the turn of this phrase. But I’m not sure I fully understand the connotation. Is this one o’clock at night or in the afternoon? If it is the afternoon is the association because just about everyone is taking their siesta?
One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do?
Sorry, the cultured folks on this Forum have not had their minds corrupted by American rock-and-roll music.
I also like this one. It uses imagery similar to the U.S. English idiom “Like a graveyard at midnight”, but that English phrase implies a place that is spooky, scary, or haunted - not just devoid of other living people.
Dale
Sorry for going on the off topic
The sentence has become corrupted by people in some way. Originally was not referred to “one” as the most solitary number around the day, but from a XIX century politician called “Laúna” (this word has no particular meaning) who run for the elections without the support of any political party.
Similar to Key West in English, translated by someone from Cayo Hueso (Key Bone) Hueso->Ues->West
Manually moved from the original topic: (I wrote and posted just as the thread was split.)
Oh, so “la una” came from “Laúna”. Got it. I found this article interesting:
Oh, this was a delightful conversation to follow! Being from the US east-coast, but having lived in Phoenix for 4 years, this was still a new phrase for me. Thank you all!
They should. We can change that. 
Ok. I’m an American, but I don’t think I would ever have used that phrase
And I am a European who obviously must have spent FAR too long as a youngster watching Hollywood ‘Wild West’ films …
I too enjoyed reading this topic! Very fun comparing cultural references.
Two can be as bad as one.
Hi everyone. Thanks for the information 