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mcscajun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 01:19 PM
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Someone at Google has a wicked sense of humor
1. go to www.google.com

2. click on "maps"

3. click on "get directions"

4. type "New York" in the first box (the "from" box)

5. type "London" in the second box (the "to" box) Hit enter

6. scroll down to step #23

:rofl:
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Mad_Dem_X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 01:21 PM
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1. LOL!
:spray:
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joneschick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 01:23 PM
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2. I tried Detroit to Stuttgart. Step #29...
:hi:
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 02:40 PM
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8. I tried Miami to London
and it gave me directions to NY and then to London.

However, Los Angeles to Shanghai could not be done.
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mcscajun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 03:42 PM
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13. See post # 10.
:D
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grace0418 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 01:28 PM
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3. My friend was just telling me a story about a woman in his office sending out
and email inviting fellow employees to join the company softball league in San Francisco. The problem was she accidentally sent the email to the entire company, including the offices in London, Tokyo, etc. For days she was getting the funniest replies from people asking if anyone wanted to carpool from half-way around the globe, or if the games could start a little later to accommodate people getting there from the airport. Someone even sent out a fake Google map with "driving directions" from London to the park in San Francisco.
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mcscajun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 01:42 PM
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6. I love stories like that.
Nice to know that humor is alive and well worldwide. :D

But I'd love to see that set of directions to S.F. from London; I'll wager the Bering Straits and/or Greenland was involved. :rofl:
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DeposeTheBoyKing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 01:31 PM
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4. Love it
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 01:32 PM
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5. That's great!
I've heard about this before! LOL! :rofl:
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gizmonic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 02:30 PM
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7. Tee-Hee! That's funny!
Thanks for the silliness!

:hi: :D :rofl:
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Kerrytravelers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 02:42 PM
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9. Bwwwwaaaaahhhhh !!!!!!!! **snort**
:rofl:
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 02:45 PM
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10. Funny, but doesn't work on the west coast!
"We could not calculate driving directions between los angeles and tokyo."
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mcscajun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 03:41 PM
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12. Hmmmm. Either they've decided that IS possible to swim the Atlantic
but not the Pacific, or the West Coast database team has No Sense of Humor.

The former seems just silly, and the latter highly improbable. :D
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aljones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 03:37 PM
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11. Priceless!!
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