1. go to www.google.com
2. click on “maps,” above the search bar…
3. click on “get directions”
4. type “New York” in the first box (the “from” box)
5. type “Paris” in the second box (the “to” box)
6. click on “get directions”
6. scroll down to step #23
It’s amazing how these things get around.
This particular one was sent to me via email about two days ago.
It says your supposed to swim to london also.
Don*t forget to hit change after edit.
Google will continue to suggest swimming until they can sign up someone like Holland or Cunnard Lines as a sponsor. = TG
Heh, that was good for an amusing chuckle.
Try St. John’s to London
Try Anchorage AK to Perth Australia
BTW: Should there not me massive warning and cautionary labels/banners all over this “drive” function at Google maps that suggests swimming vast distances?
I mean with the culture of safety creating the frivilous lawsuit would Google’s liabilities be open here to suit by the dead swimmer’s suvivors?
The culture of safety premise being we must always cater to the lowest common denominator in assigning warnings to risk of product use…in this case I suppose if you can use a keyboard to connect to google you will take their advice and make the swim ( obviously towing your car behind you)to complete these “directions for use.
I tried it for a few trips over the Pacific Ocean, and got nothing. GoogleMaps’ directions doesn’t even have direction data from San Francisco to Honolulu, or for SF to Tokyo. So I can’t relay the suggested means of transportation for the Pacific Ocean.
No directions from Houston, TX to the Moon, either.
3,462 miles? Okay, why not….
*chuckle*
Try from “New York” to “Hell.” Apparently it’s in Norway. Really.
Scandinavian socialism at work?
butterfly or free-style??
hey.Where do I get my water-wings?
Actually, according to Google, Hell appears to be located at the northern point of Hi-Land Lake in Pinckney State Recreation Area, Michigan.
And from New York, it will take a bit over 10 hours to drive there.
try http://moon.google.com/
Zoom down…..
Isn’t Paris in New York? Well at least part time in daddy’s shack in the Hamptons.
Okay, so I tried it. Big deal. Half way, I got tired, so I turned around.
#23 sounds like the kind of looney-toon directives given, straight-faced, by present day educational ministries and boards: and they expect the lunacy to actually be carried out–or else! (That might be why a lot of teachers you see look sleep deprived, spaced out, and/or not happy. And why so many are getting out.)
Fun to read!
Both London and Moscow use the same means of transport across the Atlantic. There are no driving directions for New York to Jerusalem, Maui, or Tehran.
Gotta love it, though.
About 12 years ago, some experienced yahoo tried to kayak the Atlantic from Halifax to Ireland. Just after losing sight of Halifax, he changed his mind and radioed the Coast Guard. If you can’y kayak it, how can Google suggest swimming it? LOL
If you print it you get time estimates. It estimates 29 days and 0 hours to swim!
…guess there is no traffic in Canada according to Google Maps / Traffic.
Must be the fact that we’re still using dog sleds eh?
Northern Nut, Benoit Lecomte swam across the Atlantic Ocean followed by a support boat for about six to eight hours every day. It took him 72 days to go from Cape Cod to Quiberon, France, so extended to swim 24 hours a day, it’s quite possible it could take only 29 days. 🙂
If you should cross from Vancouver Island to Horseshoe bay on the mainland, you can forego the swim but a double visit to Hoseshoe Terminal is the requirement. = TG
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This is called the NQ factor. It is a proven seller of any media.
The National Enquirer used to be more of a *Police Gazette* until they ran a hollywood scandal story and noticed that the issue vaporized off the newsstands. Circa *49-*50.
Ever since that day US media has used the NQ factor to create buzz and pump up circulation / audience. = TG
Let*s hope Google limits the NQ factor to YouTube. = TG
I’d rather walk.
Re Blackadder’s comment at 9:42 a.m.
Yes, Hell is in Norway. I’ve been to Hell and return, and I still have the railway ticket to prove it.
(By the way, the word “hell” is Norwegian for “luck”)
“This is called the NQ factor. It is a proven seller of any media…”TG
…and you found this via Google right?
Trying to bring postings back on topic.
😉
Looks like TG is all wet and he didn’t even google it. Must be hell on his electric car though.
I am always glad to see when someone has a little innocent fun. There is a whole string of stuff like etching cartoon charactors in the circuit board of an electronic chip or the animated cartoons that have supposed naughty things hidden in them. Insider’s jokes all and some are quite inventive.
Hahahaha ,, I never cease to be amazed with Technology.
You*d be wet too, swimming from Nanaimo to Hoseshoe bay. = TG
…depends what century yer talking about
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New York to Hell: Like you’d have to leave.
Hell in Scandinavian: More like ” light” or “bright” than luck, which is a similar sounding word.
This works too… http://www.google.com/mars/