don't forget your towel

[cthom]

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=...6,-37.089844&spn=40.718957,89.296875&z=3&pw=2

please note point 20. my sister lives in illinois and has to travel to london before driving to scotland. this is one way of keeping fit and getting some extra sight seeing in.

thank you mepislovers.org for this gem.

 

[azzaman333]

I could do that in my sleep. If I had super human strength and stamina....

 

[Abaddon]

WTH! thats amazing... how/why does it do that?

 

[Turner]

Someone at Google has a sense of humor....

 

[PrinceOfLeigh]

WTH! thats amazing... how/why does it do that?

It's guessing that if you ask for road directions across continents that you may actually be stupid enough to attempt to drive through the ocean.

 

[El_Machinae]

Ha! It totally works! I thought it might have been a joke page!

Hilarious!

Abaddon; do you have your mobile island yet? Maybe I can stop and see you while swimming between Canada and the UK?

 

[Abaddon]

Working on it


In fact, its almost time for its yearly bump!

 

[bhsup]

Just ask Rubber Duck. All you need is some friends of Jesus in a Microbus!

Bears to the left, bears to the right
We didn't have no place to go
They had us backed up clean to the shore
An' them cabover Pete's don't float
I sez "Pigpen, I got me a good idea
Them friends a Jesus gonna save us"
So praise the Lord 'n mister Ford
An' follow that Microbus...10-4!

Yo Ho Ho an' a thousand trucks
Gonna take a bath with The Rubber Duck
Yo Ho Ho an' a lots a luck
Round the world with The Rubber Ducky

Yeah, we drove on the water like diesel whales
Sank about a hunderd an' ten of 'em
I sez "Pigpen, they just didn't have no faith
They definitely gone 10-7"
By the time we got into that Picadilly town
'bout half of 'em 'as lost at sea
I sez "Break One-Nine fer a 10-33"
What we got was the cotton-pickin' BBC

 

[LucyDuke]

My favorite part is that they assume you swim at 5mph. I certainly don't!

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

...and I thought this was a HGTTG thread...

 

[Abaddon]

Whu? HGTTG?

 

[Che Guava]

My favorite part is that they assume you swim at 5mph. I certainly don't!

No kidding: I thought 29 days was a bit generous! Maybe it should read:

Swim across the atlantic, take a quick break for the press conference with the Guiness records people, make a then call to your national olympic commitee, the continue on your route...(2 hours)

 

[cthom]

...and I thought this was a HGTTG thread...

that's where the quote's from it came right to mind. i'm surprised nobody has mentioned the detour through france!

@abaddon Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy

 

[Speedo]

It's guessing that if you ask for road directions across continents that you may actually be stupid enough to attempt to drive through the ocean.

Well I'd hope not. They *do* tell you to swim, after all.

 

[Abaddon]

Why doesnt it connect you to a suitable ferry

 

[Che Guava]

Why doesnt it connect you to a suitable ferry

Iget the sense that trans-atlantic ferries are few and far between

Maybe a container ship?

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Iget the sense that trans-atlantic ferries are few and far between

Maybe a container ship?

Or an intergalactic construction fleet?

 

[Masquerouge]

And it assumes that you're gonna take the chunnel, right? 'cos I see no "swim across the channel"...

 

[Urederra]

I though It was a Hitchhicher's Guide to the Galaxy reference.

 

[Masquerouge]

I though It was a Hitchhicher's Guide to the Galaxy reference.

Oh so that's what HGTTG was...