Weekend Assignment #173: Share a Joke (redone)

Weekend Assignment #173: Share a joke. Make it funny. Also, since I'll want to link back to them, and I am, after all, but a cog in the great AOL machine, keep it reasonably clean and free of ethnic/sexual put-downs. You know. http://journals.aol.com/johnmscalzi/bytheway

(I posted this one a couple of months ago, but it is still one of my favorites!)

 

Someone at Google Has a Great Sense of Humor!

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

 

 

What you would have seen had Google not discontinued this!:

 

From Google Maps

 

                   

Get directions:

Start: New York, NY 
End:  Paris, France
Travel 3,800 mi (about 29 days 7 hours) 
Drive: 3,800 mi (about 29 days 7 hours)

1. Head southeast on Chambers St toward Broadway................0.2 mi 1 min 
2. Turn right at Centre St................0.1 mi 
3. Slight left at Park Row................210 ft 
4. Sharp left at Frankfort St................0.3 mi 1 min 
5. Turn left at Pearl St................ 56 ft 
6. Turn right onto the F.D.R. Dr N ramp................0.4 mi 1 min 
7. Take exit 17 on the left for Triboro Bridge/Grand Central Pkwy toward I-278/Bruckner Expy ................0.4 mi 2 mins 
8. Merge onto Triborough Bridge Partial toll road................0.4 mi 1 min 
9. Merge onto I-278 E via the ramp to I-87 N/Bronx/Upstate NY/New England................0.6 mi 1 min
10. Take exit 47 to merge onto Bruckner Expy/I-278 E toward New Haven...............1.9 mi 2 mins 
11. Take the I-278 E exit toward New Haven................0.3 mi
12. Merge onto Bruckner Expy...............5.0 mi 6 mins 
13. Continue on I-95 N Partial toll road Entering Connecticut .................62.1 mi 1 hour 12 mins 
14. Take exit 48 on the left to merge onto I-91 N toward Hartford...............36.8 mi 37 mins
15. Take exit 29 for US-5 N/CT-15 toward I-84/E Hartford/Boston.............0.4 mi
16. Merge onto CT-15 N...............1.7 mi  2 mins 
17. Merge onto I-84 E Partial toll road Entering Massachusetts................40.7 mi 38 mins
18. Take the exit onto I-90 E/Mass Pike/Massachusetts Turnpike toward N.H.-Maine/Boston Partial toll road................. 56.0 mi 56 min                                                                            19. Take exit 24 A-B-C on the left toward I-93 N/Concord NH/S Station/I-93 S/Quincy...............0.4 mi  1 min
20. Merge onto Atlantic Ave................0.8 mi  3 mins 
21. Turn right at Central St................0.1 mi
22. Turn right at Long Wharf................0.1 mi  ­
23. Swim across the Atlantic Ocean................3,462 mi 29 days 0 hours 
24. Slight right at E05...............0.5 mi 2 mins
25. At the traffic circle, take the 2nd exit onto E05/Pont Vauban...............0.1 mi
26. Turn right at E05 Partial toll road................17.3 mi  22 mins 
27. At the traffic circle, take the 2nd exit onto A131/E05 heading to A131/Rouen/Paris/Evreux Partial toll road................9.1 mi  8 mins
28. Take the exit onto A13/E05/L'Autoroute de Normandie Partial toll road................20.3 mi 17 mins
29. Take the exit onto A13/E05/L'Autoroute de Normandie Partial toll road................56.5 mi 47 mins
30. Take the exit on the left onto A14 toward Nanterre/La Défense Partial toll road..............12.5 mi 16 mins
31. Slight right at N13................1.4 mi   3 mins 
32. Turn right at Avenue de Neuilly/N13................269 ft
33. At the traffic circle, take the 4th exit onto Avenue de la Grande Armée................0.7 mi  3 mins
34. At Place Charles de Gaulle, take the 5th exit onto Avenue des Champs-Elysées...............1.3 mi  3 mins
35. Slight right at Voie Georges Pompidou ................1.4 mi  3 mins 
36. Slight left to stay on Voie Georges Pompidou................440 ft
37. Slight right at Quai de la Mégisserie................377 ft
38. Continue on Quai de Gesvres 0.2 mi.................1 min
39. Turn left at Place de l'Hôtel de Ville................194 ft 

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