Dusty Furtile Morrocan wrote:
> On the particular moment of Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:20:50 +0100 in
> relation to Mary's disappointingly immaculate rumpy pumpy, "tim \(not
> at home\)" put forth:
>
>> "Dusty Furtile Morrocan" wrote in
>> message news:rb2et3945ltf94v4fg5dodcbgg9bkqribo@4ax.com...
>>> On the particular moment of Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:42:50 +0100 in
>>> relation to Mary's disappointingly immaculate rumpy pumpy, Tom P
>>> put forth:
>
>>>> I recently heard about a Spanish guy visiting Germany who wanted to
>>>> drive back from Nuremberg to Frankfurt airport in his rentacar, put
>>>> Frankfurt into the GPS navigation, and after driving for about 3 hours
>>>> suddenly realised he was driving to Frankfurt/Oder on the Polish border,
>>>> exactly the opposite direction..
>>> I'm definitely calling bullshit on that. Shurely he noticed them
>>> "Berlin" signs not long after he left town.
>> and why would a Spaniard realise that a sign saying "Berlin" meant that he
>> was going in the wrong direction?
>
> Because Frankfurt is nowhere near Berlin, and that is where he would
> have been heading.
But you're making the assumption that the Spanish guy would know this.
Many foreigners would have no idea if Berlin was near Frankfurt. I think
I would know but I have no idea where in Germany one would find, say,
Stuttgart.
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