"Dusty Furtile Morrocan" wrote in
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> On the particular moment of Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:40:16 -0400 in
> relation to Mary's disappointingly immaculate rumpy pumpy, John Kane
> put forth:
>
>>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.
>
> Many dumbshits might not know, but anyone with a brain would be
> critical of any piece of technology instead of going gun-ho to
> wherever the arrow points.
I agree, but this doesn't make this particular mistake any less likely than
any other, just because there is a major town in the way.
tim
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