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Post by Trusty on Apr 11, 2007 22:01:25 GMT -5
Need to get to Paris? Search Google.com for your answer.
Go to Google.com
Click on Maps.
Click on get Directions.
From New York, New York
To Paris, France.
And read line # 23.
Also look at how many days it says it takes.
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Anybody got any other ways to get to your destination?
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Post by slb2 on Apr 11, 2007 22:18:31 GMT -5
Is that the instruction to swim across the Atlantic? My girls showed me that one two days ago. Get with it, Trusty.  |
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Post by Trusty on Apr 11, 2007 22:56:02 GMT -5
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Post by slb2 on Apr 11, 2007 23:03:28 GMT -5
What? You really think you can best a teen aged girl? Even combining their ages (17 & 14) you still come out a gray haired man.  That's why I have such a thing for you. |
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Post by joew on Apr 12, 2007 18:32:22 GMT -5
Need to get to Paris? Search Google.com for your answer. Go to Google.com Click on Maps. Click on get Directions. From New York, New York To Paris, France. And read line # 23. Also look at how many days it says it takes. ----- Anybody got any other ways to get to your destination? It rakes 29 days to swim the 3400 miles from Boston. I guess someone at Google decided to have some fun. |
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Post by booklady on Apr 13, 2007 16:16:06 GMT -5
I have my AAA maps and guide books to Minnesota.  |
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Post by slb2 on Apr 13, 2007 16:17:54 GMT -5
I have my AAA maps and guide books to Minnesota. Sugar, just tell me where you want to go (in the Cities) and I'll be your chauffeur (or your GPS--whichever you prefer). |
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Post by booklady on Apr 13, 2007 16:22:58 GMT -5
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Post by slb2 on Apr 13, 2007 16:26:44 GMT -5
your return flight? So that I can plan the poetry fest.....
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Post by booklady on Apr 13, 2007 16:29:28 GMT -5
Monday morning, very early. I think take off is around 5:30 a.m. (What was I thinking? That a cheap fare was worth that? Sometimes I know that in my own head I still think I'm 25.  ) |
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Post by booklady on Apr 13, 2007 16:33:08 GMT -5
BTW, have I mentioned that I am excited as hell about this trip?!  (I'm wondering if any who want to, who live within driving distance (how far away is gail, Mr. ~B~ man and anja? Trusty, can you arrange some business in Minneapolis that weekend?), want to have dinner together on Sunday night. Perhaps we should plan this via PM. I'm wary of lurkers. |
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Post by slb2 on Apr 13, 2007 16:43:05 GMT -5
Yes, let's plan discretely. It's one of the only times I can be discrete, you know.
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Post by booklady on Apr 13, 2007 16:55:58 GMT -5
Discrete or discreet?
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Post by slb2 on Apr 13, 2007 17:57:44 GMT -5
Sure, teaze a gurl about speling.
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Post by joew on Apr 14, 2007 9:14:26 GMT -5
BTW, once I had the directions to Paris, France, I decided to look at some other things and saw the sattelite photo button on the maps displays. I spent an enjoyable couple of hours getting photos of the ancestral property in PEI, Fredericton, NB, my home, my former home, and my cousins' home in Avondale. Also saw some great views of the area between here and PEI and around Pueblo and Colorado Springs.
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Post by booklady on Apr 14, 2007 9:18:30 GMT -5
Sure, teaze a gurl about speling. Thank you for not making fun of my use of parentheses. |
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Post by hartlikeawheel on Apr 14, 2007 12:40:04 GMT -5
You bad wimmins.
I have Google Earth and can go anywhere in moments.
It's good to zero in on my old homeland. Amazing that I can click in on my little small town and discover that the computer knows. Once I walked in those fields and out to friends on the gravel roads. No way to go back there now again other than in my hart.
I hang out quite a bit in the Forbidden City. Oh, mercy, such beauty and such ugliness was there.
Go ahead and use your parentheses, BL. We are overeducated. Heh.
And I can be so forgetful of how these punctuation jobbies are supposed to be used that it's unwise to cast an unforgiving glance.
Once, a while ago, someone expressed irritation at me for my lavish use of commas. Oh well.
Have a few. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Use them wisely and as seems useful.
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Post by booklady on Apr 14, 2007 13:07:48 GMT -5
As James Taylor once sang, "comma, comma, comma, comma, com-comma comma yeah, yeah, yeah.... That's me, comma, comma, comma, comma, com-comma comma, I'm your Handyman....... yeah, yeah, yeah..." |
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Post by Jane on Apr 17, 2007 12:32:22 GMT -5
Well, I tried a Mapquest last week to get to an interview and ended up at the edge of a muddy field. My husband's brother just bought him a Magellan to take the place of the maps that he holds up in front of his face and peruses minutely while barrleing down the freeway at 75. My screams do not move him.
The Magellan is supposed to stop that danger factor, but he is so enthralled with his new gadget and all that it can do that now he takes both hands off the wheel and fiddles with it (also while going down the freeway at 75.)
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Post by Jane on Apr 17, 2007 12:33:01 GMT -5
And I'm sure someone will have a risque comment to make after that last post....
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Post by liriodendron on Apr 17, 2007 13:06:12 GMT -5
Boys will be boys.
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Post by joew on Apr 17, 2007 16:53:18 GMT -5
Well, I tried a Mapquest last week to get to an interview and ended up at the edge of a muddy field. My husband's brother just bought him a Magellan to take the place of the maps that he holds up in front of his face and peruses minutely while barrleing down the freeway at 75. My screams do not move him. The Magellan is supposed to stop that danger factor, but he is so enthralled with his new gadget and all that it can do that now he takes both hands off the wheel and fiddles with it (also while going down the freeway at 75.) Why aren't you looking at the maps, jane? I had always imagined that one of the good things about having a second person in the car was that he and/or she could look at the maps and other written directions and observe signs so as to be able to say, "This is our exit," or "I think you take a left at the next intersection." You should be the one to fiddle with his Magellan (maybe he can tell you what he wants you to do with it). |
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Post by liriodendron on Apr 17, 2007 17:20:49 GMT -5
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Post by slb2 on Apr 17, 2007 22:16:23 GMT -5
pssstt, lirio, not that Magellan! The one that comes in a box!! (not boxers)
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Post by liriodendron on Apr 17, 2007 22:46:04 GMT -5
The one that comes in a box!! Well, slb, that's a double entendre if I ever saw one.  |
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Post by Jane on Apr 18, 2007 8:32:04 GMT -5
Mercy me! I am just all afluster.
I can't read maps. They are as incomprehensible to me as are, oh, so many thngs in my life.
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Post by slb2 on Apr 18, 2007 8:49:27 GMT -5
The one that comes in a box!! Well, slb, that's a double entendre if I ever saw one. lirio, I usually see these sorts of double messages, but not the one you spied. Nice catch. |
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Post by booklady on Apr 18, 2007 13:55:59 GMT -5
I absolutely adore looking at and reading maps.
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Post by Trusty on Apr 18, 2007 17:54:36 GMT -5
I absolutely adore looking at and reading maps. Then you could probably grasp a Magellan.  |
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Post by slb2 on Apr 19, 2007 16:38:46 GMT -5
I absolutely adore looking at and reading maps. I have dreamed about papering my dining room in maps. I have received maps as presents. We are....sisters in passion. |
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