YSaC, Vol. 1690: Driver, follow that dirigible!
This was posted on a Craigslist somewhere in the United States. Of America.
Looking for a Ride to Germany (Guilford College > Munich)
Hey Folks,
My friend Emma is studying abroad in Germany, and I’d like to see her over Thanksgiving break, so if you’re heading that way, please give me a rang (###-###-####). I don’t smoke, I enjoy most music, and I can help with the driving (or co-piloting).
Thanks for looking to carpool,
Henry
Absolutely! Let’s do this. You may have your choice of travel options:
1. Trebuchet
2. Motorcycle and large ramp.
3. Really big rubber band stretched between two trees.
4. Trampoline
Of course, all of these are provided by the ACME corporation, so they may be of dubious reliability. On the other hand ACME is known for extremely prompt shipping.
Thanks to Sally, who sent this in in 2009, with our apologies for only just now getting around to using it.
O Paspartu, how times have changed!
Yeah, but Emma’s friend doesn’t have 80 days to get there!
Passe-Partout?
Exiting the box after a week-long and highly entertaining stay: C””J, LimeLolly, M2N2, and Irregular “That’s the name of my cover band” Fractal! Punchity Punch Punch!
Good Morning Plague Lovers! (Happy Passover, everyone!)
Sparky Henry, there isn’t enough coffee in the world to help me explain international travel and geography to you. I hope Guilford College isn’t too expensive, because your parents. Enjoy your life in their basement.
Unless there’s more than one Guilford College, I know where this school is. All Sparky has to do is drive west until he hits Portugal, then veer north through Spain and France and he’s there.
Exactly. A left out of Greensboro and going over a hill and a dale past gramma’s house would get a Quaker to King of Prussia, PA–shouldn’t that be good enough for Emma?
I grew up 10 minutes from King of Prussia. True story.
Ghostie, isn’t driving east a better option … assuming Henry is in the USA ? if he’s in USSR then ….?? otherwise its a long, long way west via Malasia, India, Afghanistan and others ….. ???
Nertz. I meant east, not west.
On I-40 eastbound,
Henry’s on the exit ramp.
Let’s hope that you don’t drown;
Pavement’s getting kinda damp.
Highway to the Sparky Zone,
Ride into the Sparky Zone.
Holy Watery Graves, Batman!
Not to worry, Robin! To the Bat-car/submarine!
I myself have never visited Guilford College, but I have difficulty believing it is greater than Munich.
If you really want to get somewhere fast around Munich, try the Blitzkrieg…..it’s fast as lightning!!!!
I have. It’s not.
Maybe he’s trying to bum a lift from Bugs Bunny. After all, he got to the South Pole just by missing that left at Albuquerque.
“Ride to Germany” is my Rammstein, Beach Boys mash up band.
And with that, my sequel to Top Secret! will be complete.
Okay, let’s do this.
I was expecting a hovercraft full of eels.
That so needs a boat trailer to pull behind . . . 🙂
The remarkable thing about that car is the passenger turned from a blonde woman into a brunette male.
I should probably have deleted the name of the college. Oh well.
What is that? Gilbert Gottfried College?
Talk about Breaking Bad….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQRFIUVqN3E
Nobody does Thanksgiving break like the Germans. Angst-ridden bikini-clad babes carving the knockwurst (wink wink, nudge nudge)…..
And then… there’s this.
They just need to find someone who’s traveling by map.
Well, if the carpool it makes sense that the carocean too…
I rather “like” how ‘Enery tosses in a willingness to assist in “piloting.”
Rubs me wrong, that does. Being a Pilot is a noble and considered vocation. It requires dedication and a commitment to know merely know the quirks and vagaries of a given waterway, but to understand how that waterway reacts to storms, calms, seasonal changes. It’s a title years in the making, and tested every time a Pilot goes to work (foundering a vessel is something long remembered, and not to one’s advantage).
Oh, and that plane-flying thing is tough, too, ‘Enery.
It won’t get you to Munich, but there’s another definition.
First you cut your firewood, then you pilot.
“…so if you’re heading that way, please give me a rang….”
Recalculating….
A rang of fire?
When in Munich….
Oh yes, please drive to Germany.
Maybe he could use 99 Luftballons?
Are they Rot?
Can we stop at Stuckeys???? Can we, please???!!! Please???!!!!
Actually, the trampoline is for AVOIDING Sparky.
Perhaps international travel is not actually required for this assignment. Maybe Emma isn’t studying abroad in Germany. She could be up in Munich, ND studying a broad in Germany. Typos happen, people…