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* The "giving directions by where things used to be" thing is not uncommon in small towns everywhere. Everybody knows where the grocery store/highschool/police station used to be. |
* The "giving directions by where things used to be" thing is not uncommon in small towns everywhere. Everybody knows where the grocery store/highschool/police station used to be. |
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* Never try to navigate Oakland, CA at street level using a GPS device. |
* Never try to navigate Oakland, CA at street level using a GPS device. |
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* In extremely rural areas, directions tend to use things like barns, silos and unusual trees as markers. This is more a matter of necessity than any desire to be mean on the part of the direction- |
* In extremely rural areas, directions tend to use things like barns, silos and unusual trees as markers. This is more a matter of necessity than any desire to be mean on the part of the direction-giver—there simply aren't that many other landmarks that can be used and roads are often poorly marked. |
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* Georgia residents have, as a sort of state-wide [[Inside Joke]], the phrase "If you see the Big Chicken, you've gone too far." The Big Chicken, incidentally, is a KFC made to look like, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|well...]] |
* Georgia residents have, as a sort of state-wide [[Inside Joke]], the phrase "If you see the Big Chicken, you've gone too far." The Big Chicken, incidentally, is a KFC made to look like, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|well...]] |
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