Submitted by Jon D
I really have no idea whether this qualifies, because I always use this expression. My kids knew what it meant well before they had any idea it referred to a city in New Mexico (or that it was originally a Bugs Bunny line).
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But why have they gotten into a funeral procession?
Wile E. Coyote, RIP
My kids already know that it is a Bugs Bunny line: not only has “Albuquerque” survived all the way into the German translations, I recently invested in a “Warner Bros. Golden Collection”, with 24 DVDs, so that we can watch the original versions.
I’d say it’s universally known.
As some famous baseball guy said: ‘Count me out’ on that.
They misspelled “left toin” and “Albakoykee.”
Andréa, Samuel Goldwyn said “Include me out” (though it really sounds like one of Yogi’s lines)
I knew it was SOMEbody famous. I confused it with “It’s like déjà vu all over again.”
I have a number of the Warner Bros. Golden Collection DVDs, and my 4-year old grandson asks nearly every day to watch them with me. So he’s getting an education in classic animation, and has already seen Bugs Bunny miss the left turn in Albuquerque. Makes this geezer happy. :)
I grew up in Albuquerque, and the first time I heard Bugs Bunny say that on Saturday morning cartoons (around age 5), I wondered if he said the name of whatever city the cartoon was being shown in.
Does anybody know the title of the Loony Tunes wherein there is a standard Western showdown that goes on for like a minute?
“Does anybody know the title of the Loony Tunes wherein there is a standard Western showdown that goes on for like a minute?”
There’s more than one, because I can recall one with Daffy as the hero and Porky as the comic relief sidekick, and at least one with Bugs as the hero and Yosemite Sam as the bad guy. But, no, I don’t remember the titles. I can remember cartoons I watched 40 years ago, but not the titles. A lot of them didn’t actually show title cards, and they re-edited a bunch of old cartoons into new ones for TV and the movie.
Whose GPS says “lost”?
I’d appreciate the honesty, carlfink: there are certain cities where my GPS has no clue where we are, which doesn’t stop it from continuing to give directions.
I’m impressed by the artwork, the hearse is a Cadillac, and the RV reflects today’s styling trends as well.
“Whose GPS says “lost”?”
just a paraphrase for “recalculating…”
I drove cross country this summer (over and back) Along the way, Google sent me down some of the backroadsiest backroads that ever backroaded.
Get off the Interstate, and take this US highway.
Get off the US highway, and take this state route
Get off the state route, and take this county road.
Stay on the county road, even when it turns to gravel…
I didn’t hear any banjo music, so I kept going.
On the way back, I stayed on the Interstates.
““Whose GPS says “lost”?””
Jack’s, and Kate’s, and Sawyer’s, and the Kims, and Locke’s… the whole Dharma initiative…
I always print out a googlemaps page, just for a reference. I was thinking the other day how much I’ve had to depend on gmaps and GPS since moving to FL; I’d never have been able to do the amount of house-hunting I did, without these two travel aids.
Well, my GPS has taken me down a dirt road that became too rut-infested to drive on, and down a dirt road that ended at a dead end, and down a dirt road that turned into a walking trail through the woods, and down a normal road that suddenly turned into a grassy meadow because the road had been removed years ago. So my GPS often gets lost but never admits it.
During a pouring rain, Ms Garmin wanted me to go on the fishing pier, which WAS the Sunshine Bridge/Skyway years ago, Luckily, I realized this and just stayed on the bridge. I can only imagine (and would rather not) what would’ve happened if I’d blindly followed her directions.
I trust Ms Garmin more than Hubby’s Veloster GPS and iPhone GPS. The Veloster one wanted us to continue for another mile to Applebee’s, WHILE WE WERE SITTING IN THE APPLEBEE’S PARKING LOT!
The directions received from three different GPSs has lead to a bit of contention, so I just let Hubby either go alone, or follow his GPS, no matter what. The blood dripping down my chin is from me biting my tongue.
The real question is: are they even still in the US? They’re driving on the left side of the road.
“They’re driving on the left side of the road.”
It’s a one-way road. The center stripes are white, not yellow.
Andréa, I use gmaps all the time, but the best part is being able to switch to street view so I know what I’m looking for.
Exactly!! Altho be sure to check the date the pic was taken . . . some are pretty old.
yeah, and some are really REALLY new. The Google Street View car drove down my street yesterday. It saw me sitting on the porch working on my computer. Immortalized for all time. Or at least until the next drive-through.
I’ve had to use street view a LOT, especially when I was house-hunting, and I NEVER saw people. Ever. In satellite view, I never saw anyone in the pools, either. It’s like everyone saw the googlevan coming and ran into the house.
In the streetview of my parents’ [former] home in AZ, I can still see the Hospice notice to NOT call 911 if occupant is found dead, hanging on the front door. That’s kind of creepy, as he died in March 2014.
Andréa: IIRC, the Google StreetView photographers are instructed to try to avoid having people in their pictures. It’s just a preference though, not an absolute requirement.
There was a student here who put as her profile photo a grab from Street View showing her waiting at a campus bus stop then stepping out in the street to windmill wave at the Google camera car,
I thought faces were usually blurred out on Street View. Also license plates. This leads to random signs also being blurred out even if they’re important, as it’s an automatic process.
Everyone likes to blame those navigational errors on the designers of the devices, but the reason those mistakes occur is bad data, not bad design.
Am I the only person here so geezerish as to have never used (nor had) GPS? I don’t think I’ve ever even ridden in a vehicle with someone who had it (or at least anyone who used it in my presence, so it’s another of those ‘miracles out there I read about but haven’t experienced,’ like Alexa or smart houses).
I retain the long-lost skill of reading paper maps. Admittedly my skills on ‘refolding’ them could always use a bit of a brushup. (Also admittedly for the last several years I’ve rarely ventured beyond the confines of my metro area.)
“I retain the long-lost skill of reading paper maps. Admittedly my skills on ‘refolding’ them could always use a bit of a brushup. (Also admittedly for the last several years I’ve rarely ventured beyond the confines of my metro area.)”
1) Maps aren’t as up-to-date as GPS
2) Maps aren’t as detailed – right to the front door – as GPS
3) Maps are getting difficult to find
4) Maps are dangerous to read whilst one is driving (I did most of the house-hunting and other traveling in what is, to me, an entirely new area, by myself. I’d NEVER have done so if I’d not had GPS; no matter how ‘lost’ I was, I set my GPS for home and off I went, home again, home again . . . )
I recently bought my first GPS because I couldn’t find local maps in the format I wanted. In general, I’d rather have the maps, but I have found some shortcuts I wouldn’t have found without the GPS.
And maps in the car are better if there’s a navigator other than the driver. The GPS somewhat takes the place of that other person.
. . . and doesn’t argue with you if you don’t do what Ms. Garmin says to do.
I have never had a GPS device, nor a cell phone for that matter. These days I usually look up the destination in Google Maps, then save the map and instructions to my iPad. I can refer to that as needed.
Brian, I was late to GPS, but I see three big advantages: I have an Australian lady reading the directions to me (gotta change that one of these days) so I don’t have to take my eyes off the road; the sheila can keep giving me directions in the dark; and the GPS can make real-time corrections, like when it got me out of Brooklyn on a Friday evening directing me onto a bridge I hadn’t known existed.
@Brian, if you have a reasonably recent iPad it is in fact a GPS device.
Normally when we drive on a trip (and sometimes locally) Robert has 2-3 GPS devices running – they argue with each other a lot. One of them can be set to drive an exact route one wants by marking points along the way. None of them are actually correct all the time. I generally just look at a map once and know where I am going – and then only if we have not been there before.
One of them wants us to go straight to the next street when we are on our driveway. This would involve driving through our garage and the house behind us.
When we were looking to buy our RV in PA I had looked up where we could stop for lunch on the way. He set it into the GPSs. We got off the Interstate – it said to turn right, I said to turn left – we turned right. It then sent us 3 blocks further along, had us turn right and right again – so we were returning to where we got off the Interstate on next parallel road. It had us go to the end of the road (at the base of the Interstate) and then make a U turn and drive in the back of shopping center and out the front – making the left turn we should have made to start – but this spot had no traffic light as the exit from the Interstate did.
I also have a computer maps program from a major maps company that I use if I need it as I can drop a point and go there. Two years after the NJ Turnpike had finished adding the new car lane extension it was still not on the computer map – so i didn’t buy it.
Locally there has been a problem with people being sent onto the train tracks instead of the road near it. Our house can fall in a variety of places on our street.
We were taking the RV down to PA for some work. We made the turn to enter the NJ Turnpike to find an 18 wheeler on its side blocking the entrance and were waved to a street on the side of the entrance area. When we went through I was happy to see that I knew where we were – an industrial park that had a venue for events – electric train, quilt, craft, woodworking shows and the like. I told Robert to pick a parking lot and pull over. All the GPSs were trying to send us back to the Turnpike entrance. He didn’t pull in anywhere – huge trucks fit in the parking lots,but he was afraid the Chevy Express van RV would not. One of the GPSs started giving directions – I knew it was going back to the Turnpike, he thought it had figured out the problem. As he drove I had pulled out my laptop to get up my maps program – taking too long. So, I pulled open the lid of the plastic box between the seats and pulled out – yes – a AAA map for NJ. I figured out how to go – and said to head west at the Interstate – he followed the GP west. We then drove in a huge circle back to the exit for the Turnpike, but I managed to convince him to follow my directions instead which got us onto US1 which runs parallel to the Turnpike – with one of the GPSs unable to change as we went as we had not passed through the points on and it kept trying to send us back to those points.
We go a historic festival in PA once a year for years. He follows the GPSs. They have us drive = turn left, turn right turn left… at almost 1 block intervals, zigzagging our way along. I though I would never know how to go without the GPS. Last year we missed a turn due to the GPSs arguing. I found out from this that there is a large road that one turn onto and then make one turn off it instead. I now know how to get to the festival – good thing as this year roads were closed and he could not follow the GPS as they kept trying to send him back on the closed roads! I also found out from this that the road we turned onto instead of the small roads is also the road to our RV dealer and now know where all of this lays out and connect.
Best (worst) of all with Robert’s sense of direction is that when the GPS had a problem he panics. We have gone to a larger similar festival in PA annually since 1974 and he went before then with his parents. We had a problem one year, and again this year with the GPS – he went into a panic that we would not find the festival. We know the way from Lancaster north and from I 78 south. Coming north from Lancaster I said to him (both times) “We don’t need the GPS. We get on Rte 222 and follow it to the exit for Kutztown (where the fair is) and then drive up the parallel road. We get stuck at the 2 traffic lights, we pass the airport and the dinner and where the Inn used to be and where the tearoom used to be. The road continues into the college where the fair is and we turn left at the sign to turn left for the fair and the pizza place. We then come to the fair and turn left into the college parking lot. Him – “We’ll never find it without the GPS!”
Speaking of road trips and GPS . . .
And if that doesn’t work . . .
http://introvertdoodles.com/comic/road-trip-type/
@Brian, if you have a reasonably recent iPad it is in fact a GPS device.
I don’t think so. My understanding is that the basic WiFi models do not have a GPS chip. You have to have a cell-enabled model or use an external receiver.
@ Brian in StL – Cellular models derive most (or possibly all) of their location data just from the cell network, without using satellite information. They can supplement this with information about the known locations of WiFi networks (if WiFi is enabled, even without a connection).
Speaking of Google Street View… Some years back there was a Frenchman whom Google accidentally caught urinating in his front yard. Google refused to remove the photo from the system, so he sued them — assuring that a million times more people would see the photo (and know the name that went along with it).
When writing up the story I very politely left out his name, referring to him only as Monsieur P.
And that is known as the Streisand Effect. (And I like your name for him.)
I just remembered (contradicting my statement way above – I know, NEVER SAY NEVER) – I did see someone on Google Street View once – and it just happened to be someone I know (the agent who sold me this house, and lives in the same subdivision), walking her rescue greyhound. I did a screen shot and emailed it to her – she got a kick of it, but then, if anything like Mr. P’s ‘event’ was happening, it would’ve been the dog, IronMan.
But I will reiterate, this is the only time I’ve seen people in either satellite view (not even in the pools or yards) or street view.
@ Brian in StL – Cellular models derive most (or possibly all) of their location data just from the cell network, without using satellite information. They can supplement this with information about the known locations of WiFi networks (if WiFi is enabled, even without a connection).
I’m not sure what your point is. My iPad doesn’t have cell capability. My understanding is that the GPS is built into the cell module, which I don’t have, so no GPS.