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wilco64256
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Well this is fascinating - head over to Google Maps and ask for some directions. Set it to "walking" mode, then in Point A just put "The Shire" (no quotes) and in Point B put "Mordor."
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Ha!
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I can't get it to work. It gives me actual directions.
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I believe it's the caution message above the directions.
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Yeah it'll still try to generate directions for some actual places but there'll be a little highlighted warning above the directions themselves. That's the cool part.
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There's also this in the walking directions from China to Japan:
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If you reverse the Shire/Mordor directions (which for some reason happened to me?) the directions warn you that it may be missing sidewalks. I know it's not actually a joke, but I still thought it was funny....
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