h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hell is actually located in Michigan, USA. It has an 'official' Post Office, and is northwest of the Detroit metropolitan area near the town of Pinckney.

I have been to Hell, my family lived up the road. It is a very plesant place located by a dam on a small creek named Hell Creek. There is a bar named the Dam Site Bar. It is hot in the summer, and cold in the winter, when Hell freezes over.

For more information, please see:
http://www.hell2u.com/
http://www.ais.org/~alb/hell.html

Note: there is also a Hell, Grand Cayman and a Hell, Norway but I have not personally visited either.

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And my, what wonderful t-shirts. Ain't Michigan grand.

Have you impersonally visited them?

You know, I've been reading Dante's inferno, and I discovered that Dante hell is actually a very amusing place. ::thinks and giggles:: Personally I think that non-Mormon hell would have to be Utah, and yes they have t-shirts. ::raises eyebrow::

The Christian hell is a real place. In the Old Testament, it was simply "The Pit." What they were referring to at the time was a huge hole in the ground outside Babylon, where they burned their trash.

yes, babylonian sure had good ideas.
we are being force fed ancient history in school, and Babylon was very...inventive.

Didn't the pope recently state that hell is not a physical place, rather it is the absense spirituality.
Or is it that he's going bonkers?
He probably meant, the absense of being Catholic!

no, not impersonally or extrasensorally, or any other ally...
but I did go to Paradise, Michigan once
it's in the UP [Upper Penninsula]

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I think you'll find that the closest you can get to Hell on Earth is in fact the Basinstoke ringroad, Hampshire, England. Either that or the M4 on hot day with roadworks...

I think you'll find that the closest you can get to Hell on Earth is in fact the Basinstoke ringroad, Hampshire, England. Either that or the M4 on hot day with roadworks...

Hell is actually a city known as Swindon.
What's the world coming to if Swindon can call itself a city? It must have already come to an end.

I don't think the Basingstoke ringroad qualifies, although I have been sat in a jam (rather than in jam, which would almost be as bad) on the M4 in 90 degree heat. I think the one-way system in Reading, Berks, would go close to qualifying too ...

I vote the M5/M6, in/around Birmingham for being hell as far as traffic jams are concerned.

Alternatively, I was in hell here at home last weekend when H2G2 was down!

A volcanic geothermal field in New Zealand is called Hell's Gate. It contains bubbling mud pools, steam gushing from vents in rocks, deep boiling craters and a pervading smell of sulphur. The land(moon)scape is truly out of this world.

This place is truly foreboding and well named.

It is situated 200 miles south of the grid-locked city of Auckland, a more contempory hell.

Not intending to insult New Zealand as its a fantastic place (I lived there for a couple of years) but did you know that in the Star Trek universe, it is a penal colony?

Which is the penal colony, NZ or Hell?

In any case surely it should be called Australia

NZ was NOT settled/invaded by Pommie convicts

What is NZ like in the Star Trek Universe? Is it where no person has dared to go before (modern version)?

But of course!

I did have a brief experience with two of the circles of hell, Reading and Basingstoke earlier this year. Basingstoke is hell because they don't sell MadDog 2020, and Reading is hell owing to bad signposting.

Incidentally, if you park in the multistory in Basingstoke, you can slip a motorcyle past one of the unused barriers and not need to pay! well, unless you don't have a motorcycle - OIC, that why y'all keep getting stuck in traffic!

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