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

Now, as surreal directions go, that one must be up there surely!

But it's true - this advertsing company (wierd media types, eh?)has a huge model zebra in its garden, and inside the place is full of toy zebras, zebra printed wall paper etc...

Anyway. Why was I going there? Oh yes - at my son's band's first gig last Saturday, one of the Dads had got a black Tshirt printed up with their name "Asphyxia" in dripping blood font on the front, and "guitar technician" on the back.

So we all wanted one !

Mine says "manicurist" on the back, since I'm the one who has to buy the black nail polish and do the right-hand nails.

Embarrass the little dears? But of course - it's in our contracts as parents!

Their music? Well, they do cover versions of Zombie, Creep, and My Cat (by Jack off Jill, and I always tease ma boy by calling it Smelly Cat ). Gothic glam, I think they style themselves as.

Wish them luck for the Battle of the Bands at Sunday's Church Fair !

OK, sounds like your son has an interesting band...

Of course it's you place as parents to embarrass them, it's payback for all those times they embarrassed you when they were 4.



Here in my home town we have a couple of landmarks like that. One is uptown. It's a sculpture of a man in a rowboat. "Just follow this street until you see the man in the boat, then turn left..."

And on one highway there was an old 2 pump gas station that looked like a small single engine airplane. Everybody used the "Airplane Filling Station" as a reference point when giving directions on Clinton Highway.

oh, at the Church Fair!

my favorites directions are the ones that are incomprehensible to the people who really need to comprehend them.

to get to my house you:

- go round the "bear pit" (that one is actually not too hard to identify, even though their are no bears in it),

- at the "place du pont" (actually "place gabriel péri" for the last 60 years, but no real lyonnais ever calls it that)...

_ go down "wedding dress street" (no sign for that, but once you're in the street it's obvious, as there are about 30 wedding dress shops (calling it the hallal butcher shop street would be silly, as there are no more than a dozen of them)

- then right at that building that used to be such a horrible shade of orange

- right again at the railroad crossing (which was taken out last year).

as strange as it seems, this is the way i would really give directions to lyonnais, as all of these are "famous" landmarks, even the ones that don't exist anymore. using real street names would never get them here.

So, how did the "Battle of the Bands" go?

They won!!!!


Yay!

Unfortunately I missed them as I had to drive RF to the airport

Well done, give the little love a pat on the back for me!

that you missed seeing him (them), but I'm sure you will have many more chances in the future.