NULL license plate not such a bright idea

Re:NULL license plate not such a bright idea by madcaptenor on Monday August 12, 2019 @02:53PM (#20678611)

I once had a cab driver take me to MIT. Cab driver: "what is this place?" Me: "MIT" Cab driver: "what's MIT?" Me: "the Massachusetts Institute of Technology." Cab driver: "what's Massachusetts?"

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Re:NULL license plate not such a bright idea by TMWNN on Monday August 12, 2019 @11:03PM (#20682435)

I've heard that, three blocks from Caltech, many people have never heard of the university.

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Re:NULL license plate not such a bright idea by foldr on Monday August 12, 2019 @02:57PM (#20678663)

I had a cab driver in New York who was unable to take me to the Brooklyn Bridge.

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Re:NULL license plate not such a bright idea by neffy on Monday August 12, 2019 @03:45PM (#20679182)

... well it keeps getting sold.

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Re:NULL license plate not such a bright idea by et2o on Monday August 12, 2019 @08:11PM (#20681510)

Possibly didn't want to take you into Brooklyn. The Manhattan side isn't really walkable.

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Re:NULL license plate not such a bright idea by foldr on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @06:08AM (#20684186)

I was already on the Brooklyn side. But the issue was literally that he had no idea what the Brooklyn Bridge was, not the precise drop-off location. (We just wanted to look around Dumbo for a bit.)

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Re:NULL license plate not such a bright idea by et2o on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @02:47AM (#20693242)

Wow! Hard to think of a more iconic landmark in that case.

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Re:NULL license plate not such a bright idea by madcaptenor on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @01:41PM (#20697945)

Someone else is probably out there complaining a cab driver wouldn't give them a ride to the Statue of Liberty.

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Re:NULL license plate not such a bright idea by james_s_tayler on Monday August 12, 2019 @08:48PM (#20681732)

Not to be confused with the world class educational institution the Manukau Institute of Technology :P

I always find it funny when I drive by that and I see the sign MIT.

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Re:NULL license plate not such a bright idea by 9nGQluzmnq3M on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @12:19AM (#20682805)

Move over plebs, some people study at the Royal MIT: https://www.rmit.edu.au/

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Re:NULL license plate not such a bright idea by madcaptenor on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @09:47AM (#20685762)

I find the German language funny because "mit" just means "with". I remember search engines having trouble with this in the late nineties.

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