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I suppose Ireland is the best place in the world for directions. People will say to you "I wouldn't start from here if I were you." I was driving to Wicklow town and outside Wicklow town there's a kind of country road and I came to a cross section and there was one sign post and it had Wicklow on it and the other way was Wicklow. And there was a fella sitting there and I said does it make any difference? and he said "Not to me it doesn't." The classic on my way to Limerick and I said to this fella do you know where this place is? And he said "Ahh yes. Ahh yes, ohh god yes. Now go down the road, straight down the road just follow your nose. Ahh keep going straight and you'll see a turn on the right hand side. Now ignore that. And then there's a second turn on the right hand side and ignore that one as well. There's two, three, four, five. Five turns on the right hand side, ignore them. Then you see a house on the left hand side, turn left there. That's where you want to go." And I said why did you tell me about all the right hand turns? Why didn't you just say take the first on the left? And he said "Who's giving these directions, me or you?"
Dave Allen, 1993
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