I Pity the Fool Who Can’t Find the Nearest Starbucks

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Tired of bumping around town in your luxury ride, trying desperately to find the closest Rudy’s barbeque or Thundercloud Subs and having to listen to that generic female voice on your GPS? Don’t you wish you could have Burt Reynolds or Mr. T give you directions with the requisite sass? Yea, us too. Well, the wait is over, apparently. Navtones car navigation system produced by Los Angeles-based Wanderlust Media and digital map and location content provider Tele Atlas have combined to bring you celebrity-voiced navigation systems. Single celebrity voices will cost about $10 to download online, while unique character-themed voices — think of a generic surfer dude, or a cowboy — will cost about $5 each.

Yes, the end of the world is nigh.

But, while we’re here, who would you want or not want navigating you around town?

Our early thoughts
Good ideas: Maureen Dowd, Lauren Bacall, Chris Tucker, James Earl Jones, Sophia Loren
Bad ideas: Carrot-Top, Waylon Smithers, Jim Rome, Truman Capote

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By matthewodam in News on November 17, 2005 1:30 PM 0 Comments

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TonyZ

Without question Joe Pesci.

SN

Harvey Fierstein would sound the way I feel most Sunday mornings

odam

how about Kitt from Knight Ryder?

ttrentham

Here's some. You can decide which are good and which aren't.

Richard Simmons

Isaac Hayes

Jerry Lewis

Jerry Seinfeld

George Bush

John Kerry

Barry White

Eartha Kitt

odam

Rome (for coffey):

Are you totally jerking me off right now? Take a left at the light...epic! At the upcoming stop sign, if you a re good father like Lawrence Taylor, take a right. Epic.

War no rolling stops.

Out

Alison

wait! I think Jim Rome would be hilarious! Add him to my list. And also, Colin Firth. Melt.

blah

whenever i read things like this i feel so so far removed from mainstream america. people drive? and enough to warrant luxury and navigation systems? and the navigation systems speak in celebrity voices? and people like this? so unsettling. so weird. i'm crawling back under my rock to sip tea and read galegan poetry, who-o-oa, thank you.