I recently saw a commercial for a Dodge SUV that shows the vehicle falling into the ground and through the Earth ending up in China. My wife and I were asking ourselves the above question.
2006-11-05 14:42:40 · 5 answers · asked by wolf n dolphin beals 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
I am hoping that I can get an answer based on the saying, not the commercial or SUV
2006-11-05 14:57:00 · update #1
When we were kids playing in the sandbox or at the beach, someone inevitably asked what we would find if we kept on digging. Our parents and grandparents always replied with the running joke of "You will end up in China". Who knows who started this urban legend, but I found a link about a third grade boy who has succeeded in tunneling through to Shanghai.
Check it out, it's pretty funny.
2006-11-05 15:02:52 · answer #1 · answered by True Blue 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you serious? Try spinning a globe. It's a large major country on the *Eastern* side of the world, and the saying is in English, so it originated in a *Western* country... I don't care where you would actually end up if this was actually possible. It's as far across the world as you can possible get from the West -- culturally if not geographically.
2006-11-08 05:15:59 · answer #2 · answered by Scott 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is impossible to dig your way to China. To do so would be doing the
impossible. If you buy the Dodge SUV you can do the impossible.
People in advertising are so creative.
2006-11-05 22:46:34 · answer #3 · answered by sunnymommy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually I believe that if anyone in North America dug straight down they would come out on the other side somewhere south of India in the middle of the Indian Ocean, but I don't know where the saying came from.
2006-11-05 22:46:11 · answer #4 · answered by Hielodrive 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
from old chiniese railway workers
2006-11-05 22:44:28 · answer #5 · answered by come2turkey:) 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋