This is a riot, someone at Google has a sense of humor. Look at instruction 23 on the driving directions:
Google Map (//%22http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&saddr=new+york,+new+york&daddr=London,+uk&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=40.851942,93.515625&layer=&ie=UTF8&z=3&ll=46.073231,-36.035156&spn=35.861458,93.515625&om=1%22)
Gawd, that is too funny!!![:)]
I saw on the other day where to get from X to Y in London they had you go around the block 100 times and then die because if you can get between these two locations things arent going to end well anyway. Something like that.
Google rules.
I go there annually.
And swim.