Feathered Fish ping!
Posted on 09/06/2009 7:52:54 PM PDT by Wardenclyffe
I usually wait for them
at the end of the bar
So Cal time.
LOL. Too funny. I think that is actually true
I don’t know but wouldn’t that make them Craven?
Lucky you. ;-)
Another one asked me if the boat “went all the way to Reno”.
LOL You could have told the last one that you'll know you're getting close when the boat pulls into the Carson City Harbor! heh
I can't believe someone is dopey enough to think the snow was painted! Oh my goodness...(shakes head)
It’s amazing, or maybe just pathetic the contortions people will come up with to make themselves feel superior. A few of these are silly, but most are just uninformed questions. Maybe travel agents should recommend an informational course on Banff so these poor canucks don’t have to feel they are mingling with the great unwashed.
While I was a zookeeper I was lucky enough to field several awesome stupid questions and comments from the public:
Do hippos lay eggs?
How much does the 300-lb. tortoise weigh?
And I actually heard one public school teacher explain to her group of students that, are you ready?
PENGUINS ARE THE ONLY FISH WITH FEATHERS!
Years ago, I spent about a week in Ravelstoke.
Indescribable!
“Turn off the fog”? “TURN OFF THE FOG”?!
Feathered Fish ping!
There was a school-book, put out in, I believe Kansas, that stated that we had fresh-water whales here in Lake Michigan.
Apparently, they migrated down (somehow) from Hudson Bay to here during the winter.
They then defended the assertion because it was in a school-book.
My sister does historic reenacting. Sometimes I’ve gone to visit her at these reenactments and it’s been quite interesting and informative. But the questions the “tourons” ask can be hilarious. She will be giving a demonstration of cooking and people will want to know, “Is that a real fire? Is that the kind of fire they had back then? Why did they have the battle here in a national park?” or “Why did they have the battle here where there are all these monuments? Didn’t they get in the way of the fighting?”
I would sit behind the palms in the main terminal. The United passengers would ask me where the phone was. I would point 10 feet to my left and say “under the phone sign”. That would be broken up with “where is gate 39”. as if airports all over don’t have signs. That sign was just past the phone sign.
The really sad thing about this was the tourists were from Redwood City, California, a little over an hour away...
I was helping out with the family business in Hope, Alaska, when a bunch of army guys got off the bus going to Seward and asked if they could “pet your bear”.
Ummm, what bear?
The one right behind you!
Cue lots of scrambling for the rifle........
At our Chamber of Commerce it is "when do the deer turn into elk?" I suppose the other variation has been asked. lol
4. Do we need snow tires or chains to drive to Lake Louise in July?
I don't think that is such a dumb question. It has snowed, blizzarded even, in July here at only 8,000 ft much less what can happen at 12k. It's smarter than people who know nothing of an area and just take off over a mountain pass or through a desert unprepared and don't ask anything.
This can't end well...
LOL It might be better put to say the best way to see a cougar on the trail is to take a bike.
Like dragging yarn past your cat.
yer welcome.
At the back of the hotel, everybody has a camera.
I watched a bus load of Japanese. They spent a great deal of their alloted time organizing the pose for large group pictures and then small groups of two or three. It was a comical event.
With the spectacular mountain and lake views, they were intent only on each other.
They came and then on command....whisk, they were all gone.
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