Stuff You've OverheardAre you a nosey bastard who likes earwigging other peoples conversations? What's the best you've ever heard? From terrorist plots to intimate details of other peoples sex lives. We want to hear it all.
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rob, Wed 9 Jun 2004, 23:27)
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Stupid Tourists...I was in New York once when a fat Brit walked up beside a nearby business-type and shouted "OI! WHY'S THAT CALLED THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING?"
The businessman told him that it was named that because New York is nicknamed the Empire State.
His reply: "WELL THEN. I THOUGHT THAT IT WAS CALLED THAT BECAUSE YOU AMERICANS WANT AN EMPIRE!!" He then took a photo, and shuffled on his merry way.
The rest of us laughed at him for not having lived in the area for years and years and therefore not knowing the customs and local anecdotal trivia.
/He also had bad teeth, and when he left, I knew that my mother had left a cup of tea next to my bed because I heard the ice cream truck
//Thank God it seems that none of you have spent any length of time in NYC; you'd be too furious at the "stupidity" of the tourists to see straight.
(, Thu 10 Jun 2004, 18:09, Reply)
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