Amazing displays of ignorance
Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic tells us: "My dad's friend told us there's no such thing as gravity - it's just the weight of air holding us down". Tell us of times you've been floored by abject stupidity. "Whenever I read the Daily Express" is not a valid answer.
( , Thu 18 Mar 2010, 16:48)
Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic tells us: "My dad's friend told us there's no such thing as gravity - it's just the weight of air holding us down". Tell us of times you've been floored by abject stupidity. "Whenever I read the Daily Express" is not a valid answer.
( , Thu 18 Mar 2010, 16:48)
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I was born in NM, and we love these stories!
But, if not foreign, NM is a little *different*. I like the visitors who earnestly try to bond with the native peoples even though they knew nothing about them half-an-hour ago. My mom liked to laugh about the English visitor who pronounced the names of the Hopi and Cochiti Indians as 'Hoppy' and 'Coshitti', and resisted correction. His intention was to spend six months with them, I believe. The Hopis probably thought he was a Navajo spy....
( , Fri 19 Mar 2010, 18:29, Reply)
But, if not foreign, NM is a little *different*. I like the visitors who earnestly try to bond with the native peoples even though they knew nothing about them half-an-hour ago. My mom liked to laugh about the English visitor who pronounced the names of the Hopi and Cochiti Indians as 'Hoppy' and 'Coshitti', and resisted correction. His intention was to spend six months with them, I believe. The Hopis probably thought he was a Navajo spy....
( , Fri 19 Mar 2010, 18:29, Reply)
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