Stupid TouristsWhat's the stupidest thing you've ever heard a tourist say? Ever heard an American talking about visiting "Scotchland, England", or (and this one is actually real) a Japanese couple talking about the correct way to say Clapham is actually Clatham, as "ph" sounds are pronounced "th". Which has a certain logic really. UPDATE: Please, no more Loogabarooga stories. It's getting like, "and I opened my eyes and my mum had left me a cup of tea!"
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chthonic, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 16:31)
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In reply to Mad RabbitI feel it is only fair to point out that not all people who do stupid things with alligators are Mercans.
I once attended a lecture by the prominent aquarist Dr. David Ford (he is English), who described a coach trip to the Everglades. The tourists alighted, walked along a small road to the edge of a pool and began taking pictures of a large alligator which had just hauled itself out of the water. He wanted to get a closer picture of it and started throwing food to it (sandwiches I think?!) until he was able to get a good close-up shot. He turned around expecting to see everybody else getting pictures too. There was nobody there. When he finally got back to the coach, he asked the driver why everybody had left him there.
The driver replied something along these lines...
"Mister, how fast can you run? A 'gator can do 25 miles an hour on land?!"
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finnbar has officially retired, Sat 9 Jul 2005, 10:30,
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