A friend of mine was doing a spinning demonstration (the textile kind, not the stationary bicycle kind). She had just started, so the bobbin was still exposed. Observing, a woman said to her young child, “Look! See how she’s turning the wood into yarn?”
But I bet the fox slept with one eye open.
Good thing too. At the zoo in our city we had two foxes eaten by the bears, when they were placed in their enclosure. Caused a real scandal it did.
I’d be surprised if the bear would have considered the fox prey. Except for fish (and the occasional unlucky human) I don’t think bears usually prey on other predators when there are other options available.
Ferret Herder has a point too: at the NE Aquarium they have a several thousand gallon tank in the center of the building, filled with sharks and other fish, and according to a guide there are rarely any attacks in front of visitors because they purposely offer the sharks food a lot more often than they’d get in the wild.
Perhaps the little bastards snore. 
I heard both of these at Edinburgh castle from tourists.
“Isn’t it great that they built the castle so close to the shops…”
(pointing north) “I didn’t know we were so close to France. Look, you can see the Eiffel Tower”
(scroll down) Craigkelly Transmitter, as built by Gustav Eiffel
I will not mentin their nationality…
In a restaurant, I overheard a woman inquiring, as though she were shopping around: “What do you charge for a bounced check?”
I missed the response because I nearly choked on my food laughing so hard.
If you look closely, you’ll find lots of small animals in large animal enclosures. They’re there to hunt rats and other pests that have come for the bigger animal’s food scraps.
To be fair, a lot of communities are intentionally hidden behind tree lines, so as to be obscured visually and audibly from the highways. If you’ve ever driven across an unfamiliar state, then there’s probably been a time when you’ve thought yourself in the great wilderness, but you’re actually a stone’s throw from suburbia and five Walmarts.
My cousin admitted he asked a Manhattan cop where the Eiffel Tower was, apparently he didn’t miss a beat and said, pointing, “About 3000 miles that way!”
I overheard a college age tourist from the US in a hostel in Galway one time, talking about Connemara, “They’ve got these stone walls and donkeys every where, I mean it’s a bit much.” From the context it seems she thought that the stone walls were built as a tourist attraction.
My cousin was telling a friend about her plans for college. Her friend asked what she was going to major in and my cousin responded “I don’t know, something in the liberal arts.”
To which her friend responded “You mean like karate?”
:smack:
When I was in Vienna I bought a t-shirt with the profile of a kangaroo against a yellow diamond shape, and the words “NO KANGAROOS IN AUSTRIA.” I immediately knew what it meant, so I asked the clerk at my hotel. He confirmed my suspicions.
Apparently, there are people who don’t know that Austria and Australia are two separate countries. They book their flights to Vienna, check into their hotel, and ask the desk clerk how to get to the Outback. Then they get seriously angry when they’re told that they’re several thousand miles away. Usually they just leave and go back home, thinking there’s nothing to see or do in Vienna.
I have a strong urge to say that has to BS, but then I have to believe, chances are, there are people that stupid out there.
Wiretap 1 - Suspect B’s phone is tapped.
Suspect A: I got letter from the phone company saying the feds subpoenaed my phone records.
Suspect B: You got to get one of these thingys I have that you put on your phone and tells you when it is tapped.
Same wire - Suspect B’s courier (a middle aged woman) is having a hard time with the codes he uses when discussing weights of cocaine.
Suspect B - One is just one ok? A 112 is four ones. A whole one is 38 ones. Got it?
We has this stupidly simple code figured out right away but to have him explaining it on the phone when the whole purpose was to confuse anyone who might be listening was priceless. For those of you not in the cocaine business, 1 oz = 28 grams, 112 grams = 4 oz and 38 oz = approx. 1 kilogram
BTW, Suspect B was the subject of an American Gangster episode. But first he did about 20 years as a result of the wiretap.
Wiretap #2 (actually a bug planted in the house)
Suspect - (in an apparent effort to get into pants of a female friend while his wife wasn’t home by impressing her with his smarts) “I write everything down in this book in code and no one knows how to read it but me.” He then goes on to explain code names for various customers and how dates are recorded as x amount of days before or after some significant event (also coded which he explains).
We had second hand information about a ledger but this confirmed it and we probably would never have figured out the names (the dates weren’t so hard) of the people who eventually testified against him. 40 years.
Why do you think they call it dope?
Good grief. I know that snakes are not tails.
I guess you guys never listened to Doctor Science. His pontifications were intentionally funny, and usually idiotic, which is why I was reminded of him. Given the context of the thread, my insertion of “correctly” was an attempt to add to the absurdity.
For The Record: I am a High School Graduate, and know that amphibians don’t even have tails.
Sheesh.
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Crotalus and Filbert, TreacherousCretin was referring to “Ask Dr. Science”, which is a parody of shows like Bill Nye the Science Guy (although Ask Dr. Science predated Bill Nye’s show). Ask Dr. Science was produced by Duck’s Breath Mystery Theatre and was sort of an anti-Straight Dope.
Example of Ask Dr. Science audio: Is there a factory in our heads that makes hair? Warning: linked mp3
Notably, Dr. Science has a Master’s Degree… in Science!
Exactly; there are other reasons I can see that you might want to beat up the other fauna now and then. 
Thank you, Lynn. This is what I was trying to say. Most of the time the customer didn’t really care what store they were in, just which piece of plastic to pull out of their wallets to pay for their purchases.
Gomen nasai. Won’t happen again.
(And, there’s a “topic” in “Mundane and Pointless Stuff I Must Share”? Who knew?)
(And I really did overhear the man say those very words. Really really.)
The bear has to wipe its ass with something.
“Do you have a problem with shit sticking to your fur?”