# Travelling Feud **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 6, 2008, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-feud/440282 "2008-03-06T03:53:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-feud/440282/41 "2008-03-06T19:03:41Z")
[QUOTE=Taber] 10. Salesman - misread as occupation [/QUOTE] Heh. Then you should have said “basketball player.” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![masterofnone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@masterofnone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/masterofnone)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-feud/440282/42 "2008-03-06T19:43:25Z")
1. Car 2. Stagecoach 3. Toilet paper 4. Disney World 5. Rome 6. Tokyo 7. Prescription meds 8. Prescription meds 9. Pickpockets 10. Vacation ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-feud/440282/43 "2008-03-06T20:37:22Z")
1. Airplane 2. Horseback 3. A towel 4. Disney World/Land 5. Paris 6. Hong Kong 7. Toothbrush 8. Passport 9. Dysentery 10. Christmas ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-feud/440282/44 "2008-03-06T20:50:16Z")
1. Name a mode of travel. **Car** 2. Name an outdated mode of travel. **carriage** 3. What is the most important thing for a traveler to carry? **ID** 4. Name a popular travel destination in North America **New York** 5. Name a popular travel destination in Europe **Paris** 6. Name a popular travel destination in Asia **Hong Kong** 7. What is the one item that a traveler is most likely to forget to bring on the trip? **Toothbrush** 8. What item will a traveler be least able to replace while on a trip? **ID** 9. Name a hazard of traveling. **Plane crash** 10. Name an occasion often associated with traveling. **Honeymoon** ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-feud/440282/45 "2008-03-06T20:53:02Z")
Can somebody explain why so many people are putting “towel” for #3. Who travels with a towel? ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-feud/440282/46 "2008-03-06T20:53:56Z")
Why does this seem so similar to **Zebra’s** game? 😉 1. Airplane 2. Conestoga Wagon 3. Passport (joker?) 4. New York City 5. Paris 6. China 7. Toothbrush 8. geez I dunno…underwear? 9. Montezuma’s Revenge (or other gastrointestinal disorder) 10. One-night stand, hopefully with a Swede. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-feud/440282/47 "2008-03-06T20:55:21Z")
[QUOTE=Happy Lendervedder] Can somebody explain why so many people are putting “towel” for #3. Who travels with a towel? [/QUOTE] Not a fan of _Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy_, are you? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![\_Deep\_F\_ied](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/7cd45c/32.png) [@\_Deep\_F\_ied](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Deep_F_ied)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-feud/440282/48 "2008-03-06T21:00:16Z")
1. Airplane 2. Horse and carriage 3. Passport 4. Las Vegas 5. Paris 6. Hong Kong 7. hmmm… Toothbrush? 8. Medication 9. Death- like a plane crash or car crash 10. Honeymoon ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-feud/440282/49 "2008-03-06T21:10:20Z")
[QUOTE=Happy Lendervedder] Can somebody explain why so many people are putting “towel” for #3. Who travels with a towel? [/QUOTE] :smack: such an obvious answer, too. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-feud/440282/50 "2008-03-06T21:22:50Z")
1. Name a mode of travel. automobile 2. Name an outdated mode of travel. horse & buggy 3. What is the most important thing for a traveler to carry? money 4. Name a popular travel destination in North America Disney World 5. Name a popular travel destination in Europe France 6. Name a popular travel destination in Asia China 7. What is the one item that a traveler is most likely to forget to bring on the trip? camera 8. What item will a traveler be least able to replace while on a trip? medications 9. Name a hazard of traveling. getting lost 10. Name an occasion often associated with traveling. graduation ---
**Author:** ![TheMerchandise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b487fb/32.png) [@TheMerchandise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheMerchandise)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-feud/440282/51 "2008-03-06T22:22:02Z")
1. Car 2. Carriage 3. Towel! 4. New York City 5. Paris 6. Tokyo 7. Toothbrush 8. Passport 9. Illness 10. Honeymoon ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-feud/440282/52 "2008-03-06T22:29:11Z")
1. Airplane 2. horse-drawn coach or wagon 3. ID/passport 4. Las Vegas 5. Paris 6. Singapore 7. toothbrush 8. ID/passport 9. robbery 10. Spring Break ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-feud/440282/53 "2008-03-06T23:56:16Z")
1. Automobile. 2. Horse. 3. Money 4. New York City 5. London 6. Tokyo 7. Razor 8. Passport 9. Getting lost 10. Honeymoon ---
**Author:** ![Thorium\_Indium\_Potassium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c2a13f/32.png) [@Thorium\_Indium\_Potassium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thorium_Indium_Potassium)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-feud/440282/54 "2008-03-07T00:22:59Z")
1. Automobile 2. Horse and carriage 3. Identification 4. New York City 5. Paris 6. Tokyo 7. Underwear 8. Money (it always seems to leave my wallet freely on vacation) 9. Jet lag 10. Christmas ---
**Author:** ![meenie7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@meenie7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meenie7)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-feud/440282/55 "2008-03-07T01:37:22Z")
1. Car 2. Horse-drawn carriage 3. Passport 4. Walt Disney World 5. Paris, France 6. Bali 7. Shampoo 8. Passport 9. Getting mugged 10. Honeymoon ---
**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-feud/440282/56 "2008-03-07T02:18:57Z")
Doesn’t look like anyone has provided a serious answer to \*\*Happylendervedder’\*\*s question about towels. This is a reference to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which has this to say about towels (the second paragraph being most relevant: A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to- hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough. More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitchhiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might accidentally have “lost”. What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-feud/440282/57 "2008-03-07T03:27:47Z")
those two paragraphs must, of course, be read aloud in a British anthropologist’s voice. ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-feud/440282/58 "2008-03-07T06:03:44Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] 1. Name a mode of travel. 2. Name an outdated mode of travel. 3. What is the most important thing for a traveler to carry? 4. Name a popular travel destination in North America 5. Name a popular travel destination in Europe 6. Name a popular travel destination in Asia 7. What is the one item that a traveler is most likely to forget to bring on the trip? 8. What item will a traveler be least able to replace while on a trip? 9. Name a hazard of traveling. 10. Name an occasion often associated with traveling. [/QUOTE] 1 Airplane 2 Horse-drawn wagon 3 passport 4 Niagara Falls 5 Paris 6 Bangkok 7 camera 8 Passport 9 Lost luggage 10 Honeymoon ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-feud/440282/59 "2008-03-07T06:24:43Z")
1. Automobile. 2. Horse. 3. Passport. (“Money” painfully decided against.) 4. Disneyland. 5. Paris. 6. Tokyo. (These past three will likely kill me in specificity issues or just plain misguidedness.) 7. Camera. 8. Money. [EDIT: Drat, I knew my “don’t repeat an answer” instinct would bite me.] 9. Illness/disease. 10. Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-feud/440282/60 "2008-03-07T21:35:47Z")
[QUOTE=as\_u\_wish] Doesn’t look like anyone has provided a serious answer to \*\*Happylendervedder’\*\*s question about towels. This is a reference to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which has this to say about towels (the second paragraph being most relevant: A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to- hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough. More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitchhiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might accidentally have “lost”. What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with. [/QUOTE] Ah, thanks! Never read it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-feud/440282.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-feud/440282.md?page=4)