Monday, October 22, 2007

Funny Pronunciations

"Attention all pahssingers, 'Jina Airlines is now boarding, Gate Twerve. 'Jina Airlines, Gate Twerve." Wait a minute, there's actually a vagina airlines here? Are you kidding me? Asia is awesome. Oh, China Airlines. Sorry.

"Herro radies and gentremen, wherecome to the Bangkok tampon tour." Whoa, are we on the wrong bus? I thought this was a temple tour. "Yes, today we will see rargest gorden tampon and jade buddha tampon." Okay, that was from the first time I was in Bangkok with Barrett. But we laughed like idiots and it still makes me crack up.

2 comments:

Alicia said...

Totally inappropriate. And awesome.

I just had beers with an old friend in a Seattle bar. He's talking about his boss and says "he's great, but you know, a little... uhhh.... [quietly] well he's Japanese -- " at which point I cut in and tell him it's perfectly ok to make culturally insensitive generalizations about people of certain nationalities. I've been doing it for months. Don't get me started on Israelis [I love em, but man....]

I laughed just reading the 'rargest gorden tampon' [and yes, I snicker now re-writing it].

Thanks for an awesome last night on the road. Slurring, getting lost, and public urination aside, it was EASILY my best night in Thailand. Hands down.

I have to know: did you go back and climb that ladder?

Alicia said...

Oh - I put up a link to your site on my blog, so you can keep raking in the dough.

Generous, I know, I know. You can come to Philly and buy me a beer to say thanks.