Stupid Guest Tricks

Where is that sculpture?

felinefan wrote:Where is that sculpture?

A little further research shows that it is in Brussels, Belgium, and titled "De Vaartkapoen," or "The Tripping Policeman." Who knew?

BRWombat wrote:A little further research shows that it is in Brussels, Belgium, and titled "De Vaartkapoen," or "The Tripping Policeman." Who knew?

Probably lots of people...

ktulu wrote:Probably lots of people...

Okay, who outside of Belgium knew?

BRWombat wrote:Okay, who outside of Belgium knew?

I'm sure you could find someone...I wonder if I can get a govt. grant to study this. I'll use it to fly us to various Disney parks, where we will take turns asking different family members if we had heard of it. Then we will spend all of the grant money, and publish our "findings" and conclude that someone outside of Belgium did in fact know...

ktulu wrote:I'm sure you could find someone...I wonder if I can get a govt. grant to study this. I'll use it to fly us to various Disney parks, where we will take turns asking different family members if we had heard of it. Then we will spend all of the grant money, and publish our "findings" and conclude that someone outside of Belgium did in fact know...

Sounds good. And to make sure the methodology is sound, I hereby forget that I've already read the conclusion of the study.

ktulu wrote:I'm sure you could find someone...I wonder if I can get a govt. grant to study this. I'll use it to fly us to various Disney parks, where we will take turns asking different family members if we had heard of it. Then we will spend all of the grant money, and publish our "findings" and conclude that someone outside of Belgium did in fact know...

Let me know if you need a 'study' partner,we'll check out the local pubs as part of our interviews and get imput from the locals. I'll bring my own pen and paper.

BRWombat wrote:Sounds good. And to make sure the methodology is sound, I hereby forget that I've already read the conclusion of the study.

What conclusion ;)

darph nader wrote:Let me know if you need a 'study' partner,we'll check out the local pubs as part of our interviews and get imput from the locals. I'll bring my own pen and paper.

Bring your own pen and paper? Screw that, iPads for everyone! I'll make sure there is enough grant money...

Before I begin our planning process, I need to clear up one thing:

ktulu wrote:What conclusion ;)

No, the question is, "What study?" Had you ever heard of this study BRWombat is talking about? Neither have I, so we have to assume BRWombat has lost it and doesn't know what he's talking about. What's a little libel among friends?

Don't forget, you need a Marathon Prevost Limo Sleeper Motor Coach that comes with extendable railroad trucks, kinda like this but much prettier (you know how the Japanese often have no sense of form over function) going down the road or rails. Oh, and since two trucks means a nicer ride, naturally we cannot settle for less. Your chauffeur (me) will need training as a Locomotive Engineer, just to make sure that he can operate legally on the rails. I think it's a good value, because the training comes in under $29,000. When you consider that the driver/engineer training to the cost of the vehicle ratio comes out to less than 1:50, it's a steal. When your driver takes a break, we can hook up to the back of an Amtrak train, and they will gladly tow us for $2.10 per mile plus some other fees. So make sure you account for all that.

Of course, in order to guarantee the accuracy of this study, we'll make it double blind. By that I mean that both ktulu and Darph will have had enough to drink in order to literally render them temporarily blind, and then we will put blindfolds on them. So would that then qualify as quadruple blind, or do we call it based on the number of eyes, multiplied by the number of ways they have been blinded, and so Octo Blind?

All these details which we will need to hammer out before we depart.

And don't forget to factor in the cost of the hammer. I am certainly not paying for it.

And while we're at it, could you put in the budget to not only get us engraved iPad 2 64GB Verizon units? And while we're at it, I need an iPhone 4S 64GB Verizon, and it needs an unlimited data plan. Now that I think of it, so does the iPad. And we'll go ahead and get a WiFi hotspot so we can use FaceTime at all times. I'm pretty sure it comes installed on the Coach.

Want to really piss off a guest.
if you have a AP, figure out what your daily entry cost is and tell a guest that, just leave out the AP part. i.e. you paid HOW much? I only paid about 3.00 to get in here today..." this will either give them a heart attack or send them off screaming.