Ha-ha! You'll Love This News Article

[TezriLi]

Someone stopped because she had a Washington, D.C. driver's license. Reason? She was asked if she had a proper passport to continue her flight into the U.S.!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...855538-9e77-11e3-9ba6-800d1192d08b_story.html

 

[Scripture Bird]

I don't recall ever seeing an article that said TSA agents were highly trained in American geography.

 

[TezriLi]

Years ago, I heard some foofaraw* about a telephone operator who didn't know New Mexico was in the United States.

* Yep -- it's a word. I hadn't heard of it before and decided to use it instead of kerfuffle or falderal.

 

[TezriLi]

An old friend, now gone, once told me that she called operator assistance for a phone number in a small town in Washington State -- Yakima. For those who are not familiar with WA's interesting town/city names, this is pronounced "YACK - a - mah." So she asked for the number, and the operator retorted, "That's pronounced "yah - KEY - muh." My friend answered, "That's odd. I lived there over thirty years and did not know that!"

Here's another town's name in that state: Sequim. Pronounced "squim."
Here are more:
Chew
Chnak'wa'qn Breaks
Chuckanut
Duckabush
Frisken Wye
Hamma Hamma (reminds me of Elvis)
Humorist . . .

 

[Scripture Bird]

Years ago, I heard some foofaraw* about a telephone operator who didn't know New Mexico was in the United States.

* Yep -- it's a word. I hadn't heard of it before and decided to use it instead of kerfuffle or falderal.

I like kerfuffle. It has a nice ring to it.