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Confused Tourist Lands in U.S., Not Australia (Idiot of the day award!)
http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/confused-tourist-lands-in-us-not/20061229081109990011?ncid=NWS00010000000001 ^
| Dec. 29
| Reuters
Posted on 12/31/2006 4:41:34 AM PST by jsh3180
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Oh well, I'm sure this happpens all the time.
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posted on
12/31/2006 4:41:36 AM PST
by
jsh3180
To: IncPen
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posted on
12/31/2006 4:43:00 AM PST
by
Nailbiter
To: jsh3180
Reminds me of the time I ended up in Berlin, NH instead of Berlin, Germany. I was wondering why everybody around me was speaking perfect English. At least the beer was still good so I decided to stay and make the best of things. But I was out of place with my sandals and socks (I was told that this is what they normally wear in Germany.)
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posted on
12/31/2006 4:48:12 AM PST
by
SamAdams76
(I'm 80 days from outliving Steve Irwin)
To: jsh3180
Isn't alcohol a wonderful thing????
Happy New Year!
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posted on
12/31/2006 5:40:12 AM PST
by
Aussie Dasher
(The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
To: mcmuffin; 3D-JOY; Guenevere
I thought for sure from the headline that this article would be about someone landing in Melbourne, Florida instead of Melbourne, Austrailia. I'll bet that has happened more than once.
Happy New Year! NVA
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posted on
12/31/2006 5:46:45 AM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(Saddam is Dead! Bush's Fault. [Pray for our patriot brother, 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub.])
To: jsh3180
"I didn't notice the mistake as my son is usually good with computers," his mother, Sabine, told Reuters.
Well, that's the problem right there, her sentence should have been "I didn't notice the mistake as my son knows geography". Just another (by)product of today's education system, may that be here or Europe.
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posted on
12/31/2006 5:57:20 AM PST
by
rxgalfl
To: jsh3180
I talk to people. I chat to others while waiting for a city bus and certainly I would do so on an exciting trip clear across the world. I cannot imagine being around other passengers at the airport concourse and sitting next to one on the plane and not yapping about have you been to Australia before? Are you going to Australia for vacation? Etc., etc., etc.
To: jsh3180; mikrofon; Charles Henrickson
The hapless tourist, who had only a thin jacket to keep out the winter cold, spent three days in Billings airport before he was able to buy a new ticket to Australia Ich bin ein brrrrliner.
To: NonValueAdded
A number of years ago a man boarded what he thought was his flight to Oakland. He wound up in Aukland NZ.
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posted on
12/31/2006 7:49:20 AM PST
by
TwoSue
To: TwoSue
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posted on
12/31/2006 7:50:27 AM PST
by
TwoSue
To: NonValueAdded
Thanks for the ping...I would have missed this story and the possible Melbourne connection.
Wonder if it has ever happened there?
Happy New Year. I will be glad to get back, cold here in Northern Virginia.
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posted on
12/31/2006 8:42:04 AM PST
by
3D-JOY
To: SamAdams76
Could have been worse, you could have wound up in Berlin (pronounced BUR-lynn) Massachusetts, where there are no bars, or sidewalks, only a few dairy farms.
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posted on
12/31/2006 8:50:48 AM PST
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(The artist doesn't have to have all the answers; he must, however, ask the right questions honestly.)
To: martin_fierro
Ich bin ein brrrrliner.
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posted on
12/31/2006 8:53:10 AM PST
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(The artist doesn't have to have all the answers; he must, however, ask the right questions honestly.)
To: jsh3180
Sidney vs. Sydney. Spelling really does matter.
To: TwoSue
A number of years ago a man boarded what he thought was his flight to Oakland. He wound up in Aukland NZ. I understand how that happened. Our step-granddaughter from Melbourne, Australia, came to visit for the holidays. We asked her about her trip and she said she had a short layover in "Oakland." It took a few beats for us to realize she meant Auckland: the pronunciation's the same.
To: martin_fierro
If it hadn't been for that typo, I would have been Tasmania_Slim.
To: BigSkyFreeper; naturalman1975
"I didn't notice the mistake as my son is usually good with computers," ...
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posted on
12/31/2006 9:29:13 AM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: martin_fierro; jsh3180; Charles Henrickson
Gutt's airline ticket routed him via the U.S. city of Portland, Oregon, to Billings, Montana. Only as he was about to board a commuter flight to Sidney -- an oil town of about 5,000 people -- did he realize his mistake. You get that Gutt feeling something's wrong...
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posted on
12/31/2006 11:05:52 AM PST
by
mikrofon
(Tobi or not Tobi -- *where* is the question...)
To: NonValueAdded
Happy New Year to you!
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posted on
12/31/2006 12:32:10 PM PST
by
Guenevere
(Duncan Hunter for President....2008!)
To: jsh3180
I predict that the islamofascists just figured out a way to get to the USA!
TYPOS!
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posted on
12/31/2006 12:50:02 PM PST
by
sodpoodle
(I'm retired - what are you doing here on Company time?)
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