Comments on: Comic: “When in Egypt…”

By: mercator

mercator — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:04:22 +0000

Having just witnessed several incidents not unlike this one during two weeks in Beijing, I think tour guides get used to it and just deal with it. Then they take the tour to a “local artist” and split the 10x overpriced item profits as payback.

My favorite is still this one from Beijing:

“What do you guys call Chinese food over here in China?” [note the tour guide was a woman]

“What kind? Beijingese, Shanghaiese, Hakka, Cantonsese, Hunan, Anhui, Sichuan, Guilin, Guanxi, Shaanxi, Xinjiang, Xizang, which?”

“[awkward silence]“

By: Darrell

Darrell — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:08:51 +0000

As a wise man once said… it is what it is.
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Enjoy it for its own goofballishness.

By: Jawahunter

Jawahunter — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:50:49 +0000

I… I don’t get it.

I get the song reference. I get the annoying American reference (having worked at a tourist hot spot before). But I don’t get how saying that would be the death of the tourist. If he began to sing the song and do that dance then I could get it. But for just mentioning the Bangles I just don’t see that death worthy.

Or Scott, does the tour guide actually loves the Bangles so much so that anyone even implying that one could hate the Bangles is a death worthy offense?

By: Darrell

Darrell — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:27:04 +0000

I agree with #shabayek. I worked with a real actual egyptian and they look just like us without all the typical dress of other Arab countries.
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But I liked this one anyway cuz I get the message.

By: VBStrider

VBStrider — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:06:26 +0000

I have no idea what this comic is about :S