BS: Following directions?

Subject: BS: Following directions?
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 21 Apr 06 - 01:23 PM

This was a new one... went to the fair with my kids, and I'm sitting next to the merry-go-round (carousel, for you brits, and happy bday to your queen while I'm at it), and I hear the following embedded in the safety message, which plays before every time they start:

You may only ride in English!

(then it goes on to say)
..or Western riding styles.

But I had time to go, what???!?

Other good directions without using foreign languages?

Subject: RE: BS: Following directions?
From: Amos
Date: 21 Apr 06 - 01:25 PM

No talkie, no horsee, as they used to say in the laundry business.

Guess that was a moment of severe cognitive dissonance!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Following directions?
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 21 Apr 06 - 02:11 PM

You aren't kidding!

Subject: RE: BS: Following directions?
From: mack/misophist
Date: 21 Apr 06 - 03:08 PM

Can't help wondering how many little kids (or parents) know what that means.

Subject: RE: BS: Following directions?
From: autolycus
Date: 21 Apr 06 - 04:37 PM

Q. Why did the people of Israel wander thru the desert for 40 years?

A. 'Cos Moses wouldn't ask for directions.

Subject: RE: BS: Following directions?
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Apr 06 - 06:03 PM

on an iron..

"Please remove clothes before ironing"

Subject: RE: BS: Following directions?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 21 Apr 06 - 06:19 PM

So you must ride this particular merry-go-round in either proper English riding style or proper western riding style? Considering that 95% of the kids that ride the thing have probably never been on a real horse, wouldn't "Face forward, hang on, and don't fall off!" be adequate rules?

Subject: RE: BS: Following directions?
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Apr 06 - 07:40 PM

"serving suggestion"

Subject: RE: BS: Following directions?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 21 Apr 06 - 07:44 PM

I still like the instruction on the BOTTOM of a can - "Open Other End"

Subject: RE: BS: Following directions?
From: frogprince
Date: 21 Apr 06 - 10:48 PM

Guess what? I know the difference between an English saddle and a western saddle, but I've only ridden an occasional rent-a-horse since back when I rode an old plow horse bareback; I have no idea what the difference between English style and western style on a carousal horse would be.

Subject: RE: BS: Following directions?
From: bobad
Date: 21 Apr 06 - 10:52 PM

"carousal horse"

Good name for a rock band, that.