CAMBODIAN TOURISM UPDATE
This is just wrong.
(Thanks to Claire Martin)
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March 24, 2004
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OK, that was weird, but SOMOLIA was REALLY weird.
"At least, we would try to make sure they were not kidnapped, though it can happen."
Not that he's had any chance ot pracitce, with no tourists for 14 years.
Posted by: Scott | March 24, 2004 at 12:12 PM
Did Dave bring us back a worlds largest tapeworm t-shirt from the Parasite Museum? That was in Terre Haute, right?
Posted by: twopuppies | March 24, 2004 at 12:14 PM
I can imagine the souvenir t-shirts at the South Korean theme park:
"Where do you park your penis?"
Posted by: Meerkat | March 24, 2004 at 12:15 PM
Okay kids, everyone in the car...we're going to the Penis Park!
Posted by: sherrypg | March 24, 2004 at 12:18 PM
And those are just some of the fascinating points of interest on the Highway to Hell.
Posted by: nouti | March 24, 2004 at 12:18 PM
Making good progress, MeL. Here, have some more Peeps.
Posted by: nouti | March 24, 2004 at 12:26 PM
In response to why not one tourist went to Somalia, the minsister said, "I can't understand this. "I'm sure tourists would leave Somalia alive and I'm hopeful they wouldn't be kidnapped." Then, "At least, we would try to make sure they were not kidnapped, though it can happen."
This makes me consider the following ways to solve their tourism problem:
1) Why not have two or more tourist ministers for this hotbed of travel activity? Surely the tourists ratio to travel ministers is too low.
2) The minister(s) should re-market for REAL adventure travelers. "The Kidnap Capital of the World!"
3) Let TV have a go at it. "Survivor: Somalia"
Posted by: c00kie | March 24, 2004 at 12:31 PM
And the scary thing is I know people who would want to do this.
Posted by: Dancergurl | March 24, 2004 at 12:43 PM
Sounds like they need the rocket launchers in Somalia!
Posted by: Lee | March 24, 2004 at 12:51 PM
Sadly, I acutally know someone who DID this while he was in Cambodia...... Yes, I do have odd friends.
Posted by: looneygirl | March 24, 2004 at 01:01 PM
The Parasite Museum? Penis Park? Firing rocket launchers at cows? Where's my passport? Damn, the U.S. is a boring country. Why don't we have any of those great tourist attractions here? I know I'd wear a Parasite Museum t-shirt.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | March 24, 2004 at 02:12 PM
Hey, I WENT on that sewer tour in Paris. WHat a big ripoff! We waited for a couple of hours, then got dragged (in a boat) a few hundred yards through a sewer, and they wanted a tip for that!
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | March 24, 2004 at 02:14 PM
One more: you don't need to drive a couple of hours from Rome for this one (assuming it's still open). At the Capuchin Church just off the Via Veneto in Rome they have skeletons of former monks arranged on the walls and ceilings in a way cool display! Some rooms have various bones artistically displayed, and other rooms have full skeletons, some in beckoning poses! And the living monks wandering around are pretty spooky and look like they're meansuring your femur for that last space on the wall. Highly recommended!
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | March 24, 2004 at 02:18 PM
>This is just wrong.
Wrong... or right?
Posted by: Dave Brandt | March 24, 2004 at 02:37 PM
Now if we could only smuggle Barry Manilow to Cambodia in a cow suit....
Posted by: Ross "The Urinal Penny Guy" Durland | March 24, 2004 at 02:43 PM
I guess sticking firecrackers up cat's butts is totally passe uh? Whats next? Will we be able to shoot elephants with a tank? Mortar a flock of ostrich?. RPG water buffalo? Torpedo killer whales? Call in airstrikes targeting the San Diego Zoo?
/Ping Ping Ping ping Ping Ping
Fire control: Orca bearing two zero niner at 10 knots, depth fifty, I repeat fifty meters!!!
Tourist: Let me know when you have a lock!
Fire control: We have a lock!!!!
Tourist: Fire tubes two and three!!!!!
Fire control: Fish away!!!!
Ping Ping Ping ping Ping Ping
Hit! I say again direct hit! Catfood!!!!!!
Tourist: Yessssss!!!!
Posted by: BMX3 | March 24, 2004 at 03:52 PM
Damn, where's PETA when we need them?
Posted by: Factotum | March 24, 2004 at 03:53 PM
Combar Controller: Apache 62, control.
Tourist: Apache 62.
Combar Controller: Confirm location please.
Tourist: Two five miles so. west of S.D. Wildlife Park, over.
Combar Controller: Rodger, I have you now. Proceed directly to SDWP.
Tourist: Rodger. Turning Comm. over to my EWO, Tango 1.
Combar Controller: Copy that. Tango one, control over.
Tourist: Tango one.
Combar Controller: Tango one, what is your target?
Tourist: Tango one, I am looking at the group of deer looking things in the NW quadrant.
Combar Controller: Negative, I repeat, negative. Those are endangered east african plains gazelles.
Tourist: O.K., how about the large herd of Giraffe in the SW quadrant.
Combar Controller: Rodger, plenty of long necks around, you are clear to fire 20mm guns at the herd of giraffe in the SW quadrant. Coordinates 240 SW X 220 NE. Keep 2000m buffer from fire zone and I-5. Note: Wildlife park opens in 3 hrs. Over.
Copy all, rolling in, fire up the Barby!!!!
Posted by: BMX3 | March 24, 2004 at 04:18 PM
hmmm...shoot a cow? That doesn't seem very sporting. Cows are slow and dumb. I guess that they are not HUNTING the cows, just using them for targets. Could a cow stop a rocket? It seems to me that the rocket would continue on it's way after decimating the cow, and destruct what ever is beyond the cow as well.
Posted by: Jessica | March 24, 2004 at 04:31 PM
BMX3, take a timeout and your meds of choice, thanks! :-)
Posted by: eadn | March 24, 2004 at 04:31 PM
If PETA ever finds out about this...
Posted by: Little lion | March 24, 2004 at 04:40 PM
Do you really think this is funny?
Posted by: sam | March 24, 2004 at 04:45 PM
sam.
not in the slightest.
punky.
Posted by: Punky Brewster | March 24, 2004 at 05:31 PM
I want $400 now. :(
And airfare.
Posted by: Magnanimous Wang | March 24, 2004 at 10:35 PM
Concrete proof that guys should continue ruling the world? I think so. I think so.
PS- Sure, some movie cannot do without explosions, but I know of many moives that I would have been much more impressed with had they involved exploding cows as well. Imagine the possibilities...
Posted by: Garrett | March 25, 2004 at 05:10 AM
Oh my gosh, that's terrible! Where's PETA?? In this case I'd actually side with them. (whoah)
Posted by: JCT | March 25, 2004 at 07:23 AM
bill, i briefly looked over your crappy page. far be it from me to call you a liar. but i didnt see shit about any damned tapeworm. when you find the time please email me at the above adress with pictures of the worlds biggest tapeworm
Posted by: chris | May 06, 2004 at 05:27 PM
bill, i briefly looked over your crappy page. far be it from me to call you a liar. but i didnt see anything about any damned tapeworm. when you find the time please email me at the above adress with pictures of the worlds biggest tapeworm
Posted by: chris | May 06, 2004 at 05:27 PM
i want to shoot a waterbuffalo with a RPG. just once. i mean how many people can say they have done something so pointlessly stupid and cruel. really unless your completely insane , this IS a good idea. hell ,i bet Dick Cheney and George Jr. have a weekend getaway planned. i will be saving my euros for a trip to cambodia. do they have a website?
Posted by: devilchildnicky | June 04, 2010 at 04:54 PM