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Then Why Are My Hands Silver After Touching It?
Tourist: Is it solid silver?
Salesman: Let me show you. First, do you know how to tell the difference between solid silver and silver plate?
Tourist: No.
Salesman: This is solid silver.
Dodgy Souvenir Shop
Egypt
Categories: Africa | Compare and contrast | Customers | Default | Guys | Offers and requests | Questions | Shopping | Stores | Tourists | Posted 2008-05-25 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
Arby's Comes to Ghana
American #1: What the hell is that smell? I have to find out, because I never want to be around it again.
American #2: Smells like sulfur.
American #3: I've been around cadaver...
American #2: Cadavers smell better.
American #3: No, cadavers smell different. Still awful, but different.
American #2: ... I've only been around the freshly dead.
Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto, Gbi Agbenoxoe
Ho Region
Ghana, South Africa
Overheard by: Yevu!
Categories: Africa | Death & dying | Foreigners | Posted 2007-10-10 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
The Second-Greatest Story Ever Told
British woman: They asked me if I believed in Jesus and I said, 'No, but I do worship Godzilla.'
CCS Home Base, Fodome Road
Hohoe, Volta Region
Ghana, West Africa
Categories: Africa | Foreigners | Religion | Posted 2007-10-09 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
She's a Committed Omnivore
British woman: Ah, look, Dede's eating a piece of paper.
American woman: I caught her eating a crayon today.
British woman: The other day she ate a piece of chalk during class. She'll basically eat anything you give to her.
Volta School for the Mentally Handicapped
Gbi Kpendu, Volta Region
Ghana, West Africa
Categories: Africa | Foreigners | Mental illnesses | Posted 2007-08-07 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
The Question Is, How Is It Not?
Student #1: I don't know what people are going on about. To me, 'fuzzy logic' and 'rough sets' are basically the same.
Student #2: How is fuzzy logic anything like rough sex?
University of Pretoria
South Africa
Overheard by: Daniel
Categories: Africa | Colleges & Universities | Students | Words | Posted 2007-07-24 | Email | Quote | Link | Del.icio.us | Facebook
