Funniest Things A City Slicker Has Ever Said To You?

[jvls1942]

this just happened last Sunday. we had company and my 45 year old nephew was holding the day old gosling. He asked me ,, "how do the big geese feed their babies?" he was blown away when I told him that the babies eat grass and grain and feed... "NO WAY !!!" LOL

 

[KristyHall]

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My family avoids fertilized eggs do to the blood spot that is often in the eggs. I have been known to just pick out the spot, but our family does not eat any blood due to religious beliefs. I was raised with this belief system, and the thought of eating any form of blood is very disgusting to me personally. So I understand when people have troubles with that part of eating fertilized eggs. But I must say it cracks me up when I hear of people thinking that their is a fully formed chick in the egg just because it's fertilized, or that somehow it was going to be a chick. I am fairly sure that without some type of incubation that an egg is just an egg fertilized or not.

I was reading last night about the different ones here on BYC that have hatched chicks from store bought fertile eggs. I might just have to try that sometime.

Btw, bloodspots and fertilization have nothing to do with each other. An unfertilized egg is just as likely to have a bloodspot as a fertilized egg.

My mother always said it was because the hen was bruised or injured during the eggs development.

 

[feather and mountain man]

So yesterday was my b-day and a friend of mine asked if I did anything nice for myself. I told her I had an order of chicks shipped out to me. She said Oh yeah so what are you and your friends gonna go do? I had to stop and think what the heck is she talking about after a second and then I said no chicks baby chickens. She was confused then and asked how is that a good thing? I said more chickens to have more eggs. Not to mention I love babies. She then said do baby chickens lay eggs?????

How am I friends with such a cityslicker????

 

[KristyHall]

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I once had a tourist ask if I was really a Mainer.
Me: "Yes, I was born and raised here."
Tourist: "But you don't LOOK like a Mainer!"
Me: "..."

What, pray tell, does a Mainer look like?!

Well if the Stephen king books are any indication....
Really freaky

 

[KristyHall]

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I would have taken it to the refuge and released it. But then... I like foxes

 

[KristyHall]

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OK non chicken related.
Native foods and nutrition is something of a hobby for me.
So when I was teaching with Indian ed and when I did a few lecture sat local colleges, churches, etc, i often talked about how 60 percent of the world's agriculture came from foods originally grown by the Native Americans. Also many modern agricultural techniques came from various native tribes. (We also jokingly call Thanksgiving America's first welfair line)
Some statements annoy me
" tomatoes are original from Italy!"
"people use to think tomatoes were poisonous" my response " yeah only if you think that only white people are people and the tomato eating natives were not"
"Potatoes are originally from Ireland!"
*face palms*
Oh and this really irritates me
"Indians had no religion until the Christians brought it over"

 

[KristyHall]

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stereotypes suck

 

[Hollywood Chickens]

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stereotypes suck

Yes they really do.

BTW I love your avatar! is that a castle reflection?

 

[KristyHall]

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Hehehe... I can just picture me trying to tell MIL or SIL... "IGNORE the horns, just LOOK 1 thing dangling = boy, several dangling = girl" and the HARUMPHS to follow... of course better these folk are assuming bull when it's a cow and not the other way... that's been known to cause some major problems come milking time.

A friend had a huge bull mastiff dog and another friend brought her little girl, about 4, over. The child was convinced this big male dog was a cow, and kept asking to milk it.
She couldn't understand why everyone was laughing too hard to answer

 

[mom'sfolly]

Here's another one from the tourist file. I worked in an art gallery near the cruise ship docks in Alaska. In addition to the mountain air comment, I also got the "do you take American money" and the whole conversation of

Are you from here?
yep
but you're not an Eskimo?
nope and not Native either
what's Native?
well, around here there aren't any Eskimos but there are Native Americans, mostly Tlinget
Why aren't there Eskimos?
because they don't live in this area
It's Alaska, why don't they live here?

This conversation could go on a very long time. But I still like the mountain air comment, and then asking what the altitude was. Ummmm, uh, we're on fill here so uh, maybe twenty feet.

See that very large boat you've been on for the last week, see what its floating on, what do you really think the altitude might be. By the way, that tang in the air is sea weed and dead fish.....