No sense of humor (or a highly developed one)
Posted on June 12th, 2008 – 2:26 PMBy Chris Welsch
My father (known from his periodic posts here as Captain Nebraska) sent this to me in one of his mass mailings. He has managed to make himself a magnet for every kind of pass-it-along e-mail that makes its way around the net. Anyone have a clue as to where this is? And what must have happened to make the people here post a sign?
3 Responses to "No sense of humor (or a highly developed one)"
Way too easy to find, I just did a google search of images with the phrase “do not laugh at the natives”
Well, I guess it means that people were laughing at the natives. Simple to see that much isn’t it?
Wow, lots of hits to my Web site about this sign! Thought I’d swing by and say hi to everyone in Minnesota. I took a photo of it (different from above) in November 2006 on a road trip to visit family in Idaho. I enjoyed the ambiguity of it, but your discussion here prompted me to do some research. Since everyone in Idaho actually DOES know everyone else, I called my sister in Mackay…who called an acquaintance…who gave some background and a corporate phone number for Stinker’s Stores…which I called…which yielded their Web site: http://www.stinker.com. Here’s the scoop: The sign was erected by the store’s original founder, Farris Lind. He had a quirky sense of humor, which is shared by many Idahoans. So enjoy, and know that, although you’re laughing at them, it’s all ok. They’re laughing, too.
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