"Are We There, Yet?" - Casablanca
GUESS WHAT?!
We were supposed to visit Casablanca today, but when I arrived in northern Africa, Casablanca was nowhere to be found. It turns out that when they gained full independence from Spain in 1956, they moved it. In fact, the whole country of Morocco is now located on a soundstage in a warehouse in southern Utah. Admission is $12 for adults and $6 for children. Anyone under 5 years old or over 97 is admitted free.
Once inside you declare yourself to be Berber, Arab or Moor, then teams are established and curling matches are played to decide boundaries and win custody of any children who are wearing red. On departure you can purchase videotapes of the matches in exchange for leftover children.
If you’re caught stealing a souvenir fez, you have to stay in Utah for another week…and are required to take your children back.
Be careful, and enjoy your stay.
Previous entries in the "AWT,Y" series:
"AWT,Y" - Intro
"AWT,Y" - Istanbul
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Curling in Casablanca--Wow I ad no idea I could see a match so close to home. And to get a video of myself playing at such a reasonable fee! I can hardly wait the two more years till I can get free admission!
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All prices are subject to change...kind of like your age.
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Nice post. Bogart and Bergman would be proud.
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You might be right, PC. Neil Bogart and Wanda Bergman were a heckuva mixed couples curling team back in the '70's.
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Might this be the same soundstage where they landed on the moon from the grassy knoll and staged the Kennedy assassination? I thought it was in Nevada... or Jersey.
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Yes, it is. And if Oswald hadn't stopped to steal that fez, he probably wouldn't have gotten caught.
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Wow! I was so confused, but I'm going to put my confusion aside to remember what a wonderful movie that was to start with!
Deborah
www.therhythmofwrite.com
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Confusion is nothing to be ashamed of...at least, I dearly hope it isn't.
Thank you very much for the visit, Deborah! I'll check out therhythmofwrite.
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My father wore a Fez but he didn't drive a little car around in circles during parades which was always a disappointment to me. If I am not mistaken, Pin, the little cars with grown men in Fez's are more popular than curling in Utah. That information is found in Wikipedia but there are no footnotes to substantiate it.
I sure like your travelogues because they add an entirely new dimension to geography.
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Dimensional Geography! A new course for the winter curriculum! You write the syllabus, I'll compose the lectures, and I'll see if I can get PC to conduct classes.
Sorry your father didn't drive around in circles in a little car.
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From what I can gather, most high school graduates cannot even locate on a globe the city, state or even country where they live. Just imagine what they could do AFTER they are exposed to your diminsional geography classes.
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They'd probably be lucky to even find the globe.
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Nowhere is it more clear than this post here, that the the suspension of reality promised by the banner at the end of each feed is delivered in trowels!
Of course, I read these by closing my eyes and clicking one of the "New Entry at Pinhole's Blog", so it it QUITE possible, though grammatically unlikely that there is actually Somewhere that it is more clear than this here post that the the suspension of reality promised by the banner at the end of each feed is delivered in trowels!
Say, is that a pixie forearm sticking out of that lad's head where his left ear should be?
Cheers,
Mitch
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It can be anything you like, Mitch. But if it was truly a forearm I doubt the grin would be quite that broad.
Thanks for stopping in.
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