If You're Going To The Usa . . .

[Buenchico]

. . . make sure that you're not found carrying any candy floss
. . . or cookies
. . . or mints
. . . or deodorant
. . . or tea
. . . or heaven knows what else!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46393600

[jno]

if people will try inhaling tea leaves, they should know the risks

[Buenchico]

Yes, Jno.

They start off with soft tea, like Tetley and PG Tips, but it's a rapid downward slope to the hard stuff, like lapsang souchong ;-)

[sanmac]

For some reason, jno's post reminded me of this:

[Buenchico]

Thanks, Sanmac.

I've got that playing now (in a separate tab, so I can post here without it cutting off).

It's not new to me. (Indeed, I've got it on a cassette tape of Bob Newhart's work somewhere - which is why I've still got a cassette player). However I've not heard it in a long time and it's good to be reminded of his genius.

[sanmac]

You're quite welcome, glad you enjoyed again.

[Patsy33]

Trust them!....

[Buenchico]

Yes, Patsy.

That's the nation that we trust(?) to analyse the information which determines whether we go to (possibly nuclear) war or not. Reassuring, isn't it?
;-)

[sanmac]

And don't take any Blackpool Rock: It looks like a stick of dynamite with a hidden-message!

[gness]

Pah! That's nothing....you try taking a length of corduroy through Canadian customs...... :-(

[Mamyalynne]

That's asking for trouble Gness.

[Buenchico]

A problem with the way that resort names are written in rock, Sanmac, is that they often become distorted and could possibly look like Arabic text to a suspicious US customs officer. Very dodgy!

I'm wondering if Gness has had some odd experience in Canada that she could enlighten us about!

[gness]

Well I didn't know the trouble it would cause, Mamya and Chris...

Came back to the UK for a holiday....picked up a length of corduroy fabric I fancied making into trousers and put it in my case....
The horrid woman at customs found it....well I wasn't hiding it.....and apparently I was breaking some law????
Had I made the trousers before I left the UK it would be fine...but bringing the fabric into Canada to make the trousers was an offence.....to be honest I think she just didn't like me.....
There was quite a fuss involving lots of officials in the end.....I didn't care too much....I had lots of fabric free from a local company.....but I kept on because I really wanted to be charged with importing a yard and a half of corduroy into Alberta...... :-)

MrG stood some distance away with the usual raised eyebrows and weary look on his face....x

[Buenchico]

>>> MrG stood some distance away with the usual raised eyebrows and weary look on his face

I hope that he ensured that his passport photograph was taken showing that expression, otherwise (with you in tow) I doubt that he'd be recognised by passport officials ;-)

[tonyav]

My ( late ) aunty had a Black pudding, a pork pie and a jar of pickled onions confiscated in Canada !.

[Buenchico]

Ruddy 'eck!

Tony is the nephew of an international terrorist!

;-)

[gness]

Chris..... after I was taken in for questioning at a border control over the murder of Mountbatten MrG always joined a different queue..... :-)

Probably scoffed by the lady who took my corduroy, Tony....x

[tonyav]

LOL, I know Chris. She blamed my cousin ( her son ) because he had emigrated some years before and had asked her to bring some of his favourite things that he couldn't get in Canada when he knew she was going to visit him.

[Patsy33]

They're a bit neurotic aren't they?....

[tonyav]

Probably scoffed by the lady who took my corduroy, Tony....x

Yeah and I'll bet that she made a lovely trouser suit out of that corduroy.


Hang on, Mountbatten !!!!!!!

[tonyav]

Yes, Patsy.