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Trip to Brazil
The summer of 2002, the Michigan Tech Concert Choir took a two week concert tour of Brazil. Here are some memorable quotes from the trip, in pseudo-order.
- "It's just like putting on a bra."
-- A.B., regarding putting on his moneybelt
- "You want to weigh THAT?!?!"
-- Airport worker, regarding Ukranian woman wanting to have a small luggage carrier weighed
- "Anybody with virgin eyes, cover them up, I'm coming in!"
-- A.B., skinnydipping in an underground lake in the gold mine
- "Down In The Valley: song for a dirty ol' man."
-- A.B.
- "That looks like a dog biscuit. Does it taste like one?"
-- Unidentified choir lady
"Yep."
-- Another unidentified choir lady
- "I've been next to a lot of yucky things my whole life."
-- J.V., walking next to her husband
- "I think this is the girl from Ipanema right here."
-- A.B.
- "Let's go to the bar. Come on, let's go downtown."
-- D.B., as we were getting ready for bed.
- "They have an automatic shoeshiner in the lobby. But, you have to lift your own foot."
-- I.R.
- "I assume his windshield is clearer than ours is."
-- M.O.
- "It's hard to be sassy in pearls."
-- C.P.
- "If we had a slit down our dresses, nobody would care about the wrinkles."
-- N.R.
"Then you'd have to get rid of the wrinkles on your legs."
-- C.P.
- "Oh, oh, oh! Brazilian woman!."
-- A.B.
- "Visa: It's everywhere you want to be. For everything else, there's Mastercard."
-- J.H.
- "I heard 'chess set' ... what?"
-- M.M.
- "That thing could put Mall of America out of business."
-- M.M., regarding a parking garage
- "That translates to Wal-Mart."
-- M.M., regarding a Brazilian discount store
"No, that probably translates to K-Mart."
-- J.H.
- "That's a brave crane."
-- M.M., regarding a bird in the Sao Paulo water
- "This is where Hell's Angels takes on a whole new meaning."
-- M.M.
- "Hotel Iguana."
-- M.P.
"Hospital Jaragua."
-- M.M.
- "I haven't smiled since 6th or 7th grade."
-- M.M.
- "I'm glad that you don't know my butt from his butt."
-- G.M.
- "We're gonna have a lot of bitchy people at 6:30 [a.m.] tomorrow. Then, there's the people
who went out tonight; they're gonna be bitchy to a factor of three or four."
-- M.M.
- "Democracy at work."
-- I.R., regarding a local speaking his mind
"I was gonna say, drugs at work."
-- M.O.
- "They're shot glasses!"
-- T.O.
"No, they're tops of bottles! Everything she sees is a shot glass."
-- C.P.
- "Have your picture taken with an authentic homeless woman for only five reais."
-- J.H.
- "I don't mind wearing pearls... I once wore Lee Press-on Nails."
-- B.R. (a man)
- "It's hard to imagine that somebody's passion was the founding of Lee Press-on Nails."
-- N.R.
- "You can't do anything with them on; you'd hurt yourself wiping!"
-- C.P.
- "Sucking liquids out, putting liquids in..."
-- C.P.
"Where's the duct tape, Mark..."
-- B.R.
- "They have a lot of McDonalds around here, or we're going around the block many times."
-- A.B.
- "Look it, Virgulino is there on the wall."
-- C.P.
- "It's getting bigger every year, thanks to Coca-Cola Company."
-- Junior (Manaus tour guide), regarding some festival
- "Barb, nice bag."
-- N.R.
"Shopko, $9.95, two days before the trip."
-- B.L.
- "How'd you get stuck with all these old people?"
-- C.P.
"I'm with the young at heart."
-- J.H.
"I like his attitude. He knows how to woo the old people. Not that I'm one of them."
-- C.P.
- "He's offering to buy me a drink; I should at least take him up on it... So what's expensive?"
-- A.C.
- "Pirahnas aren't gonna attack something this big."
-- Turtle guy, patting A.B.'s belly
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