Trip to USA

[ausjack]

Cool touro thing, a saddle on the donkey and steps to get up on the cart and food to keep it happy and a chain to keep him there but no harness so the cart isn't going anywhere.

[trout]

Maybe the one with the cart is a "Mule" ??

[ausjack]

Or did you mean his name Jeff, could it be Paco or is that what it costs.

Paco is a Spanish nickname for Francisco. Another nickname for Francisco is Pancho

[trout]

Or did you mean his name Jeff, could it be Paco or is that what it costs.

I recon Paco will end up in Taco's when he gets too old :diablo::angel:

[JeffH]

Nice work guys.

Here is the answer I prepared earlier;
There are two donkeys sitting in the cart (they may have been imbibing tequila). The one in the front is an ass who thinks he is a zebra born in the wrong body -maybe he has just been eating too much peyote and become confused. Judging from what his assistant charged to take the photo he should soon have enough saved to afford the operation.
I personally think he should save some more , go for the horn implant and become a unicorn.

Alebrijes are brightly colored Oaxacan-Mexican folk art sculptures of fantastical creatures.
If you think we are exhibiting childish behaviour above you should have seen us at Disneyland. A sense of childlike wonder gets you a long way there.

[ausjack]

I think they should have given you a gun and then you'd have a real bandido look, not that you don't already

[JeffH]

[ausjack]

:laugh2: what a pearla but your worth more than that mate :friends:

[Unicorn]

:laugh2: armed .... Yes, the pen is mightier than the sword!
(PS: Love the unicorn).

[ausjack]

With that razor sharp tongue your a dangerous man :winkextra:

[JeffH]

The Mexican fantastic creature carvings I saw were either the real thing (and expensive) or cheap and nasty, mass produced imitations. If I had happened to find a unicorn I would have bought it.

As it happened we bought some clothes which are really cheap in Mexico for good quality stuff. A lot of SOCAL (Southern California) residents go to Tijuana for shopping, especially dental, medical and pharmaceutical services. Viagra seems to be advertised at every pharmacy (and there a a lot of those). One pharmacy we saw had a doctors office attached with a sign advertising consultations for $4 -I took that to mean that you front up, name what medication you are seeking and a prescription is issued with no questions asked.

[JeffH]

NANNYFORNIA!
One of the first things I noticed in California was the warning signs on products shop, counters and in building foyers. They are everywhere.
If you decided not to frequent any place with such an alarming warning or consume any similarly labelled product you would end up naked in the desert starving to death. I did not see any such signs in Death Valley (there are such chemicals naturally present there) but maybe I was too busy wondering at the sights to properly look for them. :mocking:
I should not use a loupe I purchasd at a museum there (the price was right) because it has a label telling me it contains chemicals known.....! Talk about ridiculous.


I can see the intent but fail to see what it achieves. From my observations I suspect some labels are on products not known to cause cancer, birth defects or such -manufacturers put them on anyway to avoid the possibility of being sued at a later date.
Talk about political correctness run amuck.

Here are some examples, courtesy of Google California proposition 65 warnings. I love the one about burning wood about the fifth row down.

[ausjack]

When I was working at the hospital around 2000 the government had the same idea and had to put either red or yellow lines everywhere and signs saying watch your step and mark the step so it cost a fortune to show common sense and the local council paint raised bits in the footpath to show you it's rooted but if you trip over one you don't have any comeback as they say they marked it so tough, might not be so bad if they were fixed sooner instead of 10 years later. So a lot of money gets wasted for no apparent reason :scratch_one-s_head:

[Unicorn]

Yes, I was looking at some adhesive that holds under high temperature and put it back on the shelf when I read the list of "possibles" on the back. Cancer, birth defects ...... on and on ..... but hey, I'm not gunna eat the stuff!

I think it was a USA product too ......

[ausjack]

:swoon: what you and Mrs Uni gonna go again, can we handle another little Uni as the last one's a handful, but she is gorgeous, tooty :laugh2: