"Meowl's are real-the folder says so!"

[blaubent]

I've had pretty stupid customers, really stupid. But this one takes the cake.
SC=Stupid customer (who happens to be of middle aged, looks pretty well educated)

SC comes to register. Brings a folder up to the register

(PICTURE:
http://home.earthlink.net/~zindra/mars.gif/image140.gif)

SC: This animal is real.

ME: No it is not. The artist took a couple of different pictures and merge them into one.

SC: It is too real! (Opens the folder). It says so right here! It's a meowl! The folder says where it lives, blah blah.

ME: (Tries to tell her other wise)

SC: It's real! Read this!

ME: (Gives up. Shakes my head. Rings her stuff. Rings folder last. Pressed total)

SC: The folder is not $10.98!

ME: No it is not. Your TOTAL is $10.98! (ME THINKING: You've got to be kidding me!)

[CherryCokeKissez]

haha, a "meowl", that's awesome. Yet somehow, it doesn't surprise me that someone would think it's real...

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Arguing with people that stupid is like trying to teach a pig to roller skate. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.

I had a woman (might have posted this somewhere) who brought in some film that had been very poorly processed in some minilab somewhere. Dust all over the negs. She insisted the flecks and marks were angels that were only visible on film, but not to the eye.

Hell, no, I didn't argue with her. I didn't want anyone watching to get confused over which one of us was the nut.:wave:

[One-Fang]

Let me guess - the Breed Apart range is a range of folders with breed-combination images constructed in photoshop and false 'breed information' inside the covers?

[Ljt09863]

Let me guess - the Breed Apart range is a range of folders with breed-combination images constructed in photoshop and false 'breed information' inside the covers?

exactly. i thought some of them were cute, but others were creepy. wasn't there one with a bull dog and bunny or something? the info inside was fun though. if the animals were real, it think they would be cool.

[Ryu]

well to be fair
i was taking a tropical marine ecology course and the professor was showing pictures of animals we would see in the bahamas
it was morning plus we were excited about seeing cool stuff so when he showed us the mangrove penguin we all believed him :p

[Dark Psion]

Next time send her to this website;

http://www.worth1000.com/

That should blow her mind.

[chainedbarista]

that reminds me of something my boss told me about a friend of his, who seriously asked him:

'is trolls real?'

asked exactly as typed...:confused: :eek: :roll:

[tonydanza]

haha, me and my girlfriend saw that thing at walgreens and she thought it was cute. Obviously a fake. There's also one with a monkey's face plastered over a dog.

[hecubus]

Well, of course meowls are real. It's just that they're very rare, due to the dwindling numbers of their primary food source, the Jackalope:

http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~szpak/pub/nas/jackalope.jpg

[The cat whisperer]

[QUOTE]SC: This animal is real.

ME: No it is not. The artist took a couple of different pictures and merge them into one.

SC: It is too real! (Opens the folder). It says so right here! It's a meowl! The folder says where it lives, blah blah.[QUOTE]

Maybe she needed the folder for school. You know, Hogwarts. It has to be a real school right? ;)

[Barefootgirl]

That picture of the meowl is pretty good. Better than the jackalope picture, i have to say. I have long since given up arguing with crazy people. What's the point? I can't talk to the little green pixies who are telling them what to say at any given time, and if I ever did manage to convince someone that I was right and i.e. meowls don't exist, what have I achieved? I've wasted my time and spoiled a mentally fragile person's day. Yeah, that makes me a real hero, all right.

[friendofjimmyk]

Damn, someone beat me to the Jackalope comment. That's the first thing I thought of when I saw the Meowl.

[Becks]

I simply cannot believe some people. Hey, I should find that picture of the black pug dressed up to look like a spider for that woman. Wouldn't that blow her mind?

[Tria]

that reminds me of something my boss told me about a friend of his, who seriously asked him:

'is trolls real?'

asked exactly as typed...:confused: :eek: :roll:

Yes, but they don't live under bridges. They hide in online messege boards.

[ArenaBoy]

I wonder if I should tell that there are Basselopes out there. That would freak her out even more.

[Cia]

Jackalopes are meateaters. A herd of jackalopes can strip a buffalo to the bone in about 3 hours, give or take 15 minutes. But if a buffalo catches a lone jackalope it while stomp on the 'lope until it is nothing but a smear for fur, antlers and goo.

[Mark Healey]

This reminds me of a couple of calls I get a few times a year.

The first is a request for The Princess Bride by S. Morgenstern. I'ts kind of funny. In his introduction to his book by the same title William Goldman writes about his childhood experience and his research in the above mentioned book. It doesn't exist. He made it up.

It's an easy trick to fall for. He mixes up fact and fiction in his introductions, but people are so disappointed when I tell them that they are on a snipe hunt.

The second is for The Book of Counted Sorrows. Dean Koontz "quotes" from this non existant book.

And no, the Necronomicon is not a genuine ancient text. The ones you see in the stores were written in the '70s.

[MadMike]

The first is a request for The Princess Bride by S. Morgenstern. I'ts kind of funny. In his introduction to his book by the same title William Goldman writes about his childhood experience and his research in the above mentioned book. It doesn't exist. He made it up.


So the book that the grandfather was reading in the movie by the same name doesn't actually exist? I had no idea. I always assumed the movie was based on a book, with a few humerous elements added.

My son and I just watched the movie a few days ago, and he asked me if there really was a book. I told him there was. Guess I was wrong. :ashamed:

[Kogarashi]

So the book that the grandfather was reading in the movie by the same name doesn't actually exist? I had no idea. I always assumed the movie was based on a book, with a few humerous elements added.

My son and I just watched the movie a few days ago, and he asked me if there really was a book. I told him there was. Guess I was wrong. :ashamed:

No, the book does exist. It just isn't by S. Morgenstern, it's by William Goldman (who also did the screenplay for the movie). William Goldman simply (and fictionally) references "S. Morgenstern's" book in his introduction.

[Bliss]

They look like one of the previous worth1000.com contests, the one to mix breeds and animals together. My favorite was the zebra worm