A replay of the TV series Alaska Experiment screened here recently.
It’s about a group of people who go off in different groups and spend three months living rough in an Alaskan winter. By rough, I mean they have buildings to live in, but no electricity or running water.
They’re out there arm-wrestling bears for salmon, head-butting rocks to pass the time, chasing dangerous and ravenous gangs of mussels across the bay, practising their figure skating routines and generally trying to make the muesli last the distance.
Anyway, I caught part of one episode where a couple had an encounter with a wolf. They saw it and it ran off, but circled around and came close to their cabin while they were trying to hunt it. After all, you don't want a wolf hanging around, it might sneak up on the cabin in the middle of the night and blow the whole thing down. Wolves are good with explosives you know.
But the highlight for me was the bloke involved, who insisted on calling the wolf a “woof”.
“Yeah, the woof has been prowling around, it left woof tracks here and here, and the cunning woof doubled-back and got within 30 feet of the hut there…”
Wouldn’t you be totally pissed off if you’d bought like the meanest, ugliest, most vicious guard dog in the world – rubber band around the goolies and everything – and called him Wolf. Only to have everyone start calling him Woof. And finally you gave up and started calling him Woof too...
“Woof! Time for dinner! Woof! Woof! Here boy! Woof!”
People would think you were a werewolf.
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Hahaha Woof? wow thats too funny
ReplyDeleteI knew a girl once and because of this I could never really be good friends with her: She said "death" rather than "deaf" and "Philadelthia" rather than "Philadelphia." And, for some reason, these two words always seemed to come up in conversations with her!Drove me crazy!
ReplyDeleteToo funny. We were at the zoo the other day, and a man was telling his daughter..."Ooh, look at him, he's a big one isn't he?" It was actually a female lion. Good teaching Dad.
ReplyDeleteI also love people who pronounce something 'sumfink'. My daughter says 'aminals' for animals, and but she's 6, so she has an excuse!