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Funny kite related things...

Kamikuza - 17-8-2015 at 01:12 AM

Guy stopped me on the beach and asked me about my beige kite. He was talking about my Speed3 21... maybe I should wash it.

Took another box to the post office today, contents "kite". The clerk asked me if I "hand-make them, because I'm always sending them". I wish!

Hmm...

djsiryn - 17-8-2015 at 01:34 AM

LOL! I get people all the time coming up and asking what it is I am doing around here. I have been known as the parachute lady by the kids at one park and have been confused for paragliding and parasailing in another. I love the look I get when I tell them it's a kite..... You know that look.. the one a dog gives when it hears a weird noise and tilts it's head to one side. HAHA!

Kamikuza - 17-8-2015 at 02:45 AM

Oh yeah, the paraglider thing... "Are you going to fly?" Well, yes... kinda.

Forgot one - the word for "kite" in Japanese is "tako"... which is the same word for "octopus". So when I fill out the postal form - in English - they ask me what's in the box and I say... "Tako." :o

djsiryn - 17-8-2015 at 02:50 AM

HA! I knew Tako was octopus, did not know it was also the word for kite. Learn something new everyday ;) SO next time I go out, I'm gonna tell my friends I'm off to fly my octopus! I'm weird as it is, they will probably just shrug and say "OK...have fun!" :D LOL!

PHREERIDER - 17-8-2015 at 04:23 PM

naish had the octopus inflation i think, ...anyway, i like when the not so observant crowd ask where did i come from ? and say i just jumped out of that jet up there (pointing to the contrails) they go , oh . and think nothing of it...

but maybe my all time fav , is "how long have you been doing this?" and reply "what time is it?"

...and a close second "is it hard?" latitude there is HOOJ!

RedSky - 17-8-2015 at 04:29 PM

Quote: Originally posted by djsiryn  
LOL! I get people all the time coming up and asking what it is I am doing around here. I have been known as the parachute lady by the kids at one park and have been confused for paragliding and parasailing in another. I love the look I get when I tell them it's a kite..... You know that look.. the one a dog gives when it hears a weird noise and tilts it's head to one side. HAHA!


Or as Bill Hicks once said, a dog that's just been shown a card trick.

macboy - 17-8-2015 at 11:14 PM

Ha! I have a whole new outlook on my octopus kite now! (Fell for a couple Amazon knock offs earlier this summer ~ really quite dig the 8m octopus kite. Or is that octopus octopus in translation?)

markite - 18-8-2015 at 06:23 AM

yup, you are correct Kelly - the Peter Lynn Octopus (original large inflatable kite) is the TakoTako and for years there have been many Tako Kichi flyers (including the Canadian 4 part kite series for tv back in the 90s called Kite Crazy ~ Tako Kichi)

and this is an octopile :o

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soliver - 18-8-2015 at 08:31 AM

I know you all have heard this one before, but I was asked last spring where the engine is on the buggy.... "It's the monster parachute like kite in the sky... Duh!"

Randy - 18-8-2015 at 08:58 AM

A couple of times when I was out with one of my NPW's using it on water with my SUP, people have said "Nice parachute" or similar.

Not exactly kite related, but not too far off. I done a lot of land sailing with a windsurf sail on a landboard. One time I was over at the park rigging the sail and a kid comes up and asks me "Is that what I think it is?" So I said "I don't know - what do you think it is?" He say "A hang glider!"

bugymangp - 18-8-2015 at 11:58 AM

one time many moons ago i was buggying in my local park after about and hour or so.
i took a break and this old man walking a dog comes up me and said "whats the matter you get fast enough for take off"

Kamikuza - 18-8-2015 at 09:23 PM

Quote: Originally posted by PHREERIDER  
naish had the octopus inflation i think, ...anyway, i like when the not so observant crowd ask where did i come from ? and say i just jumped out of that jet up there (pointing to the contrails) they go , oh . and think nothing of it...

but maybe my all time fav , is "how long have you been doing this?" and reply "what time is it?"

...and a close second "is it hard?" latitude there is HOOJ!

Gold :lol: I'm stealing those!

Kamikuza - 18-8-2015 at 09:30 PM

Had a guy at a park tell me I couldn't fly my paraglider there. As he was such an expert, I invited him to jump off the nearby hill with my 3.5m Cult. He thought maybe I didn't understand his Japanese, so he got the town council to send down the whipping-gaijin. I pointed out to him the list of banned activities on the park signage, which didn't cover the kite but did all the people walking their dogs.

That repeated situation. and gusty wind is pretty much why I haven't been on a land board in years...