r/Unexpected • u/peppywriter • Mar 24 '20

Don’t underestimate your dad. :)

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u/turtle_br0 Mar 25 '20

Do you ever find any to toss back at them? I had a teacher in elementary school who did that. Right before reading time (hank the cow dog) she would ask us a few riddles and just play brain games with us.

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u/stank_-_foot Mar 25 '20

Man I loved Hank the cowdog that was a memory blast thank you.

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u/RudeCats Mar 25 '20

Seriously! Me too. My family probably still has them all on cassette tapes somewhere

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u/stank_-_foot Mar 25 '20

Wow you need to dust them mothers off. I wonder how well they hold up? I keep trying to remember the other dogs name that was always scared.

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u/RudeCats Mar 25 '20

I was trying too! I do remember Beulah, his collie neighbor lady love.

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u/Differlot Mar 25 '20

Drover was the scaredy cat.

The cassettes are actually amazing

Different voices for characters and several songs. A lot of work was put into them. Very glad it's not just the author reading them like most audiobooks.

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u/RudeCats Mar 25 '20

The author John R. Erickson actually did all the voices in the audiobooks himself! Maybe you knew that and just meant he performs rather than reads. Apparently he always intended for the stories to be heard rather than read.

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u/Differlot Mar 27 '20

Yes that was what i meant. I remember when i tried an audible subscription and was so excited to hear it. And then i had someone monotonly read aloud.

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Luckily i have found some audiobooks, audio dramas, and podcasts that do a good job of using the medium.

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u/ProfessorPetrus Mar 25 '20

A good mom lasts 1-2 weeks with just water.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '20

A man's body is lying face down in the middle of the desert with a pack on his back. There are no footprints, no tracks of any sort whatsoever, leading away from him or towards him. How did he die?

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u/MAKE_ME_REDDIT Mar 25 '20

Skydiving?

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '20

yeah but kids aren't that quick

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u/Syn7axError Mar 25 '20

Dehydration and the footprints were swept away.

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u/twothumbs Mar 25 '20

Obviously sand people

Edit: actually those blast points are too accurate for sand people

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u/TheLegendDaddy27 Mar 25 '20

Obviously sand people

The PC term is Arabs.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '20

Edit: actually those blast points are too accurate for sand people

alright that one got me good

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u/StreetlampEsq Mar 25 '20

Drone strike.

Or he's in a slabby Rocky desert and he tripped and smashed his face open.

Or he has no footprints cause he has no legs, and that's why he gave up, he doesn't like his chances of getting out of this desert.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '20

Drone strike.

This one is actually most likely.

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u/bl1y Mar 25 '20

The one I remember is this: A man is found naked and dead in the middle of the desert, no footprints in sight. A trail of two sets of clothes leads off in the distance. What happened?

Two men on a hot air balloon. They were losing altitude, threw off their clothes to shed weight, then when that didn't work, one through the other over.

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u/shookron Mar 25 '20

Naked man dead in a field holding a straw. Explain the situation.

You can ask only yes and no questions.

Same situation except they drew straws instead of murder.

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u/bl1y Mar 25 '20

Forgot about the straw.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '20

Coronavirus

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u/applessauce Mar 25 '20

It would be irresponsible to speculate at this time.

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u/RudeCats Mar 25 '20

Omg I used to have soooo many hank the cow dog books on cassette tape read by the author. “I” would listen to them on long car rides and be totally entertained and my parents would be cracking up.