Real World Where's Waldo Fills Seattle Neighborhood

[Logic 0]

I'm not sure if this is the world's biggest joke or the awesomest scavenger hunt ever.

 

[bushwhacker2k]

And Third, who give a flip about what the 'real' name is? In America, the books they are based on are "Where's Waldo [http://www.amazon.com/Wheres-Complete-Collection-Martin-Handford/dp/0763641677/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1298422607&sr=8-1]". If someone in England or France used 'Waldo', then you'd have something to be irritated about. Since this happened in the USA, not so much.

I concur pretty much, did you Canada ALSO used Waldo? What's up with people fishing for things to insult America about?

You took that as an insult? Seriously? It's just odd seeing it as Waldo dude.

It's Where's Wally! Why does the US have to change everything?

I was referring to the above quote.

My point stands, that's not an insult

I'm not taking it as an insult, rather I think you're getting offended for reasons I don't really follow. In my opinion people jump on the blame-the-US bandwagon too easily, and I pointed out that as Canada also calls it "Where's Waldo?" that his comment isn't technically accurate. My comment was totally legitimate, please don't reply to my comments if you aren't actually going to add something deeper than "you're wrong."

 

[Adzma]

In my opinion people jump on the blame-the-US bandwagon too easily, and I pointed out that as Canada also calls it "Where's Waldo?" that his comment isn't technically accurate.

My point was that the original name of the Character is Wally, in the same way that the first story in the Harry Potter series is Philosopher's Stone, not Sorcerer's.

I'm not trying to blame the US for anything. My comment was meant to be in jest more than anything else. My point still stands though, I don't see why it was necessary to change it from Wally to Waldo.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

Love the idea, but god that news cast felt forced.

 

[AmbitiousWorm]

Sounds like a really cool thing to do. Nice to see people going out of their way to brighten up everyone else lives.

First things first: The bit about it being rainy in Seattle all the time is bullshit. It's rainy from late autumn through winter and into spring, but the summers here are exquisite and seriously, go look at the charts, many places like Atlanta get more annual rainfall than Seattle.

Why do you feel you need to be so defensive? It was a local news channel so its not like they're slagging the city. Its called hyperbole....well no....its called the truth. It does rain 13 months of the year in the pacific northwest.

 

[04whim]

Eh, I was hoping for a load of people doing something wearing red and white sweaters, and then a guy that looks like a real life version of Wally be hidden in there somewhere :/ Nice idea though

 

[Antari]

Its people like this that have made me decide to move to Seattle!

 

[Dogstile]

And Third, who give a flip about what the 'real' name is? In America, the books they are based on are "Where's Waldo [http://www.amazon.com/Wheres-Complete-Collection-Martin-Handford/dp/0763641677/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1298422607&sr=8-1]". If someone in England or France used 'Waldo', then you'd have something to be irritated about. Since this happened in the USA, not so much.

I concur pretty much, did you Canada ALSO used Waldo? What's up with people fishing for things to insult America about?

You took that as an insult? Seriously? It's just odd seeing it as Waldo dude.

It's Where's Wally! Why does the US have to change everything?

I was referring to the above quote.

My point stands, that's not an insult

I'm not taking it as an insult, rather I think you're getting offended for reasons I don't really follow. In my opinion people jump on the blame-the-US bandwagon too easily, and I pointed out that as Canada also calls it "Where's Waldo?" that his comment isn't technically accurate. My comment was totally legitimate, please don't reply to my comments if you aren't actually going to add something deeper than "you're wrong."

The entire point of my comment was that you seem to have taken it as an insult from a comment made in jest. You actually used the word insult, so of course i'm going to point it out.
Dunno how you made the connection I was offended, so there we go

And it's an american story calling it Waldo, not Canadian. Are you really surprised he used the US as an example? It would have looked weird if he had said Canada in relation to a US story.

Deep enough for you?

 

[bushwhacker2k]

And Third, who give a flip about what the 'real' name is? In America, the books they are based on are "Where's Waldo [http://www.amazon.com/Wheres-Complete-Collection-Martin-Handford/dp/0763641677/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1298422607&sr=8-1]". If someone in England or France used 'Waldo', then you'd have something to be irritated about. Since this happened in the USA, not so much.

I concur pretty much, did you Canada ALSO used Waldo? What's up with people fishing for things to insult America about?

You took that as an insult? Seriously? It's just odd seeing it as Waldo dude.

It's Where's Wally! Why does the US have to change everything?

I was referring to the above quote.

My point stands, that's not an insult

I'm not taking it as an insult, rather I think you're getting offended for reasons I don't really follow. In my opinion people jump on the blame-the-US bandwagon too easily, and I pointed out that as Canada also calls it "Where's Waldo?" that his comment isn't technically accurate. My comment was totally legitimate, please don't reply to my comments if you aren't actually going to add something deeper than "you're wrong."

The entire point of my comment was that you seem to have taken it as an insult from a comment made in jest. You actually used the word insult, so of course i'm going to point it out.
Dunno how you made the connection I was offended, so there we go

And it's an american story calling it Waldo, not Canadian. Are you really surprised he used the US as an example? It would have looked weird if he had said Canada in relation to a US story.

Deep enough for you?

I said you seem offended because you're putting a lot of text into trying to prove me 'wrong' or something. Canada used "Where's Waldo?" as well, so I don't know why you immediately invalidated that statement, my point the whole time was that people shouldn't jump on the US-hate bandwagon, but he said he was kidding anyways. It's all good IMO, but feel free to go on if you simply MUST prove me wrong.

 

[bushwhacker2k]

In my opinion people jump on the blame-the-US bandwagon too easily, and I pointed out that as Canada also calls it "Where's Waldo?" that his comment isn't technically accurate.

My point was that the original name of the Character is Wally, in the same way that the first story in the Harry Potter series is Philosopher's Stone, not Sorcerer's.

I'm not trying to blame the US for anything. My comment was meant to be in jest more than anything else. My point still stands though, I don't see why it was necessary to change it from Wally to Waldo.

I agree there, I didn't mean to blow my statement out of proportion, I was just trying to make a point that the US seems to get flamed really easily for things that may or may not even be the fault of a US citizen. No idea why they'd decide to change names and titles like that.

 

[Dogstile]

And Third, who give a flip about what the 'real' name is? In America, the books they are based on are "Where's Waldo [http://www.amazon.com/Wheres-Complete-Collection-Martin-Handford/dp/0763641677/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1298422607&sr=8-1]". If someone in England or France used 'Waldo', then you'd have something to be irritated about. Since this happened in the USA, not so much.

I concur pretty much, did you Canada ALSO used Waldo? What's up with people fishing for things to insult America about?

You took that as an insult? Seriously? It's just odd seeing it as Waldo dude.

It's Where's Wally! Why does the US have to change everything?

I was referring to the above quote.

My point stands, that's not an insult

I'm not taking it as an insult, rather I think you're getting offended for reasons I don't really follow. In my opinion people jump on the blame-the-US bandwagon too easily, and I pointed out that as Canada also calls it "Where's Waldo?" that his comment isn't technically accurate. My comment was totally legitimate, please don't reply to my comments if you aren't actually going to add something deeper than "you're wrong."

The entire point of my comment was that you seem to have taken it as an insult from a comment made in jest. You actually used the word insult, so of course i'm going to point it out.
Dunno how you made the connection I was offended, so there we go

And it's an american story calling it Waldo, not Canadian. Are you really surprised he used the US as an example? It would have looked weird if he had said Canada in relation to a US story.

Deep enough for you?

I said you seem offended because you're putting a lot of text into trying to prove me 'wrong' or something. Canada used "Where's Waldo?" as well, so I don't know why you immediately invalidated that statement, my point the whole time was that people shouldn't jump on the US-hate bandwagon, but he said he was kidding anyways. It's all good IMO, but feel free to go on if you simply MUST prove me wrong.

You don't seem to know the difference between trying to prove you wrong and trying find out why you thought it was flaming or insulting or hating or whatever.

You're also very defensive about how much I wrote, seeing as you asked me to add something "deeper".

 

[bushwhacker2k]

And Third, who give a flip about what the 'real' name is? In America, the books they are based on are "Where's Waldo [http://www.amazon.com/Wheres-Complete-Collection-Martin-Handford/dp/0763641677/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1298422607&sr=8-1]". If someone in England or France used 'Waldo', then you'd have something to be irritated about. Since this happened in the USA, not so much.

I concur pretty much, did you Canada ALSO used Waldo? What's up with people fishing for things to insult America about?

You took that as an insult? Seriously? It's just odd seeing it as Waldo dude.

It's Where's Wally! Why does the US have to change everything?

I was referring to the above quote.

My point stands, that's not an insult

I'm not taking it as an insult, rather I think you're getting offended for reasons I don't really follow. In my opinion people jump on the blame-the-US bandwagon too easily, and I pointed out that as Canada also calls it "Where's Waldo?" that his comment isn't technically accurate. My comment was totally legitimate, please don't reply to my comments if you aren't actually going to add something deeper than "you're wrong."

The entire point of my comment was that you seem to have taken it as an insult from a comment made in jest. You actually used the word insult, so of course i'm going to point it out.
Dunno how you made the connection I was offended, so there we go

And it's an american story calling it Waldo, not Canadian. Are you really surprised he used the US as an example? It would have looked weird if he had said Canada in relation to a US story.

Deep enough for you?

I said you seem offended because you're putting a lot of text into trying to prove me 'wrong' or something. Canada used "Where's Waldo?" as well, so I don't know why you immediately invalidated that statement, my point the whole time was that people shouldn't jump on the US-hate bandwagon, but he said he was kidding anyways. It's all good IMO, but feel free to go on if you simply MUST prove me wrong.

You don't seem to know the difference between trying to prove you wrong and trying find out why you thought it was flaming or insulting or hating or whatever.

You're also very defensive about how much I wrote, seeing as you asked me to add something "deeper".

I am being somewhat defensive, I don't like leaving loose ends (or whatever the term is) because I make a statement and someone takes it personally (or whatever, not trying to label you).

I didn't really take offense to the statement itself, but more the fact that people so easily label US as the 'country that messes everything up' and while I won't argue things do get messed up, it's silly to just use us as the "oh, it's their fault again... *rolls eyes*" group. I DO take offense to that. As I stated in a different comment, I didn't mean for my one statement to get blown out of proportion, I understand what he was saying. I hope we can let this go, I really never meant for it to be an argument.

 

[Dogstile]

And Third, who give a flip about what the 'real' name is? In America, the books they are based on are "Where's Waldo [http://www.amazon.com/Wheres-Complete-Collection-Martin-Handford/dp/0763641677/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1298422607&sr=8-1]". If someone in England or France used 'Waldo', then you'd have something to be irritated about. Since this happened in the USA, not so much.

I concur pretty much, did you Canada ALSO used Waldo? What's up with people fishing for things to insult America about?

You took that as an insult? Seriously? It's just odd seeing it as Waldo dude.

It's Where's Wally! Why does the US have to change everything?

I was referring to the above quote.

My point stands, that's not an insult

I'm not taking it as an insult, rather I think you're getting offended for reasons I don't really follow. In my opinion people jump on the blame-the-US bandwagon too easily, and I pointed out that as Canada also calls it "Where's Waldo?" that his comment isn't technically accurate. My comment was totally legitimate, please don't reply to my comments if you aren't actually going to add something deeper than "you're wrong."

The entire point of my comment was that you seem to have taken it as an insult from a comment made in jest. You actually used the word insult, so of course i'm going to point it out.
Dunno how you made the connection I was offended, so there we go

And it's an american story calling it Waldo, not Canadian. Are you really surprised he used the US as an example? It would have looked weird if he had said Canada in relation to a US story.

Deep enough for you?

I said you seem offended because you're putting a lot of text into trying to prove me 'wrong' or something. Canada used "Where's Waldo?" as well, so I don't know why you immediately invalidated that statement, my point the whole time was that people shouldn't jump on the US-hate bandwagon, but he said he was kidding anyways. It's all good IMO, but feel free to go on if you simply MUST prove me wrong.

You don't seem to know the difference between trying to prove you wrong and trying find out why you thought it was flaming or insulting or hating or whatever.

You're also very defensive about how much I wrote, seeing as you asked me to add something "deeper".

I am being somewhat defensive, I don't like leaving loose ends (or whatever the term is) because I make a statement and someone takes it personally (or whatever, not trying to label you).

I didn't really take offense to the statement itself, but more the fact that people so easily label US as the 'country that messes everything up' and while I won't argue things do get messed up, it's silly to just use us as the "oh, it's their fault again... *rolls eyes*" group. I DO take offense to that. As I stated in a different comment, I didn't mean for my one statement to get blown out of proportion, I understand what he was saying. I hope we can let this go, I really never meant for it to be an argument.

Fair play, an explanation. Was all that I was asking for

 

[solidstatemind]

Sounds like a really cool thing to do. Nice to see people going out of their way to brighten up everyone else lives.

First things first: The bit about it being rainy in Seattle all the time is bullshit. It's rainy from late autumn through winter and into spring, but the summers here are exquisite and seriously, go look at the charts, many places like Atlanta get more annual rainfall than Seattle.

Why do you feel you need to be so defensive? It was a local news channel so its not like they're slagging the city. Its called hyperbole....well no....its called the truth. It does rain 13 months of the year in the pacific northwest.

I'm not necessarily being defensive, I'm debunking a stereotype. It's really quite beautiful in the PNW. And the crap about it raining all the time here is hyperbole. With the exception of November, December, and January, Atlanta, Georgia has much more rain per month than Seattle. Seriously, go look it up.

No, the two big problems with Seattle is that it's cloudy most of the time, and that the days get REALLY short up here during the winter, both of which contribute heavily to Seasonal Affective Disorder.

But man, I would not trade the summers here for anything: from about late April to October, you average right around 72° for the high temperature, and it's just beautiful. Coming here from Georgia (where you'd get weeks-long heat waves of 90-100° temps combined with <80% humidity) was a revelation.

 

[AmbitiousWorm]

I'm not necessarily being defensive, I'm debunking a stereotype. It's really quite beautiful in the PNW. And the crap about it raining all the time here is hyperbole. With the exception of November, December, and January, Atlanta, Georgia has much more rain per month than Seattle. Seriously, go look it up.

No, the two big problems with Seattle is that it's cloudy most of the time, and that the days get REALLY short up here during the winter, both of which contribute heavily to Seasonal Affective Disorder.

But man, I would not trade the summers here for anything: from about late April to October, you average right around 72° for the high temperature, and it's just beautiful. Coming here from Georgia (where you'd get weeks-long heat waves of 90-100° temps combined with <80% humidity) was a revelation.

I'm from Vancouver BC area so I know exactly what you mean. Although its puking out right now. DAMN YOU I WANT SPRING!

Go Seahawks!

 

[Sylocat]

A bit reminiscent of Cows On Parade.

I would sort of like to see a live-action event, though. Like, get a bunch of people together in a building, dress one of them up as Wally, and let players search for him.