Bulentisms

Ok, these quotes are only funny if you imagine them with a turkish accent (imagine middle easternish), and if you know that our tour guilds name was Bulent Aslan (yes, Aslan means Lion in Turkish), and he uses "interesting" vocabulary quite a bit. Also he has a pony tail.

“Let’s make the touchdown!”(When crossing the strett)
-”Remember the alamo!” (When deciding where home base was.)
-”Let’s get permission from the shepherd and then we can pet the sheeps and lambs.” (Before troy, before petting sheeps)
-"Patience is the largest visdom.” “Don’t you mean ‘Patience is a virtue?’” “Visdom, virtue, they both start with ‘v’.” (At pergamumn, at the theatre)
-"Fill in the blanks.” (In crowds when he wanted us to scoot in)
-"Admire the old statue and the old lady”
- “I have stayed awake every night, all night, thinking about this question: my arms or my legs.” (On the buss driving to the airport)
-“There are some people on this bus who want to cut my legs!” (LAst couple days)
- “Are we on the way to the airport yet? No.” (Earlier in the day, the last day, when asked the answer to the question)
- “ We don’t want the fifth grader in his pink sweater to take the picture.”
- “We are about to do a very dangerous thing, cross the road.”
-”Make...
        ...prayers
        ...picnics
        …
-”O.K. Flolks lets kep on waLking”
-tea-ter=theatre
-buff-fet=buffet (All the time)
-”Tonight is another open buffet!”
-”Say hello to the pretty local lady.”
“And dat right der is the hospital where I was born. Tird floor. I do not remember it, but my mother does.” (First day driving on JFK avenue)
“Look at Fatih in his pink shirt, he is such a fag.” (Fatih is the tour guild for the other bus).
“Fatih is a fifth grader.”
“I use to beat up other kids when I was little.”
“You are from Fatih’s class. You have come over as a spy to cut off my ponytail and take it captive.” (TO Jennifer at Hagia SOfia)
Archeologs=Archeologists (Any time we were at an archeological site)
And for dessert, we will have craps...creps...crepes. (Announcing our dinner the last day)

“down in the valley is where they did their farming and cattleing”

“Over there is a poster of Aslan.  Now you know two famous Aslans.  That one was a politician, I am a tour guide.”

“bad boys bad boys what ya going do what you going do when they come for you”

“Stop asking me how long it will take to get there.  Do you see this traffic!!! (there was no traffic).
“Hey Jude.  Na na four more nas.” (Karaoke the last day.)

“And to the left you can see the spice man. hmmm. Spice Girls... Hot.” (In Bursa walking to hotel from Grand Mosque, Saint Sofia)

“This is going to be our alamo.” (All the time alamo= home base)

“See that sign of the Penguin? That is where they grow penguins.  We make them into Kebabs.” (In the buss the 2nd to last day)

“I would like to buy a hamburger.” (Last day, recording)

“Now we’re going to pass the mules.”
“Get out of here, go back with mules.”

“And on your left will be my dentist....Dentistanbul is what it’s called.... It’s like Dentist. And Istanbul.” (Driving to the airport the last day)
“You guys are just like my father... you want me to cut my hair.” (Waiting at Miletus)

watch it turns pink, now blue, nowwwwww green again! wow!
“look under that tree! That’s where the first Turk was born” (While someone was going bathroom on the right side of the bus)

“This is my brother” (Showing us a picture of a turkey bird)

“Aslan Pet Shop, that’s my uncle’s shop. He’s selling lions.” (Top of street at Bazzaar in Bursa)

“Make a small and sincere group!” (Everytime he wanted us to clump together)
“On the meantime. . . .”
“Testing. . . . testing. . . one two three. . . eins, zwei, drei, poli sci!!” (Testing the mike)
“Raise your hand if you can see my yellow jacket. . . . no one has their headsets on. . my jacket is not yellow.”
“This is where the bus will drop us off so you can get on your boat. . . called Titanic.”
“This is a torture!!”  (referring to the pretty girl rock song)
“You see how they are directing the cars to a certain place on the ferry, they have to make both sides equal or else we would become a submarine, and we do not want that.”
“I tried to warn him that a big wave was coming and he was younger than me and got away and I was the one that got wet!”