This headline could really use the word "hurricane" in it. I had no idea what Otis or Acapulco were, and my initial guess was wildly off: some sort of space probe experienced a catastrophic failure on the way to an asteroid.
My first thought is always the pug dog from Milo & Otis.
Otis is the name of one of the Fat Bear Week audience favorites so that was where my first thoughts went but I was very surprised to imagine an “Acapulco, Alaska” near where he lives.
In fairness, anyone who didn't immediately recognize 128 Grazer as the fattest bear is probably frequently confused :P
If I heard that Otis exploded after visiting Acapulco, I wouldn't really consider that unexpected, but admittedly that's only based on personal anecdata.
It’s unexpected on the way back, not on the way there.
First thought: Otis the dog was improperly put into the some kind of vacuum hold on a flight to Acapulco and burst wide open.
Same.
I guessed the correct Acapulco then hypothesized that Otis was something being transported by truck to there. I even thought that Cape Canaveral or a lab like CERN would be a more likely destination for dangerous things that people like us would care about.
Exact. Same. Guess. on my end.
I was sure it was some kind of specific machine or package that was destroyed by catastrophic decompression caused by transport mode.
I assumed it was a small sailboat or similar, on the basis that if it was a cruise liner or large container ship, I would’ve heard about it already
"Otis" was also the name of a Kanye West/JayZ song so I was thinking maybe it had something to do with that??
This song was a tribute to Otis Redding. My first thought was that the article was about him lol.
I somehow thought it was an obscure motorcycle brand, that broke down on a long road trip in Mexico.
I was thinking elevators
I'm all for naming an asteroid "Acapulco", though.
A gold-bearing asteroid, naturally.
I imagined that a prototype device of some sort that was being shipped to Acapulco pulverized the truck or ship that was transporting it
This tells me you don't know Jean-Paul Belmondo's movie The Man from Acapulco. Seriously watch that movie.
One of my favorite actors from the non-Hollywood movies. Oh, and that movie is originally titled 'Le Magnifique' to help searching for it.
I assumed Otis was a indy dev library project and Acapulco to be a code name for a upcoming release.
I thought Otis was half of the adorable Milo and Otis duo and they were having another zany adventure in a 2023 reboot!
I don't know why, I first thought of an airplane. Yeah, headlining is an art...
From the url it seems the target audience for this blog would already know