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Author: NateTheGreat

Oct 21st 2016 at 4:35:57 AM

When DaveBarry went to Japan and saw a waterspout that goes off for five minutes at a time exactly twice an hour, he was extremely dubious ([[https://books.google.com/books?id=Mmd9cE9YOrcC&pg=PA198&lpg=PA198&dq=dave+barry+japan+%22old+faithful%22+geyser&source=bl&ots=kNQ_yLoPSG&sig=HFVMMQ3ZafZOnc0RjkJMnSIH6DU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj_qaGD5uvPAhXBej4KHbXvBAQQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=dave%20barry%20japan%20%22old%20faithful%22%20geyser&f=false book excerpt]]):
-->''We got there about ten minutes before it went off, and we watched the big clock until '''boom''', right on schedule the hot water started spouting.  It stopped exactly five minutes later, and the crowd went into the convenient gift shop, just as another tour bus pulled up to witness another on-time water-spout performance.  How very convenient!  Exactly two shows an hour!  I expressed great skepticism about the Water-Spout Hell to Beth.  I compared it to Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone, which is highly reliable, for a geyser, but doesn't operate on anything like this kind of clockwork schedule.''