This just looks like something out of a Wallace and Gromit movie. I mean, seriously. “Cheese Information Center?” “The Ultimate Cheese Guide?”
(Found at an Albertson’s grocery store.)
Category: Humor
Park. Villa Park.
OK, it’s not quite as confusing as having, say, a First Street and a First Avenue in the same city, but sometimes you have to wonder what went through the mind of the city planner who approved certain street names.
Dancing Liberty
Add this to the list of jobs I don’t want: Dancing Statue of Liberty mascot.
This poor guy was dancing around in front of a tax preparer’s office last weekend. Faces have been blurred to protect the innocent.
Update January 2009: Someone hit this post after searching for “dancing tax preparer.” Is it really that common?
You know you need coffee when…
- You pour yourself orange juice, then very carefully put the carton back…in the cupboard.
- You walk into the lunch room for coffee, but forget to bring your mug.
- You momentarily forget how to make coffee.
- You set up the coffee maker, but leave out a critical step like positioning the coffee pot.
- You get the coffee, then forget to drink it.
- You pour yourself a bowl of Wheat Thins.
- You try to slice fruit into your cereal, but you do it over the sink instead of your bowl.
- You pour yourself coffee, then immediately wash your mug and head for work.
Feel free to add to the list in the comments!
Nigerian Scams for Auction?
eBay must have some sort of blanket advertising deal with Google, because the “sponsored links” you get for some searches really don’t make any sense.
Case in point: I did a Google search for the phrase, “nigerian scam,” and saw the following ad:
Wow, when they say, “Whatever it is, you can get it here.”—they really mean it! 😉
Interestingly, if you search for “419 scam,” you get the same type of ad, but not if you search for “advance fee fraud.”
I tried a few random search terms, and from what I can tell, eBay’s ad shows up on many—but not all—two-word searches. I’m not sure what the pattern is, but I can’t imagine someone at eBay deliberately asked to buy ad space for some of these phrases.
But in a show of accuracy, if you search for “random stuff,” you’ll find it!
Rummy Caption Contest
The BBC has posted an interesting article on the US Military’s plans for Internet operations. But that’s not what I want to write about here. What I want to write about is this accompanying photo of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld:
The article mentions that messages put out for psychological operations in foreign markets are making their way back to American audiences. I’m not sure this photo qualifies as PsyOps, but I think it does qualify for a caption contest.*
Please post your suggestions in the comments.
*OK, you won’t win anything, but with luck the other entries will make you laugh.
Confidential? Perhaps not…
I found a 419 scam in the spamtraps that started, in typical fashion, with an all-caps name and address, then the line:
HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL REQUESTING
What made this funny (aside from the bad grammar) was the fact that the To: line contained over 1,200 addresses!
Ah, this is obviously some strange use of the word confidential that I wasn’t previously aware of!