Category: Amuses Me

Irony

We saw this store the last time we were in Houston.

I am very amused by this. This to me is the definition of irony – you have to go inside to experience Outdoor World. This looks like a ride you would see at Disney World or maybe Las Vegas or even Dubai.

Outdoor World

Monstor

Misspelled (decrepit) candy vending machineThis thing always cracked me up. Seriously aside from just old and dirty, it is truly scary and bizarre… and how does something make it all the way through production with such a glaring misspelling and not get caught by *anyone*??

Brings new meaning to the term "understated"

Saw this ad in “Texas Parks and Wildlife” magazine while waiting at the car repair shop (happy Friday the 13th btw)… maybe I’m still a California hippie at heart, but I am really having a hard time finding the part of this which is “understated!”

Picture of a big ass gun stating: Understated Elegance

It actually brings to mind a quote by Rush Limbaugh that I heard not too long ago… “One of the things which makes me a great host is that I have empathy and humility!”

Robo-Mom

Robo-Mom
I think that this has to be one of the most phenomenal pictures I have ever seen in my entire life!! This is not faked, this is not a joke. This is an ad I received in the mail for a real product. Some sort of cybernetic-android-milk-harvesting-accountant it seems.

Or maybe some sort of breast pump, I’m not sure…

No love for Microsoft

There is no shortage of bad press about Microsoft, how they abused their monopoly position, how they force unfavorable contract or predatory pricing terms on their customers etc… well, we came across a great personal example of a pissed off company – we were buying tickets for the Austin Wine Festival and got the following message when we hit submit:

“Since Microsoft has decided for you that you don’t need to receive an order confirmation from us unless we pay a couple thousand dollars, we politely request that you use a non-Hotmail email address”

I love it! You rarely see such spite so openly expressed… stick it to the man!!

Puppet sex

I just watched Team America: World Police again and am a little concerned that I was no longer thoroughly disturbed by the sex scene (it was 2 puppets having sex, for those of you who haven’t had the pleasure).

Dell support

I just got off the phone with Dell support. They told me to call their credit card verification line and gave me the following phone number: 866-477-3355. Imagine my surprise when I called the line and got… sex chat!!

Turns out I missed a digit, the real number is 866-447-3355

The end of the Weekly World News

I read an article a little while back in Toronto’s National Post about the August 27th final issue of the Weekly World News. It was by a “reporter” to the paper who recounted some of his favorite headlines (among other things) – for those of you not familier with the Weekly World News, the following headlines should give you a flavor of what it’s about:

  • The real reason for global warming was that teenage space aliens were stealing our glaciers for party ice
  • The judicial system was in chaos because a thief stole “the book” that judges throw at them
  • Leftovers from the Last Supper were found in a man’s fridge
  • A man who killed a fly was arrested for “pesticide” (the police officer chided, “That’s why we have a SWAT team”)
  • February sues for more days
  • Hide and seek player found after 34 years
  • New study reveals that a stitch in time only saves eight
  • After 27 futile years, a scientist found a “watched pot that boils”
  • Rumsfeld changes his name to Rumsfeldstiltskin and tells rogue nations “guess my new name or we’ll invade you”
  • Homeland security chief’s house robbed five times in a week
  • And my favorite that I remember seeing in the supermarket – Dying alien nation sends farewell Christmas message to Earth

However, the funniest point in the article was the following story that he related:

I once pitched a story positing that, “the US government had data confirming that the one commonality linking all mass killers, including the Columbine shooters, was that they never masturbated. Rather than issue this report, which would save lives but promote onanism, the government prefers to let occasional slaughters take place.” My editors rejected it on the grounds that it was “too plausible.”