I used to love going to the Brewing Market and teasing the barristas because their sign on the case where they have their pastries and snacks offered, for the longest time..
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I used to love going to the Brewing Market and teasing the barristas because their sign on the case where they have their pastries and snacks offered, for the longest time.. Either the San Francisco Chronicle has a real sense of humour, or staff writer Ron Kroichick snuck one by them and the joke's on them. Just look at this headline! Every once in a while, while I am scanning my spam folder, a subject so ridiculous - so preposterous - so laughable - catches my eye. Such as this one. According to a CNN breaking news update, it would appear that U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is staging a coup. Baking dogs is just plain wrong (and doesn't soaking baked goods just get them soggy?) I received all of these spams just today - these are the actual subjects. Some of them are just hysterical! Interesting headline from Yahoo news - you could never get away with this on eBay, what with their ban on selling body parts and all. And what the heck are 'homer balls'? Sounds painful. I'm guessing it would be a tragedy. Doh! This must be a result of that new math we kept hearing about - or maybe just bad writing... Quick - what do you think this means?: "Non-resident sewer fees established by Sunnyvale council." "And we'll take your picture, and print it out..over and over until you surrender..." Quick...what does that logo in the lower right say? Apparently Left at Albuquerque (or as my husband and I call it, Effed at Albuquerque) the french fries are clean and imported from South America. This has got to take the prize for the most humourous spam subject line this week... Imodium, the anti-diarrheal product, must be using the same clue-impaired ad agency that brought us the "Welcome to the Coke Side of Life" ad. Here's a gem which actually made me laugh (although of course I still would never buy anything from them and would nail them to the courthouse door, given a chance). Talk about the blind leading the blind! Those poor dogs! I hereby announce the opening of the Starbucks haiku thread. Please submit your Starbucks haiku below. I wonder what (queue air quotes) "turn off" really means here? Sigh..even our son was able to immediately see what piece of punctuation was missing from this sign. How many things can you find wrong with this sign... which is in an educational exhibit for children? A lot of people spell Dwight Yoakam's name incorrectly (the most common misspelling is "Dwight Yoakum"). But putting his name in front of "Chicken Rings", as in Dwight Yoakam's Chicken Rings, is likely to make people start remembering that name. And with a full name like Dwight Yoakam's Chicken Lickin's Chicken Rings, well, you won't be able to get it out of your head. According to Texas newspaper "The Gatesville Messenger", unemployment dropped its modesty during April. Who is the stupid marketing wonk who came up with Coke's new slogan, "Welcome to the Coke side of life"? One of the more incongrous whacky headlines of the year, and just in under the wire, is this one appearing on BBC News on 12/24 (that's 24 December for those of you on the other side of the pond). "Festive drinking deaths warning" I can't ... Few things can eclipse the level of ridiculousness to which descriptions of wine from wine critics sink, but I have to tell you, descriptions of art and artists by art critics is one of them. Take for example this real-world description which we recently ... Now, what kind of car do you think that someone who calls themselves "Mr. Money" would drive? On what kind of car would you expect someone to put a license plate proclaiming themselves to be "Mr. Money"? Ok, I confess to not ... I overheard these lyrics on the piped-in music in the loo at a local restaurant, and did an aural double-take. I was sure I'd misheard, but nope, sure enough a bit of research revealed that it was Old Blue Eyes himself, singing ... Ever wonder what it takes to win a global beauty pageant? Wonder no more, because the BBC reveals all today. According to the BBC World News Site, "Miss Peru beat off 106 contestants to take the crown from 2003 winner". Really. See?: From a USA Today headline: Feds Probe Why Singer Allowed on Jet ...because everyone knows that one of the highest security risks in commercial aviation today is that everyone might burst into a round of Kumbaya, rendering the crew somnambulent. [Ok ok, I realize ... I was walking through a bookstore today, when I saw - I kid you not: "The Idiot's Guide to Communicating with Spirits" I'm pretty sure that if you're an idiot, they don't wanna communicate with you. Anne (I don't think they meant semaphore with a bottle ... In a new ad campaign which would be worthy of the Onion, if only it weren't an actual campaign, the fast food chain Wendy's has a new advertisement out which pictures two sandwiches clearly containing some sort of meat, with a caption which ... Just found this lovely spam headline in my inbox this evening: "The Penis Patch is amazing" My first thought is "is this to patch a hole, like when you get a hole in an inner-tube?" Maybe it's to patch a hole in a blow-up ... |
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