Category: Fun, Funny or Weird

Pringle Ads

Procter & Gamble, the manufacturer of Pringles chips has come up with an innovative process to place images and text on the surface of Pringles potato chips.

So now, an Ad can be passed to you on the chip before you crunch it away.

According to the press release, first up will be a promotion involving one of Hasbro’s popular board games, “Trivial Pursuit Junior.” Questions from that brand will be featured on the chips, along with the answers.

Hmmm…
Aren’t they taking advertising a bit too far here?!
I mean, advertising on food?
I think that’s a bit too much for my stomach to handle 😉

Homer’s “Iliad” now in messenger speak

Homer’s ancient Greek poem “The Iliad,” the basis for Hollywood blockbuster “Troy” has been compressed for a new generation too lazy to see the film let alone read the 24-book epic that runs to over 15,000 lines.

The first five books of the centuries-old tale, set in the final year of the Trojan War — which began when Trojan Paris snatched Helen (the face that launched a thousand ships) from Greece — are now available in the language people use when sending instant messages, Microsoft said on Monday.

Book Two is reduced to just 24 words of ‘messenger speak’, losing some of the lyricism of the original. “Agamemnon hd a dream: Troy not defended. Ordered attack! But Trojans knew they were coming n were prepared. Achilles sat sulking in his tent.”

The translation, designed to publicize Microsoft’s messenger product, is not written in Homer’s dactylic hexameters but it does use ’emoticons’ — little faces or images — to emphasize intense moments.

[Source: Reuters]

Good one guys. Now maybe those msn messenger chat addicts can squeeze in some literature in between their long useless chats.
No offense to chat addicts, I once was one, and I know the joys of chatting.
Check out the post about my vampire days. I used to spend all night long chatting on mIRC.

Bush administration lightbulb joke

How many members of the Bush Administration are needed to replace a lightbulb?

The Answer is SEVEN:

  1. one to deny that a lightbulb needs to be replaced
  2. one to attack and question the patriotism of anyone who has questions about the lightbulb,
  3. one to blame the previous administration for the need of a new lightbulb,
  4. one to arrange the invasion of a country rumored to have a secret stockpile of lightbulbs,
  5. one to get together with Vice President Cheney and figure out how to pay Halliburton Industries one million dollars for a lightbulb,
  6. one to arrange a photo-op session showing Bush changing the lightbulb while dressed in a flight suit and wrapped in an American flag,
  7. and finally one to explain to Bush the difference between screwing a lightbulb and screwing the country.

Hilarious, lol…

[Via eclecticism]

Words Women Use…

FINE
This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and you need to shut up.

FIVE MINUTES
If she is getting dressed, this is half an hour. Five minutes is only five minutes if you have just been given 5 more minutes to watch the game before helping around the house.

NOTHING
This is the calm before the storm. This means “something,” and you should be on your toes. Arguments that begin with ‘Nothing’ usually end in “Fine”

GO AHEAD
This is a dare, not permission. Don’t do it.

LOUD SIGH
This is not actually a word, but is a non-verbal statement often misunderstood by men. A “Loud Sigh” means she thinks you are an idiot and wonders why she is wasting her time standing here and arguing with you over “Nothing”

THAT’S OKAY
This is one of the most dangerous statements that a woman can make to a man. “That’s Okay” means that she wants to think long and hard before deciding how and when you will pay for your mistake.

THANKS
A woman is thanking you. Do not question it or faint. Just say you’re welcome.

This is so funny and true…
Thanks to my friend Ahmad for forwarding this to me.

Childless couple told to try sex

A German couple who went to a fertility clinic after eight years of marriage have found out why they are still childless – they weren’t having sex.

The University Clinic of Lubek said they had never heard of a case like it after examining the couple who went to see them last month for fertility tests.

Doctors subjected them to a series of examinations and found they were both apparently fertile, and should have had no trouble conceiving.

A clinic spokesman said: “When we asked them how often they had had sex, they looked blank, and said: “What do you mean?”.

“We are not talking retarded people here, but a couple who were brought up in a religious environment who were simply unaware, after eight years of marriage, of the physical requirements necessary to procreate.”

The 30-year-old wife and her 36-year-old husband are now being given sex therapy lessons while the university clinic undertakes a study to try to find out if there are more couples with a similar lack of sex education.

[Source: Ananova]

Now that is simply hilarious, lol…

Yet the issue of sexual education is a very serious one. A lot of people know little to nothing about sex, especially in poorer countries or ones with a strict and conservative education system.

Although this has no immediate threat to mankind, it still can be the reason behind many problems in these people’s lives. Many divorces or marital problems are due to the lack of sexual education in the couple.

I think that governments should moderately introduce some aspects of sex education in schools.
This matter shouldn’t be left for teenagers to discover accidentally by hearing from someone or stumbling across some porn movie.

Miss Lebanon 2004 on LBC

So, in the ever growing madness of reality tv, Lebanese TV station LBC has gone on to reinvent the Miss Lebanon competition as a reality tv show allowing people to watch the contestants living together, eating breakfast, talking, fighting and all the reality tv blah blah.

This started last year and they’re doing it again this year. I only caught it this year because last year we didn’t have satellite channels at home and so were disconnected from all the nice bullshit they offer.

I haven’t taken the time to watch the girls living together because that doesn’t really interest me much.
But, I caught the first prime in which 2 nominees were kicked out and the one everyone hated remained.

And well, I think that the idea of having primes isn’t that bad and actually makes the beauty competition more fun than it used to be.
It gives more control to people to vote for the contestants who always vote for the best looking, and as this already is a beauty competition, the whole concept of viewers voting suddenly works.
It also allows perverts to watch these girls over and over again in each and every prime instead of just seeing them once in the old competition, lol…

Anyway, I can imagine how horrible a nightmare it could be watching these girls living together.

[Link: Miss Lebanon 2004]
[Other opinions: AquaCool, Beirut-Beyrouth]

Oral sex lessons for Teens

Encouraging schoolchildren to experiment with oral sex could prove the most effective way of curbing teenage pregnancy rates, a UK government study has found.

Pupils under 16 who were taught to consider other forms of ‘intimacy’ such as oral sex were significantly less likely to engage in full intercourse, it was revealed.

A sex education course developed by Exeter University trains teachers to talk to teenagers about ‘stopping points’ before full sex.

Now an unpublished government-backed report reveals that a trial of the course has been a success. Schoolchildren, particularly girls, who received such training developed a ‘more mature’ response to sex.

Let me get this right. By doing this, we’re telling teens that it’s not ok to have full sex, but that it’s perfectly ok and normal for them to practice oral sex?!
So the message is: Have as much oral sex as you want, just don’t have full sex.
Interesting strategy…

[Source: The Guardian]

Culture has no price

Culture has no price

A group of online freedom of speech advocates in France have launched a “response logo” as a reply to the campaign that the French Phonographic Syndicate organization launched.
The response logo says: “Culture has no price / Don’t buy any CDs.”

Weblogs throughout France are displaying the logo as a gesture of solidarity against the French Phonographic Syndicate organization’s anti-P2P campaign.

“You sell us mediocre music at exorbitant prices,” the banner exclaims in French, “Reduce the price of CDs, and start placing a higher priority on the quality of artists instead of the quantity of money you’re cramming in your pockets.”

[Via Boing Boing]