Archive for the ‘Humour’ Category
Ugh! Adding insult to injury!
Apropos our discussion about targeting the gullible in Calling all gullible gamblers! and All that glitters is not gold … I guess ‘self-knowledge’ can be seen as by-product? Visit Mark Joyner for more of his personal development brain puzzle cartoons. NOT funny! (Well, OK, just a bit.) Thanks to Sarah for sharing. – P
A rebel general has been killed by the Empire
It’s worth reading this homage to the NY Times report of President Obama’s announcement. It engenders a bit of empathy. CORUSCANT — Obi-Wan Kenobi, the mastermind of some of the most devastating attacks on the Galactic Empire and the most hunted man in the galaxy, was killed in a firefight with Imperial forces near Alderaan, Darth Vader [...]
A sad case of amateur signwriting
Spotted on a walk near Burswood the other day… Oops. (Same on both sides!) Where’s a good proofreader when you need one? -P
Yeah, I thought so all along … waste of space
The email disclaimer emperor has no clothes, according to this article from The Economist … I was never impressed with plonkers like Shaun Stenning fatuously filling up their email disclaimers (example here) with nonsense — it looked like a bush-lawyer’s attempt to intimidate the gullible. As for this mush … The information presented in this [...]
That was ‘not intended to be a factual statement’
Spin doctors for this nincompoop junior senator from Arizona Jon Kyl afterwards excused his blatantly false statement (Abortions are ’90%’ of what Planned Parenthood does — actually 3%) on the Senate floor with a line: ‘That was not intended to be a factual statement’. Oh boy. Nutty. Which, of course, rightly, is like candy to [...]
Oh Craig, where are you when I need you?
Wow! Ralph Loura, the CIO of Clorox recently revealed the uptake when employees were given their choice of (smart)phone. Loura so far has replaced 6,000 desktop and tower computers with lightweight HP laptops, and got rid of company-issued Blackberries while letting workers choose between an iPhone or Android or Window Phone 7-powered smartphone. The company [...]
I *DO* appreciate a bit of personality
Here’s the NZ Listener’s 404 error page, which I struck this afternoon — quirky. I like it. More examples of quirkiness like this in the ‘Quirkiness’ album at thePaepae’s Facebook page…
Big plans
The twisted tale of ‘Wellington sex trade entrepreneurs Michael and John Chow’ who want to locate a brothel across the road from Auckland’s landmark Sky Tower (!!) takes another turn. Developers Michael and John Chow are planning to build a 10-storey super-brothel on the prime inner-city site once occupied by the historic Palace Hotel. The [...]
Just because it is brilliant …
I was browsing an old discussion thread at PropertyTalk Internet Marketing Consultants – suddenly there are so many…. to check when I first expressed, let’s call it ‘skepticism’ about Shaun Stenning/Geekversity (Answer: June 2009) … since I mentioned that here when discussing how his ex-business partners are NOW blowing the whistle on him. It was [...]
More SEO fakery … highly automated
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