Category: Amusing Bits

From Fark, I finally got around to reading the CNN 2005’s 101 Dumbest Moments in Business. Lots of errant stupidity, but the best item was this: In July, Burger King launches an ad campaign for its new Chicken Fries featuring a faux heavy-metal band called CoqRoq. Coqroq.com initially features photos of female fans captioned “Groupies… Continue reading Groupies Love the Coq

I’m not really a big fan of physical/scatalogical humor. Dumb and Dumber had about four funny parts for me. Austin Powers 2 wasn’t funny, and I completely skipped 3. But I’m still immature at heart, so I can lapse. Friends of the family gave this monkey sprinkler to Gareth last year, and our weather was… Continue reading Accidental Monkey Porn

My good friend Tyler is a smart guy (pictured here with her hotness, Lisa Loeb, songstress extraordinaire). Really. But he gets himself caught in these twisted bits of info that humour those of us around him to no end (kind of like my apparent ability to wreck bits of machinery inadvertently). I have lots of… Continue reading Tylerisms

I was expecting a standard feature review of this new six-seater Honda wen I found it at the Independent Online; I wasn’t expecting to read a description like this: The central front seat is the most useless of all. Whoever finds themselves cajoled into this untenable position will find a gear knob sprouting from their… Continue reading The Honda FR-V

Idle conversation at the office turned to an article that my coworker Cory had read earlier, about “some drink that had a pickled severed toe in it.” Off to Google, and we found the story as told by Don Reddick, as well as one guy’s experience drinking the toe. Do it fast or do it… Continue reading Bombay Peggy’s and the Sourtoe Cocktail