Friday, September 15, 2006

Down at the dealership

I dropped off a friend at the Honda dealership to pick up his car after a repair. This car was parked near-by. Can you imagine the surprise when this guy comes back? "Well yes sir, your car is around back - let me tell ya, she runs reeeeeeal quiet now."

Thursday, September 14, 2006

In an engineering trade magazine

Why do you need to simulate this kind of accident? What - why are you staring at me?

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Election day humor

Clear message sure, but tactful?

Monday, September 11, 2006

Nudie touch O/S

Ever played those electronic games at the bar? Bet you didn't think while you were trying to find the differences between naked pictures that there was a throbbing 200MHz CPU at work... Hey, I'm a geek - get over it ;) BTW, when I have a backlog of pictures (funny pictures is a flood/drought kinda proposition) I try to mix up my posts. The good ones with the... er... more subjective ones.

Speaking of sausage

Watch this segway from the last post. Sausage comes in plastic, crimped tubes - like a giant meat firecracker. So does this beef. But it isn't just any ordinary beef - nay! It is 80/20 Irradiated Beef!

A superior product of the Russian industrial revolution... 80/20 IrB was developed for the cosmonauts, and now we bring it to your dinner table. To spread unpatriotic rumors that 80/20 IrB was the cause of all those cosmonauts getting testicular cancer (even the women) is treasonous!

Look, I see why they do it. I know it's safe. I know it's the store's generic brand... but would it kill them to market it a little better. What's wrong with "extended shelf-life beef". Or "won't go bad after a week in your trunk, in Tucson, in the summer - beef". Sometimes they just don't try.

Other thoughts will be added here:

  • "100% Chenobyl Beef"
  • 2x the legs = 2x as tender!
  • 80% fat. Don't grease that pan - for your cooking convenience!

Sad Food Part 2

As you may remember my
Applebee's Incident... here is part two. My friend is an adventuresome lad. When he goes to a restaurant he will order food sight unseen. Segway to my favorite Mexican restaurant... he gets the guacamole salad. Out it comes as promised (see above). We laughed, but not as hard as when his "main course" came out. Think Jimmy Dean sausage in a bowl of dipping cheese. Sometimes adventure doesn't pay. Remind me when I tell you about the vintage stew to relate to you the fizzy guacamole story...

Moral dilemma

And so we find ourselves faced with a difficult decision. One your parents probably didn't teach you about. You are at a Guinness sponsored festival. You seek respite in what is unarguably the fanciest porta-pot you have ever seen (floor mat, art work, sink, flush, urinal, fake plants, cup holder). Now in this cup holder you see a brimming cup of Guinness. Obviously the owner came, used the facilities and forgot their beverage in the holder. You have done this yourself almost (but leave no man behind!). So - nobody is watching. It probably isn't tampered with. Do you drink it? I'll tell you my answer if you answer honestly.

Fun with produce

This is the kinky aisle in the produce section. Passion fruit. Kumquats. Horn mellon. Sweet young coconut. I rest my case. I love that they clustered all these outcasts into one place.

Friday, September 08, 2006

Geometry

I know this is not a clear picture, but the text explains this is the new "oval" track that was built. Who is going to tell them?

Possibilities

Don't ask what I did with 27 pounds of butter. Really. Don't. I was drunk.

Having pun at the store

Sure you can build a house out of candy bricks, but they might be brittle .

I'm a Pepper ...

I stopped on the side of the road because I was craving a Pepper and got irony instead .

Fish and chips!

There is nothing better in the world than an unexpected, free Swedish fish! Just walking along in your day and -boom- a box of red fish. I bet you can taste them now...

Bag of eggs

So I go into the Amish store. Bulk baking goods? Check. Cheese curds? Check. Deli meats? Check. Bag of eggs? Check. It just tickled me about the mixing of cultures.

Vintage beverage

Perhaps some day I will aquaint you with Vintage Stew, but until then I give you this. This Smirnoff has been sitting by that water heater for months. The heater is on a shelf 8 feet above a urinal in a public restroom. I am now fixated with food product left in public that nobody moves. It is like a mass fixation... people realize "hey, that's been there for weeks" and feel obligated to leave it. It's a kind of instinctive social experiment. I will keep looking for more examples.

The short cart

Tommy strived his whole life to live independently, having been born with a mental disability. His childhood was dominated by the humiliation of riding on the short school bus. As an adult living on his own he was doing well... until one day he went to the grocery store...

Italian Scream

Edvard Munch did his seminal paintings on cardboard, but few people knew his latter works done in the calzone medium.

Saturday, September 02, 2006

At a local restaurant

That pine tree is strawberry for you information. Can you believe this place doesn't have tap water?