C’est Rire category archive
Seen on the Street, Reader Contribution Dept. 2
The reader wondered how this ever made it past the censors at the DMV:
Awfully Drafty 0
’nuff said.
A spokesman for the Cecil County Sheriff’s Office says 41-year-old Jonathan Schultz “was driving commando.”
Advertising Fail 0
A local plumbing firm’s telly vision commercial includes a reference to their “family values.”
I guess that means they run around with other plumbing firms in the middle of the night.
Seminal Research 0
Actually, I hate that phrase. It generally indicates a lazy linguist.
But there seems to be no other way to characterize this.
Attack of the Pod People 0
They walk again by night.
“Tie Me Wallaby Down, Sport” 0
It’s floating away:
That’s according to Taz attorney general Lara Giddings, who explained that she’d discovered the industry had “a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles”.
What’s the World Coming To? 2
You can’t even go naked at your own campsite any more.
Much Ado about Not Much 1
A bus passenger received a text message about the death of Michael Jackson and read it aloud. Then . . .
It said the last remark enraged another passenger, Henry Wideman, who started a swearing match with Kiernan, then pulled out a knife and chased Kiernan down the aisle with it.
Frankly, I have had it with this subject.
Michael Jackson was a good singer and dancer, a nutcase through no fault of his own, and possibly dangerous to himself and others, but, from the press and blog reaction, you would think he was the reincarnation of Bach, Beethoven, Verdi, the Beatles, Bill Haley and Comets, Galileo, Dante, Shakespeare, Benny Goodman, John Phillip Sousa, Sarah Bernhardt, and E. T. the Extra-Terrestial all in one package.
He was not.
Don’t Race the Train to the Crossing 3
If it’s a tie, you lose.
’bout Time Someone Saw through This 0
Shades of the inside back cover of Boy’s Life when I was a young ‘un:
The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said it arrested the man, identified as Chung, on suspicions of selling fake made-in-China see-through glasses to 13 people and reaping nearly 6 million won ($4,700) in illegal gains. He was taken into custody, it said. He sold the glasses for 550,000 won apiece.
Via Spark.
“Ask Not for Whom the Cookie Tolls . . .” 0
I toll someone I could not resist that title . . .
Nestle USA on Friday voluntarily recalled its Toll House refrigerated cookie dough products after a number of illnesses were reported by those who ate the dough raw.
. . . but it has taken a toll of its own.
(Yeah, I know. I’m really cooking here.)
Disengaged 0
El Reg:
(“Grumble flick” apparently is Brit for porno film. The bride decided that her fiance was a bad actor, since he seems to have been a good, that is, skilled, actor.)
Twits on Twitter, Republican New Media FAIL Dept. 2
Josh marshalls the evidence. (Follow the link; it’s a hoot.)
Q. When Is Parody Vandalism? 0
A. When it’s in the wrong place.
(snip)
The messages broadly lambasted – or lampooned – the transit system and many types of riders – from “drug addicts” to “obnoxious Penn students,” so SEPTA had them removed.
The agency is also actively looking for more signs.
“We do find the message very offensive in general,” Busch said.
Follow the link to read the text of the signs.