Archive for June, 2008

A letter from XYZ to the Microsoft

When I first came across this article, it immedialty reminded me of Dad. He was just getting into sending emails and he asked some humorous questions. I don’t remember them all, but i remember one of them was

How come there are no capitol numbers ??????

He was also telling me how he was going to start his own dictionary, because none of the words he wanted to use were ever in it :-)

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Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Blockbuster opens up ‘living museum’

Back in the old days, there was this thing we did called ‘renting videos’. People would come from all over to their local rental store, pick up and pay for a movie they wanted to see and go home and watch it.

Now, the historical Blockbuster has decided to open a museum to show people about these times before high speed internet connections and services like iTunes, Amazon Unbox, and the ever popular Bit Torrent.

Living Actors re-create reprise the roles of actual blockbuster employees, and customers and explain the hardships encounterd in this long unforgotten era. As can be seen from this onion news exclusive video report.


Historic Blockbuster Store Offers Glimpse Of How Movies Were Rented In The Past

Friday, June 27th, 2008

YouTube - Why buy expensive toys?

Here’s a funny YouTube video that demonstrates why as new parents we never need to go out and buy the latest and greatest toys for our children. Just listen to how cute and content the toddler is in this video.

It was the same for my daughters, they don’t know the difference between the $100 super educational does it all toy and the box that it came in. In the end it’s all good fun anyway. A nice reminder that it’s the little things that count the most !/P

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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Tired of shoveling the snow this winter?


We’ve been having a lot of snow here in Fredericton lately and all the shoveling can be very overwhelming.

Does this happen to you? Sick and Tired of winter where you live? If so just print this and post it somewhere near you to look at when winter depresses you.

Now remember, whatever it’s like outside. It could always be worse ! You could have to be the guy responsible for shoveling in this picture/P

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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Dance off with the Star Wars Stars

First there was “American Idol”, then game “Dancing with the stars” and “So you think you can Dance”

- Now, brought to you by George Lucas Merchadising and the Star Wars Fans. Here it is !

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Funny Out of Office Notices


1. I am currently out at a job interview and will reply to you if I fail to get the position. Be prepared for my mood.

2. You are receiving this automatic notification because I am out of the office. If I was in, chances are you wouldn’t have received anything at all.

3. Sorry to have missed you but I am at the doctors having my brain removed so that I may be promoted to management

4. I will be unable to delete all the unread, worthless emails you send me until I return from vacation on 4/18. Please be patient and your mail will be deleted in the order it was received.

5. Thank you for your email. Your credit card has been charged $5.99 for the first ten words and $1.99 for each additional word in your message.

6. The e-mail server is unable to verify your server connection and is unable to deliver this message. Please restart your computer and try sending again. (The beauty of this is that when you return, you can see how many in-duh-viduals did this over and over).

7. Thank you for your message, which has been added to a queuing system. You are currently in 352nd place, and can expect to receive a reply in approximately 19 weeks.

8. Hi. I’m thinking about what you’ve just sent me. Please wait by your PC for my response.

9. Hi! I’m busy negotiating the salary for my new job. Don’t bother to leave me any messages.

AND, FINALLY, THIS ONE TAKES THE CAKE:

I will be out of the office for the next 2 weeks for medical
reasons. When I return, please refer to me as ‘Loretta’ instead of ‘Steve’.

 

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

From our 3 Year Old

I love the english language. I’m sure we’ve all had words that we spent years mis-pronouncing before we finally reaized it. Mine was “windwiper”. You know the device that wipes your wind..windshield

Here are some I’ve learned from my 3 year old. Please

Please add your own, let’s make a nice list

Try to what the right words should be?

You wash you face with a pacecloth

Hot Chocholote always tastes better with hotmellows

You wipe yourself with rollerpaper

Be carefull when walking in the snowit’s slippy out

If you get an owie you have to cover it with a bamby

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Microsoft Vista - The next generation bloatware

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Battery Instructions

The other day I bought a new MP3 player from ebay The item came from China and had very funny translated instructions. Then I found this site engrish.com

It’s full of funny images like this one

Funny Battery Instructions

Awesome for some good laughs

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Funny Newspaper Headlines


If you’ve ever been up late at night, you’ve probably seen Jay Leno’s headlines. If not here’s a quick preview. Nice for a good Friday Laugh !

BTW - It was a bit hard trying to find a Leno video so I don’t know if the video at the link below will continue to work. NBC seems to be taking them down from various sites along the web. So watch it while it lasts !/P

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Monday, June 16th, 2008