Archive for the 'Humor' Category
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A Story That Makes Your Cubicle Seem Not-So-Bad
From Yahoo.com LONDON (Reuters) – A meat company has been branded Dickensian after forcing its employees to clock-off every time they want to go to the toilet. The union Unite has criticized the meat processor for “essentially stopping staff pay when they visit the toilet.” The company, based in Dumfriesshire, insists anyone wanting to be [...]
From Yahoo.com AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – Amsterdam police say 15 camels, two zebras and an undetermined number of llamas and potbellied swine briefly escaped from a traveling Dutch circus after a giraffe kicked a hole in their cage. Police spokesman Arnout Aben says the animals wandered in a group through a nearby neighborhood for several hours [...]
I think everyone has felt like the sumo wrestler in the jack in the box at least once, right? Text reads “Stuck in the wrong job? Monster.com”
This is among the most original, clever, ads I have ever seen!
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Banned Ford Sportka Commercial
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Nothing gets the message of the importance of flossing across like a giant.. pig between two buildings?
The Reason Your Dentist Smells Like Horse Poop
From MSNBC.com ARLINGTON, Wash. – When gas prices hit $4 a gallon, the staff at Dr. Keith Leonard’s dental office figured it was time to pony up. Since more than half of the dental assistants and office staff own horses, on Wednesday the crew saddled up and rode in to work. “We decided that when [...]
Update: Greyson Carlson has been born, and his name came as a direct result of these comments. Thank you! My wife and I are expecting our a new baby, our third boy, in a few weeks and just like last time we haven’t picked a name yet! Please help name the baby! Our name rules: [...]
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I wish my office had a trap door… [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=S4SZUxEom3c[/youtube]
From MSNBC.com FRANKFURT – One in three information technology professionals abuses administrative passwords to access confidential data such as colleagues’ salary details, personal e-mails or board-meeting minutes, according to a survey. U.S. information security company Cyber-Ark surveyed 300 senior IT professionals, and found that one-third admitted to secretly snooping, while 47 percent said they had [...]
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This Clue soap dispenser ad gives users the impression they are washing blood off their hands. The “blood” is actually a red colored soap. The mirror above reads “everyone’s a suspect.”
This Durex Father’s Day Ad Reads: “To all of those who use our competitors’ products: Happy Father’s Day.”
Anything and Whatever Soda Dispensers
Anything and Whatever soda varies in flavor from can to can. The brand also features provocative vending machines.
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Lemonade Stand Teaches New Lesson – Hire Security
From MSNBC.com TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – Call it a lemonade standoff. A young girl whose lemonade stand was robbed of $17.50 chased the suspect into a nearby home and called police, who spent nearly an hour trying to coax the man into surrendering. “The guy came up and was, like, ‘Give me your money,’” said [...]
Nose Hair Trimmer From Braun Ad
Braun’s new ads for their nose hair trimmers – showcasing the nose hair ‘stache.
Energizer – Never Let Their Toys Die
These Energizer “Never Let Their Toys Die” ads feature the things kids do when left to their own devices.
Verde Magazine: Paly junior Spencer Davis takes precautions. He confidently straps on his clear safety goggles and pulls on long, yellow rubber gloves. His finger is on the bright red switch of a compact black box, known as a coil gun. Two wires extend from the box and their shiny metal tips glint as Davis [...]
Deliveries Get BentBustedBroken.com
AppScout.com: I work from home, so I still need to get copies of our mothership publication, PC Magazine, sent to me. I’m lucky enough to get them just before subscribers… but I wonder sometimes if I’d be better off not getting them from UPS. I think the driver uses the envelope they come in to [...]
9News.com: Texas baker Suzanne Maxwell built her “Lovin’ Oven Bakery” on wedding cakes, but in the past few years she’s been delving into divorce cakes. Maxwell developed the concept with the help of a customer. “She said I really want a wedding cake, but I’m getting a divorce,” Maxwell explained. And so it began. Tiered [...]
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Tobasco brand hot sauce has created a bus that looks like a fire truck to advertise the flaming heat of their sauce.
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Steve Ballmer Egged In Budapest
Nothing sticks it to the man like a good egging. [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=mtBQ4UCXQeo[/youtube]
Keep Your Spoon To Yourself At Work
From Yahoo.com TOKYO (Reuters) – A veteran sumo wrestler who attacked a junior grappler with a cooking instrument has been ordered to take a salary cut for his violent outburst. Toyozakura, whose ladle-wielding assault left the victim bleeding and needing eight stitches, will take a 30 percent pay cut for three months, Japanese sumo officials [...]
This Big Brother Bus Stop ad in Australia uses blue tooth technology to send cell phone users within range of the bus stop text messages. The first message reads “I’m watching u. Ur at the bus stop on St George’s tce, out in front of Boost Juice.” The second message (sent 30-40 seconds later) reads [...]
Have A Book You Need To Market? Throw Money From A Plane!
From MSNBC.com JAKARTA, Indonesia – If you’re short of cash and don’t mind running in tropical humidity and smog for a few bucks, read on. An Indonesian businessman plans to throw 100 million rupiah (about $10,600) out of an airplane over the capital this Sunday as a publicity stunt to promote his new book. “I [...]
Sick of all those magazine ads piling up? Eat them! Fine Print reads: 100% edible paper. Fiat Panda 1.2 Natural Power Climbing €11.000. Offer valid until supplies run out. Better make this ad disappear quickly.
Coca Cola Unhuggables Commercial
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From Yahoo.com KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) – A Missouri car dealer said on Thursday sales have soared at his auto and truck business since launching a promotion this week that promises buyers a free handgun or a $250 gas card with every purchase. Max Motors, a small Butler, Missouri dealership that has as its logo [...]
From MSNBC.com TOKYO – A money-losing Japanese train company has found the purr-fect pet mascot to draw crowds and bring back business — tabby Tama. All the 9-year-old female cat does is sit by the entrance of Kishi Station in western Japan, wearing a black uniform cap and posing for photos for the tourists who [...]
Via our Business Humor Blog, comes this Japanese commercial that features non-alcoholic beer for children – complete with foam mustache and pizza. The company also sells wine and champagne for kids. Crazy, but business ideas are everywhere.
Chevrolet Transformer Commercial
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This Japanese commercial features non-alcoholic beer for children – complete with foam mustache and pizza. The company also sells wine and champagne for kids. Drink up! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELllgvfX23o[/youtube]
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Theres No Such Thing As A Free Timbit
From Reuters.com TORONTO (Reuters) – An attendant at a Canadian restaurant who was sacked for giving a bite-sized doughnut, worth 16 cents, to an agitated toddler was given her job back on Thursday after the case received wide media attention. Nicole Lilliman, a single mother, said she was dismissed from a London, Ontario, outlet of [...]
This billboard for Hubba Bubba is hung up with the sticky stuff itself. The idea behind this ad was that the product would advertise itself.
The small print on this ad reads “Flowers would have been a better idea.”
These Novartis Otrivin Ads read “Blocked Nose?” and “Very Blocked Nose?”
From Yahoo.com BERLIN – A trio of packaged pythons has caused a scare at a German post office. Police in Darmstadt say the snakes were stuffed into a parcel that was handed in for mailing to eastern Germany. It contained two tiger pythons and an albino tiger python of more than 3 feet in length. [...]
