Friday, June 26, 2009

Boba Fett's Alma Mater?

FIRST, the advertisers at facebook used their sophisticated web crawling technowizardry to discern that I was both 1) male, and 2) in Korea. From this, it was extrapolated that I Needed a Filipina Beauty Today.

Now that I'm back in the good ol' US of A, facebook has struck an equally amazing find with their newest suggestion:

http://www.degrees.info/online/criminal-justice/bounty-hunter.html

RIDICULESSON #3: Facebook ads are like facebook friends -- after scanning your wall and info for 5 seconds, neither actually knows anything about you.

My favorite part:

BOUNTY HUNTER DEGREES:
There are no formal degrees either required or offered for this profession.

That either makes me sorely disappointed or greatly relieved, but I'm not sure which.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Korea Kontinued

MOVING from edible to incredible, we analyze the nature of cross-cultural nomenclature.

RIDICULESSON #2: Connotations have no place in foreign signage. Diarrhea was selected as one of the most beautiful words in English by non-speakers.







A cleverly placed closure can't compensate for your poor judgment, Cleavage Bar. Too little, too late.
















Irony, thy name is Frat Dude.

















This could only be made better by this.



Friday, May 15, 2009

Maiden Voyage: Korean Commodities

IF there was one singular purpose for the development of the internet -- nay, for communication itself, it was the desire of one human to show another human something ridiculous.

In that spirit, let the the culmination of that journey now begin.

Ridiculesson #1: Koreans will buy pretty much anything, provided it contains equal parts of at least 2 of the following: English, ridiculosity, and pseudohealthiness.


Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink...









Wait.














YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.