Apparently, Pocari Sweat (the drink "With Properties Similar to your Body's Own Fluids") was just scratching the surface of hilarious misuses of English in asian marketing.

Tune your browsers to engrish.com for a complete (and ever so racially sensitive) listing of great products such as ( Read more... )

New favorite phrase: "imaginatively gross personal habit" (ref).

New UberMaus Award for Misguided Marketing: Pocari Sweat.

I just checked my friends list to see if anyone cool had decided I was cool enough to watch.
I just have one thing to say: who the hell is "Flamin' Lyle Crocodile" flaminlyle?
If he's that kid with the stringy hair that keeps pacing back and forth in front of my office in the late afternoon, just kind of looking at me, then I am going to have to start ( Read more... )

In lieu of a real post, here are some things a certain Richard Plumus wrote down at a party on April 24th:
Things you can say when I announce that I'm going to the bathroom:

• I went to the loo at 2:00 and I haven't particularly needed to go since, but you go ahead
• I don't like going in public because of the recent pandemic, but you go ahead
• Fine, ( Read more... )

Received in the mail today, handwritten on yellow legal paper ( Read more... )

Random LiveJournal link of the day.

• In restroom: "Rugged and Ready" brand Condoms. Seems more appropriate for, say, a line of hand tools. Screwdrivers, maybe.
• Package in Convenience Store: Candy and Flying Things. Like what? Jawbreakers and yellowjackets?
• Giant Cross-Street Banner: Spring Ho Festival. Fun for the whole family.

While I alluded to this important news item a couple of posts ago, I feel like I should back up and explain ( Read more... )

A friend that lives in the Dallas area, told me this:

After my move this weekend, I now reside in the gay part of town.
And, by that I mean, I did see lesbians at breakfast yesterday morning. And
planes fly overhead all day. It's a very surreal experience.

Like any West Texas boy, my immediate reaction was to concoct a conspiracy theory ( Read more... )

Today's dispatches: things that OBA members would like to have Adam West (TV's BATMAN) autograph when he comes to the Paramount on Friday:
Pendulous' List:

• The Book of Mormon
• An 8x10 glossy of my dad
• my freshly shorn belly

Jason's list:

• my favorite black spatula, thereby making it a Batula
• the cover of the latest issue of "Lard's Quarterly," a real ( Read more... )