Archive for the 'funny' Category

Follow-up: HK airline apologizes for airport tantrum video

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Steve
at March 5, 2009 in Travel, funny and thoughts. 0 Comments
Okay, many of you saw the YouTube video I posted on my blog a week or so ago with a lady throwing a pre-school worthy temper tantrum after missing her flight in Hong Kong.  Well, guess what, the AIRLINE has apologized to her for her ‘embarrassment’ over the popularity of her antics on YouTube!

HONG KONG (AP) — Cathay Pacific has apologized for embarrassing a customer whose anguish after missing her flight was captured on video by an airline employee and posted on the Internet.

The Hong Kong airline said in a statement to The Associated Press on Thursday that the worker who filmed the video has been disciplined but that another person posted the footage on YouTube, a video-sharing Web site.

The three-minute video shot on a mobile phone shows a woman wailing, throwing herself on the floor, banging on an airport counter and trying to barge through a closed boarding gate at the Hong Kong International Airport on Feb. 4 after missing a flight to San Francisco.

“They have no compassion. The plane hasn’t even left, and they’ve shut the gate. They’re crazy! They’re crazy!” the woman shouted.

First posted on YouTube on Feb. 12, it had drawn 4.97 million views and nearly 18,000 comments as of Thursday. Some postings have added mock subtitles.

Does our world seem backwards sometimes?

The Webel Family’s Travel Drama Was Considerably Less Than This…

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Steve
at February 20, 2009 in Travel, funny and video. 6 Comments

Fa-ra-ra-ra-ra–ra-ra-ra-ra!

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Steve
at December 25, 2008 in China, Holiday, funny and video. 0 Comments

My absolute favorite part of this Christmas classic… made even more funny by where I am writing this blog post from this Christmas!

Merry Christmas!  Tis-the-season to be Jorry Jolly!

Isn’t he gorgeous!?

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Steve
at December 16, 2008 in Gators, Sports, funny and video. 0 Comments

Funny the things you remember.  I can clearly remember where I was and what I was doing when I heard that the passionate and always energetic “Crocodile Hunter” aka Steve Irwin had passed away.  That was a little over two years ago (Sept. ‘06)

I was looking for some media to share in my Society & Culture class for a lecture on Australia and I came across this funny ESPN Sportscenter commercial with  Steve Irwin and Albert, the mascot for the Florida Gators!

For Those Who Fly…

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Steve
at November 30, 2008 in Travel, funny and video. 1 Comment

We Don’t Need No Education

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Steve
at November 1, 2008 in Football and funny. 0 Comments

At least not if you live in Clarke County, Georgia where school has been canceled today due to the high number of “sick” teachers they traditionally get the day before the Bulldogs and the Gators square off in Jacksonville!

Call it a case of the Red and Black flu.

Tired of struggling to find enough teachers to staff its classrooms on the Friday before the annual Georgia-Florida football game, the Clarke County (Ga.) School District — which includes Athens, home of the University of Georgia — decided to cancel school altogether.
According to area media reports, 137 teachers last year called in sick the day before the big game, and the district was able to find only 113 substitutes.  Source: ESPN

Interesting…  Maybe they should call “Dr. Tebow”, he might have a cure for their ‘flu’!

Go Gators!

(Don’t forget to take the poll in the sidebar of this blog – so far it’s looking like most of my readers are Gator fans!)

What Does Facebook Try To Sell You?

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Steve
at September 10, 2008 in Web 2.0, funny and thoughts. 1 Comment

 

For those of you who’ve made the plunge into the world of Facebook, you’ve probably noticed something… it’s called “targeted advertising” and it can be a little hard on the ole ego.

Do you know what I mean?

The Washington Post recently had an article about it;

Facebook targets its advertising to users based on the information in their profiles. This is not a new concept, of course. Kids usually see toy ads while they watch Nickelodeon, and women get ads for birth control pills as they watch Lifetime.

But Facebook’s data miners know much more about us because we tell them a whole lot more. Facebook knows my birthday, my relationship status and which book I’m reading, among other personal tidbits. The site started turning this information into dollar signs last November with the launch of Facebook Ads, which targets users’ presumed areas of interest (or psychological soft spots).

Basically, the subliminal goal of product advertising is to make you feel inadequate and ashamed, because you’re not perfect. Your teeth are yellow. Your armpits stink. You’re fat. And hairy.

I almost always get ads about “Learning Chinese” – how did they know my Mandarin stinks?  Lately they’ve been asking me if I need help with a “gambling addiction” – huh?!  Occasionally I think Facebook thinks I need to get a life, because it keeps asking me if I want to know about parties in Beijing.  

FB must not have got the memo about my THREE kids if they think I’m gonna jump at an opportunity to party it up in Beijing!

Ahhh, technology, you gotta love it!

Breaking News from Georgia

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Steve
at August 14, 2008 in USA, funny and news. 1 Comment

Two U.S. hunters are claiming they found the body of a giant ape-like “Bigfoot” creature and plan to prove it at a news conference.

Oh My!

Gators are number One! Ooops!

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Steve
at August 1, 2008 in Gators and funny. 0 Comments

Seems the Gators have made it to the #1 spot again… on Princeton Review’s list of top party schools that is!

This is the list according to Princeton Review’s survey of 120,000 students.

1. University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.

2. University of Mississippi, University, Miss.

3. Penn State University, University Park, Pa.

4. West Virginia University, Morgantown, W.Va.

5. Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.

6. Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Va.

7. University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.

8. University of Texas, Austin, Texas.

9. University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, Calif.

10. Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fla.

11. University of New Hampshire, Durham, N.H.

12. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.

13. University of Colorado, Boulder, Co.

14. Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind.

15. Tulane University, New Orleans, La.

16. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Ill.

17. Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz.

18. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn.

19. University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala.

20. Loyola University-New Orleans, New Orleans, La.

Chuck Norris Was Getting A Lot Of Hits!

Published by
Steve
at April 14, 2008 in Texas, USA, funny and news. 1 Comment

I was checking my blog stats, and a blog post I wrote back in January about Chuck Norris seemed to be getting an unusual amount of traffic, so I had to investigate why.

Turns out, a couple of high school kids in New Jersey put Chuck Norris’ name on a ‘hit list.’

Chuck Norris, being a class act, put out this thoughtful statement when he heard about the arrests:

 

Chuck Norris“When I learned yesterday [Wednesday] of the story about a high school student in New Jersey faced with expulsion from school and possible other problems after being charged with compiling a ‘hit list’ that contained my name, my first instinct was to say nothing. Not to risk making something out to be bigger than it is.

“But I realize that this is not the best course, for such behaviors are exactly the warning signs we have ignored for far too long, emanating from a growing at-risk population of young people in this country.

“In today’s world, we must always be vigilant, not just in stepping up protection and emergency preparedness in schools, but in reaching out to those lost souls who feel marginalized and disenfranchised by the world around them.

“It is what I have been doing for more than a decade with my ‘KickStart’ program, which began in Houston, Texas, teaching 150 at-risk children martial arts as part of the PE curriculum. Since that time, our program, which instills discipline and respect and raises self-esteem, has grown to serve more than 6,000 youngsters year round at 37 schools in Dallas and Houston, Texas. To date, KickStart has graduated more than 40,000 students with many going on to college and becoming successful in their own right.

“My hope is that, should there be substance to these charges, we will not distance ourselves from this young man, but embrace him and give him the help he needs to get on the right path.”

His statement just confirms what a great guy Chuck Norris is.

All I’ve got to say about those two kids, if they were serious, WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!