Archive for 'Humour'
It’s funny cos it’s true
Posted on March 11, 2009, by Conor O'Neill, under Humour.
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Environmentally friendly investing
Posted on September 19, 2008, by Conor O'Neill, under Humour.
Got this from my brother-in-law today:
If you had purchased £1000 of Northern Rock shares one year ago it would now be worth £4.95, with HBOS, earlier this week your £1000 would have been worth £16.50, £1000 invested in XL Leisure would now be worth less than £5, but if you bought £1000 worth of Tennents Lager one year ago, drank it all, then took the empty cans to an aluminium re-cycling plant, you would get £214. So based on the above statistics the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and re-cycle.
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Now THIS is how to make an ad
Posted on September 5, 2008, by Conor O'Neill, under Humour.
The new Vista ad from Microsoft. I think it’s an all-time great. Brilliant writing (by Seinfeld I assume). Not once is Vista mentioned, just the logo at the end.
When you get tired of “buy buy buy, buy this, NOW, do it now, limited time offer, for you, blah blah blah”, then funny oddball ads like this put a smile on your face. I swear my opinion of Vista has gone up since I’ve watched this. Now if they did one with George Costanza, I’d go out and buy Vista Ultimate on the spot.
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Craic Pack Invades Dundrum
Posted on July 17, 2007, by Conor O'Neill, under Entertainment, Humour.
Just got a mail from old college buddy Niamh Shaw. She has taken the oft-travelled path of Degree in Engineering, PhD in Engineering, Gaiety School of Acting, Fair City, comedy troupe and is now part of the Craic Pack in Dublin.
They’ve been doing comedy improv every Wed & Friday in The Bankers Bar, Trinity St in Dublin for a long time and they’ve just announced that on Saturday, July 28th, they’re going to do an ever bigger and funnier show in the Mill Theatre, in Dundrum Shopping Centre. Watch as the Drummy Mummies scatter in fear 
If she is even 10% as funny as she was all those years ago in Earlsfort Terrace then you’ll be expelling snot at high velocity during this gig. You can find out lots more at www.myspace.com/thecraicpack
On a vaguely related topic, we’re now up to 16,598 views of the Steorn Video on YouTube. Head on over and try to get us to 20,000!
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Vote for your county in All-Ireland Monopoly
Posted on April 25, 2007, by Conor O'Neill, under Entertainment, Humour, Ireland.
Courtesy of Jonathan Hill. Get your county into the top spot in Monopoly! It looks like the entire population of Leitrim and Roscommon has voted with 296 and 258 votes respectively. Cork floundering with 31 and Kilkenny with 26.
Note to Hasbro – maybe get a custom PollDaddy widget created that we could all put on our blogs? It’s viral baby!
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More in the long list of Oisín gems
Posted on January 19, 2007, by Conor O'Neill, under Family, Humour.
Yes I know it’s just another “kids say the funniest things” post but this wee 5-year old thinks deeper than most.
Never promise a bed-time story and then renege:
“Dad when I grow up, I’m going to get married like you, and have babies like you, and forget things like you”
Recent obsession with death:
“Dad, when we all die, does that mean someone else might live in our house?”. “Yes they will Ois”. “So like, they’ll get all our DVDs?”
At least I’ve taught him to say “I’m going to be an engineer when I grow up, like my mum and dad”. Of course he thinks that means he’ll be fixing airplanes and computers. I’m having a hard time explaining the word design.
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How could they cancel a TV series which comes up with this?
Posted on October 16, 2006, by Conor O'Neill, under Entertainment, Humour.
Arrested Development has a lawyer whose ad states, “you don’t need double talk, you need Bob Loblaw”.
C’mon, best play on words ever.
Then tonight they nearly go one better as he announces that he has to go home to write “The Bob Loblaw Law Blog”
Yeah, I’m tired, but I’m still giggling.
Ye wanna know why YouTube is worth $1.6B? Cos I’ve just discovered that they have the clip!
Technorati Tags: Arrested+Development, Bob+Loblaw
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I’m not eating that, it’s for cats
Posted on October 9, 2006, by Conor O'Neill, under Family, Humour.
Oisín continues to come out with the funniest lines in the house. He refused to eat his dinner yesterday on the grounds that it was food for cats. Were we trying to feed him Whiskas perhaps? Or maybe KiteKat or Iams? No, it was lasagne.
All of this because his older brother, in an effort to get him to eat it, pointed out that lasagne is what Garfield eats.
Twenty minutes of tears, one taste and then he wolfed catted down the lot.
Technorati Tags: garfield, lasagne
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Badger, Badger, Sugar, Badger, Badger
Posted on October 5, 2006, by Conor O'Neill, under Entertainment, Humour.
I heard the other day that Alan Sugar and Michelle Dewberry have parted ways. What a shocker. If that is Sugar at his people skills best then it’s pretty obvious why he never went global.
All together now Badger, Badger, Badger, Badger, Badger.
YouTube currently down? They must have forgotten to pay their bills to Eircom.
Technorati Tags: The+Apprentice, Alan+Sugar, Michelle+Dewberry, Ruth+Badger, Badger+Badger+Badger
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Not a problem, I already have the password saved on the phone
Posted on October 5, 2006, by Conor O'Neill, under Babies, Humour.
This is the second and last bLaugh I’ll ever re-publish but I just couldn’t resist this one.
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I’d really better keep bloggin
Posted on September 25, 2006, by Conor O'Neill, under Blogging, Humour.
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Hey You
Posted on September 18, 2006, by Conor O'Neill, under Humour.
Norm Geras has given the history of one of my all time favourite one liners from a stand-up comedian. It is Michael Redmond’s piece of perfection “a lot of people say to me…..”
I heard that for the first time back in the early 1990’s, probably on one of the stand-up shows on TV. Or did he support Dylan Moran at some Irish gig?
It was around the same time that Mr Trellis were are their peak and Ardal O’Hanlon delivered his best ever joke. I’ll paraphrase it badly here: ”My Dad has a great sense of humour. Once, I put the price sticker off a bar of chocolate on the fridge and said ‘Hey dad, look, the fridge only cost 32p’. ‘No it didn’t’ he replied, ‘it cost £299′”
OK, ye had to be there.
tags: Michael+Redmond, Ardal+O’Hanlon, Mr+Trellis
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New Apple iWhatever
Posted on September 12, 2006, by Conor O'Neill, under Gadgets, Humour, Technology.
I see Apple have announced a new product allows consumers to manage and playback their digital-media files on their televisions.
They’ve called it the iTV. Sadly for UK purchasers, this means that it’ll only be capable of playing Corrie, Heartbeat, Celebrity Love Island and repeats of Crossroads.
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You can’t get much simpler than this
Posted on September 10, 2006, by Conor O'Neill, under Humour, Technology.
Considered by Jeffrey Veen of Google to be close to perfection when it comes to usability on a web-site.
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I miss Dublin, particularly the rats
Posted on September 6, 2006, by Conor O'Neill, under Humour, Ireland.
Craig sent me this picture taken by a tourist in a Dublin playground. To save you having to zoom the picture, the warning sign says “These lands are bring treated for rat infestation and have been laid with poison”.
Happy days.
tags: Rats, Playground, Dublin, Poison
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It took me a second to get this
Posted on August 21, 2006, by Conor O'Neill, under Humour.
But when I did, I laughed out loud. Courtesy of marketing guru Seth Godin.
Human beings have short memories: German appliance maker Bosch introduces the Axxis™ washer.
On the topic of marketing, we spotted a sign for a restaurant on the way back from Killarney yesterday. It said “Muesli Restaurant, Vegetarian Italian”.
I can’t think of a better way to ensure you get zero customers than to include the word muesli in your ad.
An alternative might be ”Warm gravel, Italian with all the good bits taken out”
tags: Bosch, Seth+Godin
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I think I know why the ambush went badly
Posted on August 21, 2006, by Conor O'Neill, under Cork, Humour.
Forewarned is forearmed eh?
Top tip for future signs like this - maybe give two hints on the sign:
[1] Which ambush
[2] Which war
I was sure we were heading towards Béal na mBláth. We got there and it was Kilmichael.
Obviously put up by the same guys who did the signage in Killarney. Every single junction there has signs for City Centre for all of the directions in and out. We also discovered that via Kilmichael is not a shortcut from Bandon to Killarney.
tags: Signage, Kilmichael+Ambush, War+of+Independence, Beal+na+mBlath
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Brigadier N. F. Marwood-Git (retired)
Posted on July 30, 2006, by Conor O'Neill, under Humour.
I think this is the first time in 16 years of using the internet that I have been presented with a list like this:
[tags]Monty Python, Hotels, UK, Lord[/tags]
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All our research gives us a gut intuition
Posted on June 27, 2006, by Conor O'Neill, under Entertainment, Humour, Uncategorized.
Another memorable quote from “The Apprentice, Martha Stewart”.
On a completely unrelated topic, Digg has gone to Version 3. Digg is a news site whose top stories are voted into position by the users. Up until now it was mainly tech but they have branched out in V3.
I’ve never used it much as it causes total information overload. But the Diggnation Podcast with Alex and Kevin is hysterically funny.
I had a quick look today just to see what had changed. There was an interesting story on Digg User stats – 94% male. Feign shock.
One commenter wondered what sites female internet users read instead. I am gobsmacked that the suggested one is not a live web-sites. I think they’d make a fortune:
http://pinkstuffandponiesandflowers.com
And now back to Martha.
[tags]The Apprentice, Martha Stewart, Digg, Diggnation[/tags]
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Most excellent wife
Posted on June 18, 2006, by Conor O'Neill, under Entertainment, Humour.
Lovely breakfast in bed and the gift of a Hairy Baby T-Shirt. Check those guys out, they have really great stuff.
Mine has a picture of the boys from “Withnail and I” with the byline “are you the farmer?”. It’s a pity I didn’t have it yesterday for the Bandon Show. For those of you who have forgotten the movie, here is an MP3 of the line (delicate dispositions should not click it). That site has a raft of all the great soundclips from all the characters.
technorati tags:Withnail+I, Hairy+Baby, Are+You+The+Farmer
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