Ryanair to Make Passengers Stand
Humor July 6th, 2009
The barebones low-cost airline is considering standing-room flights.
Can’t be much worse than sitting on most airlines today, right?
- says Jeff Nolan.  But wait, these flights may be free!  Says Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary:
Why is this any different to what happens on trains where you see thousands of people who cannot get a seat standing in the isles?
There’s still room for further cost-cutting, like shrink-wrapping passengers and piling them up in the cargo area 
Or do like the Flintstones:
(You can purchase the original here for a lot more than a Ryanair ticket)
Tags: airlines, aviation, flintstones, Humor, ryanair
Business Planning on Twitter
Humor, Startups June 4th, 2009
As with all-things-Twitter, you should read this bottom-up:
And the text summary – again, read from bottom up:
- amandagbeals @bencasnocha love the biz idea but dont leave out the gays!!! they wld be ur biggest clients!
- zolierdos @bencasnocha On second thought, this business model is one of the oldest, although not limited to kissing
- djnotfound @bencasnocha but… but can they get pregnant by kissing?
- zolierdos @bencasnocha Haha, will it be bootstrapped or VC funded?
- constantmotion @bencasnocha I have to ask, did a specific experience lead to this idea?
- jeffnolan @bencasnocha you could rely on craigslist as your go-to-market strategy
- msimonkey @bencasnocha Who decides whos the expert?
- bencasnocha Business idea: create a kissing school where people pay to practice kissing "expert" instructor of opposite sex and get immediate feedback.
Tags: ben casnocha, business plan, Humor, Startups, Twitter
Twitter Hashtag Streams
Humor May 26th, 2009
Here’s a cleansed (PG-13?) and somewhat humorous (?) sampling of the recently trending #3wordsduringsex and 3wordsaftersex hashtags on Twitter:
You bent it!
is it in?
So it’s detachable?
damn she’s home
episode 3 begins….
who are you?
Got a Sister ?
moneys on dresser
That was all?
what’s ur name
again next year
where’s the exit ?
what was that?!
(Photo credit: Geek Mom Mashup)
Space Shuttle Lands Both in Florida and California – Reuters
Misc May 24th, 2009
Or perhaps Florida annexed California (never mind that little piece of land separating the two).
Space shuttle Atlantis lands safely in Florida
- says the headline. Then the actual article:
The shuttle touched down at the Edwards Air Force base in California.
I let Google decide 
Tags: atlantis, california, Florida, Humor, reuters, space shuttle
SC Swat Attack Brings Craigslist Down
Misc May 6th, 2009
Knee-jerk Henry (Henry McMaster, the Attorney General of South Carolina) must have sent his swat team to bring down Craigslist, as this is all I find on everyone’s favorite classifieds site:
Google Thinks They Invented Orion
Humor March 24th, 2009
The Germans beat them to it, 40 years ago:
If the colors are a bit funky, that’s because this is a re-colorized version of the 60’s black & white series, Raumpatrouille Orion, and Space Patrol Orion. Here’s a b&w English language trailer:
(Cross-posted from CloudAve)
Related posts:
- Google Implements ‘Orion’ Technology, Improves Search Refinements & Adds Longer Snippets
- Two new improvements to Google results pages
- Google’s Wonder Wheel Experiment, and More
Tags: Google, Humor, orion, Raumpatrouille, sci-fi, space patrol
The Obama Administration Badly Needs Google
Humor, Politics March 7th, 2009
The Obama administration wants to reset US relations with Russia, and in a symbolic gesture Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented her counterpart, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a huge RESET button when the met in Geneva.
Except the button did not really say reset: it said перегрузка (peregruzka), which, as Lavrov pointed out means overload.  Now, we don’t want to overload relations with Russia, do we?
Congratulations for the State Department translatorss for getting it right.  Here’s my bailout proposal for State: fire the translators, just use Google Translate:
Tags: clinton, foreign policy, hillary clinton, Humor, obama, peregruzka, Politics, reset, russa
Your Bailout
Humor February 24th, 2009
Dear Reader,
This blog would not even exist without you, and I am eternally graceful for your sticking around in good and bad times. We happen to be in the latter now
… and I feel compelled to help. I am sharing my new-found wealth with you:
Happy shopping 
I’m Getting Bailed Out
Humor, Misc February 18th, 2009
Underwater Ironing (???) World Record
Humor January 22nd, 2009
From the it doesn’t get any stupider than this department: 86 people in the UK have broken the World Record in underwater ironing.
What’s wrong with these people? I wouldn’t want to be anywhere close to an ironing board even on land, let alone underwater. These people should take a flight on Us Airways… (oops, sorry, bad joke).
Here’s another world record in a much more pleasant category.
Tags: Humor, underwater ironing, world record
Zoli Erdos
