Pages Tagged “Irony”
Les Misérables
- Epic Fail at Mugging Montparnasse tries to mug Jean Valjean...while Gavroche is watching...outside Mabeuf's garden. It doesn't go well for Montparnasse.
Blog Posts
- Coffee-Stain Chic?
I was amused to discover that a Starbucks in Beverly Hills is decorated in coffee-stain chic.
- Still Snickering
Someone’s sending spam with the headline, “Someone sent you Snickers Candy.” It’s even sillier when you look at the throwaway senders they used.
- T-Shirt Irony
At Bloomingdale’s I saw a T-shirt that discourages conspicuous consumption…for a price high enough to make it a status symbol.
- Mixed Messages
Found these posters advertising the opening of a new 24-Hour Fitness gym: Wait, something doesn’t fit. A “big, fat honkin’ party?” Last I looked, this was a fitness center, not a fatness center! It doesn’t help that one of the prizes is a big-screen TV. I didn’t realize “couch potato” fell under the category of […]
- Unclear on the concept
I just received spam from an organization urging me to boycott Microsoft products because they send spam. The mind boggles.
- A most ingenious paradox
A sign spotted in a parking garage the other day: Next step: prove black is white—but be very careful at the next zebra crossing. Everything you know is wrong! Black is white, up is down And short is long…