The Eurozone crisis, explained by Blackadder

Baldrick: “What I want to know, Sir is, before there was a Euro there were lots of different types of money that different people used. And now there’s only one type of money that all the foreign people use. And what I want to know is, how did we get from one state of affairs [...]

Advertising F*** Up of the Year #6

I was originally going to do these once a month, until they came flooding in so thick and fast that they just demand being published. For today’s it’s All Hail the Mighty Target, (Australian branch), who, in an interesting wrinkle on recent controversies, (forgive the pun), are here found guilty of not air-brushing their models [...]

On Snooki, Chelsea, The Borgias, & Big Tits

AS SEASON TWO OF THE BORGIAS IS ABOUT TO HIT OUR SCREENS, I THOUGHT I WOULD REPUBLISH MY MOST POPULAR ARTICLE EVER. ENJOY. Last night, relentlessly sleepless after a rather large piece of rib-eye steak that wasn’t, for once, washed down with a couple of bottles of good Shiraz (hence still being wide awake, I [...]

Advertising F*** Up of the Year #5 – and do you want fries with that?

OK, over here at Planet Wellthisiswhatithink we know how much you’re enjoying these occasional wading around in the deepest dankest end of the advertising gene pool moments – as they are consistently the most popular posts we, er, post* – so here’s another. (*Except for the story we ran about Adam and Eve not being [...]

Hilarious animation. Why isn’t it an ad? What’s that? Not everything in life should be an ad? Sheesh. Now you tell me. (Slinks off, muttering …)

This little animation is very amusing and brilliantly executed. What’s really sad is that when I looked at it I just kept thinking “I bet this is an ad for a watch company”. Then at the end I thought, “this should be an ad for a watch company”.  You know what they say, “You can [...]

“Laugh out loud snort coffee through your nose funny” – one man and his dog text messages. You have been warned.

The Dalek Relaxation Tape – very funny absurdist humour

Ok, there are some really, really really silly people in this world. And occasionally they come up with absurdist humour. Now I don’t want to go all hi-falutin’ on you, but I do think we should have more absurdist work around to cheer us up. So do yourselves a favour and have a listen to [...]

Gratuitously offensive politically incorrect joke

So, Angela Merkel arrives at Passport Control at Athens airport. “Nationality?” asks the immigration officer. “German,” she replies. “Occupation?” “No, just here for a few days.” Oh come ON – admit you laughed. (Thank you, Dario)

The importance of just a little sp ace

As I keep telling people, little matters like sentence construction, correct punctuation and carefully laid out type – or handwriting – really do make all the difference. Oh, dear. Oh dearie, dearie me. But you tell the young ‘uns nowadays, and they won’t believe you. *sighs heavily* (Thanks Reuben)  

This is great advertising – and this is how it’s done

So, dear reader, I was meandering through a very funny blog on vegetarianism – I recommend it, by the way – and I came across this ad for a restaurant. Ten seconds on Google and it turns out it’s in Minneapolis. Their website is here: jdhoyts.com. I have no idea if they’re any good, but [...]

Don’t rest in peace, Davy Jones: get up to Heaven and rock the joint

How sad to hear that the Monkee’s Davy Jones has died of a heart attack at just 66 years young. I was a kid in the 60s and 70s, and the Monkees were simply part of my life. Discussions about whether they were a “real” pop group or merely a manufactured confection are surely irrelevant.  [...]

Tragedy! Staring at breasts does NOT increase a man’s life expectancy.

An email from a mate (who clearly feels he needs justification for staring at tits for a portion of his day) reminded me of a hoax that is still circulating around the Net (and appearing in many media outlets) since first landing in our inboxes in March / April 2000. An example of the original [...]

Sporting commentary – the worst bloopers ever

Super Bowl Day would seem to be a very appropriate opportunity to produce a list of the things commentators and sports jocks would rather never have uttered, courtesy of Steve Brown. (Thank you, Steve.) Some of them are quite rude, so don’t read on if easily offended. Interestingly, the list does not include my personal [...]

Say what? All about paraprosdokians.

A paraprosdokian is a phrase or sentence that leads us down the garden path to an unexpected ending. Taking a seemingly unarguable or simple statement, and then making more of a point by adding a witty or apparently contradictory response at the end of it. It’s a device much loved of both rhetoricians and stand [...]

Blogging gives you cancer – true

You know the famous line about “if you want to get rich, invent a better mousetrap”? Well I reckon if you want to get rich, invent bread that miraculously toasts only golden brown and then stops. Yes, that’s right, people. The toast knows how it’s getting on, and turns off its capacity to be burnt [...]

Advertising F*** Up of the Year #2 – yes, already!

Oh dear. Oh dearie, dearie me. Oh no, really. Stop it. You’re telling me NO ONE at the Belfast Telegraph thought this was unwise? Less Guinness at lunchtime, boys … (Thank you, Tamara.)

Give The Jew Girl Toys!

As we hurtle ever faster down the slippery slope that leads us to Christmas,  for many in the world tonight is the start of Hanukkah – it was last night here in Oz – and someone kindly reminded me of this HILARIOUS seasonal-specific piece by Sarah Silverman, who is not only one of the cleverest [...]

It’s all done in the best POSSIBLE taste

As the Daily Mail and the West Australian report, amongst thousands of others, a Dutch television stunt is generating headlines around the world.  The two presenters of TV show Proefkonijnen (which means guinea pigs or test rabbits) brought reality television to a whole new level when they ate each other’s freshly cooked flesh. Dennis Storm [...]

A really great pair of tits

I do love the internet. Well, I’m fascinated by it, anyhow. One of the great things about WordPress is it lets you see which Google searches (or other search engines) have led to people dropping in on your blog. I always give it a glance, to see whether my tagging of the 100 articles I [...]

Photos of the things people put up their bottoms. No, really.

Yup, I’m serious. And if this post doesn’t garner more hits for me than even Snooki’s tits and the groovy French condom ad, I will just go to the foot of our stairs and sulk. And it’s a serious piece of research. And it’s on a serious world-leading blog site. There are loads more crazy [...]