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Archive for Follies
More Friday Follies X: Beer Makes You Attractive, and Other Soggy Tales
It’s now a demonstrated, provable fact: Beer makes you more attractive! And what more reputable outlet than the Daily Mail of London to break this scientific news?
Okay, we all knew (as in all of us beerdrinkers knew) that beer you attractive. But scientific proof had been elusive, until now. The exciting part is, it only [...] Read more »
Burger King Employees Come Clean
As if you needed Yet Another Reason not to eat fast food, this in to the Chile Underground Nothing-Gets-Past-Us Newsroom:
A video of a Burger King employee celebrating his birthday has appeared on the web. This probably isn’t newsworthy in itself, given that some of them are bound to stay employees long enough to actually celebrate [...] Read more »
Follies Extra: Chocolate Covered Bacon!
Stop the Presses! Hold the Phone!! Don’t Take Any Wooden Nickels!!!
(Wait a minute; that last one is decidedly odd-cliché-out, maybe. Oh well, I got a blog to publish here; run with it!)
Write this day down on your calendar, as it represents an Exclusive Find by the Chile Underground. A new food group has been invented, [...] Read more »
More Friday Follies IX: The Wake n’ Bacon Alarm Clock and Legal Weed
It’s not about chiles, but arguably it’s about food. The latest evidence that mankind is indeed evolving to greatness is here! Meet the Wake n’ Bacon Alarm Clock, coming to a bedroom near you soon. Imagine: You’re lying there, dreaming about flying on the wing of a biplane, or giving that big sales presentation while [...] Read more »
More Friday Follies VIII: WTO Goes Bananas, Eggs in the Air, and Carl’s All-Day Breakfast
The Doha Round of trade talks in the World Trade Organization recently ground to a halt. Seven years of negotiating give-and-take ended with no agreement. Apparently, bananas were one of the “last straws” that may have killed any chance for success.
And to think, if they could have just hung on a few years more, there [...] Read more »
More Friday Follies VII: Vice Girls to Spice Girls?
It’s not a lot of news, but a special program has been launched in Edinburgh, Scotland to assist with a nagging social problem. You see, it seems the, er, ladies of negotiable affection are in their line of business only because they don’t know how to lead “structured lives.”
Enter the Scottish government. They recently awarded [...] Read more »
More Friday Follies VI: McDonald’s In the News
A company as big as McDonald’s must have some truly interesting ideas, and some Really Bad Days. They also have their rabid supporters, and their uncompromising detractors. They’ve even gotten so big they can afford to pay millions over one cup of spilled coffee.
Recently, I’d say the publicity has been going oddly. Not all bad, [...] Read more »
More Friday Follies V: Beer, Beer, Beer!
Norwalk, CA
A 74 year-old woman drove her 1988 Cadillac through the front of a convenience store recently. I guess that’s not much news. What she did next, however, is:
She staggered out of the wreckage, shouted “I’m here for beer!” and wobbled over to the cooler to grab a six of Budweiser. When she reached the [...] Read more »
