Drawing Breath » Humour

Cereal killer

Richard — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 09:29:05 +0000

Vicious cereal box eats cat:

That’s what’s happening, honest.

Plum gorgeous

Richard — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 09:14:36 +0000

Any men reading should check this out. Be patient, it’s not what you might first think.

Thanks to Stefan for the link.

Run Forrest, run!

Richard — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:43:44 +0000

The British attitude to America’s less than positive reaction to the London bombings is delivered very nicely by Armando Iannucci in today’s Telegraph.

Via Tim Worstall.

A load of bullocks

Richard — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 09:02:40 +0000

Does anyone else think it’s odd that the cows on the Anchor Spreadable TV advert are voiced by men (specifically Stephen Fry and Tony Robinson)? Cows, voiced by men. Think about it for a moment.

No shit, Sherlock

Richard — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:42:14 +0000

Warning printed on a packet of Sainsbury’s almonds:

Alergy advice Contains nuts

Who’d have thought it?

Never poke fun at a pontiff*

Richard — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 11:30:26 +0000

* Sung to the tune of Monty Python’s “Never be rude to an Arab”.

MediaWatchWatch today reports on an attempt to silence a village web site for their somewhat irreverent reporting of Pope John Paul II’s recent demise, and for publishing a page of (dun dun durr) Pope Jokes (the very idea). The webmaster [sic] of a rival village site (link withheld out of spite) is trying to get an ASBO slapped on the owner of the site for this supposedly discrepant apostolic jocularity¹.

I’m happy to lend my meagre support to the MediaWatchWatch campaign to up the miscreants Google ranking.

1. With thanks to Nisus Thesaurus.

Funny bunny

Richard — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 09:48:57 +0000

Russ just sent me a link to an excellent bit of Flash animation. The compression on the audio makes it hard to catch the words, but the animation is just brilliant.

Google hates that bwasted Wabbit

Richard — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 09:15:12 +0000

Everyone’s favourite search engine, Google, is available in a multitude of languages, which can be set using the preferences page. However, one of the languages that doesn’t appear in the drop-down language list is Elmer Fudd.

I wonder if Jonathon Ross uses that page when he Googles?

Via O’Grady’s PowerPage.

Sense and Censorship

Richard — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:29:30 +0000

Channel 4 continued their Banned Season with a program about adverts that have been banned or withdrawn from UK television. Some of these adverts were (naturally) absolute rubbish, others works of genius.

In fairness to the censors, one of my favourites, the Wrigleys “Dog Breath” ad, was withdrawn only after a large number of complaints from the viewing public. The ad takes the concept of post-lash “dog breath” to it’s literal conclusion, with very angry dog forcing itself out of the mouth of a clearly hung-over bloke. The visuals are extremely well executed, but surely it is obvious to any clear thinking person that the dog wasn’t actually forced out of a hole the size of a human mouth? It never ceases to amaze me that people are so easily offended, particularly when some cartoons contain far more disturbing imagery. Obviously, the production company (Arden Sutherland-Dodd) just did far too good a job. I do wonder though if the complaints would have been so loud is it had been a less well loved animal that was ejected from his mouth.

My other favourite from the banned list is the Volkswagen Passat “Bollocks” viral ad. It features a sweet little girl expressing her frustrations with a choice bit of English vernacular. On the Banned program, the makers of the ad claimed that the girl (or girls to be more accurate, since they used twins) in the ad was actually saying “Pollocks”, and was then dubbed. It’s fairly obvious that it would never have made it past the censors, even post water-shed, but it is (as with the Wrigleys ad) extremely well executed and, frankly, hilarious. Sorry folks, but swearing is just funny.