The guys at Jib-Jab are notorious for putting out some hilarious political videos, here’s their latest piece of work. I think you will agree it’s pretty funny!
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You just can’t make this stuff up. I don’t think that I have ever heard of anything like this before. I bet that 9 times out of 10 that whole “whack you with an army shovel” thing works…
Someone sent me this and I have no idea why but I couldn’t stop laughing…
I have no idea where this was at but some dude obviously just can’t take it anymore and goes nuts tearing up “cubicle world” and finally had to be subdued. His rant goes on for a few minutes though before they stop him. I have to admit, if I would have been in the same room I would have probably been too hysterical to help out… this is just good stuff.
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Thanks to Jennifer Laycock on Twitter for posting the cell phone camera view of this, http://tinyurl.com/64mwu6
When this story broke yesterday I couldn’t help but laugh. It’s sad that we live in a society that this could even be an issue. She’s trying to help sell $4 mocha latte’s folks, not support jihad… Geesh. It makes for some good humor though.
Just a thought though, couldn’t someone just use Photoshop and fix this whole thing, and take Rachel and Dunkin’ Donuts out of the Axis of Evil??
BOSTON (AP) — Dunkin’ Donuts has pulled an online advertisement featuring Rachael Ray after complaints that a fringed black-and-white scarf that the celebrity chef wore in the ad offers symbolic support for Muslim extremism and terrorism.
The coffee and baked goods chain said the ad that began appearing online May 7 was pulled over the past weekend because “the possibility of misperception detracted from its original intention to promote our iced coffee.”
In the spot, Ray holds an iced coffee while standing in front of trees with pink blossoms.
Conservative commentator Michelle Malkin complained that the scarf wrapped around her looked like a kaffiyeh, the traditional Arab headdress. ”The kaffiyeh, for the clueless, is the traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad,” Malkin wrote in her syndicated column.
“Popularized by Yasser Arafat and a regular adornment of Muslim terrorists appearing in beheading and hostage-taking videos, the apparel has been mainstreamed by both ignorant (and not-so-ignorant) fashion designers, celebrities, and left-wing icons,” she said.
A statement issued Wednesday by Canton, Mass.-based Dunkin’ Brands Inc., however, said the scarf had a paisley design, and was selected by a stylist for the advertising shoot.
“Absolutely no symbolism was intended,” the company said.
Dunkin’ spokeswoman Michelle King said the ad appeared on the chain’s Web site, as well as other commercial sites.
Amahl Bishara, an anthropology lecturer at the University of Chicago who specializes in media matters relating to the Middle East, said complaints about the scarf’s use in the ad demonstrate misunderstandings of Arab culture and the multiple meanings that symbols can take on depending on someone’s perspective.
“I think that a right-wing blogger making an association between a kaffiyeh and terrorism is just an example of how so much of the complexity of Arab culture has been reduced to a very narrow vision of the Arab world on the part of some people in the U.S.,” Bishara said in a phone interview. “Kaffiyehs are worn every day on the street by Palestinians and other people in the Middle East - by people going to work, going to school, taking care of their families, and just trying to keep warm.”
While some extremists and terrorists may wear kaffiyehs, “To reduce their meaning to support for terrorism has a tacit racist tone to it,” Bishara said.
Malkin, in a posting following up on last week’s column, said of Dunkin’s decision to pull the ad, “It’s refreshing to see an American company show sensitivity to the concerns of Americans opposed to Islamic jihad and its apologists.”
Ray, host of the Food Network television program “30 Minute Meals” as well as a syndicated daytime talk show, began appearing in ads for Dunkin’ Donuts in March 2007. When Dunkin’ announced the partnership, it said Ray would be featured in TV, print, radio and online spots in a campaign running through 2010.
Source: ‘Paisley’ or ‘jihad?’ Dunkin’ Donuts yanks Rachael Ray ad - May. 29, 2008
Ran across this Man Cave story on CNN.com and thought it was pretty funny. It’s amazing to me that no matter how old we get, we never truly outgrow the need to have a clubhouse!
Granted, right now I don’t have a Man Cave of my own, typically when my friends come over we usually migrate to my home office and we sit around the plasma’s and check out videos on break.com and ebaumsworld.com but if I am ever able to have a Man Cave of my own (which my wife has vetoed), it will definitely be along these same lines, maybe add a high speed connection and lan, haha.
(CNN) — During the week Ryan Samuel, 30, is a married man working in the energy market in Richardson, Texas. But on the weekends he lures men away from their homes, wives and children with beer, camaraderie, power tools and “The Ponderosa.”
Three years ago, Samuel, his cousin, his brother-in-law and a host of friends started building a cabin on some family land in Oklahoma. They named it “The Ponderosa.”
By Samuel’s admission, it’s more like a shack. It has no power, no plumbing, a leak in the roof and it’s already been set on fire once.
Struggling to find the allure? Samuel admits it’s not for everyone. He’s never shown the place to his wife.
Every time he and his friends go to the cabin, they have to chase hornets, snakes and other varmints out of the building. Once a cow died in the creek behind the cabin and it stank for weeks.
“You want to talk man caves, this place is a total cave,” said Samuel.
CNN.com and iReport.com got an overwhelming response when we asked readers to send in photos and stories of their man caves — spaces that foster men’s hobbies, decorating skills and technological needs.
Samuel caught our interest when he explained that almost all the building materials and labor used to create “The Ponderosa” were paid for in beer, so we had to give him a call to find out more.
It turns out building a cabin wasn’t entirely Samuel’s idea. He and his cousin Jeff used to own a 1963 Winnebago camper they kept on their family’s land in Oklahoma. One day Samuel got a call from Jeff asking if he wanted “the good news or the bad news.”
“The good news was, ‘I’m building a cabin where our camper is sitting right now,” said Samuel. The bad news: Jeff sold the camper for spray-foam insulation. By the time Samuel arrived to survey the situation, Jeff was already laying the floor. Their adventures continued from there.
They got creative with construction techniques and building materials: The one window in the cabin isn’t actually framed in. Samuel said he and his friends used a saws-all to cut an opening and then leaned the window onto the hole. “I have no idea where that window came from,” he said.
Samuel’s cousin Jeff lucked into roofing materials driving down the road one day.
“My cousin was driving down the highway in Oklahoma. He pulls over and there are 10 rolls of roofing paper on the side of the road,” Samuel said. His cousin was driving a car that day instead of a truck, so he was only able to fit four of the rolls in the back, but it was more than they needed, he said.
“And right now there’s a tarp over [the roof], because obviously we didn’t do it right.”
The cabin’s back yard got a facelift after a rainstorm: “We left a bunch of sacks of Quickcrete out on the porch, and they got rained on,” said Samuel. “They turned into perfect blocks of concrete,” he said, which they used to build a fire pit.
For years Samuel, his relatives and his friends bartered for, borrowed or found the building necessities for their getaway cabin.
Samuel said his cousin knew a lot of people who could help them build or help them get building supplies.
“You get some guys who are married, maybe have children or not, and are looking for any excuse to get away from the house, and have access to or actually have the building materials .. It’s not hard to talk someone into doing the manual labor, because they’re accomplishing something that they wanted to also. They’re having a few beers with some buddies. If they’re hammering some nails or screwing some screws at the same time, that’s fine too,” he said.
This was typical of user comments in reaction to the images and stories we received about man caves.
Many women wanted to know what was so terrible about the man cave-owners’ families that they had to retreat to a cave to get away from them. Many men piped up in the comment section as well, explaining they felt their wives had reign over the entire rest of the house, and that men deserved at least one space to call their own.
So we asked Samuel what he thought.
“The whole point of it, it’s just guy time,” he said. “There’s no rules, there’s no bathroom. It’s just getting away. … Most of it is just relaxation and having a good time. Nothing ever happens out there that can create any extra stress.”
“Half of it is about hanging out with guys, your buddies and the other half is being out where nobody can see you. Nobody can find you. You’re way out there — there’s no city lights hiding the stars. The time that you can spend out there getting away from it all, doing what you want to do, that’s the reason behind building the thing,” he said.
“When you leave on a Sunday evening and it’s time to go home, you can face all the things that you have to do for that next week. But for the entire time you’re out there hanging loose, you have no deadlines, nothing else you have to do but just go hang out.”
Beer, free stuff lead to ‘man cave’ - CNN.com
