January 27th, 2009, 6 Comments »
I was on the SkyTrain yesterday and snapped a photo of this box. The box’s owner was drinking one of those energy drinks in a tall boy can, so at first I assumed this was a box of beer. Then I looked closer (click for super-sizing):
Here’s something a little surprising: when do I a search for the exact phrase “Battery Operated Drinking Roulette”, I get zero results (well, until this blog post gets indexed). For a non-exact search, this London Drugs page (a steal at $19.99) is the first result. Here’s what the thing looks like (sorry, that’s as big a photo as I could find):
I’m a little unclear on how it works–any guesses (or, you know, experience with roulette-enabled drinking)?
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October 23rd, 2008, 4 Comments »
As bloggers know, old blog posts can continue to receive comments for the entire life of the blog. I don’t mind, because I often learn stuff from these late commenters, and I occasionally hear some fascinating (and creepy) stories. And sometimes you get hilarious comments like this one, complaining about ICBC:
DEAR READERS MY NMINIVAN GOT STOLEN ,IT WAS 1994 PLYMOUTH VOYJOR VERY NICELY KEPT LIKE COLLECTER CAR , BUT ICBC GAVE ME A VERY SOUR DEAL ,REASON RACIAL PREJUDICE . I HAVE BEEN PAYING FOR MY INSURACE SINCE BILL BENET BROUGHT ICBC , I DID COMPLAIN TO OMMBADS MAN OFFICE BUT NO AVAIL , IF SOME ONE CAN HELP ME PLEASE !TOTTLE LOSE DEPT WOMAN HAD SO Awe attitude . i know in icbc all workers are cousins , as this is just society ! may be too much !
I’m not sure what “Tottle lose dept woman had so” means, but it’s not good news.
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July 15th, 2007, 6 Comments »
Today we had pancakes for the first time in four months. We spotted some maple syrup in Rabat’s biggest grocery store, and thus enjoyed a very Canadian breakfast of pancakes and homemade hashbrowns.
Upon closer inspection, the maple syrup has some weird language and iconography going on:
If you click that photo you’ll get a super-big photo. You’ll see that the syrup is called “Nick: The Easy Rider” and has a little stamp symbol that reads “The American Way of Life”. There’s a little drawing of a dude (presumably Nick) riding a motorbike (it looks more like a police motorcycle than a Harley) against the backdrop of the open road and the setting sun. And yet, it’s also got a bunch of German on it (it’s “Ahorn-Sirup!”).
When we flip over the bottle, there’s more German, English and French:
And, as it turns out, it’s a product of Canada. Weird, eh? When I try to access the German URL on the back, I’m asked for a user name and password. A little searching, and I found Nick’s official site. No English, but he looks a bit like Kenny Rogers.
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