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Whisky – Nectar of the gods!
It’s not often I’ll rave about an ad, but in this case I’m happy to make an exception. It’s one of the best ads I’ve seen in a long time (piper abuse slays me…).
Perhaps I’m biased, Johnnie Black being my favourite tipple of all time and all, but I reckon that any ad that keeps your attention for longer than the 30 second small-barnyard-animal-patience-threshold of the average goggle-box viewer has to be a good ‘un.
Pithy quote of the day
Working in IT is sometimes an excercise in futility. Sometimes it’s more than sometimes. Like today.
We get told to patch an application. It’s like putting a band-aid on a sucking chest wound. ’nuff said.
I’m gobsmacked!
Saw this snippet on a site I frequent:
A semi-armless teenager who acted as getaway driver on a jewellery heist, driving at 100mph during a police pursuit “despite needing somebody to change the gears for him”, has escaped jail, the Telegraph reports.
John Smith, 18 – who has no arms below the elbow – was in charge of a Ford Focus during the robbery of Ernest Jones in Hempstead Valley shopping centre near Rainham, Kent, on 17 December last year.
In my sick little mind, all I can see is the cops after they catch him…
“Cuff hi…Oh, never mind…”
Why is it
that as soon as you see a great, never-to-be-repeated, deal on something you’ve been dying to get your grubby paws on, you never have the cold cash in hand to be able to take advantage of it?
Or is it only me?
Case in point; Item A retails for $1100. Check out auction sites regularly for Item A. Find Item A listed at $650 (kewl, no?). Auction ends, no bidders, seller offers buy now price of $500. Now, between “Find Item A listed at $650″ and “Auction ends…” yadda, yadda, yadda…yours truly gets fu – uuuuhhhh – bloody fine of $530, and yours truly (and financial manager) had thought the $500 was do-able too.
Again; why is it???
<sigh>