Thoughts from a Mental Ward

Archive for January, 2012

TOP TEN MOST CONFUSING THINGS ABOUT THE APPLE STORE
Sunday, January 22nd, 2012

(10) People are everywhere…like they’ve just witnessed a car accident.

(9) Laptops, Desktops, iPods, iPads, iPhones are scattered throughout the store in a non-discernible pattern.

(8) Some people are simply there “to be seen” like at a Manhattan nightclub.

(7) For those who have never been…you have no idea who to see, where to go, or where to stand to be helped.

(6) The Genius Bar seems to be filled with people waiting…for Godot.

(5) Everyone is gathered in one room but apart based on their technological preferences.

(4) Most see cool technology; some of us see dollar signs…and lots of work hours.

(3) Electronic display pads next to iMacs tell you the iMac starts at $1,199 but the everyone you can use and touch is the $1,499 model.

(2) Virtually no one makes eye contact…with other human beings.

(1) A person finally greeted us only to use technology to tell us someone else would be over to help us.


FRIENDLY HOOTERS
Monday, January 9th, 2012

Five more Friendly’s restaurants are closing in the Capital Region.

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9S5O5480.htm

Right across the street from one of them stands a restaurant that could capture Friendly’s business…Hooters.

It’s time to start hiring senior waitresses who believe in double-reinforced support bras to start working the mid-afternoon shift at America’s most well-known restaurant featuring T & A, wings, and sports on TV.

They could start offering free virgin Jell-O shots to all senior men through the doors before 3 pm for a meal of pured steak, french fries, and brussel sprouts.

Hooters should start training its senior waitresses in the finer arts of Canasta, shuffle board, and wiping spittle.

And offer geriatric Hooters’ customers real Happy Endings…free bingo at the end of every meal.

Come on Hooters…get creative…forget the coveted 25 to 45 demographic and start appealing to that 65 to 85 crowd with lots of cash and boredom.

In fact, you could open a new chain Old Hooters.

And expand into other arenas with a Hooters Assisted Living Facility, Hooters Scooters, and Hooters Big & Tall shops.

When one door closes, another opens, and out pops a boob…or two.


BIG BROTHER…READS
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012

The Daily Mail Reports: Tweeting the word ‘drill’ could mean your Twitter account is read by U.S. government spies

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2079283/Tweeting-word-drill-mean-Twitter-account-read-government-spies.html

According to the article…

The words which attract attention range from ones seemingly related to diseases or bioweapons such as ‘human to animal’ and ‘outbreak’ to other, more obscure words such as ‘drill’ and ‘strain’.

The DHS also watches for words such as ‘illegal immigrant’.

The DHS outlined plans to scans blogs, Twitter and Facebook for words such as ‘illegal immigrant’, ‘outbreak’, ‘drill’, ‘strain’, ‘virus’, ‘recovery’, ‘deaths’, ‘collapse’, ‘human to animal’ and ‘trojan’, according to an ‘impact asssessment’ document filed by the agency.

There go cooking, porn, pet, political, health, funeral, and condom websites.

Forget the seven words you can’t say on TV…now there are dozens of words you can’t use online.

Apparently you can’t say my fellow humans sometimes act like animals.

They strain to drill each other in an outbreak of cruelty or pleasure.

We’re now assessing the impact of using trojans on animals to prevent an outbreak of swine flu and the collapse of humanity.

Watch out!

Big Brother is watching, listening, and go figure…reading….just not the Constitution.