Fun Stuff

I found this on another site and laughed my ass off. If I run a “fun” retail business I am going tailor this add.

Photograph from Noface2

Murder Burger in Auckland, New Zealand, may have the best “Staff Wanted” sign ever. Student teachers, yes! P (methamphetamine) addicts, no! Here’s the transcript of the ad:

STAFF NEEDED FOR GOURMET BURGER BAR THAT NEEDS STAFF

Right Oh, Murder Burger is opening up on Ponsonby Road in Ronsonby and we need a bunch of people to hang out with, make burgers and talk shit. No previous experiences is needed as we teach you everything you need to know and we kind of factor in you buggering something up along the way.

The sorts of people we think will be good for the job are:

Arts, Architecture and Humanities students: No real reason for this, well actually I suppose there is, it’s just that if we’re going to be working with somebody for hours on end it’s quite nice to talk about stuff we’re interested in as well.

Student nurses and student teachers. I’ve gone out with two nurses and two teachers in my short life and they were all awesome. More awesome than me as it turns out which is why I’m not going out with them anymore.

The sorts of people we think won’t be good for us:

Politics students: Nothing personal, we just don’t understand you.

P addicts: Again, nothing personal, it’s just that the benefit of you being able to work 7 shifts in a row is pretty much outweighted by the probability that you will one day flip, grab a knife and become Mr Stabby.

So if working with us sounds like something you might quite like to do instead of staying home watching telly then send an email to Geordie at

Nice one.

[Logo featuring an intimidating kitten]

I was kind of bored yesterday afternoon and decided to see what free movies were on “On Demand” and found one of the best “Radio” movies around “FM”.  It has a great soundtrack and 2 great concerts in the movie.  The first being Jimmy Buffet and the other a Linda Ronstadt
concert.

I have been trying to find this movie on DVD for a while now.  Netflix use to have it but was on my wishlist so long that they dropped it from there movie list, the local Blockbuster had it and I grabbed it off the shelf, but it was a bad copy and wouldn’t play.

The film perfectly captures the feel of the late 1970s. The casting is great, with a passionate performance by Michael Brandon and a very funny one by Martin Mull. The background music is just right and the concert appearances of Jimmy Buffett and Linda Ronstadt add to the late 1970s atmosphere. A young Tom Petty gets interviewed at the radio station. REO Speedwagon also appears at a record store signing. If you’re a fan of WKRP, then check out this movie.

This movie captures what needs to happen again in radio today..the jocks need to take over the station and make the listeners and the music the focus of the station.  As I have said before and I will say it again…Big business is killing radio and it’s time for the people to take back the airwaves…

So to see what radio should be like today check out “FM”.

As a few of you know I run the Alumni Internet Directory for the Bath Centeral school.
The other day I noticed a guy from the class behind me I use to hang
with had updated his information. He said he was living in a tropical
resort in Thailand. Of course he had left link to his online journal so
I spent the day reading it from the beginning. All I can say is way to
go man. Sounds like you are living the good life. Next time you are in
the states give me a yell. BTW you still owe me a copy of the “Men
without Hats” w/ the safty dance album. 🙂

That was the question asked of me by my friend Iambe today in an E-mail she sent me. I listed a few things that it was but the main one was home to De Lorenzo’s…the Hudson St one. I grew up eating there. It was one of the first places I would go when I came to visit my grandmother. It was also one of the only places that would pronounce my last name correctly and when I heard it called I knew I was home.

After sending off my reply to Iambe I decided to do a search online to find out more things about Chambersburg and stumbled on this great review of both De Lorenzo Restaurants. Just reading the review made my mouth water…

After around the area of 15 e-mails pointing this article out and having it on /. Yesterday I must complain.
Even though the article states:

“Help-desk staff were named as the worst offenders, followed by those working in technology start-ups, many of whom had continued to wear T-shirts to work as a consequence of the casual web culture of the ’90s.”

I must complain that not all IT workers dress like slobs..l do wear jeans and t-shirts most days but I know that when clients are going to be in the building I dress better. Here is the link to the story:http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/11/17/1132016909640.html

1.. Give away something other than candy. (Toothpicks, golf balls, bags of sand, etc…….)
2.. Wait behind the door until some people come. When they get near the door, jump out, wearing a costume, and holding a bag, and yell, “Trick or Treat!” Look at them, scratch your head, and act confused.
3.. Fill a briefcase with marbles and crackers. Write on it, “Top Secret” in big letters. When trick-or-treaters come, look around suspiciously, say, “It’s about time you got here,” give them the briefcase, and quickly shut the door.
4.. Get about 30 people to wait in your living room. When trick-or- treaters come to the door, say, “Come in.” When they do, have everyone yell, “Surprise!!!” Act like it’s a surprise party.
5.. Get everyone who comes to the door to come in and see if they can figure out what’s wrong with your dishwasher. Insist that it makes an unnatural “whirring” sound.
6.. After you give them candy, hand the trick-or-treaters a bill.
7.. Open the door dressed as a giant fish. Immediately collapse, and don’t move or say anything until the trick-or-treaters go away.
8.. When you answer the door, hold up one candy bar, throw it out into the street, and yell, “Crawl for it!”
9.. When you answer the door, look at the trick-or-treaters, act shocked and scared, and start screaming your head off. Slam the door and runaround the house, screaming until they go away.
10.. Insist that the trick-or-treaters each do ten pushups before you give them any candy.
11.. Hand out menus to the trick-or-treaters and let them order their candy. Keep asking if anyone wants to see the wine list.
12.. Get a catapult. Sit on your porch and catapult pumpkins at anyone who comes within 50 yards of your house.
13.. When people come to the door, jump out a nearby window, crashing through the glass, and run as far away from your house as you can.
14.. Answer the door dressed as a pilgrim. Stare at the trick-or- treaters for a moment, pretend to be confused, and start flipping through a calendar.
15.. Instead of candy, give away colored eggs. If anyone protests, explain that the eggs are the only thing you had left over from Easter.
16.. Answer the door dressed as a dentist. Angrily give the trick-or- treaters a two-hour lecture on tooth decay.
17.. Answer the door with a mouthful of M & M’s and several half-eaten candy bars in your hands. Act surprised, and close the door. Open it again in a few seconds, and insist that you don’t have any candy.
18.. Put a crown on a pumpkin and put the pumpkin on a throne on your porch. Insist that all of the trick-or-treaters bow before the pumpkin