Category: Friday Blogging

I REALLY Do Not Want to See Your Vacation Pictures


Least inspired promotional sweepstakes ever!

If you win the CBS Cares® Colonoscopy Sweepstakes:

Welcome to the CBS Cares Colonoscopy Sweepstakes!

This is an actual sweepstakes and, if you are the grand prize winner, we will fly you and a companion to New York where you will receive a free colonoscopy. You will also be given three nights’ accommodation in a suite at the luxurious Loews Regency Hotel, which will include the night before you are “awarded” the colonoscopy.

…….

This is just wrong on so many levels.

People over a certain age should get regular colonoscopies, and they should be checked for polyps, but this contest is the worst idea since the little Johnnie home root canal kit.

Oldest Ever Lolcat Found

It’s a picture postcard from 1905, and as the folks at Lolcat so ably note, “The differences are clear. Proper grammar and a more formal tone was in vogue back then. But the similarities to modern-day kitten struggles and lolcats are amazing. ALL CAPS is still cool, but most importantly, she also no can has cheezburger. More than a hundred years later, all that’s changed is the spelling.

Of course in the days prior to high speed film, the aftermath was of dressing up a cat and putting it in a high chair can only be imagined.

The blood stains are probably gone now.