Category: Humor

Cover girl

Bobby

Model Veronica Varekova is upset about Maxim magzine using her photo on their cover. Maxim licensed the photo from Corbis Outline for use in their magazine but did not have Ms. Varekova’s permission to use it on the cover. Veronica has consistently turned down covers of men’s magazines, and is upset Maxim put her on the cover without telling her.

I am a Maxim subscriber, and when I recieved this month’s magazine I knew something funny was up with the article on Veronica Varekova. Anyone familiar with Maxim knows that they typically do a large interview with their cover girls, generally several pages of Q&A. The article on Veronica had about 5 quotes scattered through the layout. No Q&A and the same content was repeated twice in the article. It was fairly obvious that either Veronica was really dull (which is doubtful since she’s trilingual and has two degrees) or she never actually did a photo shoot/interview with Maxim.

My guess is this is all a publicity stunt for Maxim. They figure the ‘exposure’ will be worth the lawsuit.

Beer and Popcorn

Bobby

Nextnc has an article about the decline of movie attendance in the US. One of the tactics theatre are using to pull people back in is to serve alcoholic beverages. Now here is an idea who’s time has come. Having beer in a movie theatre should send attendence through the roof. Think about it, now, when your significant other asks you to take her to see that romantic comedy what she’s really offering is her services as a DD. How much better is the latest Lindsay Lohan, Kate Hudson or Jessica Simpson movie going to be when you have 3 or 4 Buds in you?

Now, I know what you’re thinking. “Bob, I don’t drink. How does this help me”. The other great benefit of having alcohol in the theater is the entertainment value of the drunks. Currently I rarely go to the theater. Who wants to pay $9.00 to go see poor acting, a poor plot and have to listen to some schub behind you yammer for two hours. I can get that for free at my brother-in-law’s HOME theater. Once the beer in the theater is widely available, a few well placed popcorn tosses will be enough to start a cinematic brawl.

This wll make a great mastercard commercial

Movie – $10
Beer – $14
Getting hauled away by the cops while your whole family watches – Priceless

It just makes me happy to see the movie industry do something. Instead of addressing real problems like poor quality films, high prices (both at the ticket counter and the concession stands), cheesey commercials (that I just paid $10 to watch) and noisy theaters they focus on things like beer and wine or reserved seating. How inventive of them.

Two large pepperoni please

Bobby

I recieved and email newsletter today with a Fun Factoids section and it included a fact that I found particularly interesting.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza everyday.

Now, this is amazing. I haven't had pizza since Friday, and then I was about 17.8 acres short. Guess I'm not an average American…

“Reflections on Ice-Breaking”

Bobby

Now, I may just be dumb, but this is a saying I heard for years but never really understood. It's something I've heard my parents and grandparents say, and I just thought it was a cute little saying. It wasn't until I saw the quote today, with the title, that I finally figured out what Mr. Nash was actually talking about.

“Reflections on Ice-Breaking”
Candy
Is dandy
But liquor
Is quicker.
— Ogden Nash