Obviously Not Gamers

According to the following video, a “group of people made a prank to C5N TV news network, ultimate defender of young people against alcohol abuse, by sending them an email denouncing the existence of a drink with absurd ingredients.”

The actual recipe from the game?

kerosene
propylene glycol
artificial sweeteners
sulphuric acid
rum
acetone
red dye no. 2
scumm
axle grease
battery acid
pepperoni

While using Monkey Island to point out the absurdities and fallibility of the alarmist 24-hour news cycle is cute, the most impressive thing as far as I’m concerned is the voice acting for the Pirate Leaders in the Spanish version of The Secret of Monkey Island (shown in the video). That’s some heavy-duty pirating.

And as the Tales of Monkey Island Blog points out, the reporter also failed to notice the XD smiley in the recipe title. N00b.

On a lighter note – grannies!

It’s easy to feel down after reading the daily news headlines, but the story, “
Nursing home grannies take up Wii Boxing” is definitely a happymaker.

B-a-n-a-n-a-s

The London Banana Project is an “ongoing documentation of banana skins in the urban London landscape”. I’m fascinated with this type of project because I also like to take note of strange, funny and mundane details, especially in big cities.

In London, for example, I am obsessed with remnants of history that people pass by every day without noticing; recently I visited the last remaining sewer gas lamp in the city, found by turning down an alley, passing through a busy pub avenue and theatre stage doors, and loitering by some parking lot exits. There are other funny elements in the city that I could perhaps document…like the habit of pressing chewed gum onto the eyes of celebrities and models on posters in the Tube and in bus shelters.

Anyway, I couldn’t help but think of this strange story from 2006, “Falling banana kills woman.” I’m sure that reporter is still chuckling over including terrible produce-related puns: “Friends said it was seen as an appropriate end to a unique and fruitful life.”