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'My Corduroyed Life' - Mark A's Journal
This is a picture meme...
I realise that doing memes is a lazy way to blog, but this ia a quite cool. The word meme isn’t in the dictionary, but if I were in charge of the definition it would be:
A quiz for a blogger to do when they’ve ininspired and have bugger all else to write about, but have some time on their hands to blog and wish to assure their readers that they’re not dead.
However, this one is actually rather amusing: ‘the google picture meme’. Take the following questions:
1) Where were you born?
2) Where do you live now?
3) What is your name?
4) What is your favourite food?
5) What is you favourite drink?
6) What is your favourite band?
7) What is your favourite scent?
Then type your answer into Google Image Search, and simply post the first picture that comes up. So here goes…
1) Where were you born?
2) Where do you live now?
3) What is your name?
4) What is your favourite food?
5) What is you favourite drink?
6) What is your favourite band?
7) What is your favourite scent?
So there you go.
Picture 1, 2, 4 and 5: well, yeah, okay.
Picture 3: Goodness!
Picture 6: Oh isn’t Mr ‘I’ve got image manipulation software’ ever so funny?!
Picture 7: Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Save me!
Have fun,
M x
Current mood:
amused.Current music: Everybody Is In The Place by The Prodigy.
Bugger…
Email at work: the best and worst idea ever. It really does allow quick and effective communication for work purposes. It also allows sad gits who hate their crummy office jobs to email each other stupid crap from amusing pictures, to silly quizzes, to online games, to jokes, to charity crapola, to whatever. I particularly loathe it when you get an email with a funny story followed by ‘you must send this to x people in x minutes for good luck’. Crapola. Almost without exception, I don’t forward on charity stuff, or ‘do this and you’ll get free stuff’: you just know that they’re a hoax. However, I got an email today, and it was saying if you forward something on, you get FREE BOOZE.
Free booze.
Booze that is free.
Booze that costs you no money.
So obviously, with the thought of free booze, I broke my golden rule and passed it on to 10 people. See below:
From: Me
To: Lots of People
Subject: (Fwd) Champagne mmmmmmmmm
Copies to: Champagne@veuve-clicquot.fr
Date sent: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:58:00 +0100
I normally never do this... but it could mean free booze!
M x
------- Forwarded message follows -------
From: Ben
To: Lots of people
Copies to: Champagne@veuve-clicquot.fr
Subject: Champagne mmmmmmmmm
Date sent: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:44:42 +0100
Hello all Champagne lovers...
Send this message to 10 people, with a copy to
Champagne@veuve-clicquot.fr
Veuve Clicquot France will contact you in order to deliver to you a
1/2 case of champagne. They are doing this to enlarge
their database.
It does work and you receive 6 bottles in 15 days.
Cheers
------- End of forwarded message -------
I then got a failure notice for the email address that you’re supposed to CC to get free booze. I feel dumb. And I’m not getting free booze. Turns out that this hoax is so big that the champagne company had to put a disclaimer on their website.
Bless the internet: so full of hope, and so full of shit. Some sap must have started this, and I can’t help wondering why?
Have fun,
M x
Current mood:
annoyed.Current music: Rock Is Dead by Marilyn Manson.