Category: Funny

Hugh Laurie Just Presses Polaroid For Perfect Pictures

James Hugh Calum Laurie, OBE (born 11 June 1959), best known as Hugh Laurie, is an English actor, voice artist, comedian, writer, musician and director. As of August 2010 he is the highest paid actor in a drama series on US television.

600 series [instant] cameras such as the Pronto, Sun 600, and One600 use 600 (or the more difficult to find professional 779) film.

Polaroid Corporation is an international consumer electronics and eyewear company, originally founded in 1937 by Edwin H. Land. It is most famous for its instant film cameras, which reached the market in 1948, and continued to be the company’s flagship product line until the February 2008 decision to cease all production in favor of digital photography products.

You Know When You’ve Been Tango’d

Tango is a carbonated soft drink sold primarily in the United Kingdom and Ireland, first launched by Corona in 1950. The first “ironic” campaign introduced the now-common catchphrase “You know when you’ve been Tango’d”, produced by advertising agency HHCL. The campaign began in 1991 with an ad featuring a man being slapped around the face by a portly man painted orange (Peter Geeves) immediately after drinking Tango. It received widespread condemnation after a craze for “Tangoing” people swept the nation’s playgrounds, and there were reports of children receiving serious injuries or even being deafened by being slapped on the ears.

HHCL (formally Howell Henry Chaldecott Lury and Partners) was a London based advertising agency prominent in the 1990s. HHCL’s most celebrated piece of work was a commercial for Tango in 1991 (co-written by Trevor Robinson OBE). The ad took soft drinks advertising away from US lifestyle and planted it firmly on the streets of Britain. When a young man drinks some Tango, a large orange man runs up to him and slaps him on the face – the ‘hit of real oranges’ – while two astounded commentators report on the action. The commercial was voted the third best commercial of all time by Channel 4 in the UK. After children began copying the orange man’s slap, the commercial was banned and reshot with the orange man planting a kiss on the Tango drinker.

Doggone Pancho Wins the La Primativa Lottery

El Gordo de la Primitiva (the big one), commonly known as El Gordo, is one of the Loterías y Apuestas del Estado (Spanish state lotteries).

A lottery is a form of gambling which involves the drawing of lots for a prize. The word stems from the Dutch word loterij, which is derived from the noun lot meaning fate or destiny. Lottery is outlawed by some governments, while others endorse it to the extent of organizing a national or state lottery.

Dog training is the process of teaching a dog to perform certain actions in response to certain commands which the dog is trained to understand.

You & Your Johnson

Johnson Outboards was a US based manufacturer of outboard motors. Bombardier Recreational Products no longer sells outboard motors under the Johnson brand as they have moved all sales entirly to Evinrude Outboard Motors. However they maintain the Johnson brand and continue to service and offer parts for existing Johnson outboards.

Bombardier Recreational Products or BRP is a Canadian company that traces its roots back to the year 1942 when Joseph-Armand Bombardier founded L’Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée in Valcourt in the Eastern Townships, Quebec.

An outboard motor is a propulsion system for boats, consisting of a self-contained unit that includes engine, gearbox and propeller or jet drive, designed to be affixed to the outside of the transom and are the most common motorized method of propelling small watercraft.

The term sexual innuendo has acquired a specific meaning, namely that of a “risque” double entendre by playing on a possibly sexual interpretation of an otherwise innocent uttering.

Schick Protector Blue Metal Pride

Schick is a brand of safety razors by Wilkinson Sword, a subsidiary of Energizer Holdings. While second in sales to Gillette globally, Schick is the top selling brand of safety razors and blades in Japan.

Mark Coleman (born December 20, 1964) is an American mixed martial artist, professional wrestler, former NCAA collegiate wrestler and former Olympic amateur wrestler.

Wanderlei César da Silva, nicknamed “The Axe Murderer”, is a Brazilian mixed martial artist, who has competed in Japan’s Pride Fighting Championships and the American based Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).

Pride Fighting Championships (Pride or Pride FC for short) was the biggest mixed martial arts organization in the world, based in Japan.

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Don’t Monkey With Catherine Zeta-Jones’ Visa Card

In 2008, according to The Nilson Report, Visa held a 38.3% market share of the credit card marketplace and 60.7% of the debit card marketplace in the United States.

Catherine Zeta Jones (born 25 September 1969), now hyphenated as Catherine Zeta-Jones, is a Welsh actress, currently based in the United States.

Fruit makes up 65–90 percent of the orangutan diet. Fruits with sugary or fatty pulp are favored.

[Bananas] are native to tropical Southeast Asia, and are likely to have been first domesticated in Papua New Guinea.