Sunday, May 10, 2009

You're not fooling anyone...

I definitely wasn't on a torrent website the other day (my fingers are crossed...OR ARE THEY?), and I was bombarded with the usual "meet singles in your area" assault of ads.

Somehow I doubt "Bikerbabe" here is 21. Call it a hunch. *shivers*

Black Planet!


Now, there's nothing really wrong with this ad itself, which sets it apart from most of the rest of these. Although i'm not going to lie, the invitation to "share information" seems a bit strange.

However, I think the advertisers forgot a certain term known as "Target Market".

Let me explain. I'm half Irish, half German by descent. My last name is O'Brien. I've listed Hulk Hogan And The Wrestling Boot Band as one of the two musicians in my "Favorite Music" section (the other being the Legendary Ennio Morricone, composer for many Spaghetti Westerns).

They might as well have asked me "Do you like to put Miracle Whip on your turkey on Wonder Bread sandwiches?"

Did they mean Bugling?


First off, what on Earth is Boogle? Is it a cheap ripoff of Google? Perhaps the Bollywood version of Google (singing and dancing results, ALWAYS)?

Second, i'm not sure what that tiny slip of paper says or if it is indeed a tiny slip of paper, i'm just guessing. Perhaps these people are under the common misconception that information is transmitted through the Internets via thousands (or even dozens!) of tiny slips of paper. The corrolation is easy to make, after all, paper is often white, and so are teeth, and teeth bite, so paper=bite, or byte.