Segacs's World I Know

Archive for the ‘Just for fun’ Category

(Link via Cathy, thanks to whom I also discovered the joys of OhSoGood’s Lemon Lime Cheesecake.)

Alanis parodies one of the most ridiculously awful songs of all time. Hilarious!

Want to travel from Ottawa to Amsterdam this summer? Bruce asked Google Maps for an itinerary. Here’s what it came up with.

Good luck with Step 23, Bruce.

Check out the top 100 April Fool’s hoaxes of all time, as judged by the Museum of Hoaxes.

Royal Caribbean has been advertising a lot lately, and every time I see one of their cruise ship ads, I remember that the campaign once won an “award” for worst use of music:

The big winner, submitted by dozens and dozens of you, is Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, which used Iggy Pop’s “Lust for Life” in a series of spots. As my reader Andrei put it, “Nothing says maritime comfort like a song about shooting up junk.”

This poll is a couple of years old, but most of these ad campaigns are still running, leading me to believe that either the ad execs involved didn’t know or didn’t care.

As a self-described chocolate junkie, I feel it my civic duty to share this news. Now we can all feel better about our addiction.

Confused about which provincial political party to vote for? Didn’t think so. Me neither. But you can take this quiz anyway, just for fun.

Not too surprisingly, my result was overwhelmingly for the Liberals (85 points), distantly followed by the ADQ (25 points), the Green Party (11 points), the PQ (8 points) and Quebec Solidaire (0 points). Not exactly shocking news.

But this one’s the Muppets, so of course I just had to take it. (Via Red “Swedish Chef” Rabbit):

The Muppet Personality Test

This is the seemingly-innocuous beginning to the plot of pretty much every B-grade horror movie:

A German pensioner who won a prize and worldwide fame for breeding his country’s largest rabbit — Robert, a 10.5kg (23lb) bruiser the size of a dog — has been offered an unusual opportunity to exploit his talents overseas.

Karl Szmolinsky has been given a contract by North Korea to supply giant rabbits to help to boost meat production in the reclusive Communist country, which is suffering severe food shortages. The only problem is that such huge rabbits consume vast quantities of food themselves as they grow.

Of course, if they ever get around that problem, we could be in for trouble. Today, it’s simply breeding large rabbits to feed starving people. Tomorrow, the supersized bunnies could be roaming the globe. They’re big… they’re furry… and they bite!

Four years ago, I blogged about the National Geographic survey that found, among other things, that 11% of young Americans couldn’t pick out the United States on a world map.

Now, National Geographic has conducted a new survey. Like the last one, you can test yourself.

Any improvements in the results? Well, judge for yourself.