OUR DAILY SURPRISE LINK
Alrightie, Voyeurwebbers, break out your Indiana Jones hats, and your scuba gear because you'll need it to visit today's Surprise Link. That's right, we're going to Cosquer Cave, which is 115 feet underwater but is chock full of cave paintings, proving that early man could hold his breath and draw at the same time. Cool, huh? There are a few pages of photos of the cave drawings but, check out the hand drawings on the first page carefully, particularly the one on the far right. It looks just like the "hand"-print of the creature from the Black Lagoon, hehehe! Ready? Okie, just take a deep breath and take off all your clothes, hehehe!, then Plunge ... er ... I mean, Click Here
BAD HUMOR
More Call Center Conversations From Downunder
RAC Motoring Services
Caller: "Does your European Breakdown Policy cover me when I am traveling in Australia?"
Operator: "Doesn't the product name give you a clue?"
Phone Directory Information Inquiries
Caller: "I'd like the number of the Argoed Fish Bar in Cardiff please."
Operator: "I'm sorry, there's no listing. Is the spelling correct?"
Caller: "Well, it used to be called the Bargoed Fish Bare but the 'B' fell off."
Then there was the caller who asked for a knitwear company in Woven.
Operator: "Woven? Are you sure?"
Caller: "Yes. That's what it says on the label: 'Woven in Scotland'.:"
Tech Support
Tech Support: "I need you to right-click on the Open Desktop."
Customer: "OK".
Tech Support: "Did you get a pop-up menu?"
Customer: "No."
Tech Support: "OK. Right-click again. So you see a pop-up menu?"
Customer: "No".
Tech Support: "OK, sir. Can you tell me what you have done up until this point?"
Customer: "Sure. You told me to write "click" and I wrote "click".
Tech Support: "OK. In the bottom left-hand side of the screen, can you see the "OK" button displayed?"
Customer: "Wow!" How can you see my screen from there?" |
|
Goodbye, Times Square -- Hello, Soap Lake, Washington
SOAP LAKE, Washington - When officials in the town of Soap Lake, Washington, were looking for a way to boost tourism to their fair community, Voyeurwebbers, they not only decided to think big, they also decided to think outside the box ... better make that way outside the box.
They're going to erect a 50-foot-tall lava lamp in the town's center.
Soap Lake Mayor Wayne Hovde said the town has moved the 50-foot lava lamp from Times Square in New York to the small Washington town in preparation for erecting the unusual monument in the center of town. The erection of the over-sized 1960s cultural icon and a supportive tower have been delayed for years due to concerns that the company that owns the lava lamp copyright, Haggerty Enterprises, Inc., would not offer its approval.
Hovde, however, is confident that Soap Lake will eventually get permission to display its lava lamp.
For Soap Lake resident Brent Blake, the addition of the towering lamp would help boost the town's slumping tourism trade.
"People will come from all over the world to see this structure of awe," said Blake. "Visitors will be thrilled to see such a wonder and will be rewarded by its scale, show of light and constantly changing, oozing and flowing goo."
-- I am blown away by this, Voyeurwebbers. Imagine driving down a highway late at night and you see a sign that reads "Soap Lake -- 10 miles". And the nearer you get to the town of Soap Lake, the more you notice a glowing object low on the horizon of the night sky. What can it possibly be? The close you get to it, the more weird it becomes. Is it a UFO? Then, just when you realize you passed the last exit to bypass Soap Like five minutes ago, you look up, gasp in jaw-dropping, stupefying, mind-numbing wonder before the cosmic magnificence of a 50-foot-tall lava lamp. Congratulations, traveler, you've just become the first victim of Soap Lake's shock and awe tourism program. Hehehe! -- Igor
EYE ON: The Whizzinator by K.
Eye has to admit, Voyeurwebbers, that Eye never came across the term "Whizzinator" until a couple of days ago.
At that time, Eye was surfing the 'Net looking for unusual court cases when, bingo!, there it was in a U.S. federal court case in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was not your ordinary court case either.
It was at the U.S. Federal Court in Pittsburgh that two entrepreneurs pleaded guilty to two charges of conspiracy related to selling false penises. That's right, Eye said false penises.
The two are George Wills and Robert Catalano, owners and operators of Puck Technology, an online firm that was based in California. It was Puck Technology that sold the Whizzinator, and a similar device known as Number One, between 2005 and 2008.
It wasn't the fact that the Whizzinator and Number One were false penises that got Wills and Catalano in trouble. It was what these false penises allowed customers to do that got them in trouble. Each of the two false penises were designed to help men cheat on drug tests. The Whizzinator, for example, contained a heating element and fake urine to help people test negative for illegal substances.
On its website, Puck Technology claimed to be the "undisputed leader in synthetic urine", and described its false penises as the "ultimate solution" for drug testing.
"The prosthetic penis is very realistic and concealing is simple, while our quality production and materials assures you that the Whizzinator will let it flow again and again, anytime, anywhere you need it!" said a Puck website blurb, according to court records.
As a result of all this, Wills and Catalano face up to eight years in prison and a $500,000 (£334,000) fine. Their sentencing is scheduled for February 2009. K.
Eye hastens to point out that any opinions expressed in this column are entirely his own and are neither those of Voyeurweb nor its management. K. |
|
