Filed under: Brands & Marketing, Cool & Online | Tags: caramel, chocolate, chunky, employees, funeral, Funny, KitKat, nestle, peanut, sad, video, viral
What can we say about KitKat Chunky Peanut… It’s the Jimi Hendrix of choc bars. Utterly brilliant and gone before it’s time 
Watch the sad Nestle employees as they see off this chocolate wonder…
…but what’s this? Has someone inserted a coin in the StreetFighter machine? Do we have a New Challenger? What is this unknown wonder called KitKat Chunky Caramel?
Filed under: Coffee Break | Tags: album, Downloading music, fine, Funny, Illigal Download, kazaa, music, music piracy, neoco, piracy, song, There goes the kids college fund, US woman fined
The piggy bank's probably not going to cover this one
Now, I’m sure many people have many views on this, but I’m still in shock about the amount that this poor woman was fined I’m under the impression that 29 songs is about 3 albums, which I’d say is about 20 quid? I’m pretty sure these songs wern’t on special.
Now, I’m not sure if you find this as funny as I do, but the best it is that she was originally fined $250,000 but it was a mistrail and obviously the music industry found some better lawyers.
It makes you wonder though, how exactly do they expect her to pay? If she’s got a good voice maybe they should take her on tour as some kind of “anti piracy extreme tour” it could definitely make a dent in fine!
Makes you appreciate Spotify that little bit more.
Thanks NME
Filed under: Brands & Marketing, Coffee Break, Cool & Online, Social Networking/ Word Of Mouth | Tags: amazon, fad, Funny, How many girls numbers will you get while wearing this?, Ironic, moon, shirt, T-shirt, Three Wolf Moon, viral, wolf
The Mountain, a small T-shirt manufacturer are having a bit of bother at the moment, although most would argue that a 2300% increase in sales is usually a good thing. After one seemingly innocent ironic review, hundreds of people have since posted similar reviews, with number of reviews now just over the 700 mark.
One user posted “I walked from my trailer to Wal-mart with the shirt on and was immediately approached by women.”
But unfortunately manufacturers don’t quite see the funny side and were quoted on the BBC saying “Not everyone can start out at the top and not everyone from our neck of the woods lives in a trailer or cruises Walmart to hook up.”
Quite… But not everyone has a Three Wolf Moon T-shirt!
Improve your life
This is great example of a successful (although involuntary) seeding and viral campaign. Neoco help brands do this all the time to great effect. Look at the brand, product or service that needs promoting, then identify a niche that we can use to amplify the message.
Thanks to BBC
Filed under: Coffee Break, Cool & Online, Social Networking/ Word Of Mouth | Tags: acting, actor, apology, Batman, BBC, blogging, censorship, Christian Bale, f word, Family Guy, Funny, hollywood, internet meme, NSFW, remix, Sarah Connor, sequel, swearing, Terminator, Terminator Salvation, TMZ, who are you, why do we need another Terminator, YouTube
Every now and then something happens to remind me of the power of the Internet and why I love it. The latest came in early February this year when the celebrity gossip website TMZ published a recording of Christian Bale throwing a bit of a strop on the set of his new movie, Terminator Salvation. Within hours the recording had hit YouTube and clocked up millions of views, with people from all over the world listening to it and blogging about it.
The recording quickly became an internet meme and computer geeks the world over flocked to their laptops to create their own versions and remixes.
RevoLucian’s Techno Remix was one of the first: (NSFW)
YouTube user ‘TheMaeShi’ went as far as creating their own song: (NSFW)
While my personal favourite played out a re-enactment on the streets of Hollywood: (NSFW)
It even got the family guy treatment (NSFW – again!)
Peter tells his friends about his run-in with Christian Bale
Eventually it hit mainstream news channels around the world. The BBC had to apologise for accidentally broadcasting the un-censored version, and even Christian Bale’s mother had her say. Bale was forced to make a public apology for something that he probably never thought would be listened to by millions of people.
Thanks to the internet I got to spend a few hours laughing at an overpaid Hollywood prima donna making an idiot of himself, and you can’t say fairer than that!
Filed under: Brands & Marketing, Cool & Online, News | Tags: amazon, bestseller, campaign, dead parrot, DVD, ecommerce, fans, Funny, how to sell, Life of Bryan, monty, none shall pass, online, product, python, sales, silly walks, Spanish Inquisition, tv show, YouTube
monty python you tube channel banner
Check out the new Monty Python YouTube channel. After years of fighting to have their stuff taken down on YouTube, they’ve gone and released all of their work on YouTube for free! So what’s the catch? I’ll let them tell you:
“We’re letting you see absolutely everything for free. So there! But we want something in return. None of your driveling, mindless comments. Instead, we want you to click on the links, buy our movies & TV shows and soften our pain and disgust at being ripped off all these years.”
And you know what? It seems to be working. Monty Python’s DVDs climbed to No. 2 on Amazon’s Movies & TV bestsellers list, with increased sales of 23,000 percent!
Great marketing ploy to get one last silly walk from the dead parrot.
Enjoy.
Filed under: Cool & Online, New Technology | Tags: 1966, 1999, 2009, banking, computers, ecommerce, email, Funny, future, husband, i still want a robot, Internet, viral, websites, wife
The husband ponders the wife's shopping bill
An utterly fantastic video from 1966 that speculates on what life will be like in 1999… so I thought I’d upload it to celebrate 2009! Unlike most videos from the past that speculated on flying cars and robots doing all our chores, this one went for the ‘home shopping’ angle, bank account unification and a way to send letters electronically all over the world… It is so funny the way they talk about ‘the wife’ and her shopping with ‘the husband’ picking up the bill. Aw, nuclear families.
Filed under: Coffee Break | Tags: air travel, Bill Hicks, black, comedy, dead, environmental, Funny, George Carlin, heart failure, humor, humour, obituary, old man, political, religion, RIP, save the planet, stand up, ten commandments, top 5, top five, voting, YouTube
George Carlin stamped his one way ticket today and now has a chance to explain his views on religion to the big guy up there, no doubt with a cigarette in hand and a raised voice.Known as the guy who took black humour and beat the crap out of it, then introduced it to drugs and porn, and then took it around the world for a series of unbelievably insulting stand up shows, Carlin certainly had his fans and also left a footprint on the media. The two combined on YouTube where thousands of kids were delighted to hear the dirty old man telling it like it is. Personally, I’ve always felt that he never really came into his own until the great Bill Hicks moved on, as then George became a little more edgier but still only took the audience close to the line (whereas Bill actually started most of his stuff at the line and carried on from there!) Here’s a short selection (from Mashable) of George Carlin’s best YouTube flicks. If you’re a fan, I know you’ll enjoy them; if you’re one of the uninitiated, well, better late than never.
5. Voting – why do we always feel like there’s a lack of real choice on the ballot? George explains the habits of an average voter, where politicians come from and why the country is screwed.
4. Ten Commandments You know those stupid top 10 lists, that always seem like they were inflated up to a round number (any similarity to any persons or blogs living or dead is a coincidence)? Well, it goes all the way back to Moses.
3. Airline Announcements Ever wondered why all announcements on an airplane sound like they’re spoken in some weird language from a parallel universe?
2. Saving The Planet – Saving endangered species is just one more arrogant attempt by humans to control nature. It’s what got us in trouble in the first place.
1. Religion Is Bullshit If he was wrong about this one, it might get George into a lot of trouble right about now.
RIP mate, thanks for the show.
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Filed under: Coffee Break | Tags: fire escape, fish, Funny, Office, photo, seldom. strange
Part 1: fish drying in the sun outside the office fire escape.
Filed under: Coffee Break | Tags: amazon, ask jeeves, craigslist, Ebay, Facebook, Funny, Google, house party, mapquest, MySpace, paypal, video, Web 2.0
Yeah, it’s kinda old by now but I’ve mentioned this video a few times recently and people were asking to watch it – so I dug this out of the archives. It’s not awesome by any stretch, the timing and acting leaves a lot to be desired but there are some great visual gags – like how irritating the Facebook girl is, the drunk MySpace drawing genitalia and the dubious relationship between ebay and PayPal.
