Category: Odd

Saturday Matinee – Dinocuts, Wanda Jackson, Louis Prima & Betty Boop, Spotniks and Ricky Skaggs

Awesome marketing concept, but it targets the wrong people, unless you’re into shrinkwrap. Nice appropriate soundtrack, though.

Wanda Jackson! Who says women can’t do rockabilly?

Whoever did this Betty Boop / Louis Prima mashup gets a hat tip from me.  Whoa. Hold on there. Looks like it’s time for some Spotniks!

Yep. The Spotnik’s Theme from 1963, a band from the UK, sounding an awful lot like lots of other bands from 1963.

Let’s wrap this up with some awesome gospel from Ricky Skaggs, the greatest mandolin player since Bill Monroe. Have a great weekend folks. See you back here tomorrow.

The .Gif Friday Post No.135 – Easily Amused

[Found here, here and here.]

Busted.

Yeah. It was an accident. Sure. Now scrape that link off your face.

[Found here.]

A Nice Gated Community

…with power windows.

[Image found here.]

Dog Studies

The book Bowser’s boning up on? Cruft’s Working & Pastoral. Big test coming up in March 2011. Woof.

[Image found here.]

All Purpose Crack Cleaner and Filler

Tip o’ the Tarboosh to Savage’s Girl of The Blogmocracy for bringing this must-have product to our attention. Not much to say about it, but I don’t think I’ll be shaking hands with Mr. Boudreax any time soon.

The .Gif Friday Post No.134 – Hungry Hungry Hippos, Bathtime & Zoomout

[Found here, here and here.]

Brilliant Marketing Ploy

Fortunately for you there is NO video evidence on the Utoobage to redeem these musical wonders, so we can only guess what they sounded like, and it’s a safe assumption that the t-shirt sales were as successful as their autographed debut album.

Now about their groupies… nope. Not even gonna go there.

[Image found here.]

Cease and Desist

Recently, Snork emailed me a .jpg image of the infamous Unicorn Meat (as shown below left). Here is the full advertisement from Think Geek:

The Unicorn Meat advert went semi-viral after it was posted on April Fools’ Day this year. But there’s an update to the innocent prank.

I’d never heard of the National Pork Board, but apparently they sniffed out a clear case of trademark infringement. On 5 May 2010, the international law firm of Faegre & Benson faxed the owners of the Think Geek website a 12-page letter, excerpted below.

“This law firm represents National Pork Board in connection with its intellectual property rights.

We are writing to you in connection with your activities at the website http://www.thinkgeek.com, wherein you have been marketing a product called “Radiant Farms Canned Unicorn Meat” using the slogan “Unicorn- the new white meat.”

See, NPB owns the trademark “The Other White Meat” in the U.S., Canada, and the European Union. Unfortunately their lawyers didn’t realize that Trademark Infringement does not extend to parodies, and that unicorns don’t really exist. [Full story here, via here, and crossposted here.]

Humpty Zen

[Found here.]