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Ruby Tuesday Explodes

Now this is how you do viral marketing.

Ruby Tuesday announced a while ago that they were going to blow up one of their restaurants to show how they are committed to change, to becoming different from the rest of the American Family Dining restaurants on the landscape.

So, live cameras, live crowds, live explosions at a local Ruby Tuesday restaurant.

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5, 4, 3, 2, 1

Boom!

Only Ruby Tuesday still stands, the restaurant to the left, explodes.  It was put on YouTube and other video sharing sites as Ruby Tuesday’s demolition crew making a huge mistake.  Supposedly, they mistook the other restaurant as a Ruby Tuesdays because, well they all had turned into looking and feeling the same.  It fooled a ton of people, and still is.  In fact, Ruby Tuesday even put out a press release apologizing for blowing up the other restaurant!

This video has the internet a flood with excitement, while many people think Ruby Tuesday’s demolition crew was a bunch of idiots, they are at least thinking about Ruby Tuesdays and it appears to be working.  That’s what viral marketing is all about, getting people to talk about your product even if you have to trick them into doing so.

No one from Ruby Tuesday has admitted that it was a viral advertising campaign but, it is and I bet their marketing guy just got one heck of a fat raise.

Axe Body did a similar video viral campaign.  FAIL.  Sucked ass.  Oh well.  Can’t win them all.

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Tags: Advertising, Awesome, Funny, LoL, Ruby Tuesdays, Video, Viral marketing, YouTube

VGA Gay Boys

These guys are hilarious.  I have just recently found their videos on YouTube and they are great.

They were just featured in New York Magazine today so check that out too.

Tags: Funny, Gay, Hilarious, Hot, Magazines, Media, New York Magazine, Sexy, Video, YouTube

Death Star Canteen

Eddie Izzard is too hilarious.  And putting Eddie Izzard to Legos, genius.  This is Eddie Izzard as Darth Vader trying to order food from the cafeteria of the Death Star.

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Tags: Darth Vader, Death Star, Eddie Izzard, Force, Funny, Hilarious, Lego, Video

UPS Recycles

Being green is a good thing, except when what you are recycling are tracking numbers.

I ordered Weeds Season 3 on Bluray from Amazon.com for Micheal using my Amazon Prime shipping.  I guess I did it too late in the afternoon on Friday so the package didn’t get shipped out until today, I got an email confirming it this morning.

I went online to check the status of the order and saw this.

You can click the picture to blow it up a bit.  Bottom line, it shipped out today at 6:10:01PM (a few hours after the email I received from Amazon) and was actually delivered already.  In fact, the package went back in time nearly two years!  

Thinking this was just an Amazon glitch, I went to UPS and attempted to track the package.

 

So even UPS states the going back in time business.  Amazing.  Space Time Continuum, that easy.

I called Amazon and they apologized for the confusion, they explained that sometimes UPS recycles their tracking numbers.  I’m not exactly sure why they do this.  There are over 1.775176e+18 combinations of UPS tracking numbers.  That is… more than… 1,775,176,000,000,000,000 possible packages.  

Of course, that’s using the simple calculation and shortening it cause I’m lazy, and disregarding the fact that some of the letters and numbers are source/destination designators, not randomly generated.

Even still, this is a little annoying, and a bit funny.

Tags: Amazon.com, Funny, Glitch, HaHa, Micheal, Shipping, Tracking, UPS, WTF?

Excuse My Beauty

I’m not sure if this is a tranny train wreck or just one FEIRCE latino/a… Either way, hella funny.  Reminds me of a few people I bumped into when I lived in San Francisco.  I was once kicked off a corner, from where I was waiting for Seth to walk me to a party, by a tranny prostitute who thought I was trying to steal her business.  Yikes.  Compliment or pwnd?

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Tags: Cops, Funny, Gay, LoL, Television, Tranny, Video

This Week in Video

I’ve been lazy posting recently because I’ve been going back in time and re-categorizing and tagging all my old posts.  I did some work on my MySQL database and deleted one extra table too many… oops.  So I lost all the categories for posts.  So, slowly I am putting categories and tags to all my posts.  I’m 10% done.  Seems like I should be closer to finished.  Ugh.

So, in leu of an actual post, here are some videos that caught my fancy this week.

First we have the Skittles Chocolate advertisement.  If all advertisements were this entertaining, I wouldn’t “Tivo” past them.  It’s so simple, yet so hilarious.  Maybe just to me, you be the judge

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Next up is a documentary that calls out the coffee companies on their bean purchasing practices.  That really irks me about this movie, is how misleading it is.  [Disclaimer: I haven't actually seen it, but if it is as the preview advertises and most of these stories go, I think I know what's going on]

They act like companies, say… Starbucks, pay pennies on the dollar for the beans as compared to the price at the store.  What they neglect to mention is the fact that when the beans get to the beaneries, they are raw.  No treatments have been done beyond maybe some washing and curing in the sun.  They haven’t been roasted, flavored, QC’d, packaged and shipped.  It is the price at the scene.

It’s like calling out Chick-Fil-A for selling a sandwich for $2.59 when the breast they used for it cost them $0.65.  There were so many things that happened between the death of the chicken and the serving of the sandwich.

Now, I can’t say much for bulk coffee companies like Folger’s and Maxwell House, they are both notorious for poor practices.  Either way, the movie looks interesting.

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And finally… No wonder the Sharper Image has filed for bankruptcy.  How stupid is this thing?  I mean, it looks fake it’s so bad.  haha

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Tags: Erg, Funny, LoL, Money, Rant, Starbucks, Stupid, Video, WTF?

Lord, I’m Funny

Maybe it isn’t so funny, but I sure got a laugh outta myself…  I’m terrible, I know.  

Reminds me of something I said, to myself, today, “No offense, but you’re Asian”.  It made no sense but…  I think it’s from listening to This American Life’s podcast of The Onion.

Tags: Comedy, Funny, iChat, NPR, Racism, Random, Skitch, The Onion

John Barnes for President

 

Tags: College humor, Comedy, Funny, Hillary, Politics, President, Vote

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

I was reading Perez Hilton when I saw a really simple ad that said, “I Hate Sarah Marshall”.  It links to a blog of this guy who is getting over the breakup of his ex-fiancee Sarah Marshall.  If it wasn’t for the fact that I’m not a total Idiot, I might have spent more than five minutes believing this was a real blog.

Clever enough still, and because it has one of my favorite actresses in it, that I plan on seeing this flick when it comes out.  Catch the trailer below.  Some parts are pretty racy.  Just through I should warn you, this might not be safe for work (NSFW).

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Who knew Jason Segel could do physical comedy?

Tags: Celebrity, Comedy, Funny, Gossip, IMDB, Kristen Bell, Movie, Perez, Television, Theater, Trailer, TV, Veronica Mars

Funniest Dilbert Comic

I literally laughed out loud.  I think it might just be because I’m on withdraw.

Tags: Comic, Funny, Jesus, LoL