Day: December 30, 2001

  • This is so pitiful, I'll let it proclaim itself:


    OAK BROOK, IL (December 20, 2001) - Just as the Olympic Games recognize outstanding athletic achievements, McDonald's new Olympic ad campaign pays tribute to a world class group of men and women who serve millions of customers every day around the globe.


    Called "World," the commercial breaks this week and showcases McDonald's World Champion Crew preparing for their moment in Olympic history. It supports a worldwide crew initiative that will send 400 gold medal crew members from nearly 50 countries to Salt Lake City.


    McDonald's will launch a second Olympic-themed ad, "Toboggan," beginning January 4th. The spot will feature four children who, while tobogganing down a hill, are magically transported into an Olympic bobsled competition. As the kids lean to take the hairpin turns and feel the excitement of speeding down the icy bobsled course, they imagine themselves crossing the finish line in a moment of triumph, illustrating the type of "magic moments" only McDonald's can provide.


    *their moment in Olympic history*


    Damn, maybe I should go to Salt Lake City merely to partake of this MickeyD epic assemblage of unsurpassable excellence!!


    The only thing more pathetic than such "magic moment" commercialism, is the tawdry design of McDonald's website itself.  Need to barf??  Go visit.

  • John--what is that --> (what is this?) ??  Haiku?? ooo-ooo-ooo can I do that with my Premium, too?!


    Oh my god...BurmaShave was a small company (like Xanga) that lost in a hostile takeover to Phillip Morris and then went ungloriously to smitherenes 3 years later.  Is John suggesting by this showmanship a parallel future fate for Xanga?


    Oh...and now you can "blog so much...you lose the farm" !!  Isn't losing or selling the farm  a euphemism for dying??!!


    I ask a favor: speed it up, please, and make it subliminal!!

  • you're quite the Xanthropologist, NFP


    ...commented seanmeister.


    This from the Xangeroo I consider the pre-eminent improvixanger, the one who monkeys most brilliantly with code to make our sites more fun. Damn, the man even features The Smileypropomatic Javascript Generator , a magnificent machine that forever has changed the face of our Xanga  currency (yes, my eProps not only flash, they're bigger than yours! hahaha).


    But Xanthropologist ??  Naw, I'm just a curious blogger lost on my xangabouts, encountering the bizarre, benign, droll, and marvelous on my endless xangoddysey.


    If you recall from a previous blog:


    I have found the actual lost kingdom of Xanga (<--no shit) at last!!!



    I hereby declare it our Mecca!  All true Xangaroos are hereby instructed to travel thereto sometime during their lifetime.


    Whoever gets there first, please blog back and inform if the accomodations are suitable to my needs for kingly comfort! wahahaha


    (p.s., the link to the kingdom of Xanga above doesn't always seem to be available--too funny!  If not, begin your journey here.)


    (p.p.s., Nyree observed that Fucole--she laughs because she imagines as I imagine that it's pronounced *fuck-all*--is near Xanga!  Well, Gole and Candua are near Xanga and Fucole, too!  So...if my Gole is to Fucole Xanga, I suppose it's something we Candua!!! Mwuhauhauaua   )


    ...and, yes, now I have found our way to get there, and our manna to sustain us upon the way...



    The Raft (translated from Portugeuse) was the typical Boat of the Brazilian northeast coast, was brought of Asia, for the Portuguese, where it had the name of " xanga ", in the ends of century XVI.  Its fragile construction does not use pregos in six logs wooden light, two mimburas, two edges and two woods of center, to form the floor. Placed on the floor, we find the candle bank, the salgadeira, carninga, bank of government, calçador, chocks of the bilge keel, espeque, tolete, you line, mast, crossbar and you peg. Used in it fishes, its capacity depends on the size, a raft of 39 palmos can support with easiness the weight of two toneladadas.  The fishing that work in the raft respect a hierarchy with much discipline and solidarity, the master is who orders in the raft and has the function to direct, its rank is the bank-of-government, the proeiro is to the side of the salgadeira, collects the product of fishes and places in samburá, when she is necessary wets the cloth with the cuia of candle, thus more good using to advantage the impulse of the wind, the peak-of-nose goes the front counterbalancing the weight, and rebique, generally a boy or an old one, fits the work lightest. The Xangadeiros (i.e., Xangeroos ) had been the first Brazilians who if had refused to carry enslaved blacks, come of the ships to be sold.


    And to compliment our diet of freshly-caught fish, we have:


    Xanga Cheesecake deep-fried inside a flour tortilla rolled in cinamon and sugar served with Vanilla Ice Cream
    £3.45    ...from the amigosrestaurant menu


     


    Our Captain??  Of course, dreadpirate!!

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