What has been seen cannot be unseen. (© Central European News)
– Who are the ad wizards who came up with this thing? A Chinese restaurant—and by that, I mean a restaurant located in China—made a rather bold marketing decision that did not go over so well.
The food at this Chinese restaurant is so damn good it even tempted Buddha himself to scale the walls for a bite.
Well that’s apparently how two naked fat men came to be draped across a building this weekend in Jinan, east China’s Shandong province.
The sculptures appeared on Sunday but were “destroyed” that same night, reports China Daily.
Citing Xinhua News Agency, the channel says they were constructed to demonstrate just how mouth-watering the restaurant in question’s Fo-tiao-qiang dish is, which translates literally as “Buddha jumps over the wall”.
According to Qing Dynasty legend, the meaty dish is so tasty it enticed one monk to abandon his vegetarianism and literally leap over a wall to eat it. Another version described it as so delicious even Buddha would do the same.
But the stunt went down like a lead balloon for some devout Buddhists.
Yeah, one look at that picture on the right, which offers an idea of the size and, uh, nakedness of the sculptures, and I don’t feel like eating at all. Also, I can’t stop thinking that these guys look like enormous Mardi Gras king cake babies, which is a thought no one should ever, ever have.
– If you demand breadsticks, too, that’s socialism: I’ll just let Erik Loomis capture the absurdity of what Chevron did:
So let’s say a large energy company, perhaps Chevron, has come into your community exploring for fuel. And let’s say that Chevron screws up and one of their gas wells explodes, kills a worker (subcontracted worker of course), and burns for six days. And let’s say you live near the explosion site. What would you expect in compensation from Chevron? How about a pizza and two liter?
– Luckily, you still don’t need an appointment in advance : The Swiss Air Force is only available to respond to crises during office hours—and that includes a lunch break.
– All the good acronyms are taken already: Texas Baptist College is rebranding itself in an effort to obtain accreditation as a real institution of higher learning. Part of the rebranding effort is a name change to Texas Independent Baptist Seminary & Schools……or “Texas IBS” for short.
Hemant Mehta summarizes the humor of the situation:
I guess no one told them IBS is the acronym typically used to describe Irritable Bowel Syndrome… or that having the phrase “I BS” in the name of your Christian college is just inviting mockery from skeptics.
Not since the California University of Management has a school been so awkwardly abbreviated.
– Memories frozen in time: I remember deciding, in my 23rd birthday long, long ago, that 23 was a pretty good age, and that I would just stick with it. I have occasionally referred to subsequent birthdays as my “Xth Annual 23rd Birthday,” although the arithmetic gets more difficult with every passing year. I had a party for my 1st Annual 23rd Birthday, a small gathering of friends with a keg we couldn’t possibly finish on our own, in the nicer-than-we-deserved Houston apartment that I shared with two other people. Not the most memorable night of my life, but a good night nonetheless.
I bring it up because I read this piece about the 23rd birthday plans of French-Canadian adult film actress Heidi Van Horny (probably not her real name.) Let’s just say the number 23 features prominently in the plan, and if it actually comes to fruition (shut up, pun), it will be more memorable than my keg-party-that-wasn’t-quite.
