Killing a Fly with a Ukulele: Google Ads crack me up

I am the Mum.
If life was a circus, I would be the plate-juggling lady with monkeys on her shoulders who stands on one leg on a horse's back as it canters around the ring.

I am the Writer.
I use too many commas, dashes and dot-dot-dots, and I often start sentences with conjunctions because I like my blog to look the way it sounds in my mind.

I am the Hero.
Life is a bit like a superhero action comic, except that the superheroes are tiny children dressed in super-suits who possess no actual powers, while I just get them food, break up fights and clean their super-suits.

05 December 2009

Google Ads crack me up

I was watching (I don't know why) the Youtube video below. It featured a live ginger cat looking up at a spinning fan which was swiftly replaced by a toy ginger cat sitting on top of the fan as it spun.

Ha ha ha, I don't think, hence the two stars it had been given.

But then a Google Ad popped up:

That's comedy.

What funny/silly/crazy Google Ads have you seen on blogs, Youtube or beside your Gmail?

4 comments:

Femina said...: I haven't noticed any ads but now you've just given me a new method of procrastination. Awesome! (Housework? What housework?); 06 December, 2009 12:59
Givinya De Elba said...: Housework? Nope, I don't see any housework over here ...; 06 December, 2009 13:06
stefanie said...: My favorite was the recipe for Spam Fajitas (YUM! Let's try that one now!)that Google provided as I was checking my Spam folder.; 10 December, 2009 05:50
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In the episode, after eating too much toasted cheese, Captain Mainwaring dreams he is Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. I don't remember much about the episode other than Mainwaring telling his loyal men (Jones, Pike and Godfrey) that he has been exiled to the island of Elba.

Jones quips, "Hence the expression - Givin' ya the Elber!" (giving you the elbow, i.e., pushing you around.) I thought that Givinya de Elba was a half-decent pseudonym for someone who likes to joke and push people around, and I stuck with that.

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05 December 2009

Google Ads crack me up

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