For Your Consideration

[shanmonster]

Work was crazy last night. It seemed like most everyone was cranky, and the calls came in steadily. By the end of the night, my voice was hoarse and my throat was sore. I had one guy call in who lied unabashedly, and that pissed me off. He first called asking if the hotel allowed cats, because he wanted to bring his. I said sure, finished the reservation, and told him I'd made a note that his cat would be accompanying him. About an hour later, he calls back and gets me again (a minor miracle, considering all the other agents on the phones). He then claims his reservation is listed as him bringing a cat, and he doesn't understand this. "I don't even have a cat," he says. Right. Something tells me he's going to try sneaking the cat into his room. Whatever. I just pretended I hadn't already heard this guy say otherwise. Then again, maybe he is living a double life and has selective amnesia. Who am I to say?

And then I get called by a crazy man who yells something very fast into my ear, so fast I couldn't understand it, before hanging up. All I understood was "I'm sick and tired of this" and "you must immediately call 776-...." Confused, I went to the front desk and asked about it. Apparently, this guy calls all the time. We're his late-night entertainment. I feel like I've passed an initiation of sorts.

Check out the following videos for fun and excitement.

Dschinghis Khan - Moskau: These guys freak me out a little bit.

Super Model Meat Sports: Bikini girls with meat.

Mu: Cute Asian raver girl occasionally impersonates a chicken to minimalistic electronic music.

And for your non-video viewing, I present the following links:

Stop Abductions: "The thought screen helmet has effectively stopped several types of aliens from abducting or controlling humans. Only two failures were reported since 1998." Real or joke? You decide (thanks, Enai).

Pompeii unveils erotic frescoes: "Italy unveils Pompeii erotica. Visitors to the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in December will be able to see a series of frescoes with explicit sex scenes buried under volcanic ash 2,000 years ago. The display of titillating paintings and the restored public bath were inaugurated on Wednesday at Pompeii, one of the world's most-visited tourist sites, near Naples" (thanks, Benoit).

Turin shroud 'older than thought': It's like the Energizer Shroud. The controversy just keeps going and going.

Stuffed Animal Belly Dance Costume: Oh my (thanks, snowy_kathryn).

Ride Me: Adult documents riding on coin-operated rides. I tried doing something similar once, but the mall security guard kicked me off the pony. I'm still bitter.

Sexy Gandams: Battlemechs made from sex toys (probably NSFW).

Comments

[monkehtree.livejournal.com]

My husband has a pair of scary shorts he completely covered in plastic clown heads and pom poms. It's disturbing beyond all belief. That is what I thought of the belly dance costume. Yikes!

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

They sound awesome! You need to show pictures....

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

I can't get that damn chicken imitation out of my head. I'm not gonna ask where you find these things, because I don't wanna know!

[f00dave.livejournal.com]

Okay, I didn't notice the meat one was a .MOV file, but did for the chicken raver. They both started at the same time, but I didn't know the meat one (HAMBURGERS! HAMBURGERS!) wasn't actually part of the Japan-Raver clip. So let me express my confusion at the outset as a "WHAT THE FUCKING HELL HAS JAPAN DONE THIS TIME?!?!?!!!????!?!?!" as being slightly misguided. All that aside, I still don't get the rave thing.

Okay, time to watch the MEAT one. *sigh*

[kamomil.livejournal.com]

I once worked at a radio station, and we had this fella who called in, on our normal office phone line, and he apparently had befriended a staff member who had since left, so we felt some weird obligation to be polite to him.
He was apparently blind, and seemed to have nothing really else to do except listen to the radio and call us. The useful type of info he would provide was how the US station that did the same format as us, was so much better.
At one point our voicemail menu was set up so that you press a letter for a person's last name, gradually narrowing it down to a specific employee. He abused this system, and figured out a lot of the extensions of employees he enjoyed talking to. One day, in one room, I saw one phone after another ringing; Ricky was at it again, trying to find someone to talk to.
He was creepy.

[swirlingchaos.livejournal.com]

i passed the alien abduction one around work, and we all had a great laugh about it. Then one of my more industrious coworkers emailed the site author and it got even funnier...


-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Menkin
Sent: February 18, 2005 11:18 AM
To: Mark xxxxx
Subject: reply from Michael Menkin

Hello Mark,

I did make two helmets with covers for the forehead but they worked the same as the others. The full leather hat lined with 8 sheets of Velostat is
effective. Also remember that the aliens are above you when they first try
to communicate with you so initial communication is from the top.

Email me if you have more questions.

Sincerely,

Michael Menkin
stop alien abductions

>From: "Mark xxxxx"
>To: mmenkin@hotmail.com
>Subject: thought screen helmet
>Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:53:09 -0500
>
>I am concerned that thoughts or telepathy could radiate through my face.
>Is there a transparent material that could form a face shield, or am I
>being too paranoid?
>
>Thanks for your input.
>