It’s been an ultra busy week at work.
This morning, a letter lands on my desk from Yellow Pages offering a free business listing.
To avoid adding yet more to the mountain of untouched papers already sitting on my desk, I give them a call straight away.
Firstly, I ask what the catch is. The fella on the other end of the phone tells me there isn’t one. So we talk shop for a while and I tell him about what we do. He asks me a few questions, I answer them. Simple.
Finally, he asks my name. “Chris”, I said, “…and I’ll spell my surname for you…” proceeding then to spell out my last name using the phonetic alphabet.
“Ok, thank you very much, now, is that Miss or Mrs?” he asks.
Not happy.
I’d forgotten about this old episode of Game On.
Matt and Martin discuss The Great Escape and great character names…
Ho-hum!
Ever wondered what you’d look like as a Simpsons character? Errr, no, neither had I until now. But in a similar face recognition type thing to MyHeritage, SimpsonizeMe can answer the question you didn’t know you wanted the answer to.
I’m probably the last person in the world to have a go on this, but it is good fun. If you haven’t used it, simply upload a clear headshot of yourself, answer a few quick questions and kerblammo you’re done.
Actually it’s quite slow and you get the odd error or six, and IE seems to work better than Firefox, but it’s still worth a go.
Here are the results of a couple of pictures I tried:
What do you reckon? Does that look like me in a Simpsons stylee? Let me know how yours turns out too.
(Props to Al for sending me the link to that)
Question: What happens if you find yourself with…?
a) too much time on your hands.
b) an intense disliking for Ricky Gervais.
c) an excellent new geeky Flash 8 book.
Answer: The Ricky Gervais Stress Reliever of course!
Now’s your chance to ease all that pent up aggression and throw bombs at talentless Ricky Gervais’ stupid unfunny fat head…
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