Weird News

[superFRO!]

Who robs a Subway anyways?

[Tom Flapwell]

Well, why not a Subway? It gets good business and doesn't have the security of a bank.

[superFRO!]

Oh yeah, I wasn't thinking of the till...

"Put the 6 inch toasted BLT with tomato sauce in the bag and nobody gets hurt!"

[Richard K Niner]

Oh yeah, I wasn't thinking of the till...

Or the safe in the back?

[VisibilityMissing]

Yes, there's nothing funny about this, nothing funny at all . . .

Seeing red over revolutionary toilet humor

Thu Nov 8, 9:53 AM ET

BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing authorities have scolded a local Communist revolution-themed restaurant for harming national sentiment by painting a sign "liberation zone" pointing the way to its toilets.

"Times Gone Past," a restaurant featuring waiting staff clad in People's Liberation Army uniforms and decorated with photos of revolutionary heroes and maps of military battles, had taken the "red" theme too far and had been ordered to remove the sign, Thursday's Beijing News said.

"Many customers had expressed their dissatisfaction, believing that putting 'liberation zone' on par with a toilet was akin to blaspheming the revolution and was an overly-casual use of the term," the paper said.

China's Communist Party referred to regions captured from occupying Japanese troops during World War Two as "liberation zones" and later applied the term to territory seized from U.S.-backed Nationalist forces during the 1945-1949 civil war.

The Communists' defeat of the Nationalists and subsequent sweep to power in 1949 is referred to as the "liberation" of China.

A photograph in the paper showed a restaurant worker putting up a newspaper page to obscure the sign, painted in big red characters above an arrow pointing to the toilets.

A restaurant spokesman said the sign was "just a joke in keeping with the restaurant's 'red' theme."

But the local commerce bureau failed to see the humor, saying the sign's "creativity was inappropriate" and constituted a "malicious satire detrimental to culture" in a notice ordering the restaurant to change the name.

[Zaaphod]

Yes, there's nothing funny about this, nothing funny at all . . .

You're right...


...it's hilarious.

[Foxhound]

Mmmmmmmm: Fizzy, Bottled Ham

SEATTLE —

Coming soon next to the Coke and Pepsi in a store near you: ham-and latke-flavored soda to make your holiday feast complete. It even will be kosher, the company making it says _ including the ham.

Jones Soda Co., the Seattle-based purveyor of offbeat fizzy water, is selling holiday-themed limited-edition packs of flavored sodas.

The Christmas pack will feature such flavors as Sugar Plum, Christmas Tree, Egg Nog and Christmas Ham. The Hanukkah pack will have Jelly Doughnut, Apple Sauce, Chocolate Coins and Latkes sodas.

"As always, both packs are kosher and contain zero caffeine," Jones said in a statement.

The packs will go on sale Sunday, with a portion of the proceeds to be given to charity, the company said.

Jones' products feature original label art and frequently odd flavors. Last year's seasonal pack was Thanksgiving-themed, with Green Pea, Sweet Potato, Dinner Roll, Turkey and Gravy, and Antacid sodas.

For its contract to supply soda to Qwest Field, home of the Seattle Seahawks, Jones came up with Perspiration, Dirt, Sports Cream and Natural Field Turf. The company _ fortunately or unfortunately _ prides itself on the accuracy of the taste.

Jones also makes more traditional flavors, including root beer, cherry and strawberry sodas.

[gforce422]

Whoever is in charge in thinking up these soda flavors should stop smoking crack.

[osprey]

Whoever is in charge in thinking up these soda flavors should stop smoking crack.

Probably drinking some Original Coca Cola recipe.

[Zaaphod]

Whoever is in charge in thinking up these soda flavors should stop smoking crack.

That's going to be their next flavor.

[Arloest]

On December 5th (first day of Hanukkah) I'm totally going to get my extremely Jewish friend Brian some Latkes sodas.

[Tom Flapwell]

It just occurred to me: If Llewellyn really wanted the Jewish vote, he would have chosen Latke as his running mate instead of Pancake.

[Fritz]

Whoever is in charge in thinking up these soda flavors should stop smoking crack.

That's going to be their next flavor.

It'll never beat the magic that is Vanilla Coke.

[Foxhound]

Man forgets car at gas station

BERLIN (Reuters) -
A German man forgot his car after filling it up at a petrol station, police said Friday.

"He just forgot about it and walked off home," said a spokesman for police in the western city of Wuppertal.

After the car had sat blocking the pump for about an hour, a woman working at the petrol station became suspicious and alerted authorities.

Officers contacted the 63-year-old from Remscheid, who came straight back to fetch the vehicle. He had paid to fill up the car before walking off.

[Steve the Pocket]

There but for heavy medication later in life go I. I'm almost that forgetful these days.