A state government employee sits in his office and, out of boredom, decides to see what’s in his old filing cabinet. He pokes through the contents and comes across an old brass lamp. “This will look nice on my mantelpiece,” he decides, and takes it home. While he polishes the lamp, a genie appears and… Read More »
Check this out: Hotflops, a manufacturer of flip-flops, has come up with new designs that feature a grape-like bunch of miniature faces, fashioned in the likeness of US presidential hopefuls, Barack Obama and John McCain, whom as we all know, have flip-flopped on many issues. The sandals, known as electionflops, are only available for purchase… Read More »
A businessman was in a great deal of trouble. His business was failing, he had put everything he had into the business, he owed everybody — it was so bad he was even contemplating suicide. As a last resort he went to a priest and poured out his story of tears and woe. When he… Read More »
If you’re a regular traveller who lugs around a generic-looking Samsonite luggage on the road, you might bemoan the fact that it can be difficult to identify your own bag, especially at crowded airports where several airlines share the same luggage carousel, sometimes almost simultaneously. To deal with this “problem”, an American company has come… Read More »
We are Borg. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. But we’re not home right now. So leave a message at the tone, and we’ll assimilate you later. You’re dazed, bewildered, trapped in a world without time, where sound collides with colour and shadows explode. You see a signpost up ahead – this is no… Read More »
Do you know it costs US$4,000 to process and recycle 1 ton of plastic bags, which can then be sold on the commodities market for only US$32? So it’s a good thing that governments around the world are taking a concerted effort to ban the use of plastic bags. Here in Shenzhen, many supermarkets are… Read More »