Book now for the flight to nowhere

See this article from the times online:

AN INDIAN entrepreneur has given a new twist to the concept of low-cost airlines. The passengers boarding his Airbus 300 in Delhi do not expect to go anywhere because it never takes off.

All they want is the chance to know what it is like to sit on a plane, listen to announcements and be waited on by stewardesses bustling up and down the aisle.

In a country where 99% of the population have never experienced air travel, the “virtual journeys” of Bahadur Chand Gupta, a retired Indian Airlines engineer, have proved a roaring success.

See full article.

Conan O’Brien Hates Your Country

Conan O’Brien is the host of NBC’s show Late Nite and apparently is insulting all countries in the world. See this webpage:

Awhile ago, Conan did a bit where he showed fake Euro coins. One of those coins made fun of the Ukraine, which provoked a lot of angry letters. Here’s the interesting part: those letters were from the Ukraine. Conan had no idea that Late Night was aired in the Ukraine, and began to wonder where else he was on. You would think he could just ask NBC, but they won’t tell him, because then they’d have to pay him more.

There is just one way to find out, and that is to viciously insult every nation in the world, and see which ones he gets letters from.

Some example insults:

Afghanistan
The bad news is, there’s a new article about everyone farming opium.
The good news is, you can’t read.

Angola
Hey, call me when your life expectancy catches up with your inflation rate.

Brazil
Home to more than 800 species of unregulated breast implants.

India
A nation so richly diverse, you can walk into a single neighborhood and find cholera, dengue fever, malaria, typhoid, and plague.

See the whole list. Very funny.

Serious thought: If you really took the trouble to find out why each insult there was funny, you would be more knowledgeable about world affairs than most other people in the world.

Famous Poems Rewritten as Limericks

This guy rewrote a whole bunch of famous poems as limericks. The results are hilarious. For example, here is Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud”:

I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud

There once was a poet named Will
Who tramped his way over a hill
And was speechless for hours
Over some stupid flowers
This was years before TV, but still.

See all of them.