Things Real People Don't Say About Advertising

Things Real People Don't Say About Advertising is a pretty entertaining tumblir page that's worth looking at.

It's fairly simple as it takes amusing pictures and adds text ad people or simple-minded people would say about advertising campaigns.

The sad part is that some of these ploys actually work on people, but I really hope advertising people get this excited about strategy.

Girl falls into Fountain While Texting at the Mall

This video is a few days old but it's still funny.  It's incredible that she could be so unaware of a water fountain yet she is.

I've secretly hoped this would happen to many people I've seen at the mall.  In fact I'm disappointed I couldn't witness this live.  

Now, I need to see someone video chatting and falling into a fountain to rise the stakes.

I really don't know if you can come back from mall security laughing at you though.  That's pretty serious humiliation.

What's the Difference Between a Bomb Pop, Rocket Pop, and Firecracker?

I''ve often wondered about this, but it's hard to come across a valid explanation.  They all seem like the same red, white, and blue popsicle.

I assumed that Bomb Pop, Rocket Pop, and Firecracker were just different ways of describing the same product.

Like a regional thing where maybe the East Coast calls it a Bomb Pop, but on the West Coast it's a Rocket Pop.

This isn't the case though.  They are technically not interchangable, but rather three similar yet distinct products.

Bomb Pops are the original trademarked brand of tri-colored popsicles made by a company called Blue Bunny.

Nestle's Rocket Pops and Popsicle's Firecrackers are knock-offs of the Bomb Pop.

Think of it like the Law and Order TV series: where Bomb is the original,  Rocket is an on par variation such as SVU, and Firecracker is Law and Order LA which everybody knows is a poor imitation of the original.

Sticking with that analogy, the crimes would have to be:  someone killing you for your Bomb Pop, sexually assaulting you with your Rocket Pop and having Alfred Molina partner with the Firecracker to solve an LA crime in a desperate attempted to make you watch an inferior show.

I know that I'd rather have a Bomb or Rocket Pop instead of a Firecracker.  All these popsicles for some reason are named after things that explode, but Firecrackers take it too far.

They feature a variety with an exploding candy tip.  This has to be someone's idea of a sick joke because  generally only porn stars like to have things explode in their mouth.

Srsly Sorry

Don't worry, I haven't turned into a texting teenager that doesn't know how to spell correctly.

I was going to apologize for my lack of posting over the last couple of weeks, but then I found "Srsly Sorry" which is funnier than anything I could of said.

This might be my new favorite website because it features random and crazy confessions or apologizes from people for the bad things they've done.

It's pretty addicting.  I wouldn't post my misdeeds on a website, but I'll sure as hell enjoy reading others do it.

There are some really good ones such as this:

Dear Roommates Friend,

I stole your “Street-Sharks” watch after making fun of you for it. Street Sharks were f*#%ing cool.

- anonymousor this:

Dear Chris and Kathy, two Christmases ago,

I didn’t realize the eggnog was of the “adult” variety when I gave your four year old a glass. We thought he was just acting silly, but then he puked up rum and nog vomit all over the couch, and I realized what I had done. Srsly sorry I never fessed up, but, at least he was really entertaining. Drunken children are always funny.

- Hank

You have to give Hank some credit for apologizing, and he makes a valid point about drunk children.  Those are just two of many good ones.

Sure "Srsly Sorry" is kind of like PostSecret, but it's not as self loathing or full of depressing people so it's more entertaining.

The site confirms what we already know: people do some messed up things, and as long as they don't happen to you then it's funny.