Snakes on a ...
https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2018/06/05/massive-king-cobra-car-dashboard-china-orig.cnn

 

I think the infamous ihop temporary name change to ihob is an extremely bad idea, and also a piece of non-news, but tweeter user's response to their failed campaign is hilarious ... especially this one:

http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2...hops-ihob-announcement-what-epic-failure.html​

 

I recall hearing very recently that IHOP what changing its name to IHOB (don't know about capitalization since it was a radio news story) and while they didn't give what the new abbreviation stood for I assumed it was International House of Breakfast.

This is the first I've heard that people are upset about it or that it failed -- I had the impression that it was a change that was coming up in the next couple of months.

 

Okay, now I see that it is just a marketing campaign to introduce (or draw attention to) their burger selections and appears to be only temporary in nature.

So what? People getting upset over this is just a sign of how little most people have to occupy their time these days.

The only thing that annoys me is that this marketing campaign masqueraded itself as a legitimate news story -- but given the quality and diligence of our "news" agencies, that is not surprising in the least.

 

This is the first I've heard that people are upset about it.

All the other outrages in the world pale by comparison.

 

The only thing that annoys me

There! ... now you won't forget this publicity stunt, idiotic as it is (and neither will I ) ... this proves that the campaign worked ... there's no such thing as bad publicity, as some marketers like to say...

 

There! ... now you won't forget this publicity stunt, idiotic as it is (and neither will I ) ... this proves that the campaign worked ... there's no such thing as bad publicity, as some marketers like to say...

By and large, sadly, they have it right -- and to be fair they do know that there ARE people that WILL remember it and will NOT patronize IHOP as a result (or at the very least move it well down on the list of places they will go). But, like casino operators, they make their money on the rest of humanity that aren't very distinguishable from lemmings.

That's just like the telemarketers that call you, despite being on the national and state no-call lists, and then lie to you by claiming that they are calling you because you responded to one of their promotions on the internet or some-such. The really DO expect that people are going to look aside at the fact that their express wishes not to be solicited to were ignored and then, on top of that, ignore the fact that company kicked off the potential relationship without outright deceit. But, they wouldn't do it if it didn't pay off enough to be profitable.

 

I haven't bought anything from Carl's Jr since the changed the commertial formats.

 

I haven't bought anything from Carl's Jr since the changed the commertial formats.

Maybe they'll run their ads during the Miss America pageant that no one will be watching.

 

Maybe they'll run their ads during the Miss America pageant that no one will be watching.

But they all want Whirled Peas.

 

More hilarious trolling at iHop's expense:

http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2...e-trolling-ihop-over-burger-announcement.html

 

This is so un-believable. Wish I could think up stories like this.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...vered_working_on_janet_napolitanos_staff.html

 

This is so un-believable. Wish I could think up stories like this.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...vered_working_on_janet_napolitanos_staff.html

The guy disappeared in New Mexico (Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center, Kirtland AFB, N.M.) 35 years ago. The guy is obviously a shape-shifting Alien sleeper agent bounty-hunter.

 

This is so un-believable. Wish I could think up stories like this.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...vered_working_on_janet_napolitanos_staff.html

The amazing part to me is that he willingly took on such a high profile position. He must have felt his cover was air tight. I'd have been an accountant for a potato company in Idaho or something like that. Amazing.

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...ticised-child-taken-away-mother-refused-give/

A High Court judge has criticised a social worker who took a child away from his mother because she refused to give him an ice cream.

The social worker said the woman was failing to meet her son's "emotional needs", and also highlighted how she did not allow him to get his hair to be cut "in the way that he liked".

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...ticised-child-taken-away-mother-refused-give/

Nanny state overreach perhaps?

 

Nanny state overreach perhaps?

More like an obsession to control other people's lives, and carve them after her own image ...

 

More like an obsession to control other people's lives, and carve them after her own image ...

Give the kids what they want, NOW!

 

Give the kids what they want, NOW!

Careful. You can have your kids taken away for making them watch that movie.

 

Give the kids what they want, NOW!

I loved that movie ... may Gene Wilder rest in peace ...