What’s Orange and Sounds Like A Parrot?
That was the joke question asked in a commercial break during the broadcast of Last Comic Standing the other night on NBC. If you wanted to hear the punchline all you had to do was send a text message to NBC on your cell phone to get it. The cost for this amazing and convenient service? Only 99 cents! Have you ever heard anything so utterly lame? Actually holding the punchline of an elementary school level joke for ransom over the airwaves. It irritated me so much that I changed the channel and watched something else instead. Hey, NBC, here’s an idea for you that would be far more entertaining. Why don’t you air a clip of the genius that conceived this brilliant marketing idea actually being fired on national tv. Now that would be funny!
In case you’re wondering, and I won’t charge you a buck for the punchline… What’s orange and sounds like a parrot? A carrot. Yeah, I told you it was LAME. And, no, I didn’t pay for it, I got the punchline by doing a web search.
Remember a while back I wrote a post about Stumble Upon? I still like to use it to surf for fun websites sometimes, but unfortunately it’s been sold out to eBay. And eBay is selling spots in the page rotations. Guess what that means kiddies? They sold your eyeballs to the highest bidders, meaning more and more of the webpages they send you to actually paid for the priveledge of having you surf in. Instead of being sites that Joe User submitted as being cool or interesting, you get to see who paid the most money for your attention.
I think this may actually be good in a backhanded way because you get to vote thumbs up or down on every site. If I get even the slightest suspicion that the site submission was paid for, it gets an automatic thumbs down. Hell yeah, just like that! And if the site has pop up ads of any kind on it or if it’s running a script that resizes or takes control over my browser window in any way, it gets an automatic thumbs down too, I don’t care how awesome the website is. If it has pop ups, it sucks!
Check out this billboard photo, notice anything odd about the two ads?
That’s right, it’s the same woman in both ads! LOL
Well, that’s all I got, have a great weekend kids!
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OMG - I love Last Comic Standing and I saw that bit about the parrot… it’s been bugging me ever since! A carrot! DUH! Your site looks incredible!!
Dude, Google is taking over the world. Haven’t you heard?
So did you pay the 99 cents to get that punchline?
LOL, no I didn’t pay for it, not a chance! I Googled it!
I’ve been noticing more and more of those ridiculous text message sales pitches. It makes me mad because you know kids are 99 cents-ing their parents to death. I love Stumble Upon (thank you for pointing it out way back when) but I have noticed that the sites were different somehow. Now I know why. Thumbs down, here I come.
Me hates shit like this–all of it
Yea that texting thing gets old. I did it for tickets to American Idol finale but otherwise I tend to skip it
Still, I bet that stunt made a fortune.
Lame indeed!!!
By the way the billboard thing reminded me of a Headlines thing that Jay Leno did. They had a picture of the same guy in two newspaper ads. One was for Viagra and on the very same page he was in an ad for a funeral home. Isn’t it ironic. hahaha!
A carrot? That’s not even funny. Sorry you had to go web search it just for me because even then it’s not funny. What’s funny is you and me. Right.
this is TOO FUCKING WEIRD. me and my husband are watching a rerun of LCS and we JUST DISCUSSING that ridiculous ‘call for the answer’ bullshit. I wouldn’t pay 99 cents. Hell, I woudln’t call in to find out the answer if it were for free!
ps. those billboards are hysterical!
Great. I am glad you shared something funny other than the lame joke. I am glad I didn’t have to pay the .99 cents either. The billboard was more hillarious to me than the carrot. Thanks for showing the answer though. Have a great day and keep up the good work. Your webpage is beautiful!
That’s hilarious. I was just watching LCS and saw that lame joke, so I searched for the punchline on google and found this site. That was a good read, thanks!
**echoes lame opinions**
LOVE the billboard, though!! Jebus. As if Mickey D’s couldn’t afford a diff model for two opposite ads!
Wish I had a picture of this: years ago when our beloved *sarcasm* Country Kitchen was still open, somehow the lights had burned out in the ‘o’, ‘r’, ‘y’ and ‘K’. True story. Not related to your story, but for some reason, that’s what I thought of… I’m a sicko.
Oops… my bad. Here I thought the top one was a public service from Mickey D’s. Now it’s funny in a whole different way!
I, too, was looking up the LCS joke (I don’t have a cell phone or whatever to text-message upon), and I found your site! Here’s my answer to that riddle:
Q: What’s orange and sounds like a parrot?
A: An orange parrot.
Note that it’s food stamps that are supposed to prevent childhood obesity. Is that because you can’t use them at Mickey D’s or what? Awesome find.
Nothing pisses me off more than, when they hem me up with their ad bullshit. I can not think of anything but elimination. You must have the patience of a Saint to withstand it. That’s sad to hear,about Stumbleupon. I’ve been using it every day since you mentioned it.
Love the new look.
What’s red and sounds like a parrot? - A Demerit and they get a big red one in my book for a stunt like that - but I agree I bet they made loads of money and the person who thought this up is probably getting a bonus from Corporationville! I can’t wait to see the social effects -Weatherman: ” the weather will be unseasonably… - call this number for the rest.”
Thanks for the punchline. Google really is taking over the world.. wish I was grand dame of that evil empire!