A very funny exchange…

Okay, I’m tired of beating around the bush. I’m a beautiful (spectacularly beautiful) 25 year old girl. I’m articulate and classy. I’m not from New York. I’m looking to get married to a guy who makes at least half a million a year. I know how that sounds, but keep in mind that a million a year is middle class in New York City, so I don’t think I’m overreaching at all.

Craigslist: What Am I Doing Wrong?

Yeah, that’s what I’M talkin’ about! (Warning: profanity)

I’m a long time Mets fan and this year’s season was such a huge disappointment. However, you can always count on Conan O’Brien to lighten things up….

Too funny. I could use this in my own house.

[via Boing Boing]

My wife and I are big Conan O’Brien fans. Since I haven’t been watching his show during it’s regularly scheduled hours, it was a nice surprise to catch this on my macTV podcast subscription:

[macTV Show #87]

Great to see Conan poking fun at the new iPod. It’s even better to see that Apple is now including some Conan video clips in the iTunes Music store (although I wish they were offering entire episodes!).

My luck couldn’t be any better right now. Between the few hundred dollars I invested with that guy in Nigeria to help him get his fortune out of his country and now this, I’m going to retire early. Yup, I’ve just been notified that I’ve won the lottery, or “lotterij” as they spell it in Holland. Check out the email I just received. Amazing, since I never entered the Holland Lotterij.

POSTCODE LOTTERIJ INTERNATIONAL
REF NUMBER: EUCL/892/9673/0065.
BATCH NUMBER: 252976EUCL0065.
CODE NUMBER: 00000000EUCL878456.

Dear Sir/Madam

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the lucky winners of the POSTCODE INTERNATIONAL LOTTERIJ PROMOTION PROGRAM held on the 23rd Nov, 2005. Your e-mail address is attached to ticket number 534556688EULl59 with serial number 76469EULl945 which drew lucky numbers 12-17-19-21-23-29 and consequently won in the 1st category. You have been approved as the beneficiary for a lump individual payout of ($750,000 USD) Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars.

Based on our guidelines, regulations and privacy policy, we strongly advice that you should keep your winning information confidential until your file for your claim and the subsequent processing concluded. It’s worthy of note, that all participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from all over the world. This POSTCODE INTERNATIONAL LOTTERIJ PROMOTION PROGRAM takes place anually and please be informed that all winners are liable for notarization and administrative charges.

To file for your claim, please contact our international claim agency
GLOBAL & CO NATIONAL AGENCY
CONTACT PERSON,
Mr. Michael Thomas
TEL: +31-620-028-304
FAX: +31-847-255-361.
Email: postcodelotts@netscape.net

For processing and remittance of your winning prize to a designated account of your choice. Remember, all winnings must be claim not later than Dec 10th, 2005, after this date, unclaimed funds will be returned to the International Lotto company.

Please note, in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers. Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform the international claim agent Congratulations once again, from all members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotions program.

Once again congratulations.

Sincerely,
Mrs. Lawral Wilson
Promotions Manager
The Lottery Company
Holland

Hopefully you don’t believe this (or that Nigerian guy). If you do, you’re probably the same person who has clicked on the recent attachment from the FBI about your viewing of XXX sites. PLEASE, don’t click on any strange attachments you receive in email or believe these outrageous money making schemes. If this was real, I’m sure I would have won more than $750K.

BTW, the last episode of Saturday Night Live (hosted by Eva Longoria) had a funny skit on an award show called “The Spammies”. Funny stuff.

Hey Seinfeld fans, ya gotta love it when a Festivus story makes it to ABC News. It’s a Festivus Miracle!

[article at ABC News]

An interesting project by Art Director and Designer Ji Lee. Some funny stuff!

I printed 50,000 of these speech bubble stickers. I place them on top of movie posters, ads and signs all over New York City. Passers are invited to fill them in. I go back and photograph the results.

I haven’t seen any of these in person yet. Let me know if you come across one of these in NYC.

[The Bubble Project]

Between meetings yesterday in Manhattan a colleague and I were catching-up on emails and calls at Bryant Park. It’s Fashion Week in NYC and there was quite a bit of activity in the area (yes, lots of talent), including a lot of celebrities. Apparently we just missed Courtney Cox entering the tent by a few minutes…

Before walking back to our meetings, we decided to hang out for a few minutes in front of the main tent entrance by the street to see if we could spot any celebs. These two women exit the tent and walk down the stairs towards the “taxi line”. They may have been famous, but I couldn’t tell. One of the hired help, some dude in a British get-up with derby hat and big umbrella, quickly approaches the women and they have this conversation (just as a British style taxi with huge Brit flag paint job drives away):

Brit Man: “Would you ladies like a free cab? Another one will be here in a minute.”

Woman (looking annoyed): “What’s wrong with that one?” (pointing to a regular yellow cab)

Brit Man: “Nothing, but I’m talking about a free cab.”

Woman: “Well that cab is free… there’s no one in it.”

Brit Man: “Yes, that one is free, but my cab won’t cost you anything.”

The woman finally realized what he meant by “free” and was a bit embarrassed. Her friend seemed clueless too. Maybe they were getting high in that tent.

Anyone who knows me will tell you that I’m not into politics. I’m not going to start any rants on this blog about the Katrina relief effort, what should’ve been done, who was at fault (everyone is!), etc. However, I found a few pictures on the web recently that have been edited with Photoshop (and done very well I must say). My apologies in advance — I realize these pics are controversial and will most likely offend some people, but I thought they were “funny”. Now if I could just fine some pics of Governor Blanco… >;->

The content in these pictures do not necessarily reflect the views of Exit 171.

In the spirit of Overheard in New York, my wife and I overheard this (while waiting in line at Chocolate World) at Hershey Park in Pennsylvania:

Man: All this chocolate stuff is great, but I really don’t even care for Hershey chocolate.

Woman: I know, me too. I wonder if there’s a “Godiva Park” somewhere.

Funny stuff from Comedy Central’s “The Man Show”. Although you don’t have to watch the show to get a kick out of this one. Looks very scientific… until you read a little closer and click on some boxes.

[TheManShow.com Periodic Table]

If someone ever mentions to you that weird things happen when the moon is full, believe them. Although the moon is in a “waxing gibbous” phase or 99% illumination (for those of you who care), I had a strange day today. Good and bad things happened, but it all seemed to balance out (so far)…

Left my wallet at home (a Bad Thing):
I had appointments in Manhattan and left my house mid-morning to get there on time. I get to Hoboken, park my car, and start making my way to the PATH train. Sure enough, I reach for my wallet and it’s not there. At first I thought I lost it, but then confirmed with my wife that I left it on my desk at home.

So here I am in Hoboken, trying to get to NYC, and NO MONEY. I couldn’t even drive home if I wanted to — no money to pay the parking garage. I went to the Hoboken train station to try to cash-in some NJ Transit train tickets I had in my bag. The lady at the customer service counter denied me, but the teller next to her heard my story and was nice enough to give me $1.50 for a PATH ticket. Whew! At least I didn’t have to beg at the turnstile.

I finally manage to get to NYC, but now I’m 20 blocks away from my meeting and still without cash. Thanks to my good buddy Hal Cohen, I was able to take a taxi to 56th St where Hal met me and paid the fare. Got to my meeting on time. Whew! Hal also helped me out by lending me some cash to get home! Thanks Hal!!

Lunch with Beyonce (a GOOD THING):
Okay, I didn’t really have lunch WITH her, but she was sitting at a table close-by and was easily viewable from our table. Needless to say, Beyonce was absolutely smoking hot! She actually looked better in person than any picture or video I’ve ever seen of her. Just a natural beauty. Good thing we didn’t notice her sitting there until half-way through our lunch, because we all would have been gawking the whole time (a Bad Thing).

The moblog pic (below) of her “ride” was her Escalade parked outside the restaurant. I limited my paparazzi maneuvers to just a pic of her car… didn’t want to be “one of those people”.

Oh yeah, the kitchen at our restaurant was somewhat out of order and could only offer a partial menu (a Bad Thing), but with Beyonce close-by, it really didn’t matter.

911 Call from my Parents’ House (a Bad Thing):
I get home late afternoon and turn on my scanner (”police” scanner, not flatbed), as I usually do. I hear a police dispatch for a 911 call come over for my parents’ town and for THEIR ADDRESS. I’m thinking maybe I misheard what they said, but they repeated it and sure enough it was their address. I call their house and the number’s busy. Oh shit! I call my mother on her cell and she answers… as if there was nothing wrong! I ask her if the police were there, but she says no (why should they be?). I then tell her to look out her window and sure enough, the police just drove up and are getting out of their car… Long story short, their phone must have been malfunctioning and there was no emergency. Whew!

Weird day… blame it on the Moon? Can’t wait for tomorrow (when the Moon is FULL).

Take a couple of minutes and watch this video. Very funny (and well done)!

This has to be one of my favorite internet videos of all time. It’s a montage of still photos set to the theme from Deliverance. I could watch 100 times and not tire of it.

[via Boing Boing]

I was in Houston eating a nice sushi lunch with a customer and just happened to glance out the restaurant window. I noticed what appeared to be two blind men walking together — one was using his handicap walking cane tapping back and forth in front of him. The other guy also had a walking cane, but wasn’t using it (he was just walking very closely to the man in front of him). I didn’t think anything of it at the time and just continued on with our lunch conversation…

About 2 minutes later I noticed they were now across the street in the distance and walking away from us on a large open sidewalk area. I was pretty impressed how they were able to make their way around by themselves. As we were both watching them I jokingly commented “Do you realize that we’re actually watching the blind leading the blind?”. At that precise moment we couldn’t believe what we witnessed — the two men walked directly into a 3-foot high brick wall! Neither appeared injured, but they both looked pretty surprised (I’m not sure why they didn’t detect the wall with the walking cane). We both tried to be politically correct and not crack any jokes, but we couldn’t believe what we just saw! Immediately after the crash both men started using their canes and continued on their way. Unbelievable!!