The Corner Blog Archives: June 2006
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28 June 2006
Ericsson want’s to lay off all over 35
Swedish tele giant Ericsson takes it’s slogan “taking you forward” to new meaning as it starts to “forward” it’s elderly employees. Ericsson announced in April that it has decided to forward it’s “old school” workers to “anyone else“. Ericsson’s CEO Carl-Henrik Svanberg (44-yrs, taurus) announced that they want these “old, worn out, workers with slightest […]
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27 June 2006
Somali rivals agree to recognize each other
The government of Somalia and the fighting islamists agree to recognize each other. After high level Sudan led meeting the sides have agreed that the government and islamists will from now on greet each other when passing each other on the street. In the same breath they agree not to call each other with silly […]
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26 June 2006
In memoriam, Bruno the Bear
Bear originally Italian but the adopted by the germans and named by the Press as Bruno, was shot early today by “Bavarian hunters”. The bear had avoided the partly Finnish bear hunting party who had tried to trap and stun the bear for several weeks. Bruno, aka JJ1, was a part of a project which […]
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26 June 2006
Mighty Bavarian overlords slayed the beast.
The people of Germany can finally sleep they nights in piece. The beast who harassed the mighty teutons is finally killed. Brave Bavarian hunters overcome the “beast from the east”, aka Bruno, who kept the country on it’s toes. The burden had overwitted the Northern Ugrs, so called “specialists” in bear hunt, who tried to […]
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22 June 2006
How to become a knocknaheeny girl
This video has it in three easy steps. She should’ve used more makeup though, perhaps that’s the difference between a “chav” and a “knocknaheeness”
edit - video removed and replaced with a link
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22 June 2006
Bush extoled the Hungarian Revolution
The President of United States George W. Bush travelled to Budapest, the capital of Hungary on Wednesday commemorating to the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution. On the celebrations of the Hungary’s historic sacrifices in the name of freedom, Bush made a speech to extol the nations work for the Free World™.
“These heroes defended their […]
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21 June 2006
Guantanamo camp nearing end?
The President of United States, George W. Bush, informed the European leaders (and rest of the world in the side) of plans to renounce the Guantatanamo camp.
“Most of the 460 campers have spent several years at Guantanamo without charges on US expence alone and due to the increasing costs and budget cuts we need to […]
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21 June 2006
Extort.com
Extortbeta is a web 2.0 service allowing you to blackmail a friend. They operate from “sunny Kgryjstan” and have a call center that “might record calls for training porpoises”.
The idea is simple: tape a footage of your friend doing something, preferably, illegal. Upload it to Extort who will then send it to the “victim” keeping […]
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21 June 2006
Catpoopcoffee
“How can you tell people have start to have too much money on their hands? They buy all kind of shit.”
Now literally. Some one made up a website where you can order the ‘finest coffee digested by Paradoxurus Civet cats’, who actually are not cats at all, but resemble more a ferret or otter - […]
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21 June 2006
All hail national stereotyping
During the World Cup (yes, I know I tend to go on about that for a bit, just sit back and endure, ok?) everything gets whipped up to this bizarre nationalist frenzy, and of course our beloved media is right at the forefront of this. I don’t mind, not at all. But some aspects of […]