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Eight Great Travel Twitter Tweets for October
by @worldhum | 11.02.09 | 2:07 PM ET
iStockPhoto What makes a good travel tweet? Here are eight favorites from the past month.
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Yahoo! BuzzThere Goes the Travel Channel’s ‘Bed and Breakfasts of New England’ Wad
by Michael Yessis | 10.26.09 | 5:35 PM ET
So, according to the Onion, the Travel Channel is just going to have to “rely primarily on warmed-over Bermuda and Bourdain” for the rest of the fall.
It’s not the funniest thing I’ve read on the Onion, but it’s the first time I’ve been part of an organization that’s been spoofed by America’s Finest News Source.
Hooray!
‘This is Such, Like, an Authentic Experience’
by Eva Holland | 10.26.09 | 3:06 PM ET
Tom Gates eavesdrops on backpackers at a restaurant in Ko Chang, Thailand. My favorite overheard gem? “I can totally see eating this for thirty dollars in L.A.”
‘But if You’re Worried About Bombs, Why are You Letting me Keep my Laptop Batteries?’
by Eva Holland | 10.20.09 | 4:31 PM ET
Webcomic XKCD tackles the absurdity of the airport security rigmarole. It’s funny because it’s true. (Via Boing Boing)
More Fun With Bad Tourism Slogans
by Eva Holland | 10.16.09 | 10:12 AM ET
There’s never any shortage of laughs to be had at the expense of bad tourism slogans, is there? This Just In has been collecting readers’ suggestions for the very worst, and they’ve got some great ones. My favorite? The reader who submitted Santa Fe’s slogan, “The City Different,” and wrote: “‘The City Different’ is the slogan lousy.”
The Onion: 1968 Hijacker Arrested, America Responds
by Eva Holland | 10.14.09 | 4:54 PM ET
After the news broke that suspected 1968 Pan Am hijacker Luis Armando Peña Soltren had finally been arrested, the Onion hit the streets to find out how Americans were responding. Here’s one answer: “This gives me hope that, maybe not today, and maybe not tomorrow, but perhaps 41 years from now, the authorities will find my bike.”
‘You Might be Working at a Bad ESL School…’
by Eva Holland | 10.14.09 | 11:56 AM ET
One expat TESL blogger rounds up some nightmarish-but-true teaching scenarios. My favorite? “... if one American teacher quits without notice and the school, as a precautionary measure, fires all the other American teachers on the spot.”
Ken Burns: ‘An Unauthorized Green Room Documentary’
by Michael Yessis | 10.13.09 | 1:56 PM ET
The Colbert Report had a little fun with Ken Burns when he appeared on the show to promote his PBS series The National Parks. The swelling music. The sepia tones. The slow pans. It’s all there. Oh, and there’s potty humor.
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Manhandling Monet’s Water Lilies
by Michael Yessis | 10.08.09 | 10:03 AM ET
At the Onion’s version of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the paintings are fair game for touching. From its story about how the struggling museum now allows patrons get “up close and personal”:
“You can’t grasp the brilliance of a great painting just by looking at it,” said Phil Brehm, 32, who acknowledged that he hadn’t set foot inside a museum since a mandatory field trip in high school. “To truly appreciate fine art, you need to be able to run your fingers over its surface and explore its range of textures.”
“Or just rub your face all over it, like I do,” Brehm added.
The art for this one is fantastic.
‘Warm Shots,’ ‘Vaseline’ and Other Movie Classics
by Eva Holland | 10.07.09 | 9:42 AM ET
The Huffington Post takes a look at the international variations of a few well-known movie titles. My favorite? China’s “Six Naked Pigs”—otherwise known as The Full Monty.
TripAdvisor Goes to the Movies
by Eva Holland | 10.06.09 | 10:41 AM ET
Over at College Humor, some classic traveling movie characters review their destinations, TripAdvisor-style. My favorite comes from a member calling himself “Fr0d0”—here’s a sample: “Took a trip up to Mordor on official business, DO NOT GO THERE!!! The journey was absolute mordor! (lol)”
Eight Great Travel Twitter Tweets for September
by @worldhum | 10.02.09 | 12:04 PM ET
iStockPhoto What makes a good travel tweet? Here are eight favorites from the past month.
Lose Your Prosthetic Leg at Oktoberfest? Check With the Fundbüro.
by Michael Yessis | 10.02.09 | 11:34 AM ET
That’s the central lost and found for Munich’s Oktoberfest, and, as you might imagine, the drunken masses lose some interesting possessions. Over the years, the Fundbüro has taken temporary custody of, among other things, “a prosthetic leg, a wheelchair, a Superman costume, handwritten notes by the composer Johann Sebastian Bach and 15,000 marks in a soiled pair of lederhosen,” writes Nicholas Kulish in the New York Times.
For more Oktoberfest craziness, check out Life’s then and now slideshow.
‘When Souvenirs go Bad’
by Michael Yessis | 09.30.09 | 10:47 AM ET
Fark’s photoshoppers have transformed some classic travel souvenirs into some crude and lewd tchotchkes. Yes, that is Snoopy giving you the finger.
‘If Air Travel Worked Like Health Care’
by Eva Holland | 09.29.09 | 10:05 AM ET
Jonathan Rauch has an imaginary phone conversation with a customer service representative at Air Health Care. Funny stuff. (Via The Daily Dish)
The ‘Entity Formerly Known as the British Empire’ Has Some Advice for an America in Decline
by Michael Yessis | 09.28.09 | 12:31 PM ET
More McSweeney’s hilarity from World Hum contributor Kate Hahn. Here’s one bit of advice for the U.S. from the former British Empire, delivered from a bar on the Costa del Sol:
Look, I’ve been there. Coffers empty. Troops everywhere. Economy sour. Your empire’s finished. But just because I’m retired doesn’t mean I can’t be useful. Here’s how you get through it.
First off: lean on your family. And by that I don’t mean the hearth-and-home sort, I mean royals. Make the office of the president of the United States more regal. Pomp and circumstance distracts you from the fact that you don’t matter anymore. Have guards stand outside the White House gates in some kind of regalia. Celebrate the president’s birthday—not just the dead ones, the one you have now. What’s his ... Bomama ... Obama, yes, yes, the Kenyan.
Ah, Kenya. Mine once. Moment for Kenya.
London Bridge vs. Tower Bridge: The Twitter Smackdown!
by Michael Yessis | 09.25.09 | 11:20 AM ET
It’s @ImLondonBridge vs. @towerbridge in the Tussle on the Thames! And @ImLondonBridge is kicking ass, spurred on by what the Telegraph calls the “tedium and pomposity” of its more photogenic rival’s tweets—@towerbridge only seems to tweet whenever it raises to let ships pass.
The Telegraph tells the whole amusing story, and shares some of its favorite taunts from @ImLondonBridge:
If you took a film of @towerbridge and speeded it up, it would look like the world’s least exciting pinball machine. Without any balls.
Hey @towerbridge. When are you going to do something again? You’re even more boring when you’re just sitting there. Yawn.
Coo-ee @towerbridge. When are you going to do your impersonation of the fourth guy from the Village People again? I simply can’t wait.
But @ImLondonBridge isn’t all taunt. It showed its softer side with its tribute to Patrick Swayze.
Portraits from the New York Subway
by Eva Holland | 09.25.09 | 9:47 AM ET
Improv Everywhere is back. (You remember the group that “froze” Grand Central last year?) This time around, they posed as MTA-contracted photographers, taking photos of passengers on the New York subway for an eventual subway yearbook. The result is not just a funny gag, but a pretty cool set of portraits, too. Check it out:
(Via Boing Boing)
‘Why Do Russians Drink Vodka?’ and Other Google Queries
by Eva Holland | 09.22.09 | 3:54 PM ET
The Telegraph has a funny slideshow of screenshots from Google searches in progress, showing the drop-down menus of suggestions generated by popular searches. So a search for “why do british” pulls up “why do british have bad teeth,” “why do british drink so much” and other national stereotypes. My favorites? “Why do Japanese people do the peace sign” and “why do germans love david hasselhoff.” Why, indeed?
Video We Love: David Byrne Cycles Times Square
by Eva Holland | 09.21.09 | 12:41 PM ET
0:19—“Lady, if I was a truck you wouldn’t be doing that.”
1:31—“Times Square, crossroads of the world.”
2:27—“Sometimes when I tell people I ride around New York they think I’m crazy. That may be.”
3:52—“If this were a bike lane, there would be a truck from New Jersey in it.”
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