Advertising DOES work
January 21st, 2006 RachelI’m going to start reading this JUST because the ad was so hilarious. Pajiba, you got me. I’m in. Go here for the full story about WHY this is so damned funny. 
Woohoo!!
January 21st, 2006 RachelStormhoek will be launching in the USA in March - this is the wine which saw their sales double through blogging. Austin’s on the list and luckily enough I’ll be down there for SXSW…yay!! I’ve been intrigued by this story since last November and I’m looking forward to actually giving this now quite well known (at least in the circles I travel) wine a try. Yum.
(image from 
ianmjones.net)
Just for Jokes
January 21st, 2006 RachelSo…cougars.
Two guys walk into a bar - their young, early twenties. It’s an older crowd, many of whom have had too much to drink and are girating with abandon on the dance floor. They haven’t had enough to drink yet to really ‘let loose’…so they ease into a couple of seats and nurse their drinks, enjoying the little band and exchanging snickers and sideways looks at each other. Someone’s mom stops dancing and walks over to them.
"I’m sorry, we’re sitting here."
They shrug. "That’s cool, no problem. We’ll get up when you’re done." Non-issue, right?
"No, you don’t understand. My purse is here."
"OH." Says guy one. Guy two leans in.
"Is it because he’s black?"
With the amount of horror and embarassment that would be expected, cougarlishious (who ends up being "married" to another guy there…weirdness, just weirdness.) The guys get up, relate the story to their pals, everyone has a good laugh and the moment passes. Or not.
The taller, brunette version of la cougar de jour comes over and taps Guy one on the shoulder.
"No, no," she says. "we have no problem with black people…my uncle’s black."
riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight….okee dokee, buh bye. Jokes…but at the same time, just damn depressing.
