While waiting for certain purchases to be rung up last Saturday afternoon, I stumbled upon a seriously ridiculous story in a magazine about a member of a boy band I enjoyed before I had music taste. The article was about gadgets turning against people in the past few years and his story was ranked at the top 5. Maybe for sheer fact that sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.

That silliness happened 8 years ago and one would think that such an incident was just a bad luck of the draw. But just this morning I read an article that really seems to show that the PTBs have a wicked sense of humor.

Given that Sweden is not a hot bed for crime, this unfortunate aging pop star was beaten and robbed while dressed in a pineapple suit. Dude, I am not making this up.

Now given my habit of reading articles in Yahoo! and MSN these days, I've observed that sometimes the comments to some of the light hearted articles are just so much funnier. On the recent article on misheard lyrics a comment regarding the misheard lyrics from Hootie and the Blowfish song had me in stitches.

Yes, I love silly things like these. If I didn't I wouldn't have insisted on watching Dude, Where's my Car, Harold and Kumar 2: Escape from Guantanamo Bay or Zohan on the big screen. This is mostly because I do tend to be a silly person. One great example would be my latest campaign.

I have gotten it to my head to get the ‘Bob’ Happy Meal Monsters vs. Alien toy from McDonalds after seeing an ad for it. When I saw the T.V. bit for it, I was honestly horrified. I was like - 'Why the heck is that little boy holding a dildo?' And then I saw the McDonalds logo on a corner and realized it was actually a Happy Meal toy. In which case I suddenly started the mantra 'Must get dildo looking Happy Meal toy' in my head.

So I went to McDonalds for lunch this afternoon to get a Happy Meal only to discover that the Bob figure a.k.a. 'the dildo' was out of stock. With that I started whining like a child saying "I want my dildo." Of course I did this only within the earshot of my friend and I. But that didn't stop her from wondering what others might think if they actually did hear me. To which I said that I am sort of used to strange looks since I've said a bunch of stuff in the past that were not well worded or were easily mistaken for something serious even though I was joking. Like "I got hospitalized because of my coke problem." I was talking about my bout with gastritis when I drank so much Coca-Cola that week. Then there's the ever famous "Mahal ang libro, mag-drugs na lang tayo" statement that I usually make when I see how expensive books are. The dildo thing is actually mild compared to those other statements.

And really, be honest with yourself. Look at that thing and tell me it doesn't look like a dildo.

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