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the time the nephew won the lottery
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"...it was the first time I ever played..." he's telling me of the first time he ever won the lottery.
"....and I'm checking the numbers, and I have the first number, the second number, the third number, and the prize is I don't know, forty million Euros..."
This story is set in Italy, the Italian equivalent of the lotto-6-49 here, only I gather from the numbers he's throwing out and the size of the prize there's more to choose from ....
"...So I call into work, I tell them, I'm sorry, I won the lottery, I won't be coming into work tomorrow, I think, you know, that I have half the numbers, I won half the prize, I'm worth twenty million Euros...."
Now I'm laughing. He's not pulling my leg, he's not making this up, if anyone would make this mistake it would have to be him....
"...Then I call my father, and I tell him, I think I won the lottery, and he leaves work to come home right away to check my ticket, he's driving 200 KM an hour, and when he gets home and sees my ticket he tells me I'm a fucking idiot.....But I didn't know, I never play before, and now I have to call my job and tell them I was joking....I won, but only like 20 Euros...."
Now he's an addicted gambler, never passing by a casino or VLT, and homes he's online playing poker.
Black and Gold Orb Spider
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
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I'm shoving my way through a brightly lit, cluttered attic. There's a hole in the floor where the light fixture used to be, a couple of big bodied orb spiders have taken up residence there, black and gold, shiny gold, the black markings a silhouette of a recent adaptation - a horse and buggy, perfect outline of a horse and buggy that went by the house outside near the church.
Peculiar, this evolution, this too quick adaptation to an environment they haven't even seen....
I go to plug the hole with a little jadeite bowl, these spiders are rare, one of a kind, and the bowl falls through the hole to the floor below taking the spiders with them, they're crushed and now they're extinct....
Meaning Of Robots
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I haven't seen it, and chances are I won't be able to take the boy, but this is on my list of films to see in 2012.
2012 World's Best Commercials
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"As long as there's none of those damned commercials" I tell the clerk as I buy the tickets, "Absolutely none" he tells me, "the film goes right into the movie...".
Now these commercials, the best, the Bronze, Silver and Gold Lion winners from Cannes, they're great. Some are better than great, most have far more insight, originality, depth and emotion than James Cameron's entire life's work. Links to some of the more memorable below.
Allstate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DU5LKoC1A8 - You know it's going to be good when the narrator tells you he's your son. The other Allstate commercials with Mayhem are worth watching as well.
Drink Driving - Brandhouse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JWUXXXJq8k - Like being a woman on Plenty of Fish...
Heineken - The Entrance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcX1PTOmvO8 - Which only serves to remind me how much I need to improve my party skills....
Nike: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl0IlD4qLUM - Deep pockets can buy you great advertising. Love the ad, despise the corporation.
Indian Train: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzEKCYb6zzU - Just for the WTF factor. I mean, WTF.
Tippex - A hunter shoots a bear: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ba1BqJ4S2M - Clever Viral, try and stump the hunter. Go on.
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