Cruel and unusual

Of all those stores in the mall I don't want to work in, this is the one I don't want to work in the most. Imagine the scent of a thousand perfumes, expensive and cheap, mixed into one single head crushing odor -- the scent of mania!

Hot time in the city

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN TX
1135 PM CDT FRI AUG 1 2008

HOT EARLY AUGUST DAYS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MONDAY...AS THE SUB-TROPICAL HIGH INCREASES OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH MONDAY...HOT AND DRY EARLY AUGUST DAYS WILL PREVAIL.

AFTERNOON HIGHS NEAR 100 ARE EXPECTED THIS WEEKEND THROUGH MONDAY. SOME LOCATIONS COULD SEE AFTERNOON HIGHS AROUND 101 TO NEAR 105.

THE MOSTLY SUNNY DAYS AND INTENSE EARLY AUGUST SUN WILL ADD TO THE HEAT. NO RAIN IS EXPECTED THROUGH MONDAY.

"Just rip and tear your way to CRAZY TASTY town!"

If you click on this picture, you can read the caption on the upper right hand corner of this individually wrapped serving of SPAM. It is definitely one of the funniest pieces of copy I've ever seen on a food product. Where the hell is Crazy Tasty town anyway? It sounds like a place that serves a lot of snack food. And there are probably a bunch of annoying teens there, playing arcade games after school with that Chester Cheeto cat.

I can't help but think that the makers of SPAM are playing on the ironic appeal of their product. "Ha, this food is so shitty, isn't it actually funny that I'm eating it!" Guess what buddy, jokes on you.