Author Archives: Niall Murphy

The Other Mr Happy

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBLyh0lZ8po

Specsaver’s new ad featuring Mr Happy as a miserable short-sighted bastard. Not bad. But not as good as last year’s Dead Ringers skit.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X9WMrkK-EA

Salati and Tommy at the Glen Afric Country Lodge, Pretoria.

BFF.

There’s even a photo gallery.

The pie chart above should be self-explanatory.

If not.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ3O1j3V-pM&feature=player_embedded

Late night Dutch current affairs show Pauw & Witteman is fatally disrupted when an audience member asks the host for directions to the jacks.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azl0T99eqo4&feature=player_embedded

From the Sunday Business Post, 3 Sept, 2006:

And today’s Independent:

No hideously over-priced apartments for ‘parents who want high quality accommodation for their UCD-bound offspring.’

No ‘boomtime profits’ for Fingers.

Aww.

To coincide with this month’s release of the Star Wars geek must-have coffee table book The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Vanity Fair have an exclusive advance photo-set. See it here.

Elsewhere, there’s some less than subtle viral marketing going on.