Monday, March 26, 2007

Google gives advice to the lovelorn

I'm envious about how this page at WikiHow gives much more useful advice about how to deal with infatuation than I did, but not very surprised.

What did surprise me, however, was the useful advice presented over in the sidebar courtesy of Google Ads:

That should do the trick: a drum crusher, to beat the man (or woman?) at their own game, thus leading to happiness! So sweet - it makes me want to buy this ultra-soft throwdown throw pillow.

On the closely related WikiHow page entitled How to Forget About Your Impossible Crush (which now redirects to the same link as above) there's this lovely sequence:

When given a choice, I should think it is always a good idea to go with the solution which has "Tertiary Impact" in its name.

2 comments:

Kelley said...

Hilarious!

Personally, I love the idea of a "PhD certified test" telling you how happy you REALLY are. Because these things are best determined by proxy; happiness is so simple and scientific! I really, really hope that it's a multiple choice exam. Better yet? Scantron!

RichM said...

It might be a word problem: "Two trains leaving from Los Angeles and Washington DC pass during the night in Kansas" and so forth. Or maybe they need a tissue sample of some sort. Make the test sufficiently unpleasant and you can be pretty certain that once it's over, the testee is pretty happy.