May 24th marks the 129th birthday of the most prolific practical-joke inventor that you have probably never heard of, Sorenson “Sam” Adams (no relation to the beer co.). During his lifetime he is credited with creating nearly 700 different jokes & gags, from his first invention the sneezing powder, to stink bombs, to the […]
This is very funny for all of you nerds & internet geeks who happen to work in e-commerce. Most of you won’t get it though, no worries.
Via techcrunch
Friday, a reporter from the Canadian National Post detailed the history of how the whoopee cushion accidentally came to be. Until recently it was assumed that Americans had invented the greatest farting gag.
[JEM Rubber Co.] produced parts for printing companies. In the late 1920s, it moulded an inflatable bag that farted. Possibly it was […]
According to a recent study published Friday, the 2008 laughing index has jumped 4% in the last 12 months, which is not good news for the already weakened dollar. The index, a cumulative measure of 16 humor indicators tracks, among other things:
The cost of a single issue of Mad magazine
The wholesale prices of rubber […]
Read this post first. Now coming back to what we posted there about customer ratings, let’s do a real world, side by side comparison.
Zymetrical, Inc. vs. Spencer Gifts, llc
Although we could do a whole series of side by sides, Spencer’s overlaps just about all parts of the novelty industry. Overall our companies […]
Another company in our novelty industry, GagWorks.com, a wholly owned subsidiary of Funantics, a Treguna llc company, recently relaunched their corporate site, centered around a blog-hybrid platform that allow others to post articles & press releases. There you can find everything from ‘The importance of time keeping and how it began‘, to a more […]
First, the good news: Our server only crashed 3x yesterday, which is pleasing, considering the problems all the big guys from the likes of the Discovery store to Sears to Yahoo! have been experiencing (ahem) since Friday. Despite all of the more recent improvements we have made to the architecture of our site […]
