Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Information you cannot live without

I've mentioned it before, but the Hemispheres magazine that United Airlines publishes is chock full of the kind of useful information (nonsense) that I just eat up. Naturally you are looking for an example and I just so happen to be able to provide one. This is from the January issue of Hemispheres:

German word of the month: "handschuhschneeballwerfer"

Good grief that is certainly a lot of letters strung together to mean...what exactly? This is how you would call someone a coward in the German tongue. Literally it translates to, "someone who wears gloves to throw snowballs." For kicks I put this into Google's translation function and voila it actually got pretty close.

I've also invented a new snowboarding trick because I'm really ready to elevate my skills to that next level. Due to this trick's landing position (on one's head), it is not recommended for...anyone.

It is quite obviously a tribute to the early pioneers of freestyle snowboarding such as [insert name of idiot with broken arm/leg/neck/face] with influences by other assorted Darwin award finalists.