Word: absurdities
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...beer ads is the wrong move. By airing the ads, the NCAA is not encouraging underage or binge drinking—or even endorsing drinking at all. The suggestion that the NCAA is expressing an opinion in favor of the products it allows to be advertised is absurd. Although the NCAA is certainly willing and within its rights to ban advertising that conflicts with its core principles, as it has done in the case of hard liquor ads, it does not find such an egregious conflict with beer, which can be drunk responsibly by those of age. We agree with...
...meal at Algiers can conjure up memories of a variety of “exotic” vacations, including journeys to Morocco, the Middle East, and the country that gives the café its namesake. But one aspect of the coffee house is uniquely Algerian: its prices are as absurd as the fiction of the land’s most famous novelist, Albert Camus. It’s highly unlikely that a $3.50 croissant even exists in France, let alone in a former colony, and paying $9.95 for a ham sandwich is as ridiculous as shooting a stranger...
...black-and-white avant-garde piece. On Sunday, he opted for a selection of comical shorts, some of which featured Conrad himself in front of the camera. French filmmaker Marie Losier, who directed Conrad in some of these films, was also present.Many of the shorts depicted absurd situations and had a trippy feel. In one, actors emerged from a metal tin of spaghetti wearing pink dresses and were doused in tomato sauce. Then, the container blasted off into space like a spaceship. The silliness of such films, which contrasts with the avant-garde formalism of his earlier projects...
...Jesus,” he says. Ryan North, author of the popular Dinosaur Comics, knew instantly that he had to attend. “I remember thinking, ‘this is ridiculous,’” North says. “This is going to be absurd and I want to be a part of this.” Though humor is a large aspect of almost any Internet phenomenon, ROFLCon isn’t all fun and games. Scholars from around the country will moderate the panels and address online pop culture from an academic perspective...
...that the war and resultant redrawing of the map 160 years ago can still spark a furor on both sides of the border. Thousands of critics accused the ad of being anti-American and took pains to defend the inclusion of the southwestern states into the union. "It is absurd to believe that the U.S. stole Texas and California since most inhabitants of the Southwest considered the 19th century Mexican government a totalitarian regime and wanted independence, and rightfully so, from Mexico," wrote a blogger who signed in as CPTLOU on the Absolut forum...