A tale of daring, derring-do and cultural diversity

As I am a poor benighted person, who lives neither in the USA or the UK, there are many things the folx over at sounissay that make me go 'bwuh?' and wander down strange and foreign paths. thelasteddis 's mention of  V8 vegetable juice was one of these. She was referring to this veggie drink ad campaign in the US pitching the drink as one of those 'make-you-smarter' things. Apparently the ads show people doing dumb things and then getting bopped on the head by someone who then says cheerily 'coulda had a V8!' i.e 'If you'd had a V8 you wouldn't be so dumb!'
Of course I was totally ignorant of all these subtle cultural overtones, and our conversation went something like this:

TLE: 'Coulda had a V8!'
Me: Bwuh?
Tiegirl/Philia/Ninedaysaqueen/TLE: *explain*
Ninedaysaqueen: *suggests how I can find out for myself*
Me: But, guys, this stuff sounds disgusting. Besides, it reminds me of racing cars. Hey, they're cultural... a bit.
Checkers: Lolz, you missed your chance to get your very own shipment of yuck!
Philia/Tiegirl/Checkers: *continue discussing it*
Me: Hey, people are still talking about this. Mayhap I should assuage my curiosity and expand my cultural horizons (Two birds with one stone! Oh frabjous day!) by trying some. Okayz, everyone? I'll tell you all if it tastes horrible.
Philia: You'll love it, really.

( A cultural lesson )
I feel all warm and fuzzy and culturally aware now. Thanks guys. XD


PS: The transcript is only loosely based on what people actually said in Sounis. Sounisians are very nice and give very helpful suggestions.
PPS: Heehee, the V8 website makes me giggle.
PPPS: Yes, I do enjoy gratuitous pic-spamming.

Why yes, I *do* get very bored on the train.

 

 

With grateful thanks to K, E, R, and Mum for ideas, PR (and Ro) for number 98, and Sir Terry Pratchett for number 7.

Edited umpteen times because a) LJ still hates me, and b) I can't count.
 

( Number One: Understand It... )

 

I *still* can't get over how awesome this is!






Edit: And I managed to embed it properly on only the third try! Go me!

Because people on Sounis made some and reminded me that I love wordles. Go here to make some. What you do is just paste in a bunch of text and it'll make a word cloud out of it. And the cool bit? The more you use a word, the bigger it will show up in the cloud. It's very awesome.

And here's one I made earlier:


( Wordles under the cut, so I don't spam up people's flists... )

Hmm, these uploaded piccies are not so awesome. I think I may have to learn to use photobucket before I post any more. Edit: Oh, look at that! You can click on them and it will take you to a better version. Goody :)