When I was 13 I was a totally obsessed with Majed Magazine, an Arabic kids comics magazine. I went as far as getting the Mandoob Majed card, I was hardcore.

I bought an issue few months ago and I felt all nostalgic and shit, I gave the magazine to my little brother who enjoyed it as well. He started buying it every week.

So he showed me the recent issue and to my surprise …

I don’t know what to blame it on.

Totally random!

I didn’t even know they had borders until I got interviewed there and we started talking about moleskines and where to get them.

The Funny thing is the way they censor things, they would show the whole tit but then with a small marker they would blacken the nipple.

Have you seen the Mupi Ad for one of the kid shows on MBC 4?
You absolutely need to.

OK, now let’s take a closer look, turn your dirty minds on please …

That’s right, the boy is taking an eyeful of those two big jugs.

Take a look at this flyer.

I want to throw nights like these here, just read thru this thing. Some of the stuff seems unreal. Baladi Breakbeat Anybody? Hell yeah. Sayyidi hard-core, I would shake to that. A musical act called DJinn and a magazine called Zaghareet, How cheerful.

But maaaan, you need a Sheikh to Shake with here.

This post is dedicated to my neighbor who just found out about my blog by weird, bizarre coincidence.

I still have to go and ask her what made her so sure it’s me.

“Will the white text stand out on the black background?”

God I love them

This gotta be the most hilarious rip-off I have seen in a long long while. So They took the colors, they made an extra effort to mimic the typeface. However, they replaced the iconic image of Col. Harland Sanders with a weird looking rooster.

What’s really funny is, although the rooster might be a masculine symbol, the restaurant’s name has ‘Kanneth’ in it.

Check this ad out, the headline roughly translates for “Finish your work quickly and efficiently”. What’s funny is the facial expression of the guy, he seems surprised. I doubt it’s intentional. If that guy was saying something, It would be in a though bubles and it will be something like ‘Me? Finish work? Quickly? EFFICIENTLY? Bil mish mish’ … the result? a very successful ad that connects with the target audience (native kuwaiti dumbos) by casting one of them as the model.

They nailed it, they did.

P.S: I hope you can smell the sarcasm in there.

Doesn’t she look like an alien or something?

Would any girl want to look like this? Really?

For more fashin victim please go to the nearest

This one is for McArabian

Found at my t-shirts guy shop

I know someone who says dude in a way that sounds like deyood

Hint: Deyood in kuwaiti means tits, pronounced like this ed-yood, a soft e.

Don’t call Abul Kalam to pick up your car when it’s fucked on the road, He will tell you ‘Dooon’t Wooorryyyee, Siiiir. I aaam coming’ and then he will leave you waiting under the sun and will never show up. Also, I’m not sure you want to call his business-card-mate either, Do you trust a man who has a different name in english?

Found on the wall of our local Irani bakery shop.

Layaleena’s ripoff, Sho Fee Ma Fee, in their december issue had a really interesting, absolutely unintentional yet fabulously hilarious mistake. Bad design could cause disasters but bad design here just embarassed the guy featured on the cover and gave me a little something to laugh at in this lazy morning.

Did you get it?
Damn chicken nuggets …

Explanation: The designer used different background colors and lines to separate the pictures AND a sentence long enough to go under two pictures. However, by seperating that sentence, which says “هل أنتهت كوارث العام؟”, … and …eh should I go on?

Oh yeah … and WHY OH WHY they called they magazine Sho Fee Ma Fee, I would rather see “Shako Mako” Sounds funkier and “Kuwaitier” … somebody call the editor and ask him why they called it that.

OK, Everyday when I go to the office I have to pass by this building (Rakaan Tower) that was built in front of Al Muthana Complex. Those guys who run the building never cease to put a smile on my face everyday.

You see how tall and huge this tower is, big no? I wonder how much money was spent to build such a thing. I also wonder how much they paid for this cloth banner to advertise their vacant spaces.

I didn’t fucking believe it when I saw that banner there. I mean oh my god, dude you paid all that money to build the tower then you got all stingy when it came to advertising the building?

OK, So they eventually removed it after, like, 5 days or so of putting it. Well, No advertising is better than bad advertising … I mean c’mon the tall ass building is there in all its glory and those who are looking will ask you eventually, it’s not like you won’t have any people renting the place.

After some time without proper advertising, some smart guy (I suppose he’s smart) decides to give the break to the baker and let the qualified people handle this. Comes this real estate management company with a nicely designed, nicely branded banner of their own. They placed in far end of the building, it was far, yes, but it was visible but mr.smart won’t let it go … so they change the position to … have a look

This is just plain stupid and THEY FUCKIN KNOW IT, I bet somebody high up there was like “Let’s put it there so it will be closer to the intersection and people can read it.” … nobody thought about the palm trees I guess, or they did but they don’t want to remove them because they paid money to the landscape designer and the architect who proposed placing the trees there and now they are stuck with them. I’m just assuming stuff really, but I’m quite sure it’s not very far from the truth of this situation. Isn’t this exactly what happenned with that huge ass screen of Kuwait Stock Market? There was a paml tree in front of it, they didn’t think much about it, they removed it. Simple, no?

The whole thing reminds me of this story my father used to tell me about those farmers who had a bull who stuck his head in this bucket to drink some water from it and they can’t get his head out of the bucket. They need both the bull and the bucket to be okay but after multiple desperate attempts they decided to behead the bull, so they did. They again to get the head out, it won’t come out so they break the bucket to get the head out. The moral of the story is, don’t leave bulls hanging around in Al Muthana Intersection, because that will cause some accidents and traffic jams.

… so I didn’t go to the nubian thing but you know what I did? I met Al (friggin) Franken and I even have the pictures to prove it. YES, Al Franken is in the country. I talked with him a bit but it wasn’t about america’s foreign politics or any of that, I was explaining to him what tata botata means.

any body went to the nubian thing? worth it? should I go tomorrow?

Did you know that the senior writer of Business 2.0 magazine is called ‘Om Malik’?

I just found out that somebody wrote a post on me at the amazing “k u w a I t , A n o n y m o u s” site. Funny how many tata haters out there but my tata lovers will outnumber them any day of the fucking week.

OK guys you got a cart blanche from me, go and let it out. Abuse that post and show the world how much you hate/ love me.

I know some people are dying to do this, if they haven’t done it already.

peace

OK, Chicken Nuggets won’t get this one.

I just hope some people will get it and appreciate the fact I actually had to chase the guy, STOP HIM, and ask for his permission to take a shot of his hilarious car plate. Of course he was suspicious and stuff and he asked me “WHY?” … so I made up a story on the spot. “My friend Ahmad Sa’eed Salmaan always signs his initials on everything and I think it would be a nice if I can show him your car plate.” Of course after a lot of begging he let me do it and he took a shot of my mug too “just in case”, poor guy.

Beat that Amunki! :p

Update: I re-touched the image a little bit.

Got it? Got it?

OK, If you didn’t get my morning humor here’s a little hint, Try to read it in Fus’ ha arabic. (pure arabic) That’s what you get when you try really hard to look/ sound kuwaiti.

WTF? for what exactly? and a look alike?

Should we expect midgets and clowns next week?

Remember when I posted about the guy with the funny russian accent in the Ford Mustang commercial? I was kind of frustrated I didn’t get enough comments on that topic. So to rememdy that, here’s an audio clip to prove my points.

Listen: “I had a drrream, It was rrreal … rrealize yourrr drrream.”

The guys at Pitchfork not only have a great taste in music they also have an incredible sense of humor.
Reading some of the comments in this feature is funnier than the covers themselves. Some of the covers are for some major bands.

This is so funny, Anybody have seen this? Sorry only in arabic.

Would have loved to see/ hear that. Anybody by any chance records al jazeera as a hobby?

In other news, Al Jazeera opened their office in Tel Aviv.

Although I didn’t ask to be added to their maillist, Msder.com is a nice website covering arabic media.

I was watching some burned copy of Daffy Duck the other day and I noticed one of the episodes has a rather funny title.

This children book from germany will give you the answers when your kids pop that hard question. Very graphic and kinda not safe for work. That family kinda looks hippy, especially their car.

I can’t believe I actually called my brother’s cell phone in the next room to see him.

What’s with the guy with the russian accent in the Ford Mustang commercials? You know, the one who does the voice over.

“I had a drrrream … It became rrrrreality” or something like that

I mean, do they really think we (arabs, gulfies basically) talk english like that? I think it’s plain stupid move of them or whoever made those commercials.

However, big ups for the soundtrack of all the current Ford commercials (mustang, focus) They incorporate a well-crafted elements of electronica (drum ‘n’ bass mostly) with the sounds of our music and rhythmic arrangements. A slap on the hand for including those weird, sadness-implying vocals in both commercials.