Yes actual street and city names that are waiting for you to visit.  Some you might want to forget about, some you definitely want to visit. It seems the city planners in Pennsylvania are leading the pack of humorous names. Go figure. I wonder if the Amish name their streets?

Kitchen Dick Road intersect with Woodcock, Rd.

Fingringhoe is a village and civil parish in Essex, England

Just north of Ugley, sits the lovely town of Titty Ho, Northamptonshire.

Clit Court, Albany NY Need we say more?

Fertile is a city in Polk County, Minnesota. In 2000, the population was 893.

Oh France, you just know how to practice abstinence.

I knew there was a correlation between Virgins and Witches. PA

In York, PA there’s Blue Ball Avenue. Don’t forget PA is also famous for Intercourse.

Ah, the wonderful village of Intercourse.

Once you enter Dildo, you’re just a short drive to Heart’s Delight.

It’s in Renfrew County in Canada. So that’s where those hairy balls reside.

In Glen Echo, Australia there’s the slightly abnormal Curly Dick

Dicks is just off Newkirk street in a lovely place called Jersey City, NJ

Like you needed anymore proof that the French are assholes?

This one I just can’t believe.

This interview I think every blogger will enjoy. It comes from one of the three partners over at CMF Ads, Ben Barden. Ben wears many hats but his main duties at CMF is to keep things running smoothly and also to develop new additions to what I believe is one of the better blogging ad networks on the net today.

Here from the CMF site is the preface from the About Us page:

CMF Ads was created by three bloggers who were unhappy with other ad networks. They were too expensive, too heavily taxed, or lacking key features. Advertising was unintuitive and difficult. We just wanted to place ads, as quickly and simply as possible.

TEN FOR BEN

1. Ben tell us a little about yourself.

I’m a web developer from London. I’ve been married to my wife, Lauren,
for 5 years. We lived in Australia for a couple of years before moving
back to the UK.

2.You spend so much time working on the computer, what do you do to relax and have fun?

I meet up with friends and family, write music, play on the Wii, and go
out in London. When we last lived in the UK, we lived close to London,
but not actually in it. We now live near to a Tube station, so it’s very
easy to simply pick a place we’d like to go to, hop on the next train,
and check it out. That’s exactly what we did today (Sunday).

3.What does CMF stand for and how did it come about? How old is the company?

CMF stands for “Changing Marketing Forever!”. The site was initially
created by Turnip and Stan in October 2008. CMF originally included 20
of the best blogs from Entrecard. It was set up using the OpenX ad
server. I joined in December 2008 to build a totally customised site,
with a control panel, widget and all the other things you’d expect from
an ad network. We officially came out of beta on January 23rd, 2009.

4.What separates CMF from all the other traffic sites online?

We don’t charge publishers to deny ads. In fact, we pay publishers to
approve them, depending on how much traffic each ad receives.

We don’t inflate clicks on the CMF widget by giving incentives to click
ads. Instead, we encourage people only to click ads that interest them.
CMF doesn’t send the most clicks, but it should send a far better ratio
of clicks from people who are interested vs. those who just click to get
paid.

We believe we have the best blogging forums around. We don’t charge you
to use them, we actively remove spam, and we have plenty of useful and
interesting discussions from one week to the next. And let’s face it -
vBulletin is hard to beat. This is the one part of our network we didn’t
custom-build.

Last and by no means least – we are bloggers. Very few ad networks are
run by bloggers. This means we don’t just understand the needs of the
people who use CMF, we’re also looking out for people. Earlier this
week, I contacted a member who’s been with us some time, as their blog
did not have any recent content and had been overrun with spam. Instead
of kicking them out, I alerted them to the problem, and gave them a
chance to fix it. They appreciated the notification, cleared the spam,
and posted a new entry.

5.You are one of the only services that give actual statistics for blogs to help advertisers choose. Is this something that might hinder smaller blogs from joining?

We’ve signed up blogs of varying sizes, so I don’t think the presence of
stats discourages people from joining. With network ads, it doesn’t
matter if you have a large blog or a small blog, you’ll get ads on your
blog whenever someone buys a network ad. The stats are more useful for
those who use campaigns, but most people prefer the simplicity of
network ads.

6.You recently instituted Spikes, how has it been doing for building traffic and do you see CMF expanding this part of the overall concept?

Spikes have had a very positive response. We’ve seen a lot of people
buying them, and we’ve also seen an increasing number of posts from
people who now list CMF Ads as their top referrer. We’ve already
expanded the feature by offering different pricing options. At this
stage it’s difficult to say if there will be similar features coming up
soon, some of our best features have actually been thought up and built
in a weekend. To give some real examples, Spikes and Network Ads were
both built very quickly indeed. We do have a few features that are being
discussed right now, I just haven’t had time to build them yet.

7.I heard through the grapevine that there are some exciting new ideas that are going to be implemented. Can you give us any advanced information on these or is it highly classified?

The ideas are secret – for now. This is because we sometimes change our
minds about upcoming features before we throw them out there. Some of
the ideas we’ve had in the past have been superseded by better ideas
we’ve had later. We don’t want to promise things that we can’t or won’t
deliver for whatever reason. Also, we’d rather not give away our best
ideas before we have a chance to do them. The main thing we look to do
is to help people get the most out of CMF – any features we can develop
that help people in this way will ultimately benefit the network as a
whole. That’s the type of feature we’re thinking of at the moment. And
we do have a few ideas to achieve that goal.

8.How many blogs today are part of the CMF network?

At this time, 672 blogs have an active account with CMF and run our
widget. We’d have twice that many if we didn’t actively monitor the
sites in our network. And we’d have three times that many if we were
less strict with our entry requirements. We put quality before quantity.

9.What are the short-term/long-term goals for CMF?

Our goals are simple: we want to help publishers earn from their blogs
without having to click on a widget. We want advertisers to have a low
cost, high value advertising experience. And we want to run a community
where people can improve their blogs, or just hang out.

10.Is there anything you would like to say to our readers?

To anyone who hasn’t joined CMF, whether you’ve heard good or bad things
about us, you’ll never know if the site will benefit your blog until you
give it a try for yourself. In particular, it’s worth giving the forums
a try – you don’t need to run our widget to join.

To anyone who’s already a member, if you ever have a question, you need
help, or you just want to say hi, please drop by our forums. We’ll be
happy to see you!

Some of Ben’s other blogs are:

http://www.toptenblogtips.com

http://www.injader.com

http://www.theguidetoblogging.com

http://www.benbarden.com

I have a hard enough time keeping up with one blog let alone 4. I don’t know how he does it, but each of these blogs are well worth a trip. Especially if your into blogging.

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Today’s final installment narrows in on our top celebs who did commercials in foreign lands. Not only in print ads, but has you will see below commercials as well. Commercials that would never be done here in the US but they had no problem doing them across the ocean on foreign soil.

For some reason, seeing our top box office idols doing a commercial for tampons or nose drops would be a detriment to their careers here in the US. But in Japan all hairs are let down. Not to mention the big fat paycheck that goes along with their endorsement.

Although, what once was considered taboo for American top performers, now is becoming acceptable. Mainly because of the Internet and it’s ability to hunt down those commercials that were never meant for our eyes.  If you click on the tube now, you will be able to see Robert DeNiro hawking Amex or Catherine Zeta Jones doing her thing with T-Mobile.

Here is an ad done this past December in Australia for CrazyDomains.com.au starring Pam Anderson and I must say rather funny. Of course it is in the realm of Sex Sells and it does as you will see.

The next is America’s sweetheart Jennifer Aniston doing a commercial for the Germans and Heineken.

This is one I am sure the Governator wishes could have somehow been undone. But it’s here and doing what he does best “bad acting”.

Here is one of the hottest actors out there today Leo DiCaprio, This commercial to me is as annoying as the local car dealer who is on every channel 24/7. Speaking of which this is a Honda commercial.

Here’s another of America’s sweethearts doing her thing in Japan. Here we see Meg Ryan uttering the famous slogan, Navi Navi Dingo.

Showing off his multi talented showmanship is what brought John Travolta back from obscurity on more then one occasion. I am sure this “Tokyo Drink” commercial is one of the vehicles that made him a big name in Japan. This one is circa I believe mid ’80′s

It’s hard not to turn on the TV and not see a program somehow related to the funny man Ben Stiller. Seems the Japanese also love Ben and his wacky ways. Here he is endorsing “Kirin” yet another drink.

Here’s our last one, honestly we could be at this all day and night. If this whet your appetite to find out more great artistic foreign commercials, they are littered all over the net.

We couldn’t finish without showing a classic from the “King of Pop” doing what he did best singing and dancing. In this case all over a Suzuki scooter, way before his nose fell out and his skin was scared white.

She is  back and I wish I could say better. Whitney is video taped here while at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre in Brisbane, Australia this past Monday evening. It is nice to see Whitney back on stage while Bobby Brown is enjoying his Fit Club gig. Hopefully no more problems, because this girl can be whack when she’s on crack!!

This copy as you will see does not have audio nor picture that are of great quality. But you still have to watch to see if there is going to be a train-wreck or not. My lips are sealed, you’ll have to see for yourself …… After you watch the clip, here is a review from Sidney Morning Herald

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Something very different for our MOB readers today. This will be be part of a series that delve into men’s health both with Western Traditional Physicians who we have lined up in the next coming weeks and also a more Eastern Type practitioner that heals through ancient practices and also spiritual practitioners who provide a very controversial yet positive practice of Spiritual Healers.  Today we will welcome as some say a “New Age”introduction to health from half way around the world, Australia.

After these series are done we will have an interview with each and with your help, ask questions of these professionals of healers some of your own personal questions and questions that we here at MOB will be inquiring about.

Biography: Simon Hay is today’s guest poster. His website is located in Australia at Simonhay.com and he also has a blog where you can interact with Simon. Mr.Hay travels all over Australia and New Zealand and has an amazing story to tell and teach. Here is a little about Mr Hay in his own words:.

Simon Hay

Help me: I’m not my Fucking Father

Too many of us have been raised by single mothers, and when we need our father’s the most they’re absent. We vow to not follow the same path: we won’t be alcoholics, we’d never hit a woman, or threaten a child, and yet inexplicably it’s common to follow the same path as our fathers and all the fathers before. We resist as long as we can, but the fuse has been lit generations before. Beaten by a father who was beaten by his father and so it goes.

The energy/vibration of this pattern is in our cells, our DNA, in this script, this symbol @; it’s consciousness. We’re cable TV with an infinite number of frequencies and the remote control is life. Scream obscenity at a pregnant woman and the unborn child feels every emotion and an energetic frequency for disaster is switched on. The family sitcom for boys, When I’m frustrated and insecure I’ll yell at you bitch, is pre-programmed, and for girls it’s the classic, I’m going to choose a bastard who hurts me nightly.

We’re the vessel of expression for consciousness/spirit. Allow your thinking to embrace the notion that the past, present and future all coexist. You cannot see it but you can sense it. Walk into a room after an argument and you’ll feel unsettled. What’s bothering you is the vibration/frequency of the past. You react because within your energy field is the Anger channel, one click down from the Victim channel. It’s reality, I don’t have enough drama in my life I want to be a voyeur, TV at its best/worst.

Stop, ask for help, and break the pattern. Energy healing is a great tool for altering an individual’s vibration. With intent and will a genuine healer can alter the vibrations in your energy field. The reactive energy threads of generational habit can be neutralised, and windows of opportunity for change will manifest.

As parents we’re shaping the lives of our children with every thought, emotion, desire, fear, and action. We’re better than the sins of our fathers. I love you dad, just don’t hurt me anymore.

Tell me your story. What patterns of behaviour have you noticed in your family, and how have you freed yourself from the past?

Again here are Mr Hay sites where you can read his amazing life’s work:

www.simonhay.com

blog.simonhay.com.au

50 More Questions That Need Answers

1.Do crematoriums give discounts to burn victims?

2.What if someone died in the living room?

3.When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?

4.Can a stupid person be a smart-ass?

5.Is a halfback more valuable than a quarterback?

6.If you’re a kleptomaniac, is there something you can take for it?

7.If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

8.If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn?

9.If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?

10.If corn oil is made from corn, what is baby oil made from?

11.If blind people wear dark glasses, why don’t deaf people wear earmuffs? –Steven Wright

12.If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

13.If all the nations in the world are in debt, where did all the money go?

14.If a mime commits suicide, does he use a silencer? –Steven Wright

15.Why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

16.If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors?

17.How is it possible to have a “civil” war?

18.How do you know when you’ve run out of invisible ink?

19.Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?

20.What is a “free” gift? Aren’t all gifts free?

21.What if you’re in hell, and you’re mad at someone, where do you tell them to go?

22.Do people in Australia call the rest of the world ‘up over’?

23.What happens if you get scared half to death, …twice? –Steven Wright

24.What hair color do they put on the driver’s license of a bald man?

25.Can fat people go skinny-dipping?

26.Are you telling the truth if you lie in bed?

27.After they make Styrofoam, what do they ship it in? –Steven Wright

28.Why do fat chance and slim chance mean the same thing?

29.Why is it called a “building” when it is already built?

30.Why is it that doctors call what they do “practice”?

31.Why is brassiere singular and panties plural?

32.Why is a boxing ring square?

33.Why don’t you ever see the headline “Psychic Wins Lottery”?

34.Why does the sun lighten our hair, but darken our skin?

35.Why does it take 15 minutes to cook minute rice?

36.Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?

37.Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?

38.Why isn’t there mouse-flavored cat food?

39.Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?

40.Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

41.Why is the third hand on the watch called a second hand? –Steven Wright

42.Why do you feet smell and your nose runs?

43.What do people in China call their good plates?

44.Where do they get Spring water in the other 3 seasons?

45.How did a fool and his money get together?

46.How do they get the “Keep off the Grass” sign on the grass?

47.Why are some gay people so unhappy?

48.If nothing ever sticks to TEFLON, how do they make TEFLON stick to the pan?

49.If the product says “Do not use if seal is broken”, how are you supposed to open it and use it?

50.Why do they call it duck tape?

AFLAC

Thank you to these following sites where many of these crazy questions came from: www.rblackburn.home.mindspring.com , www.corsinet.com www.sillydog.org

We like to thank Tammy Palmer from the other side of the world in Australia. Tammy was kind enough to write this article on cuff-links for MOB. Anyone who would like to take part in our Guest Blogging program, please drop us a line and we will be happy to add your post along with a permanent link to your blog or website. As with all guest posts, these are solely the opinions and views of the author and do not reflect or share the views of MOB.

Cuff-links are a decorative fastener which are worn to fasten the two sides of cuffs on the shirt. Cuff-links have been in existence since the middle ages where they were known as cuff-strings and worn by fashionable gentleman of that time.

The simplest cuff-link contains a short chain which connects two disk-shaped parts. Cuff-links are available in various shapes, sizes and colors which if selected properly can help you in improving your personal style and making a great impression amongst your friends, business colleagues and  people who you meet for the very first time. This article will guide you with a few tips on how to  select the best cuff-links according to the occasion which you will be wearing them.

Novelty

Cuff-links should be selected according to the occasion. There are two types of cuff-links:  Novelty ie. animal or superhero themes based cuff-links which are appropriate for informal meetings or parties. If you are going for a formal occasion then you should select the Classic look: these cufflinks  contain simple elegant designs.

Classic

Also you can wear cuff-links according to your profession. Business meetings for example, wearing a pair of cuff-links with a logo of your company on them. If you are selling a product you can select a cuff-link with a design representing what you are selling. You can easily get customized cuff-links according to your requirements. In case you are going for a job interview you should wear elegant classic cuff-links.

The other important factor in selecting cuff-links is its color.  The color of your cuff-links should match with other accessories that you are wearing like belt, shirt, ring etc. For example, you should not wear silver cuff-links with gold accessories. Also having contrast between your shirt and cuff-links would make your cuff-links more noticeable. Wearing silver cuff-links on black shirt is a good idea. If your shirt design is pattern or striped then you should select cuff-links with simple and solid design which will compliment the design of your shirt.

The pair of cuff-links you wear says a lot about you. So select the pair wisely. Select cuff-link design and color according to your mood. For most of the people cuff-links  are an after thought and little importance is placed on them but they should not be overlooked. They enhance and show that you pay attention to detail, for the complete look. An elegant pair of cuff-links help  make you stand out from the rest of the crowd and gives you an edge up on making a lasting first impression.

There are no hard or fast rule for selecting a cuff-link and it depends completely on personal taste and occasion Cuff-links are making a solid comeback in mens fashion, selecting the right pair and using these simple tips will make your first impression a good impression

Tammy Palmer is the owner of Vintage Times, an online store for vintage cuff-links, watches and antique Jewelery.

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