Wednesday, February 17, 2010

PENIS LAND


I've written before about how email addresses can get parsed into interesting combinations. (Seth Lutman gets turned into slutman@blah.com, for example.)

Someone sent me jokey email today with the same concept. URLs that do the same thing. To wit:


These are all "real" sites, according to the email. And they're very funny, but I have to believe that they're not all coincidences. The Pen Island site, for example, has large text that says, "Your Pen Is/ Our Business." The space between "Pen" and "Is" is very small, and the rest of the motto is on a second line, making it look like "Your PenIs/ Our Business." It's clear what they're trying to do. They claim to sell pens, but I even wonder if it's a real site or just a fun hoax.

My second favorite, powergenitalia, is supposed to be an Italian power company. But the site is under construction, so it may just be a joke. Yes, Virginia, sometimes people put hoax sites on the interwebs!

At any rate, these URLs had me literally LOLing at my desk.

2 comments:

Voicewizard said...

A few years (5?) ago, I purchased a few pens to try this funny site out - it WAS real back then anyway.

It was worth the inflated prices (better than the pen is is inflated rather than..... wait a minute! :-)

Alan

Tim said...

Interesting! Even if they do really sell pens, I think they're really working the "pen is" angle. (Is that 45 degrees?)

Thanks for your comment!