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Arts and Culture / Friday Funny

Friday Funny: Hilarious Want Ads

by Erik Olsen on Jul 1, 2006


Not entirely travel-related, though they do come from overseas…this series of hilarious want ads from a New Zealand Web site are just too damn funny. Reminds me a bit of Doug Lansky’s Signspotting stuff, but more funny.

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