Useless facts are sometimes more interesting than useful facts. For instance, people spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights and a snail can sleep for three years. This is more interesting than most of the stories on the news last night. Do you agree?

More useless info:

• - Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts
• - American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class.
• - People spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights!
• - Left handed people live slightly shorter lives than right handed people.
• - Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.
• - If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people,50% of the world’s currency would be held by 6 people.
• - In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
• - A snail can sleep for three years.
• - In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world’s nuclear weapons combined.
• - Pearls melt in vinegar.
• - Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
• - Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
• - You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television
• The Versus Wine label is a perfect square and no real gold was used to produce the label

Source: stunning-stuff.com

Did you know that one in ten people in the world live on an island and that New Zealand is home to 4 million people and 70 million sheep. Here’s some more interesting facts :

The earliest known pizza dates from about 200 BC. For centuries Greeks and Italians used flat round bread with toppings on it. But it was the Italians who added tomatoes and cheese to make the pizza as we know it.

In 1750 there were about 800 million people in the world. In 1850 there were a billion more, and by 1950, another billion. Then it took just 50 years to double to 6 billion.

Half the world’s population earns about 5% of the world’s wealth.

There are more than 600 million telephone lines, yet almost half the world’s population has never made a phone call on a land line. However, more than half the world’s population has made a cell phone call. There are more than 2 billion cell phones in use.

More personal telephone calls are made on Mother’s Day in the USA than on any other day in any other country.

Most reverse charge calls takes place on Father’s Day.

One in ten people in the world live on an island.

The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.

If you count the seconds without stopping, it would take you eleven-and-a-half days to reach one million, and 32 years to reach one billion.

In the US, murder is committed most frequently in August and least frequently in February.

In 1870 there were more Irish living in London than in Dublin.

In 1870 there also were more Catholics living in London than in Rome.

The chance of being born on Leap Day is about 684 out of a million, or 1 in 1461. Less than 5 million people have their birthday on Leap Day.

The odds of being struck by lightning are about 600,000 to one.

About 27% of food in developed countries are wasted each year. It’s simply thrown away.

Almost 1,2 billion people are underfed – the same number of people that are overweight to the point of obesity.

The annual world average of egg consumption per capita is 230.

Half the world’s population is under 25 years of age. 10% are over 60 years of age.

On average in the West, people move house every 7 years.

US Post Office handles 43% of the world’s mail. Its nearest competitor is Japan with 6%.

In the developed countries, the proportion of adults married has declined from 72% in 1970 to 60% in 1996. The chance of a first marriage ending in divorce is between 50% and 67%. The chance that a second marriage will end in divorce is about 10% higher than for the first marriage.

The world’s average school year is 200 days per year. In the US, it is 180 days; in Sweden 170 days, in Japan it is 243 days.

Since 1972, some 64 million tons of aluminum cans (about 3 trillion cans) have been produced. Placed end-to-end, they could stretch to the moon about a thousand times. Cans represent less than 1% of solid waste material.

More than a billion transistors are manufactured… every second.

92% of Chinese belong to the Han nationality, which has been China’s largest nationality for centuries. The rest of the nation consists of about 55 minority groups.

In 1998, American people, foundations and corporations gave more than $175 billion to charities and churches. Churches received 40% of the contributions, while public charities and educational organizations received the remainder.

According to the US Weather Service, their one day forecasts are accurate more than 75% of the time. They send out 2 million forecasts a year.

There are more than 150 million sheep in Australia, a nation of 17 million people.

New Zealand is home to 4 million people and 70 million sheep.

Source: didyouknow.org

Here are a few strange but true facts which are useless but interesting. The ideal stuff to take us to the weekend.

In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes.

There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo.

Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution.

Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card.

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants.

In the US- Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500.

The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad.

Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating.

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.

In the US- One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year.

Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.

The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other’s shoulders.

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 4800 km per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second.

A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun’s surface.

A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.

It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times.

Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.

Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada.

There was a time when people thought George Michael was straight

Source: www.strangefacts.com

Back to work and remember to always give 100% at work

Enjoy the ‘long’ week.

Have you ever wondered about the following?

1.They say there are approximately 49 million bubbles in a bottle of champagne.

My question …who counted it?

2.If mars had earthquakes would they be called marsquakes?

3. How come only your fingers and toes get prune in the shower and nothing else does?

Here is a great wine yoga cartoon clip

Imagine a live action version of this yoga… It will be messy but funny.

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*Versus is a fun wine to be enjoyed in moderation.

Breaking the norm has always been held in high regard by the unconventional folks at Versus. These sky waiters from Cebu Pacific certainly did their job in an unusual way as they danced through the safety procedures.

Well done to the air waiters for thinking (dancing) out of the box and they deserve this week’s Versus unconventional prize.

What’s your call on this? Will you fly Cebu Pacific or are you not to keen on jokes on airplanes?

For another female version click here

I’m a sucker for party tricks and especially a little bit of  ‘magic’.

Here is a great party trick which is so easy to do and is guaranteed to get a few “ how- did-you- do- that’s?”

So next time when you go to a party don’t forget the napkin, coin, shot glass and off cause the  Versus to break the ice and light up the party.

Spring day just around the corner and it seems that love is in the air as a few of my mates recently got engaged.

We (the unconventional folks at Versus) was wondering what is the lamest and unconventional ways to get engaged.

Here is a list of the 7 lamest ways to propose marriage.

Can you add a few?

The list:

7. In a Twitter message:  “Dearest Guinevere, U R the luv of my life. Please make me the happiest man in the world and marry me. Text me your answer”

6. On an answering machine:

“Hi babe. I can see you’re not there. Like I was just wondering, sort of, if you fancied getting hitched like on Monday. That is if you haven’t got anything better to do that morning?”

5. On the phone.

“Hi, is this the Lorento’s?”

“Yeh well this is Mike. Could I speak to Mary-Anne please?”

“Oh she’s in the shower”

“Would I like to leave a message? Ehh O.K.”

“If it’s not too much trouble could you ask her if she would like to marry me?”

4. At the deportation office, even though there are plenty of witnesses there to chose from.

3. In your apartment while going over your bills.

“Priscella, I’ve just been going over the numbers and it would seem that if we got married we could save $1500 a month on our taxes. What do you say?”

2. “Wow I didn’t see that van coming. Are you O.K. ’cause I have  something I want to ask you?”

And the #1 worst way to propose

1. In a McDonald’s with an edible ring hidden inside a double whopper. The guy who actually did this deserved to be turned down.

Source: taitegallery.net

Hey, Hey,  Hey its Friday and surfed the net for something else and came across a few Gary Larson cartoons.

I showed it to some of the other unconventional folks (my wacky colleagues) and they loved it.

These unusual and funny cartoons has been around for many a year and this week’s Versus unconventional person/ artist of the week goes to Gary Larson the legend

Here are a few of his cartoons

Trying to kill time at work I spotted this funny prank.

Pat you are mean but original so you take the Versus unconventional deed of the week.

Only the best becomes the winner of Idols. But some people have become ‘famous’ for doing stuff not directly related to their singing abilities.

This guy, who auditioned for American Idols, was rated one of the worst idols performers ever.

His clip got more than 1.3 million views on YouTube. 

We really had a good laugh at this guy and his unique way of performing Ricky Martin’s song. He is the unconventional guy of the week .

The World Cup is over and now it back to the real world. In the World Cup spirit, many people bought a vuvuzela and little did they know that there is a few alternative and unconventional uses for this South African ‘horn’.

The unconventional folks of Versus Wines thought these are pretty useful post World Cup vuvuzela uses:

1. Use it to blow some life into a slow-burning braai fire
2. Use it as a cheap hearing aid if the batteries on the old one go flat
3. Use it as a poop scoop
4. Use as a self-defence weapon
5. Use it as a toilet plunger
6. Use it to wake up teenagers in the morning
7. Record the sound and use it as your cellphone ringtone
8. Fill with cement and use as a dumb bell
9. Use it if your car hooter has packed up
10. Use to borrow some petrol from your neighbour

Source: yworld.co.za

I was sad when England was eliminated from the World Cup but sometimes there is humour in tragedy.

 This is great ‘poster’. I enjoyed “An Inevitable Production” at the bottom.

The vuvuzela has come under scrutiny from soccer players, fans and the media. It seems that some people believes that  this instrument are deemed to be extremly anoying but it is not a new thing.

Check out this painting from the 17th century, this guy is really anoyed by this ancient vuvuzela.

I like the vuvuzela ,it gives this World Cup a unconventional and African feeling.

Viva, Vuvuzela, Viva.

Last night I met a few German soccer fans and we had great night with a few bottles of Versus wines.

Their English was pretty good and they told me about this hilarious TV ad about learning English.

Here is the ad. See it for yourself.

Some dance styles are just outrageously stupid but some people are still doing these moves on dance floors.

Moves like The Sprinkler, Window Cleaner, The Mummy and of course The Chicken are still among us.

The guys at Malun TV’s School of Cool show the Top 10 disastrous dance moves.

Can you add more despicable dance moves?

Although unconventional brand Versus, supports unusual thinking (acts) , we cannot help but agree that some of these dance moves should be banned.

A stable of young-gun comedians are gearing up for Splashy Fen.

Booked to do a daily comedy hour at the festival, several of Durban’s top (and rated among SA’s best) comedians will be performing in the Versus tent from Thursday through to Sunday. That’s right, Versus returns to Splashy Fen this year, proving that this unconventional wine brand is the life-blood of the party.

Comedians lined up for the daily comedy hour include Glen Bo, Simmi Areff, Robby Collins, Jem Atkins, Gareth Woods, Little Paul and Neil Green, among others.

Glen Bo has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and was a regular on the UK comedy scene before returning home where he tours and performs in theatres, clubs, dingy smoky pubs and at big comedy festivals. He’s an award-winning globe-trotter, leading the comedians into battle. He was born in Mooinooi. It means pretty girl. It’s a real place.

Simmi Areff (from the ECR breakfast team) is a young effervescent Muslim comedian who has opened for John Vlismas. Known for his parody songs, Simmi is young, single and carries a pipe wherever he goes. This is why he is single.

Robby Collins was voted KZN’s ‘Best Newcomer’ of 2008 and is a regular at DSOC, Punchlines! and 99% Zulu shows. He is from Sydenham/Overport and wears his granddad’s hat. He is currently billed to open for Trevor Noah in Joburg.

Gareth Woods hails from the ‘bustling metropolis’ of Klerksdorp. He’s a graduated scientist and trainer lawyer and, within his first year of stand-up, won the 5FM Fresh Drive Comedy Competition and opened for Trevor Noah.

Little Paul has been part of the Durban underground comedy resurgence since it started in 2007. His humour has been described as dry, and is based mostly around personal, cultural and political observations.

Jem Atkins is KZN’s ‘Best Newcomer’ of 2009 and also made it to the third round of SA’s Got Talent on SABC in the same year.

Neil Green is a regular on the ‘Bruin Ou’s’ comedy shows and performs on the DSOC scene.

Dusty Rich is a skilled tattooist and resident of Toti. He brings a degree of grit and self-deprecation, which is steeped in honesty and hilarity. He recently toured to Cape Town, playing the club scene.

To view the complete comedy programme at the Versus tent visit: www.splashyfen.co.za

The other day I lost a bet with a friend. He said a guy married his pillow and I didn’t believe him. Well here is the proof of this outrageously weird event (and now I owe my friend a bottle of unconventional Versus).

True love can take many forms. In this case, it has taken the form of a Korean man falling in love with, and eventually marrying, a large pillow with a picture of a woman on it.

This guy gave new meaning to pillow talk and will he ever have a pillow fight with his wife?

Lee Jin-gyu fell for his ‘dakimakura’ – a kind of large, huggable pillow from Japan, often with a picture of a popular anime character printed on the side.

In Lee’s case, his beloved pillow has an image of Fate Testarossa, from the ‘magical girl’ anime series Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha.

Now the 28-year-old otaku (a Japanese term that roughly translates to somewhere between ‘obsessive’ and ‘nerd’) has wed the pillow in a special ceremony, after fitting it out with a wedding dress for the service in front of a local priest. Their nuptials were eagerly chronicled by the local media.

‘He is completely obsessed with this pillow and takes it everywhere,’ said one friend.

‘They go out to the park or the funfair where it will go on all the rides with him. Then when he goes out to eat he takes it with him and it gets its own seat and its own meal,’ they added.

The pillow marriage is not the first similarly-themed unusual marriage in recent times – it comes after a Japanese otaku married his virtual girlfriend Nene Anegasaki, a character who only exists in the Nintendo DS game Love Plus, last November.

Read more on www.metro.co.uk

An extreme tattoo can be totally hardcore . Unless you spell it “exreme.” Then it’s just hilarious.

We’ve compiled some of the funniest tattoo misspellings we could find. Either these folks had no access to spell check or are simply oblivious to the mistake. Regardless, they cracked us up.

For more misspelled tattoos visit: huffingtonpost.com

Versus Brand News

Unconventional wine brand Versus, recently co-sponsored the Southern Ink Xposure  (aka Cape Town Tattoo Convention). Versus Wines, which aligns itself with unusual, fun and interesting events promoted their range of wines at this event.

To add some excitement to the often otherwise dreary library environment, a group of students created a real-life Pacman in their varsity library. Unconventional wine brand, Versus, salutes these students for thinking out of the box.

The silly season is upon us and someone , in moment of madness will suggest a karaoke.

If you are caught in this situation …one tip, don’t sing Love Hurts.

The reason is because the most difficult karaoke-standard song i.e. definitely can find in any karaoke bar is, IMHO, Nazareth’s Love Hurts… at maximum key. Yep, it is more difficult than working out which home insurance quote to go for.

Some people’s favourite music games is trying to sing this at the highest key possible on the karaoke machine, with usually hilarious results, typically at the point the words say “but they’re not foolin’ me”:

Source: worldrec.info

Sure, it’s important to get your message out to everyone, but make sure you do a sense check before sending, otherwise you can be spreading some Christmas cheer for the wrong reasons.

Here is an example of a wrong Christmas message

I think they meant prosperous

Bill Cosby once said that Men and women belong to different species, and communication between them is a science still in its infancy.

This cartoon shows that men and women think differently

Useless facts are sometimes more interesting than useful facts. For instance, people spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights and a snail can sleep for three years. This is more interesting than most of the stories on the news last night. Do you agree?

More useless info:

• - Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts
• - American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class.
• - People spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights!
• - Left handed people live slightly shorter lives than right handed people.
• - Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.
• - If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people,50% of the world’s currency would be held by 6 people.
• - In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
• - A snail can sleep for three years.
• - In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world’s nuclear weapons combined.
• - Pearls melt in vinegar.
• - Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
• - Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
• - You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television

Source: stunning-stuff.com