Donkey Pong, And The... Whaaat?
So, who says bathroom humor is dead? Certainly not Codemasters and its Funsta.com casual game subsidiary, who are mailing us about, wait for it, a poop-related Donkey Kong pastiche.
Here's the sullied email in question: "I'm reaching out to you on behalf of M80 and Ignited Minds regarding the launch of an online game called Donkey Pong And The Adventures Of Rimdiana Jones. Have you heard of it? If not, it is the first from The Turds collection of roguish comedic characters born from the best of toilet humour."
We actually got sent a lovely poster as a promotional consideration for The Turds, who are apparently some kind of pop culture phenmenon in oxygen-starved parts of the world - also on the site is, uhm, 'Bogger' (yes, Frogger!), and forthcoming very soon is Poobert (ahem, Q-Bert), and amazingly, Dung Beetle Rally - the first game to star dung beetles since Schadenfreude's seminal 'Dung Ho!'. We have no words. But we must scream!
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Following their defeat of Napoleon, the British set the standard for the Western definition of grace, elegance, politeness, and good breeding. All our notions of etiquette and decorum are ultimately British in origin, from standing up when a lady enters the room to the correct location at a table setting to place the fish fork.
And yet it could ONLY be the British who would make such a game. Whence comes this fascination with excretory functions? As Baron von Richtofen observed in Blackadder Goes Forth: "To us [Germans] the toilet is mundane and functional object. To you [British], the basis of an entire culture."
Victoria, I weep for what your Empire has descended to.
Posted by: Ernest Adams | June 16, 2006 4:57 PM