Friday, April 17, 2009

Friday (creepy) Fun

I graduated college a short 3 years ago, and as such, many of my former classmates are working at desk jobs and spending free time exploring all that the internet has to offer. This latest finding comes from a former high school classmate, let's call her Lisa*, who works in a small town in Washington. She and her sister Jackie* were recently exploring the Cheetos website, and Lisa warned me minutes ago that she was going to send me something and that I should "trust her". Minutes later, my cell phone rang from an "unavailable" caller, and I was greeted by a disturbing voice that knew my name and said some sinister things to me. Good thing I knew she was sending me something, or I would have dialed the cops on my office phone.

What I didn't know, is that that disturbing voice was the voice of Chester the Cheetah and Lisa was using something called the Voice Modulator on the Cheetos website. After exploring the rest of the website, I discovered all the other creepy applications, widgets and games you can download to your computer and play with. You can dress a Cheeto up like a porn star, generate sick day sounds, a la Ferris Bueller, for illnesses such as Ebola and Sudden Onset Canadianism (though the Ebola sounds are pretty disgusting, just a warning), or participate in all sorts of other odd activities. It's entertaining, just make sure you are in a well-lit environment when you do it. The front page of the website resembles something out of the movie The Ring.

If you are less than 5 years out of college, you have my permission to play with this website as long as you want and avoid working. If you are beyond that, you should get back to work. You probably have people depending on your paycheck.

*Names have been changed to protect the innocent.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Ha--Your discretion is greatly appreciated ;) I guess you're saying I'm not innocent? Thanks, Mary.