theFutonPoncho » Humor http://www.thefutonponcho.com All the news that gives us fits to Print Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:21:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 United Airlines Breaks Guitars and Promises. Fly the Friendly Skies. http://www.thefutonponcho.com/2010/01/19/united-airlines-breaks-guitars-and-promises-fly-the-friendly-skies/ http://www.thefutonponcho.com/2010/01/19/united-airlines-breaks-guitars-and-promises-fly-the-friendly-skies/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:00:50 +0000 Paddy Wallbouncer http://www.thefutonponcho.com/?p=196 Don’t you just love it when someone calls an Airline on their mishandling of people, let alone their luggage?

“Musician Dave Carroll recently had difficulty with United Airlines. United apparently damaged his treasured Taylor guitar during a flight. Dave spent over 9 months trying to get United to pay for damages caused by baggage handlers to his custom Taylor guitar..

During his final exchange with the United Customer Relations Manager, he stated that he was left with no choice other than to create a music video for youtube exposing their lack of cooperation. The Manager responded : “Good luck with that one, pal”. So he posted a retaliatory video on youtube.

The video has since received over 7.5 million hits. United Airlines contacted the musician and attempted settlement in exchange for pulling the video. Naturally his response was: “Good luck with that one, pal”.

]]> http://www.thefutonponcho.com/2010/01/19/united-airlines-breaks-guitars-and-promises-fly-the-friendly-skies/feed/ 1 I Want Some Tarp http://www.thefutonponcho.com/2009/01/23/i-want-some-tarp/ http://www.thefutonponcho.com/2009/01/23/i-want-some-tarp/#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:50:02 +0000 Paddy Wallbouncer http://www.thefutonponcho.com/?p=191
I want some tarp video. If you didn’t already know, Tarp stands for Troubled Assets Relief Program. It was about 750 billion dollars. The Bush administration spent half of it and left the other half for the Obama Administration. It will be interesting to see the results. The song is certainly spot on.

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This is a Swedish Falcon Beer commercial depicting Russians having a sashlik barbecue in Siberia. Funny. We’ll keep you informed of this and other entertaining news.

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