Most children and
adults are hooked to the mobile phones all the time – engaged in social media,
sending messages and more .... If you're looking
for a new way to prank your friends, why not send them a bunch of goat photos
out of nowhere? - sounds silly or stupid ? The domestic goat (Capra aegagrus hircus) is a
subspecies of goat domesticated from the wild goat of southwest Asia and
Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the family Bovidae and is closely
related to the sheep. There reportedly are over 300 distinct breeds of goat.
The Online Sales is
picking up in India and many retailers are alarmed at its penetration and the
discounts offered. One of the top
leaders, Amazon is globally selling everything online – it is stated that one
can purchase all kinds of lawnmowers from Amazon, from old-fashioned rotary
push mowers to ultra-modern robotic mowers ~and that is not all, - they’ll even
let you rent goats to keep your lawn under control. This eco-friendly service
is being offered in the lawn care section of Amazon’s growing Home
Services. So, one can rent goats to mow
their lawn but not a person to do the yard work !
2015
is the Year of the Sheep according to Chinese zodiac.
With fortune-tellers predicting accidents and an unstable economy and some
parents-to-be fretting over the year's reputation for docile kids, it wasn't
exactly warming everyone's heart. This animal sign, which comes once every
dozen years, can be said to have an identity crisis. Known variably as the Year
of the Goat, Sheep or Ram, the sign's confusion stems from its Chinese
character, "yang," which broadly describes any of the ruminating
mammals, with or without horns. Many Chinese prefer to translate it as the
"Year of the Sheep" because sheep are more cute and cuddly, and large
sheep figures have appeared around the capital's shopping areas in recent
weeks. The goat, however, is more likely to be the original meaning because it
was a popular farm animal among Han Chinese who started the zodiac tradition,
Huang Yang, a researcher on the roles of sheep and goats in Chinese culture,
was quoted by the official Xinhua News agency as saying.
Sending
bunch of goat photos as a prank is not exactly a stupid idea - called ‘Goat Attack’, a new website created
in a single night that exists for the sole purpose of messaging your friends a
barrage of goat photos one after another. While Goat Attack
is similar to other SMS pranking services like Pug A Day, which sends your
friends a photo of a pug 100 days in a row, it's also far more foul-mouthed.
Goat Attack also requires you to include your name to give people a chance to
reciprocate a Goat Attack once the dust has settled.
Some technological innovations excite people –
do we really require an ‘apps’ to send
friends pictures of goats, purporting to be from the goats themselves, along
with faintly disappointing goat puns and how would it be considered popular ! –
that too a paid service !!!
Your
are unlikely to receive it in Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai .... for you have to live
in the US to receive a Goat Attack, you don’t have to live there to send one.
Accordingly, one can go online and pay$0.79 to bombard your expat friend with goat puns. Would you feel gleeful ~and what is likely
reaction of your recipient !!! Do
you consider this a prank – and it that going to amuse them ? It costs $0.79 for the basic package, which
guarantees six goat messages and puns. Upgrading to the "Back Hand
Barrage" will cost you $1.19, but it's the better value with 14 messages.
Goat Attack is HTTPS secure and payments are handled through PayPal and credit
card payments through BraintreePayments.
The Goat attack web
states that they don't care about the user’s personal information and would collect as little as possible. Its further states that – ‘We expect you to not abuse our system and
only to send funny goat attacks to your friends whom you have a phone number.
We are not responsible for any carrier data charges you or your recipient(s)
may incur while using Goat Attack.’
What do you feel
about this ?
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
19th May
2015.
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