I spend a lot of time on Facebook.
Unlike most people who use Facebook, I don't use it to connect, network, or anything like that. I use it to play Scrabble. If my laptop's on, there's a damn good chance that one of Firefox's tabs contains the following:
Yeah, I know all the cool kids are playing Words With Friends on their fancy phones. What can I say? I'm cheap old skool a loser. Since most of the people I "know" are playing Words With Friends, I've been playing Scrabble with complete strangers. Every once in awhile, I'll come across someone who wants a rematch or something. I actually played about ten games with one girl until she told me that she was "headed to the bush for 3 weeks" at the "oil patch in Alberta" and she hoped "they had Internet." I didn't really understand what this meant. I think it was code for "Sayonara, chump!" Actually, it kind of reminded me of my relationships in high school where I thought I had found true love and all that jazz until the girl of my dreams suddenly decided she needed to save the Italian frescoes or something.
Lately, I have started playing Scrabble with people I know from Twitter and blogs. They come into my neighborhood and slum it for a friendly game or two. Nobody's died yet. There might be needles behind the dumpster, but...
Where was I?
Oh yeah! The Pig Troll.
Like I said, I play a lot of Scrabble. And if you're paying attention, you might see some weird-ass ad on Facebook in a spot normally reserved for the hot and heavy farm and mafia come-ons. Like the one in the picture I showed you above.
You weren't paying attention before, were you? I should have told you there would be a quiz later.
Here it is again:
Did you see that crazy ad in the bottom right? Let me enlarge it for you:
What the fuck is that? It's got to be a Pig Troll, right? Or maybe a Troll Pig? Or something totally different. But it's definitely got some pig and troll in there somewhere.
In addition to discovering the correct name for this Facebook fiend, I'd also like to know what it has to do with Recession Relief. Will they lower my credit card debt if I agree to adopt a Pig Troll?
Or is this some top secret government program where they inject me with swine flu and turn me into a Pig Troll if I let them tear up my credit card bills?
Is this the Change that Obama promised?
Scrabble With The Pig Troll
