Orbitz Worldwide Inc. has found that people who use Apple Inc.’s Mac computers spend as much as 30% more a night on hotels, so the online travel agency is starting to show them different, and sometimes costlier, travel options than Windows visitors see.
—Wall Street Journal
Welcome to Orbitz!
We are proud to announce the arrival of Orbitz Live Assistance and Pricing™ – just turn on your webcam and let a human being guide you through your purchase… all via the internet! We know you have a choice when it comes to online travel agents and we appreciate your business.
When booking your trip, please be advised that the following conditions may affect the relative price of your hotel:
- Date and time
- IP address and connection speed
- Device type – PC, tablet, mobile device – and manufacturer
- Last trip booked through Orbitz
- Trips booked through other Online Travel Agents
- Travel packages purchased including airfare, hotel, and a rental car
- Number of bookmarked websites with luxury travel content
- Recency of visits to financial news and information websites
- The wealth index of your visible surroundings
- The estimated reading level of the last word you used Google to define
- Whether that looks inflamed to the Orbitz Live Assistant™
- How often you are prescribed antibiotics
- Everything you’ve ever purchased using your Walgreens Card
- Why you insist on eating now
- You may be asked to prove that you are wearing pants
- Whether or not pyjamas “count”
- Whether our Orbitz Live Assistant™ judges your masturbation to be “casual,” “vigorous,” or “furious”
- Frequency of “Private Browsing” sessions
- What happened to your sense of shame
- The last time you called your mom
- At their discretion the Orbitz Live Assistant™ may book you a trip home if Orbitz feels it would do you more good than going to Tijuana alone again.
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Studies from the University of Kansas suggest that you can predict about 90% of a stranger’s personality based on their shoes. Sales of “shoes made of money” have gone through the roof.
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The highest Egyptian court ordered that the Parliament be dissolved on Thursday. “Wait,” said President Obama, “Can we do that?”
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Tensions flared at the Euro2012 Soccer Tournament when a series of fights erupted between normally well-mannered armies of hooligans.
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Jeb Bush made waves with Republicans this week after suggesting that the GOP make room for less extreme members of their party. Grover Norquist made waves with Republicans this week after vowing to rip out Jeb Bush’s still beating heart and eat it raw.
The widow of William Martinez, an Atlanta police officer who died during an extra-marital threesome, was awarded $3 million in a court case surrounding her husband’s death. Doctors agree that would not be enough to wipe the smile off his face.
Detroit Lion Jose Valverde is in trouble a video shows him preparing to throw a spitball. The scandal is still dwarfed by pitcher Ernie “Eww” Gross’s use of his patented shitball.
British PM David Cameron accidentally left his 8-year-old daughter in a country pub this weekend. He tried to avert political fallout by saying it was a national primer in “the trustworthiness off Britain’s rural afternoon-drunk community.”
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“America’s Got Talent” contestant Timothy Poe has exaggerated his military service record claims the Minnesota National Guard, who felt it was about time they intervened in a ridiculous public farce.
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Best Buy chairman and founder Richard Schulze is leaving the company after 36 years of never being able to find the cable he was looking for.
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*This joke is based on my days in user support when someone actually used this password and then forgot it and had to call in.
