Hum dinger!

In any given office conversation, full of cliche and lazy generalisation, whenever the subject turns to humour and comedy someone will probably pipe up "Yeah, but the Americans don't do irony, they just don't get it".

I beg to differ. The thing is if you're gonna do irony, then you have to do it so straight nobody is really sure whether you're joking or not. Weeks later and they're still not sure if you're serious.

What better example of the ironist's art than the news that Auto watchdog J.D. Power have given GM's Hummer web site an award for being the most useful.

The J.D. Power study measures the usefulness of manufacturer Web sites during the new-vehicle shopping process on four areas - appearance, speed, navigation, and content.

If only somebody had used these criteria to judge Hummer's actual product. It's an off-road vehicle that can't. It couldn't trouble 80mph, and is impossible to manoeuvre. The fit and finish of it's crappy noisy cabin matches the appearance i.e. a five year old was responsible.

Great work on the website guys, I love your sense of humo(u)r!