Posts under ‘Humour’

From the ever-awesome Indexed: I’m currently in the office, but around noon I’ll be aiming for “B”.

What a brootiful day in the neighbourhood. First I slept in (a little, anyway), then my brother sent me one of the funniest pictures I’ve ever seen and I laughed myself stupid. Then Nellie and I went out (I wore my new shirt) to procure meat, veggies and cheese from St. Lawrence Market for tonight. [...]

Dumb. Two wrongs don’t make a right. Disgusting. Stealing someone’s mail carries a stiffer punishment. Want. Doublewant. Want for Nellie (’cause she does that). Funny. But only if you’ve seen the original.

Our aspirational target this weekend was profound laziness. While we didn’t quite hit that (damn stretch goals) we did manage to watch two movies: Baby Mama (imdb | rotten tomatoes) started off badly — not that the jokes weren’t funny, it’s just that we’d seen them all in the trailer — but got funnier as [...]

I’ve noticed incoming traffic on my blog from Wikipedia, of all places. This blog post from 4½ years ago is referenced in the English Wikipedia entry for ‘Movie theater’. Presumably they’re linking to me because, scofflaw that I am, I included the full content of the now-archived Globe and Mail article in my post. Hey, [...]

I’m getting sick. Not enough to make me feel like I need to stay in bed, but enough to drain me of all energy and motivation to, you know, move. The Rob Zombie remake of Halloween (imdb | rotten tomatoes) started off better than I expected, in that it gave us a Michael Myers preview, [...]

This post in the Economist’s blog today made me smile. For the record, I rarely smile at The Economist, especially of late, but today the sarcasm would be dripping if it weren’t so devastatingly dry. The latter, notably, published a book in 2004 called Bullish On Bush: How George Bush’s Ownership Society Will Make America [...]

Q & A from Health Canada on the listeriosis outbreak: Q: The Stanley Cup was recently on tour in my town, and I kissed it. Do I have to worry about being infected by listeria? A: You are safe. The Stanley Cup has not been in contact with any Maple Leaf product in over 40 [...]

This Onion article has had me giggling for the last five minutes: Members Of Twisted Sister Now Willing To Take It NEW YORK—In a stunning reversal of their long-stated reluctance to take it, members of heavy-metal band Twisted Sister announced Monday that, after 24 years of fervent refusal, they are now willing to take it. [...]

This has been sitting in my starred feed items for a while and I forgot to blog about it. It shows the generic name for soft drinks, broken down by (American) county. Growing up I always called it pop, and I have yet to visit a place in Canada that refers to it otherwise…strange, since [...]

Ken Jennings freaked me out today. It’s kind of a long story, so stay with me. Last night I was reading a chapter on business ethics in my textbook (no, really!) and it briefly touched on a bunch of the biggies…Rawls, Kant, Mill, and so on. I guess it must’ve lingered in my head, because [...]

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If there is, in any commercial right now, a funnier line than “O be swift, my chicken!” I’d like to hear it. technorati tags: doritos

Random catch-up from the last week, including some highlights of the thousands of feed items I just blazed through: .:. George Carlin died last Sunday. I had no idea. That’s what happens when you’re out of tv/internet/newspaper range for 4 days. Carlin was an important entertainer, a rare animal indeed. Jessica Hagy from Indexed puts [...]

Awesome: Stephen Colbert’s plundering of the Hockey Night In Canada theme song. Awesome: Bigger sidewalks on Bloor. (Less awesome: lack of bike lanes) Awesome: watching Portugal play football. Since I cheer for no particular team I just like watching skill, so the game today was like watching a group of painters at work. Awesome: the [...]