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Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Your awesome Jack Layton image of the day
The Toronto Star's Susan Delacourt explains:
Yes, this is NDP leader Jack Layton (circa 1991 at a Trekkie convention) and we thought we'd throw this picture up in honour of the Star Trek movie opening this week in Ottawa and other major markets.
I asked Olivia Chow about the costume today and she told me that she had one too -- she and Jack had them custom made by a tailor. "Very form fitting," she said. And they even had the special beam-me-up badge affixed to them.
Chow told me that she and Layton are still devoted Trekkies, but they're not going to the movie opening. "Too busy," she said. "We have to work."
This one's jumping, screaming and shouting for a caption competition... so let 'em rip.
(h/t Aaron Wherry)
Posted by Kalim Kassam on May 6, 2009 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (26)
Friday, February 13, 2009
A Canadian healthcare plan: "Don't get sick!"
Actor and stand-up comic Steven Crowder (he voiced this character on PBS' Arthur) responds to the frequent calls he hears by American liberals for a Canadian-style universal healthcare system.
As someone who spent time living in Canada, he speaks from experience:
Posted by Kalim Kassam on February 13, 2009 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (10)
Friday, February 06, 2009
"Someday we'll find it, that rainbow connection"
Hugh, if the Age of Obama is really becoming so hard to handle that you need to watch videos of really fiscally conservative congresscritters to keep your spirits up, maybe I can help you by showing the softer, cuddlier side of the new regime.
Presenting...
Click here to see President Kermit's Cabinet-level Muppet Officers and the Muppet Cabinet themselves.
Posted by Kalim Kassam on February 6, 2009 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (2)
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Juicy Protest
This guy is either illiterate and antisemitic or he really hates Tang:
Posted by Gerry Nicholls on February 4, 2009 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (9)
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Rick Mercer: Conservative policy -- 20 minutes fresh. Always.
Worth a laugh. Too bad it's true:
Posted by P.M. Jaworski on January 29, 2009 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (5)
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Yes, Minister: Party games
Yes, Minister, and Yes, Prime Minister, is probably my favourite British television series. And why shouldn't it be? Here's a show that purports to be a comedy, but accurately describes what really happens in government.
I've spent the afternoon watching a few episodes on YouTube, and thought I'd share my absolute favourite set of them. In "Party Games," Jim Hacker, that's the minister, gets tapped for Number 10 Downing Street. How did this blubbering buffoon get chosen? You'll have to watch the videos.
I'm thinking this is exactly how Stephane Dion got picked to lead the Liberals before Ignatieff.
(Parts 2 through 8 below the fold)
Part 2:
Part 3:
Part 4:
Part 5:
Part 6:
Part 7:
Part 8:
Just brilliant, don't you think?
Posted by P.M. Jaworski on January 28, 2009 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (2)
Monday, January 19, 2009
Don't get your hopes up
My two sons went to Canadian comic Norm Macdonald's show in Richmond, B.C., on Saturday night. They report that Macdonald is not quite as worked up about Obama's inauguration as most show-biz types are. In fact, Macdonald says he's got a problem with the whole "hope" thing. Fact is, he says, whenever you read the word "hope," it's almost always followed by the word "dashed."
Posted by Terry O'Neill on January 19, 2009 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (0)
Monday, January 12, 2009
Excerpt from Ric Dolphin's latest posting...
Back home with our scotches, waiting for the last year of the decade to dawn, my brothers-in-law and I considered how the Zeroes or the Oughts - or whatever this decade will be called - will be remembered. What will define it in people's memories? Probably terrorism and its offshoots: 9/11 and the aftermath, the War on Terror, Homeland Security, the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan ... the Great Satan squaring off against the Lions of Islam.
It will doubtlessly be a more definable decade than the 1990s. None of us could figure out the defining characteristic of those final ten years of the 20th century. Most other decades seemed to have had vivid identities - the roaring Twenties, the Dirty Thirties, the wartime Forties, the prosperous, grey-flannel Fifties, the hippy-dippy Sixties, the Me-generation 1970s, the Greedy 1980s. But what were the 1990s? Grant suggested The Internet Decade, but then dismissed the idea because the Internet really didn't become commonplace until the current decade. Ditto cellphones. So although true that the digital communications revolution started in the 1990s, I don't think you can say it defined them. The final decade of the millennium should have something to define it. Maybe its lack of identity defines it. The Lost Decade? I welcome your thoughts.
As for the prospects going into 2009, your guess is as good as mine. The economic predictions are so dire it could happen that the recession helps define the decade, along with the terror stuff. Decade of Woe? Regarding the financial meltdown, there is a perverse part of me that says, Bring it on. Let's see what a real Depression is like. Give us the kind of privations with which to bore our grandkids that our grandparents bored us with. Hey, Ma, we cain't afford meat this month. Let's fry up the dawg...
To read more of Dolphin's blog, click here
Posted by Ric Dolphin on January 12, 2009 in Aboriginal Issues, American History, Canadian Politics, Current Affairs, Economic freedom, Humour, Media, Television, U.S. politics | Permalink | Comments (2)
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Shocking media bias revealed by Fairness in Media
Posted by P.M. Jaworski on December 18, 2008 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Some animated gifs of the Bush shoe dodge (plus a video game)
At a recent press conference in Iraq, an Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes at U.S. president George W. Bush. Bush managed to dodge both of the shoes (you can see video of the actual press conference here).
Not surprisingly, several people have put together animated pictures of the incident. Here are two of the funnier ones (you can see the rest over on boingboing).
UPDATE: Or, you can try and hurl a shoe at Bush yourself via this Norwegian video game entitled "Kast en sko pa Bush" (h/t LGF)
Posted by P.M. Jaworski on December 16, 2008 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
The money hole
The US government is facing massive amount of debt and there seems to be an uncontrollable political pressure to increase that debt. I think it is time for the United States to finally close the money hole.
Posted by Hugh MacIntyre on December 9, 2008 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Classic Kids in the Hall: Screw you Taxpayer!
Here's a gem of a sketch from Kids in the Hall:
h/t Lindy
Posted by P.M. Jaworski on December 3, 2008 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
And now for something completely different: Cap'n (Horatio Magellan) Crunch
When I was younger, I used to eat Cap'n Crunch cereal. That is, until it made me sick, and then I stopped eating it in favour of Count Chocula cereal.
Cap'n Crunch, the character, was created by Jay Ward, the same animator responsible for the Rocky & Bullwinkle show.
Well here's a little known fact: The full name of Cap'n Crunch is Cap'n Horatio Magellan Crunch. Captain H.M. Crunch.
Now you know. And knowing is half the battle. (Know where those lines come from? You'll get some Whuffie bucks if you guess it in the comment section.)
Posted by P.M. Jaworski on December 2, 2008 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (9) | TrackBack
Monday, December 01, 2008
Filibuster: Canada's first coup
Posted by Kalim Kassam on December 1, 2008 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
(Video) James Cohen on the looming tidal lock crisis
If a Liberal-NDP coalition government emerges, we're about to start hearing a lot about the urgent need to decrease our standard of living on account of global warming.
James Cohen, co-host with Emrys Graefe of the Western Standard Radio Network's newest show Right or Wrong, alerts us to a much more pressing issue facing our fragile earth, the tidal lock crisis.
James and Emrys played the video during a discussion of global warming in Episode 10 of Right or Wrong. You can catch the boys live from 4-6pm EST every Friday here on the Shotgun Blog or check out their archives for any shows you might miss.
Posted by Kalim Kassam on December 1, 2008 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Hank Reardon, hedge fund manager
Via Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution comes this brilliant story "Atlas Shrugged Updated for the Current Financial Crisis"
"Damn it, Dagny! I need the government to get out of the way and let me do my job!"
She sat across the desk from him. She appeared casual but confident, a slim body with rounded shoulders like an exquisitely engineered truss. How he hated his debased need for her, he who loathed self-sacrifice but would give up everything he valued to get in her pants ... Did she know?
"I heard the thugs in Washington were trying to take your Rearden metal at the point of a gun," she said. "Don't let them, Hank. With your advanced alloy and my high-tech railroad, we'll revitalize our country's failing infrastructure and make big, virtuous profits."
"Oh, no, I got out of that suckers' game. I now run my own hedge-fund firm, Rearden Capital Management."
"What?"
He stood and adjusted his suit jacket so that his body didn't betray his shameful weakness. He walked toward her and sat informally on the edge of her desk. "Why make a product when you can make dollars? Right this second, I'm earning millions in interest off money I don't even have."
He gestured to his floor-to-ceiling windows, a symbol of his productive ability and goodness.
"There's a whole world out there of byzantine financial products just waiting to be invented, Dagny. Let the leeches run my factories into the ground! I hope they do! I've taken out more insurance on a single Rearden Steel bond than the entire company is even worth! When my old company finally tanks, I'll make a cool $877 million."
Go and read the whole piece. One of the funniest things I've read on McSweeney's in a while, and that's saying a lot.
Posted by Kalim Kassam on November 29, 2008 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Heh
One of my favorite bloggers (a libertarian) said you should send this picture to libertarians if you want to give them a headache.
Is that the kind of headache that comes from too much laughter, or too much fury?
Posted by Terrence Watson on November 15, 2008 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (11) | TrackBack
Friday, November 07, 2008
Red Staters head north to escape Obama
As was kinda predicted here on the Western Standard a couple weeks ago - Americans have greeted their new Democrat overlords by heading north. First over the border - the uber-Republicans, Jackie and Dunlap of 'Red State Update':
Posted by Robert Jago on November 7, 2008 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Thursday, November 06, 2008
What if Bob Barr had won? A timeline
A touch of humour from the National Post. What would happen if the Western Standard contributors' favoured presidential candidate, the US Libertarian Party's Bob Barr, somehow managed to become president?
It begins with Drew Carey, moves on to the obligatory moustache joke, a little big-government slash-and-burn, and climaxes with a "radical Vermont anti-anti-government militia [which] holes itself up inside its compound after the IRS refuses to accept its tax cheque." And that's when things get a little out of hand.
JULY 4, 2009
Standing outside of Faneuil Hall in Boston, Barr delivers an Independence Day speech denouncing "tyranny in all its forms," citing especially Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and cookbooks. "Who is Irma Rombauer to tell you how to braise that coq au vin?" he tells a confused crowd. Gourmet magazine achieves political awareness.
DEC. 17, 2009
Prostitution is officially decriminalized. Eliot Spitzer high-fives an imaginary friend and returns to begging for change.
MAY 22, 2010
Barr vetoes a copyright protection bill, citing concerns about its capacity to limit individual freedom. He then vetoes his veto, citing concerns about its capacity to limit corporate freedom. He then vetoes his veto of his veto, citing concerns about its capacity to limit the personal freedom of the president. He then vetoes his veto of the veto he vetoed, citing personal confusion. He then has an egg-salad sandwich and takes a nap.
Read the rest.
What did you expect? I told you guys not to vote.
Posted by Kalim Kassam on November 6, 2008 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (8) | TrackBack
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
ELITE plan for American liberals who want to move to Canada (should John McCain win)
I think I've posted this video before. But it's been updated a little bit. And there really should be a video for libertarians and small government conservatives who want to move to Canada. Because we beat the U.S. in the latest Economic Freedom of the World annual report, our health care system is unconstitutional, and we haven't nationalized the banks (yet... and with your help, never).
Anyhow, here's the vid for libs:
Posted by P.M. Jaworski on October 28, 2008 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Saturday Night Live makes fun of Obama, Biden and Murtha
Republican challenger William Russell just might pull off an election win in Pennsylvania. Especially when Joe Murtha is busy insulting his own constituents. It's what SNL played off of with this pretty hard-hitting skit:
Posted by P.M. Jaworski on October 26, 2008 in Humour, U.S. politics | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Friday, October 24, 2008
The Onion: Ron Paul promises to return when country needs him most
Things are panning out almost exactly as Ron Paul was predicting for the last 30 years. When he had a national audience during the 2008 Republican primary process, he was dismissed, insulted, and jeered; even now that he has been vindicated, instead of listening to him the political and media establishment are taking advice from Hank Paulsen, Ben Bernanke, Barney Frank, George Bush and all the other guys who assured us that there was no problem, the economy was on solid footing, the housing market was not in a bubble, sub-prime would not be that big a problem, inflation doesn't matter etc. If you're as frustrated as me, rest assured that there is a reason: the world is not yet ready for Ron Paul.
Though it may seem like this is the time that the world needs Ron Paul the most, he knows better. Like the sagely Merlin of Arthurian legend he will disappear only to return when the time is right. The Onion reports:
WASHINGTON—After piling the last of his Campaign for Liberty signs in the back of a beat-up Ford truck Thursday, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) once again abandoned his candidacy for president and rode on out toward the low western sun, but not before vowing to come back to Washington "when [the country] is ready." "When the river swirls and the wind blows, and when uncontrollable inflation forces us to revert to the gold standard, and the Federal Reserve bank is exposed as the unconstitutional, neofascist cabal it really is, you'll see me coming over that hill," said Paul, leaving a dusty cowboy hat and a stack of "no" votes on his seat in the House of Representatives. "But don't you fret, America. If you ever feel like your government is getting too big or too intrusive, just give a little whistle, and there I'll be. I'll be there quicker'n you can spit." Although no one has seen or heard from the Texas congressman since Thursday, sources report the Ron Paul for President campaign has gained an additional $2.3 million in contributions since his disappearance.
And while we're making Ron-Paul-as-wizard jokes, I think its an appropriate time to remember current.com's fantastic sendup of the first Republican Debate at the Reagan Library:
Posted by Kalim Kassam on October 24, 2008 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Your awesome Sarah Palin song of the day (from Russia with love edition)
Previous awesome Sarah Palin musical parodies here and here.
(h/t Xeni Jardin)
Posted by Kalim Kassam on October 24, 2008 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Thursday, October 23, 2008
American latitude and longitude but Canadian politics
From an e-mail:
A Balloonist and a Fisherman
A man in a hot air balloon realizes he is lost. He lowers his altitude and spots a man fishing from a boat below..
He shouts to him, 'Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am.'
The man consults his portable GPS and replies, 'You're in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.0 9 minutes west longitude.
The balloonist rolls his eyes and says, 'You must be a Conservative!'
'I am,' replies the man. 'How did you know?'
'Well,' answers the balloonist, 'everything you tell me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to do with your information, and I'm still lost. Frankly, you're not much help to me.'
The man smiles and responds, 'You must be a Liberal'
'I am,' replies the balloonist. 'How did you know?'
Well,' says the man, 'You don't know where you are or where you're going. You've risen to where you are, due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise that you have no idea how to keep, and now you expect me to solve your problem.
You're in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but, somehow, now it's my fault...
Posted by Bob Wood on October 23, 2008 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (10) | TrackBack
Friday, October 10, 2008
Finally, central banking explained
The U.S. Federal Reserve and other central banks have been in the headlines recently. First there were the various expansions of power that allowed the Fed a greater role in the economy, and then there was yesterday's coordinated interest rate cut by six of the world's central banks, including the Fed and the Bank of Canada.
A month ago few Canadians knew who Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke was, now they've seen him testifying before Congress clamoring for a bailout, but they still may be unsure exactly what he does.
Here is Australia's answer to Jon Stewart, Shaun Micallef, interviewing the Reserve Bank of Australia's Tony Froth (remember then-Fed Chair Alan Greenspan's July 2005 comment that "the apparent froth in the housing markets appears to have interacted with evolving practices in mortgage markets") trying to get to the bottom of it:
UPDATE: Welcome to our fine blog LewRockwellites!
We are Canada's #1 political blog, but, more importantly, we're pro-liberty! Go ahead and explore.
We've covered Canadians giving an Austrian explanation of the financial crisis here and here. If you want to learn more about Canada, we recently compared gun rights in Canada and Switzerland and if you're curious about Canada's political scene and our present election, we've got some short but apt summaries here and here.
Posted by Kalim Kassam on October 10, 2008 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (48)
Sunday, October 05, 2008
(Video) Bill O'Reilly's mini-me
Here's what Bill O'Reilly might have been like as a tyke:
Posted by P.M. Jaworski on October 5, 2008 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Your awesome Sarah Palin picture of the day
With this $700 billion dollar Wall Street bailout looming as a possibility, the following picture is apropos (if the Republicans win):
Posted by P.M. Jaworski on September 24, 2008 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack
Saturday, September 13, 2008
U.S. economy teetering on the brink
This just in from The Onion News Network:
Posted by P.M. Jaworski on September 13, 2008 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (7) | TrackBack
Sunday, August 24, 2008
John McCain ad, now in Spanish
Okay, I got a good laugh out of this:
I believe that this is, roughly, the original version of the above radio ad. But I don't speak Spanish, so correct me if I'm wrong:
Posted by P.M. Jaworski on August 24, 2008 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Guy Earle handling hecklers (and a Mac v. Pencil vid)
This past Monday, Terrence, Jay, and I interviewed Guy Earle, the Toronto-based comic in trouble for responding to lesbian hecklers with a flurry of heckles himself last May in British Columbia.
Here's how he responded to a different heckler in a different context:
And here is a video of his that I thought was pretty funny. Language alert:
Posted by P.M. Jaworski on July 23, 2008 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
Ric Dolphin Writes Again
Although loath to use another of those horrible words concocted by the geeks who, sadly, have inherited the world, there seems to be no avoiding it. I now have a "blog" which I shall endeavor to update at least every Monday and which you are
invited to visit at, ricdolphin.com
Be aware that, unlike when I wrote for Western Standard magazine, I am not being censored for language. I am also not specifically writing about politics, although the subject may be broached on occasion. Be assured, however, that I shall never use "blog" as a verb.
Posted by Ric Dolphin on July 9, 2008 in Aboriginal Issues, American History, Books, Canadian Conservative Politics, Canadian History, Canadian Politics, Canadian Provincial Politics, Crime, Current Affairs, Film, Humour, International Affairs, International Politics, Media, Military, Municipal Politics, Religion, Science, Television, Trade, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs, Western Standard, WS Radio, WStv | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Thursday, June 26, 2008
The "Comedy Police" is Not Amused
Kudos and a rim-shot for my old colleague Terry O'Neill who noticed below the woes that comedian Guy Earle is having at the hands of the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal. In the Province's version of the story, though, Mr. Earle is getting no help from someone who should be an ally:
But Mark Dennison, a longstanding Vancouver comedian and instructor at Langara College's stand-up comedy clinic, said there is a fine line between comedy and outright discrimination.
And from what he's heard, he said, the material Earle supposedly used was "mean-spirited" and a "pointed attack" based on "completely wrong assumptions."
"Comedy is inclusive. We laugh because we see commonality," he said.
"I don't think anything is off-limits as long as it is handled in a way that shows us what makes us the same."
I can imagine Mr. Earle being punished on the grounds that his comedy is not *inclusive* enough, thanks to Mr. Dennison's opinions.
I can also imagine U.S. late night comics like Leno, Letterman and Ferguson having a lot of fun with this. I can see Gordon Campbell being Photoshopped into the uniform of the "Comedy Police", raising gales of laughter across the United States. Well, if Mr. Campbell won't listen to reasoned arguments about how silly the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal can be, perhaps ridicule might work.
Posted by Rick Hiebert on June 26, 2008 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Supreme Court on death penalty
Below, I mentioned the Supreme Court's ruling on the constitutionality of the death penalty in child rapist cases. I overlooked the Supreme Court's ruling about the death penalty in general, which The Onion News Network covered today. Apparently, the Court has ruled that the death penalty is "totally badass." See for yourself (lots of foul language, particularly from Chief Justice Roberts):
Supreme Court Rules Death Penalty Is 'Totally Badass'
Posted by P.M. Jaworski on June 25, 2008 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Filibuster: State Secrets
Maxime Bernier left some secret documents at his former girlfriend's house, and resigned on account of it. Makes you wonder: Just what kind of state secrets does Canada have to protect? WS cartoonist J.J. McCullough has your answer:
Posted by Western Standard on June 14, 2008 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Hug a bear
h/t to Kate for bringing this video to my attention.
Ya gotta love the idiot editor who spliced in stock footage of PENGUINS to illustrate a story about the Arctic. Check it out at the 29-sec mark.
And ya just gotta love our heroine, who, after her training session with a rifle (to learn how to protect herself from polar bears), said she'd rather hug the creatures instead. Right. One Brit popsicle treat for mamma polar bear coming up!
Posted by Terry O'Neill on May 7, 2008 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (65) | TrackBack
Friday, March 14, 2008
How can you call this man anti-American?
(Non-photoshopped cover of the current issue of Rolling Stone magazine. Article here.)
You wouldn't call Luke Skywalker anti-American, would you?
Previous Shotgun post on Obama here.
Posted by Terrence Watson on March 14, 2008 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (30) | TrackBack
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Mike Huckacockroach & Glove Romney
Well, almost all the results are in from today's US presidential primaries (except for the under-reported Democrats Abroad primary) and they are pretty clear. Obama continued his weekend winning streak today in the Potomac region (Virginia, Maryland, and D.C.), picking up approximately 63 more delegates, with Hillary getting 28. Since the Republican contests were winner-take-all, McCain's sweep of the three contests means he'll be getting an 89 delegate boost, further securing his position as the presumptive GOP nominee. With all this talk about how the in-the-know pundits in the Capitol region would be choosing their candidates and voting, it's interesting to look at the flip-side: How much do average Americans know about the candidates and how do they choose between them?
Jay Leno investigated:
Evidently they don't know much more than your average resident of Beijing, China:
What's the moral? H.L. Mencken said it even better than Leno: "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
Posted by Kalim Kassam on February 12, 2008 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Saturday, February 02, 2008
Sounds like...
My fellow Report magazine alumni, and Report readers who might have heard Ted Byfield talking on radio or television, might be amused when watching The Pink Panther (the original movie made in the early 1960s) on DVD.
I was playing the director commentary for the movie and I thought to myself, "Gosh, Blake Edwards' voice reminds me of Ted Byfield's voice."
See if you agree. :)
Posted by Rick Hiebert on February 2, 2008 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Thursday, December 13, 2007
A little early morning music
This is a little nostalgia nugget I dug up for my father the other day at his request: The Merry Minuet by the Kingston Trio. Found it on YouTube. It's an old song--written in 1958 and recorded a year later--so I’m sure it’s irrelevant today.
Posted by Kevin Steel on December 13, 2007 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Monday, July 16, 2007
Hating Hogtown
A mischievous documentary about why and how Canadians hate Toronto actually seems to have some real insights, including: In a country threatened by political divisions and western alienation for years, hating Toronto is a great unifier.
Posted by Terry O'Neill on July 16, 2007 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (49) | TrackBack
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Giant joint
And while we're talking about marijuana usage (see Patrick's post, below), you've just gotta love the photo that the editors of the Halifax Daily News published today to illustrate a column about pot smoking. It appears that not only does Canada have four times the average marijuana usage but the country also is home to joints that are four times bigger than the world average.
Posted by Terry O'Neill on July 10, 2007 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (11) | TrackBack
Monday, March 19, 2007
Driving Unicorns
Posted by Jonathan Goldfarb on March 19, 2007 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Oh, Canada!
Paul Hellyer's bizarre demand, that governments make known global-warming-fighting secrets they have obtained from UFOs, has earned this country's former defence minister some prime space on today's Drudge Report.
Posted by Terry O'Neill on March 1, 2007 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (38) | TrackBack
Friday, January 19, 2007
Only in Canada, Eh?
Beth sent me this story:
Foreign strippers planning to dance in Canadian clubs must now provide photos of themselves with no clothes on to qualify for a visa for Canada.
The Canadian Embassy in Mexico says "stage photos during performances are required."
Sorry - I should clarify. It's an old story. From the Strippergate days. But it's Friday, and it's funny, and we all need a laugh.
Posted by RightGirl on January 19, 2007 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (7) | TrackBack
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Hippie Wisdom
Meet Fenris:
I looked down at the ground in shame at the disgusting greed of taxpayers who refuse to give more money more often to give the deserving poor like Inyrtyy the opportunity to become concert pianists or stockbrokers.
The crying was interrupted by Inyrtyy putting up his hand. I am hungry, he said. Cywbyll then bared her breast and Inyrtyy began to suckle. I kept my eyes averted yet also watched so as to not offend the feminists by neither staring at the breast feeding nor not staring at the breast feeding as a rejection of a woman’s right to suckle in public at any time, place, with the exception of offending Muslim religious sensibilities.
I nibbled on a muffin listening to the loud slurping of Inyrtyy and the soft weeping of his team of care givers. For her part, Cywbyll sat stoicly, her face flushed, her lips reddened with anger at racism, panting in a slowly increasing tempo.
Posted by Darcey on December 19, 2006 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack
Friday, October 20, 2006
Dog day Afternoon
Maybe what I should do, he thinks, is stand up in the House, say I'm going to apologize, mouth the words, and say the apology was in a high-pitched frequency that only Ms. Stronach can hear.
Posted by Darcey on October 20, 2006 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (35) | TrackBack
Thursday, July 13, 2006
Let's make a deal
There's lots of buzz on the 'net about B.C. blogger Kyle MacDonald, who has used a series of barter trades to trade his way up from a red paper clip to a house in Kipling, Sask.. Today's Province newspaper is reporting, in a story behind its subscriber firewall, that the two Whistler women, who traded for that paper clip, still own the famed red paper clip.
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=3801c70f-6f0b-47b1-ab34-f2501226ad39
Rhawnie Vallins and Corinna Haight, who plan to attend MacDonald's house-opening party in September, have reportedly received several tempting offers for the paper clip.
Posted by Rick Hiebert on July 13, 2006 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Italian PM's Friendly Greeting
Silvio Berlusconi makes Pierre Trudeau look like Stephen Harper.
Posted by CharLeBois on March 21, 2006 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (34) | TrackBack
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
The Pen is Mightier
Being able to master this (Google Video link) would ensure your domination of any seminar/debate/meeting for the rest of your life. You could effectively shut people down as they tried to retort. Brilliant.
Posted by CharLeBois on March 8, 2006 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (13) | TrackBack
Thursday, February 23, 2006
U.S. Cartoonists Strike Back
A number of editorial cartoons drawn by U.S. cartoonists addressing the cartoon flap.
Posted by EclectEcon on February 23, 2006 in Humour | Permalink | Comments (38) | TrackBack