This will get a lot of attention. A lot of criticism.
I kind of like it.
Think Different.
Category: humour
I am Canadian – beer anthem
The Olympics gets me all patriotic.
Click PLAY or watch our new anthem on YouTube.
I saw this linked from gymnast Kate Richardson’s Facebook page.
Republican Enjoys Paying Huge Health Insurance Premiums
This is brilliant.
To hear the short audiocast from the Onion, click HERE.
Word nerd. No money, deservedly so.
Kate posted one of her humour columns.
I love it.
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Not Quite What I Was Planning is a compendium of mini-autobiographies that were sent to the editors after they launched a contest asking people to sum up their lives in six words. Among those who responded were the always- hilarious Stephen Colbert, author and journalist Sebastian Junger (The Perfect Storm), and author Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love). Among these more public characters, drag queen and author Josh Kilmer-Purcell wittily wrote of himself, “He wore dresses. This caused messes.”
But the editors were equally intrigued by regular people like a 16-year-old from Nashville, Texas called Lizzie Grace, who penned the poignant, “Wanted world, got world plus lupus.”
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Abigail Moorhouse’s “Barrister, barista, what’s the diff, Mom?” needed no further explanation, which may be why it won the contest over more than 5,000 other entries.
The project was supposedly inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s oft-praised teensy story: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” The book’s unexpectedly telling summaries function as deeply personal haikus. “I still make coffee for two,” reads one. “Found true love, married someone else” reads another.
This kind of fiction is known as “flash,” “micro,” “sudden,” “short-short,” “postcard,” “minute,” “quick,” “furious,” and “skinny.” Those terms characterize a story that is under 2,000 words long and more likely ranges between 250 and 1,000 words. …
why I don’t need an iPhone
I’m jealous of geekier-than-thou friends like Garth who are getting a new iPhone.
But since I carry a laptop everywhere I go, I don’t need one.
proof of Global Warming
For skeptics like Brian who denies that he murders polar bears.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
A second video is even more conclusive: Treehugger
India-Pakistan Standoff Enters 11,680th Day
When I was young, annihilation by nuclear war seemed inevitable.
It still seems that way. Though I may not live to see the annihilation.
training at the Adlard compound
Ever wonder what I am doing in North Idaho?
Preparing for the eventual day we need protect ourselves from the government.
Happy 4th of July!
Jack – staircase luger
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
(via my gymnastics blog)
get rich quick
By email:
Dear friend
I have a project I want you to run with us. It involves exportation of 100,000 barrels of crude oil daily from Kikuk, Iraq.
If you are interested, email me via: ccyun4@live.com
Mr. Yan.
Rick McCharles 