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The proper way to dispose of a faded/torn/old Canadian flag is to burn it in private.
I thought you were supposed to give it a Shawinigan Handshake.
This is “Hairy McSpecies” from one of my favorite Etsy shops, Mixed Species.
They’ve got a dragon problem at their offices and Hairy is showing us how to slay them … by luring them in with corn dogs.
Apparently .. they have a video.
(I’d like very much to be involved with an Etsy collaboration like Mixed Species. Let’s see if we can make this happen?)
This is my doppelgänger, for Doppelgänger Day, which I missed.
Yeah, I’m that awesome.
Excuse me while I stick a shotgun in my mouth and pull the trigger.
Oh hey look, it’s me represented as a beer bottle.
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Vitalic / Second Lives
100% chance if you listen to this song, your ears will cum.
Tellement true.
Time to pack it up and go home, this person just won at the Canadian internet.
Poutine quest. So, I went to Harvey’s at Home Depot but it was closed, and instead of driving down Baseline I just decided to stop by Willy’s cause I haven’t been in forever. … I made the right choice. My tummy is happy. —Although now I’m thinking I have to go get a Works poutine soon.
Gah, America, I don’t know how you live without this. Every time I go the states I experience poutine withdrawal.
This, a bottle of Boréale, and a brunette in Sorels and I’m SET FOR LIFE.
What the fuck?
Manny "Chevrolet" Bruno: American Hero, Probably Won't Be Mayor of New Orleans
This is not Bruno’s first rodeo, and it shows.
The 46-year-old textbook salesman at Tulane University and part-time comedian may be the most polished of all in front of the camera. Some of his quotes have been more memorable than those uttered by the front-line candidates.Who can forget this gem from the first televised mayoral debate?
“All the great leaders are gone,” Bruno said. “Gandhi is gone. Kennedy is gone, Martin Luther King is gone. And I’m not feeling really well myself right now.”
Or his plan to put “hostesses” from Bourbon Street in City Hall to make it more customer-friendly? Or his promise to make his first act as mayor the firing of all overweight police officers?
Or this one, from an interview on WWL-TV: “The reason I want to be mayor is I love to travel, and I hear that’s a big thing now with the mayor,” he said, alluding to Mayor Ray Nagin’s well-documented travel itinerary.
Bruno’s run is all about fun. He got some musician friends to cut a CD called “Manny for Mayor.”
Bruno first ran for mayor in 2002, when he called himself “a troubled man for troubled times.” He tried again in 2006 and got exactly 100 votes, fewer than half the number he received four years earlier. But this time, he says he feels his numbers growing.
“The third time’s the charm,” he said.
His platform is ill-defined, but he’s pretty forceful about bringing Amish volunteers to the city in large numbers to help fight blight. He said they’re the only ones who can build houses fast enough.
“The Amish is the only solution,” he said.He also said he is against ever again having a locally elected board run the public schools.
As he did four years ago, he advocates legalizing drugs, saying it would lessen crime and raise much-needed tax revenues. When asked in a candidate questionnaire if he’s ever bought or sold illegal drugs, he answered, “Who hasn’t?”
Some people just naturally win at life. “Who hasn’t?” FTW
Hébert: Tory déjà vu: It's Quebec vs. Alberta
There is a perfect federal-provincial storm brewing on the climate-change horizon in Canada and it is bringing to the fore the very kind of irreconcilable regional differences that once doomed Brian Mulroney’s Tory government.
For the second time in two decades, the capacity of a federal Conservative government to bridge the competing interests of Quebec and Alberta is being tested and found wanting.
Twenty years ago, the implosion of the federal Progressive Conservative party was set in motion by a constitutional crisis that saw its Quebec and Alberta supporters go different ways.
This time, the issue is not the Constitution but climate change, and, in a reversal from the Mulroney dynamics, the Harper government is sending clear signals that it is willing to risk its small beachhead in Quebec to preserve its larger Alberta base.
Shit you guys, it’s 1993 all over again. Someone better call Brian Mulroney (or Kim Campbell) and ask how that went last time.
dbizzle asked: Did you move to Florida? Did you get the mitts yet or is it a problem that they were sent to Charlottesville? Ha.
Yeah I’m in Florida! I didn’t get the mitts yet, but I don’t think it’ll be a problem - I put my mail on hold until next week and it should be forwarded automatically. Or maybe Homeland Security stole them. They’re just terrible.
Posted February 5, 2010 at 8:51am
