When On The Range, It’s Good To Know Where Home Is

Derrick Thomas Alger needs to cut back on the booze just a touch. I have a feeling, if he wasn’t drunk, he wouldn’t be wandering around in shorts and a cowboy hat and boots threatening cabbies with guns, coming into the wrong house, and then threatening to kill the family’s dog…and then asking who the …

More Bad Ads

Here we go with a few commercials that have caught our attention. While I was at home, I happened to walk by the TV, which is near the table where we eat. As I did, I heard something to the effect of “You’re in a tropical paradise…when it hits you. The gut-wrenching panic of traveller’s …

Random Thought Post time

I had some thoughts floating around in my head so thought I’d put them down. I don’t know if this is long enough to lock the VO keys for, but hey, it might surprise me. I’m dangerous when I get going. God, all this bullshit with Stephen Harper suspending parliament just so he can avoid …

The Councilors Are Full Of Air, Just Like Balloons

Here we go again with the UK. I was going to say that it didn’t take me long to find some UK silliness this year, but this is a story from November. I’m just seeing it now. A business somewhere in the UK, wherever Solihull is, decided to tie balloons outside their store to draw …

People In The Bank Can Turn An LOL Into A Great Big OMG

Jeremy Donaldson, next time you’re bored standing in a bank line, find another way to entertain yourself. Maybe watch the people around you. Maybe somebody’s doing something funny. Or listen to some music. But texting your girlfriend to say the bank is being held up is not a good choice. She may not think you’re …

Your Police Dog Is Really A Dog

If you ever needed proof that even the best-trained dogs get distracted, here it is. Police were chasing an armed robber and had a scent-detecting dog with them. Well…he got distracted by another scent, the scent of raw meat in a homeless man’s underwear, which said homeless man had just stolen from a nearby store. …

Christmas Ramblings

I figured I’d write a few Christmas-related thoughts. Holy crap, I’m actually getting my Christmas shopping in order. I just need to pick up a few things, and get a couple more ideas, and I’ll be done. Of course, a lot of this stuff has to come through the mail…so there’s still a lot of …

Get Your H1N1 And Headline Fails Here

Both of these come from the same edition ofthe guelph Tribune,where somebody was either in a hurry or knows something that the rest of us don’t. H1N1 now available to allHmmm…it appears I have a choice to make. do I go for the straight H1N1 or hold out for the vaccine? Full roll-out of H1N1 …