Dear Telus, Next year, when you drop off the phone book, please just circle around behind my house and deposit it into the handy blue recycling bin located there. Or, if you truly want to be a friend to the…
Category: Humour
Sometimes I think I’m funny. Sometimes I think other people are funny.
Jibulate
Jibulate jib-you-late, v. 1. To use made up words — esp. with the intent of being cute or irritating; 2. Any use of the word jibulate (q.v.) Example: “Looks like your widget-smoosher has cross-jibulated the floofen-gerzel.”
Vatican promotes “hate thy neighbour” — Seems wrong somehow…
Did we need any more evidence that the Vatican is an organization devoted to keeping power in the hands of men? Make that “power in the hands of hetero men”. No, wait…. “power in the hands of ostensibly hetero men.”…
Message received
Priceless
Oh, now this is priceless: New Ecofriendly Cigarettes Kill Destructive Human
Meta-attribution
I decided to put a little effort into certifying the phrasing of my random quotes over on the right and adding attributions where I have none. In Googling for an attribution for this one…. Originality has been described as “the…
On managing a renovation
I have learned that managing a renovation is like being both the conductor of and the dancer to a live band that isn’t particularly good at carrying a tune. And occasionally a musician will fall off stage and break something.…
I am an evolutionary success — maybe
“Mike, look at me.” “I am looking at you.” “No. Look at me. What do you see?” “Okay… I see a thirty-something software guy, balding and growing a paunch.” “Aha, you mock me to camouflage your own glaring inadequacies, but…
Here be irony
Sign posted at the entrance to Nose Hill Park: Herbicide application in this natural environment park will commence July 21st.
There’s one born every minute
As I’ve mentioned I keep an eye out for humourous (from my atheistic perspective) or otherwise moronic taglines posted on church billboards. This one was a doozy: “Believing in the good will of others saves so much time.” I wanted…