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The Out Campaign

“And I’m Not Being Sarcastic (Not At All)”

Brilliant work from Funny or Die:

Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell
Courtesy Sheepy.

Big Bad

Match the adjective with the noun:
1) Big
2) Bad
A) Acting
B) Room

Image: Screencap from this week’s episode of True Blood
Don’t get me wrong, I love me some over-the-top Alan Ball zaniness, but the scene above, between Bill and The Queen, was one serious thespian trainwreck.

“More Tasteless”

Coors Billboard in British Columbia
Oh, cripes, when I was sick last week I totally missed the brouhaha over several Coors’ billboards in British Columbia, allegedly dissing Toronto with the slogan COLDER THAN MOST PEOPLE FROM TORONTO and, I hafta say, as one of those people from Toronto, I’m deeply offended at the inaccuracy of such [...]

What the Fuck, Tim Hortons?

Full disclosure: I can’t stand Tim Hortons and their long line-ups for mediocre coffee and, worse, the smug, anti-elite posturing of their loyal customers. That said…
It’s bad enough that bigoted hags like Maggie Gallagher, who heads up the odious National Organization for Marriage, can get any sponsors for their events, but when one of them [...]

Damning With Faint(est) Praise

Calling your movie “better than Crash” is like saying your movie is the same as every other movie ever made, including The Room and Plan 9 from Outer Space:

Fragments: “Better than Crash“

Alarming Food

Meat Cards:
Let me say this upfront — I wholeheartedly endorse the laser-etching of anything on anything. That said, what a treat to check out meatcards.com, which boldly proclaims…

Screw die-cutting. Forget about foil, popups, or UV spot lamination. THESE business cards have two ingredients:
MEAT AND LASERS.
Unlike other business cards, MEAT CARDS will retain value after the [...]

Say No to Same Same [sic] Sex Marraige [sic] (Sick)

Well, the lying idiots at Maggie Gallagher’s National Organization for Marriage — the group which is, apparently, against more people marrying — has come out with another ad filled with lies, misrepresentations and, as an added bonus, a thinly-veiled appeal to race-based bigotry. But the level of intelligence operating behind these vile ads is laid [...]

Forget “Star Trek” and “Wolverine”, THIS is the Movie We’ve Been Waiting For!

Lorenzo Lamas and Debbie Deborah Gibson? Hell, yeah!

Video: Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus Trailer
(via Towleroad)

“Thank You, Mom”

This is the entrance to the Bay at Yonge and Bloor Streets in downtown Toronto. It’s also the entrance to the most-visited subway stop covering the two most-traveled transit lines in the city. This is how we roll in Toronto:

It would be funny if it wasn’t so fucking shabby and inept and disgusting. And [...]

Anti-Condom Clowns

There are (at least) two sides to every story — one of which was yesterday’s Condom Fairy ad — even though other side(s) to The Pregnancy/STD-Avoidance Story are often knowingly false (or criminally delusional). And President Obama’s recent slashing of abstinence-only funding has sent shockwaves through the ranks of those who’d rather lie to children [...]

Condom Fairy

It’s a sad fact that most condom ads are neither sexy nor clever. This Lifestyles ad is both. Plus funny. Plus no one was humiliated or shamed, so it couldn’t be a Canadian ad. Mildly NSFW, in case you were wondering. Oh, also? WARNING: Straight people doing the sexy:

Video: Lifestyles Condom fairy

(via ScaryIdeas).

Extra, Extra!

From last night’s airing, of Fringe on CTV…

“The following program contains violence and scenes…”
We’ve already lost the war, against grocers’ apostrophes. Errant commas next?

Eat Well (1)

ManuLife Centre ValuMart, Toronto (6PM, 3 April 2009)

I’m Gonna Say That A Line Was Crossed With The Dog Food

Of all the… wrongness of this advert — the wanton disregard for the environmental impact of the flushings, the gigglesome image of crapping out a short story consisting of magnetic letters — I hafta say it was with the dog food that a line was crossed — The Line of Hilarious!

You, of course, may go [...]

Holyword or Bused

Man, when DeadRobot name-checks you and your favourite bodily function, you’d better pay attention:
Via Blamblog comes a little gadget that BStewart will pee his pants over… The Atheist Bus Sign Generator

(sign generated by DeadRobot)
(For the record, I totally did pee my pants.)

See also: this and this and this.
ADDENDUM:

(inspired by Rick)