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What About “Bear’s Kin”?

“Bambi Demands Justice for Bears”. “Bare Skin Not Bearskin”. Oh, my aching punny bone. Heh, bone.

There’s plenty to ridicule about PeTA — like renaming fish “sea kittens”, f’rinstance — but they do have a knack for hiring the occasional attractive spokesmodel (like hot Survivors Ethan “Swoon-Thud” Zohn and Jenna Morasca) and, now, Battlestar Galactica‘s Jamie [...]

WORDS, Check Out All The Ways You Can Play With Your

Today’s Scrabble™ Word-of-the-Day:

7 Points (click image to visit Hasbro adult games, full-screen capture here)

Move With The Grooves!

Because if you have a subway system — whole sections of which are out of service for hours (or days) every time a mouse farts on the track or a flake of snow falls (in January) — and a bus/streetcar system — whole routes having published schedules bearing no resemblance whatsoever to actual bus/streetcar arrival [...]

And What Are The Hot, Smart People Saying These Days?

Rogers SmartPhone Subway Ad

According to the marketing folks at Rogers Communications, hot, smart people are saying this:

XO, IRL, UNLTD, LOL, BTW, MUAH, UNLTD, LOL, ROFL, AKA, 4EVR, BFF, L8R, AYK, LMAO, MUAH, MUAH, BTW, LMAO, CUZ, 4EVR, BTW, UNLTD, LOL, BTW, LMAO, BRB, UNLTD

Good to know.

Hey, speaking of hot, smart people… After failing twice [...]

Northbound Leather Unclear on Meaning of “Storewide”

Northbound Leather, Toronto, 27 January 2009

store·wide
adj.
Involving, applying to, or occurring throughout a whole store: a storewide sale; storewide renovations.

(On selected merchandise)

Murder Music

Oh, the howls of derision which accompanied the release of the staggeringly-awful promotional video for Microsoft’s Songsmith software. And yesterday’s New York Times was only half-heartedly defending not just the breathtaking ineptitude of the video and the product itself but, more to the point here, didn’t even bother to defend the nightmarish results of feeding [...]

As a Service To Our Two-Dimensional Shoppers…

Look. We asked you once to please respect the environment. And we asked you, again, to please respect the environment.

You don’t want to know what we’ll do if we have to ask you a third time.

Sign Overkill, Manulife Valu-Mart, Toronto (23 January 2009)

President’s Noise

Icing on the cake, it was, to return home from the grocery store this evening and receive a “personalized” letter from Rogers, my cell/cable/net provider, informing me:

As outlined on the reverse of this letter, as of March 1, 2009, we’re adjusting our rates so we can offer you the best possible in-home experience. All other [...]

Reverse Movie Product Placement

Mall Cop Movie Banner, Toronto Eaton Centre Mall
13 January 2009

“I’ll Give You Money for Your Gold, Gold, Yeah”

Helloooo!

If you don’t live in Toronto, or if you do and don’t watch television, or if you’ve visited Toronto but never watched television here, or if you live in or have visited Toronto but go to bed before 11PM, you’ve probably avoided Russell Oliver haranguing you to part with your gold.

Until now. Enjoy.

First in [...]

Double-Entendre Overload

“Just wait ’till you see what I’ve got!” “My wife would like that!” Stainless steel rods, extension rods, sliding it through the ring… All your snickering, inner-12-year-old’s needs are fulfilled with…

The Wunder-Boner:

“So, Dave, where did you get the wonder boner?”

(Link courtesy FAILblog.)

The Previous Two? Not So Good At The Detecting.

(Link courtesy Consumerist.)

“One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This”

Overexplained iPod advertisement:

Queen Subway Platform, Toronto, 24 December 2008, 2PM

(On the song progress bar, someone has added “not the Pussycat”. Pity’s that anyone might need to be told that.)

Vegan Tag or Toronto-Hating Epithet?

You decide:

Yonge & Shuter, Toronto, 4:30PM 18 December 2008

Because Believing in Alien Overlords Is NOT Insane, Right?

Guess which building this charming truck is parked outside?

I’m kind of loving the Church of Scientology these days, and the reason is fairly obvious: they’re the thin wedge which reveals the wholesale ridiculousness of believing in anything without evidence. Think I’m kidding? They not only do violence to the scientific definition of evidence, but their [...]