The Star: North York councillors peeved at being overruled by the Ontario Municipal Board – on a condo complex they didn’t want – exacted poetic justice yesterday by giving the project an address the developer won’t soon forget: OMB Folly. … Councillor David Shiner said the move may usher in a welcome precedent: “When wecontinue reading
Humour Archives
And now, a word from our spammers
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A is for Aisle
A good new kids’ album for those interested who haven’t run across it – Snacktime by Barenaked Ladies. Tested on a recent long car trip with success. Worth getting just for the alphabet song, which starts with “A is for Aisle” and goes downhill from there. The kids may not get it but they’ll want tocontinue reading
From the office of the Fearless Leader
Full credit where credit is due — hackers and spammers sometimes do good work. An e-mail sent to a PMO media distribution list, purporting to come from we’re-better-off-with Harper: from Stephen Harper to ALLNEWS_E@lserv.pmo-cpm.gc.ca date Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 3:34 PM subject Why you shouldn’t fear me Hi The Average Canadian, Stephen Harper wantedcontinue reading
In case you were in doubt
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Get Smart
In Milwaukee, a caterpillar becomes a butterfly, or something: 2002 2008 Full metamorphosis here. H/t to Calculated Risk.
30-something: the cruellest age
Q. What’s the worst age to be? A. Mine, which in one week sees me both condescended to by a friend’s boyfriend’s late-40s/early-50s friends: “Nancy Pelosi — oh, she’s the…” “I know who Nancy Pelosi is, thanks.” “Senior advisor? What do [could] you [possibly] give advice on?” “Back when I went to McGill — acontinue reading
A Paler Shade
Christian Lander, Torontonian co-creator of the eerily accurate site Stuff White People Like (check out the full list, including David Sedaris and standing still at concerts, here), reveals the source of his inspiration to the Globe and Mail: I grew up in Riverdale in Toronto, and Riverdale pretty much captures the entire concept of whatcontinue reading
It was Glaukos who spoke first, dude…
Here’s an entertaining and very weird website, with a whole new take on the Iliad. I ran across it in a review, in New York Magazine, of a book called Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks From the Wild Web, by one Sarah Boxer (review also linked below). http://nymag.com/arts/books/reviews/44480/ http://underodysseus.blogspot.com/2006_04_09_archive.html
Chanukah Sameach!
… from the folks at New York’s Balducci’s.