The Skinny: Happy Canada Day! A Google alphabet in English and French (2012)

These are the words that appear instantly when one types the first letter in a Google search:

In English:

·       Air Canada

·       Best Buy

·       Canadian Tire

·       Dictionary

·       eBay

·       Facebook

·       Google
 
 
·       Hotmail
 
 
·       Ikea

·       Job Bank

·       Kijiji

·       LCBO

·       Mapquest

·       NHL

·       OLG

·       Project Free TV

·       Quotes

·       Rogers

·       Scotiabank

·       TD

·       Urban Dictionary

·       Via Rail

·       Weather Network

·       xBox

·       YouTube

·       Zellers

En français:

·       AccèsD

·       Best Buy

·       Canada 411

·       Dictionnaire

·       eBay

·       Facebook

·       Google

·       Hotmail

·       Ikea

·       Jeux

·       Kijiji

·       Lespac

·       Météomédia

·       NHL

·       OC Transpo

·       Poste Canada

·       Québec

·       Radio Canada

·       SAAQ

·       Traduction

·       UOttawa

·       Vidéotron

·       Wikipedia

·       Xplornet

·       YouTube

·       Zellers

Last year’s list: 2011

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The Skinny: On the lighter side: Won’t somebody please think of the children (World Naked Bike Ride)

From Auntie Antonia of the Toronto Star:

Nobody should have been taken aback on Saturday to see some 150 stripped loins wheeling past Exhibition Place.

It was at Coronation Park, just outside the Princes’ Gates, where Toronto participants in the eighth annual World Naked Bike Ride bared down and headed downtown to protest automobile pollution and the dangers cars pose to cyclists everyday.

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The Skinny: Scaredy Squirrel Meets Gay Men

My comment posted on The Wingnuterer about A Squirrel Explains Gay Marriage:

 Scaredy Squirrel Meets Gay Men:

 

WHAT TO DO IF TWO GAY MEN WALK BY MY TREE:
ACTION PLAN:

Gather nuts.

Hide in tree.

Wait for couple to walk by.

Aim nuts at their nuts.

If they start taking photos of me, play dead.

Keep playing dead. Pretend they don’t exist.

Play dead a little longer until they walk away.

WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS:

1:00: Gather nuts.

1:05: Hide in tree.

1:10: Wait for couple to walk by.

They stop.

1:15: Aim nuts at their nuts.

Fall out of tree! Oh no!

Play dead. The couple is coming toward me!

1:20: Keep playing dead! Pretend they don’t exist!

1:25: They’re taking photos of me.

Now, they are offering me some [mixed] nuts.

I accept.

They take another photo of me with some nuts stuffed in my mouth.

They smile at me.

I smile back. Or at least I try with my mouth full of nuts.

1:30: They wave good-bye and walk away.

I run back to my tree with my nuts knowing that I will never be afraid of gay men again.

[Toronto’s mayor, Rob Ford. could follow Scaredy Squirrel’s example.]

NEXT STORY: Scaredy Squirrel and the Lesbian Chipmunks.

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