Inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/08/14/caw-auto-industry-contract-talks.html
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Law is Cool: Law School Drop Out Pens Best Rejection Response – Ever
When the San Diego Padres sent law school dropout Taylor Grey Meyer a rejection letter, after she applied to the team over 30 times, here’s what she had to say: On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Taylor Grey Meyer <[Redacted]@gmail.com> wrote Hi [Redacted], I wanted to thank you
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Mars Laser
We’ve equipped Mars with a laser. Our latest rover there, called Curiosity, actually shoots fricken laser beams from its head. How cool is that? Is there a scientific purpose in aiming the rover’s laser at Earth and detecting the flash here? I think there must be. We could use it
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Post The Dark Knight Rises – It is Alfred rises…
Loved the movie, but I breathlessly await the sequel. Filed under: Humour Tagged: Alfred, entertainment, Humour, sequel, The Dark Knight Rises
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major
Generally I don’t post video clip blog posts. This one is worth it, however. -XKCD is a genius.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Martian Automobile Association
Years ago I created the Martian Automobile Association (MAA), and tried selling memberships on eBay. I forget if I managed to sell any membership cards, but remember creating at least one (and have a photo of it), so I probably did. That member hasn’t stayed in touch, probably because they
Continue readingwmtc: how prisons work, by brian mcfadden
Don’t forget to visit Big Fat Whale for more McFadden funnies. Even better, subscribe to his feed in the New York Times‘ Sunday Review: The Strip.
Continue readingwmtc: tom davis deanimated at age 59
I’ve just learned of the untimely passing of a very funny man. Those of us old enough to remember the brilliant and subversive “The Franken and Davis Show” bits on the old Saturday Night Live may have sometimes wondered what happened to Al Franken’s less famous partner. Tom Davis died
Continue readingwmtc: rtod: the how to guide for understanding rioting negroes
Revolutionary Thought of the Day: the KFC Double Down is a plot against white America. The Negro Rioting Plan that’s been put in place is a terribly complicated strategy that has taken hundreds of thousands of Negroes to plan and thousands of years to come together. Sleeper agents, technological advances
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Bleeding Green
Mitch Alexander writes: What kind of council does the city of Regina have. You best believe that I won’t be going to that stadium. I think everyone should just boycott the new stadium indefinitely. It won’t be able to last if nobody goes… That’s not the best strategy Mitch. If
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Maxime Bernier Photo
Does “cliché” mean the same in French as it does in English? If so, perhaps this is an unfortunate photograph of Maxime Bernier, the MP for Beauce.
Continue reading350 or bust: Are You Ready To Sit Down For What You Believe In?
Who says building a better world is all work and no play? Who Gives A Crap is a fun campaign created by three engineers/product designers who have developed a toilet paper that is made from 100 % post-consumer waste, without the dyes/ink/glue/chlorine that makes regular TP so bad for the
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Google Street View Circa 1907
It seems Google didn’t invent Street View The idea was 100 years old when it first started to become popular on the Internet! Behold Vancouver, street view from 1907 Barcelona, Spain 1908 Look at all the bicycles! Vancouver in 1971, albeit a little shaky camera work. Moose Jaw, circa 2006,
Continue reading350 or bust: Saturday At The Movies
A joyful union:
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Dystopia Decision Tree
Via Blastr, we have a decision tree to help determine if your sci-fi society is a dystopia. Interestingly enough, I think it’s useful for determine if your current society is dystopian. Cough … Harper Conservatives … cough.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Star Wars Lightsaber Fight?
Maybe not? Filed under: Humour Tagged: Humour, Light Saber, Phantom Fail, Star Wars
Continue readingCalgary Grit: 100 Years of Bad Photo Ops
As you have probably heard a hundred times over the past month, the Calgary Stampede turns 100 this year. Calgary has changed a lot over this time. A seat at the 1912 rodeo cost 50 cents. Calgary’s population was 70,000. And, oh yeah, back then Alberta was a Liberal bastion,
Continue readingLaw is Cool: Look, It’s a Mammoth Erection!
Mammoth Erection v. Vann Niagara Ltd., [2007] O.J. No. 2153, 64 C.L.R. (3d) 104, 157 A.C.W.S. (3d) 940 (Ont. S.C.J.) A classic, by Law is Cool founder Omar Ha-Redeye, who detailed it years ago on Slaw.
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