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Friday Fun Link – Reefer Madness Reaches Canada

From Colbert (with bonus mention of Saskatchewan!)   Late night comedians are having a lot of fun with my home province actually (ffwd to 3:00 minute mark)…  

Posted 29 June 2018 § Canada § FridayFunLink § Humour § News § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

George Carlin on Cynicism

Posted 19 June 2018 § Meme § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Music Monday – “Well they walked that day/The next/And the next/And the water it ran out one by one/Ay mijitos/They looked like dried leaves/Scattered in the sun”

“Migrants” – Sam Baker One of the best managers I’ve known (at least measured by how many quotes of theirs I regularly regurgitate) once said something to this effect: One important thing to remember – those rules, policies, guidelines we have?  They’re all just words on paper.  They’re arbitrary.  And they can be changed completely […]

Posted 18 June 2018 § MusicMonday § News § Politics § PopCulture § Travel § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

“That’s why everyone who works retail doesn’t tell you to go fuck yourself.”

(h/t DC on FB)

Posted 31 May 2018 § Censorship § Humour § Meme § News § Politics § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Yanny vs. Laurel: Meme of the Year?

What do you hear?! Yanny or Laurel pic.twitter.com/jvHhCbMc8I — Cloe Feldman (@CloeCouture) May 15, 2018 Is anybody talking about anything else today? First of all, the clip is, according to Sanker “not prototypical” of either laurel or yanny. It’s somewhere in the middle. Sanker said the l/y discrepancy might come from the fact that the sound there isn’t velarized—the speaker’s tongue […]

Posted 16 May 2018 § Meme § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – @officialRPL Mother’s Day Video

This RPL Mother’s Day video is great! It makes me excited for RPL Father’s Day video next month where various dads who work for the system try not to get emotional while reading passages from “Fight Club” to our children. 😉   Just kidding – this video is great and I know I can’t get […]

Posted 11 May 2018 § Family § FridayFunLink § Library § MemoryLane § Pace § Sad § Sasha § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Is “A Horse Is Loose In A Hospital” The Best Donald Trump Analogy So Far?

Fast forward to near the end of this clip for the joke…  

Posted 08 May 2018 § News § Politics § PopCulture § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Music Monday – “Yeah, this is America/Guns in my area/I got the strap/I gotta carry ’em”

“This Is America” – Childish Gambino Some of the Things You May Have Missed MetaFilter weighs in Annotated lyrics This Is America: Donald Glover’s Video Is A Gripping Read

Posted 07 May 2018 § MusicMonday § News § Politics § PopCulture § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “Some nights will haunt me/Until the daylight comes around/I’ll be fine, it’s all I really own/It’s always been around”

“Somewhere In The Mountains, Somewhere In New York” – Tallest Man on Earth

Posted 23 April 2018 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Why Did #HumboldtStrong Resonate So Strongly?

The outpouring of support after the horrible Humboldt Broncos bus accident that killed 16 people and left 13 more injured has been unprecedented. People from not only across Saskatchewan and Canada but indeed, from around the world, have sent money and condolences. Tonight, the GoFundMe page that originally aimed to raise $10,000 and is about […]

Posted 18 April 2018 § Censorship § Internet § List § Meme § News § Politics § Sad § Saskatchewan § Sports § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,