Man trapped in bog for 100 hours. And it gets worse. When he emerged he was in Aberdeen!
Weee, we have an asteroid named after us!
I guess the video below is supposed to excite people about moving to London, Ontario. While I do not doubt that any of the long list of London’s accomplishments are true, some of them come across as damning us with faint praise.
For example, early in the video the line: “where global ambitions are realized at the 12th best business school in the world” actually made me laugh. I thought it was going to be a spoof. Perhaps, “where global ambitions are realized at one of the best business schools in the world” makes the point without the whiff of podunkism I detect.
But seriously, London is great because Johnny Cash proposed to the wife he made miserable here? Hey, didn’t Elvis Presley eat a grilled cheese sandwich at Simpson’s in London, Ontario? (Actually, the video is quite accurate about the good food — we have a lot of great restaurants for a relatively small city.)
Johnny Cash wasn’t even Canadian, let alone a Londoner. What about actual Londoners we should be proud of? Tommy Hunter is a famous country singer (well, in Canada), and he was born in London. What about Guy Lombardo? No mention of Emily Chesley? Outrageous!
Still, at least Asteroid 12310 is named after us. I just think “Welcome to Asteroid 12310, Population 365,000” is going to be confusing on the signs at the edge of town.
Now, the video:
After, perhaps you can go visit humor-blogs.com, where it will be slightly less silly. Or, if you’re from London and you’d like to improve efforts to market our beautiful city (and it is), you can check out the Ambassador London website.
Sunday O-Rama
Another cracked edition of the The Carnival of the Insanities is up.
And if that doesn’t cook your noodle, then you should definitely visit an excellent Carnival of the Godless.
I don’t normally link to quizzes, but this one is quite well done: 92%DRUNKARD
Blogger ponders on things instead of musing about them (redux)
HAMILTON, Ontario (The Skwib) — The blogosphere is still reeling from the revelation that a blogger has been pondering things instead of musing about them.
“Yeah, I’ve spent a lot of time musing, in fact, the tagline from my blog used to be ‘muted musings from Jeff’s tasty trumpet” — clever, eh? But . . . I don’t know, it just seemed like it was time to, you know, start pondering instead,” Jeffrey Trumpeter told The Skwib in an early morning phone interview.
Trumpeter runs “Assorted Cream Fillings (pudding-like ponderings from Jeffrey’s pastry pan),” a blog devoted to his interest in cats, Boston Cream Donuts, hockey, politics and humor he describes as either “quirky” or “explosive”.
read the rest of this article in The Skwib archives …>
Or try humor-blogs.com, but you won’t find it there.
Anyone else locked out of their blog?
If you use WordPress and the Bad Behavior plugin, you may have had a nasty surprise this morning, as you were unable to log into your blog. Turns out something dire happened, and you’ll need to install an updated version of the plugin. Once installed it seemed to stop behaving badly. And while I’m not being funny, here are a few carnivals we’ve participated in recently: Grand Rounds, Storyblogging, Film News, and Men’s Guide to Women (#3).
Carnival of Satire (#89)
Our findings this week are definitely on the religious side, though oddly non-conservative as well. Or not, we’ll let you decide:
Rickey Henderson kicks things off this week with fourteen Commandments of Blogging. Moses only needed ten, but then, he was merely starting a religion.
Madeleine Begun Kane returns to the carnival with a limerick (and video rendering of): My Family Needs Me.
Ian Welsh at The Agonist has done the research, and has a definitive answer on what Conservatives Spend Their Time Thinking About. Heh.
The question is: do neo-conservatives worry about the Apocalypse on the radio?. gary vasey has insight. And a punchline.
Of course, that never would have happened at the St. Mary’s School for Boys with Evil Tendencies (and Boxing Ring).
Steve Sham presents a few theories on the genesis of the term: “Black Friday”.
200motels presents The Latest News From France. Warning: definitely not safe for work, and potentially harmful to your libido, lunch and sanity. You have been warned.
KCLau presents the schematics for The ‘Never-be-Stolen’ Handbag.
Madeleine Begun Kane also writes snarky advice: Ms. Legal Person Answers Your Holiday Questions.
Kneon presents Do you have a fear of clowns? If not, Korpso the Evil Clown just might do the trick!.
While not technically satire, Scott H has some useful advice for the freshman year and includes a link to this YouTube video about the walk of shame.
Black Zedd has a satirical “about me” for his fictitious CEO of a marketing consultant company What About Me?
Simon presents Does anybody speak girl?.
And to finish, we have a very funny audio presentation:
Stephen Joseph has a truly disturbing and sometimes hilarious Guided Meditation Tape worthy of something Dr. Tundra might record after his traditional peyote breakfast milkshake.
And that’s it for this edition! If we’ve included your post, thanks, and please consider throwing The Skwib a link or a trackback. Otherwise, Sister Mary Trenchbroom (pictured above) may come calling. If you have some satire to share, please consider submitting next time. Thanks to these fine folks for helping us with webby-stuff: the Blog Carnival for their form; and the listings at the Ubercarnival, humor-blogs for including this nonsense, and the fine folks at the Blog Carnival too.
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