What are the holidays without the staples? The cranberry sauce, the Yule-logs, the home made Crock-Pot wonders that come out once a year and fill you heart with joy! Well I've got great news because, this year, you can add to your festive catering list Rudolf and the gang! (No word yet if Canada is going to follow suit, but if you're one of our UK readers...You're in luck!)


Thinking of a different flavour for this year's treats? Why not throw a thick-cut reindeer steak on the grill? Recently featured at Lidl's, a discount grocery store, these reindeer steaks have been the center of some controversy. The frozen steaks were sold at $10 for a 350g pack, and were selling fast!

A spokes-person for PETA (that well-balanced and sane group of cheerful chaps) condemned the sale of the steaks, when interviewed by Sky News UK, saying:

Best 4 seconds of your week in 3...2...1 

Cheers to non-news... we all need a little LoL now and then! (Nearly 13 million views; 12 million 6 hundred thousand people can't be wrong!)


-D-

I bet you've never even seen 23,000 teddy bears...(or at very least I hope there was a special occasion for it if you have!) So here's a clip of this year's 16th Annual Teddy Bear Toss hockey game at the Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta, Canada (December 12, 2010). Red Deer Rebels vs. Calgary Hitmen.


This was just the first goal in the first period by the Calgary Hitmen! (You should have seen what happened for the second goal... I'm not going to ruin it, but let's just say "Real Bears!")


Here's the clip:

Hey, remember on the 12th I posted that video of Vladimir Putin "playin; dat funky music, white boy"?... and I may have taken a jab at Stephen Harper by saying I'd like to see him perform some songs like that...


Well some of my "conservatives-are-people-too" friends (there goes half my readership) decided to fill my inbox with clips of Stephen Harper kickin' it, as the youngsters today say...(i'm told)


Anyways, I do have to tip my hat to Prime Minister Harper for honouring the anniversary of John Lenon's passing by singing "Imagin" in front of an audience just the other week... here are those clips. Photo: (Pawel Dwulit/ The Canadian Press)

Today's What-The-Friday is brought to you by insane parents of bratty kids! (And their lawyers, and activist groups...)


The Center for Science in the Public Interest is not the most famous groups in the world, nor are they one worthy of much merit. What is essentially the legal wing of an overgrown Mommy-and-me squad of obsessive parents who don't trust the world to manage their own caloric intake... is at it again!


I'm going to try to be as non-biased as possible in saying that this group, and many like it, are the ones behind the removal of soft-drink vending machines in schools (a school is no place to educate children and let them make their own decisions!) , the movement to label everything with it's nutrition content (WHAT!? That bag of peanuts may contain nuts!!! It damn-well better or Mr.Peanut will be receiving a very strongly worded letter from me!), and let's not forget to mention the movement to restrict the labeling of "diet" items to not persuade people into thinking the double-fudge whipped-cream and cheese-cake filled pastry was good for them because it was made with low-fat milk.

Sometimes in life, despite obstacles and hurdles...there are things you've just got to do. This however, didn't really need to be done. (Or did it? 'cause this guy seemed pretty convinced to me!)

With 45 thousand views this jump is getting global attention. He fought the law, and the law won! Friends of the video are urged to donate : "*IF YOU LIKE THIS VIDEO PLEASE DONATE $1 TO THE JESTER LEGAL DEFENSE FUND*"

Cheers to not letting anyone get you down. Life's full of compromises, conditions, and penalties... why not make it worth it every once in a while?


-D-

We've all been there before; After a few holiday eggnoggs, Uncle Tim is hearing what you really think of him... or after a few too many at the office party you think to yourself "I could dance the Carlton... it's easy and ALWAYS gets a big laugh!"


Wouldn't it be nice if drinks came with a warning! (and I don't mean from the surgeon general)
Well WateSomeCache.com has gotcha covered! Pick up a 6 pack of these 4"X 4" coasters and warn people of the affects of alcohol abuse (or just remind yourself) and save the holidays this year! Pick them up here!

So we're still counting down the day until xmas... I don't personally celebrate it, but it's a great excuse to get gifts! So what the hell, let's keep up our lists. Today's topic is Gifts for Gearheads and we've got quite the assortment.


We start with the essence of awesome, it's on every gearhead's must-have list, and I know I want one; the 6-speed aluminium Gearshit Knbo Umbrella! There's not much to say about this item. If you don't get its awesomeness right away, then you never will! From the folks at BTGMotoring.com, this item is just over 30 bucks and would make you wish every day was a rainy day. Why not shift your gift giving into overdrive with this functional and fashionable item!

So it's that time of year again where everyone is shopping for someone else and you undoubtedly have someone on your list that a little...uhh...different. He or she is a little more, let's say, advanced in the technical cognitive functions and buying them a sweater will probably just piss them off (though if you must, sweater vests are still in amongst geek kind, FYI). So what do you get the geek on your list? Simple; just choose from any of the gifts below (remember, if you don't get it, you should probably get it, 'cause it's probably hilarious!)

First on the list of Ho-Ho-Holy crap this is awesome!:

Nuclear Soap! (Well not really...but check it out!)


Yup that's Uranium Soap! (It's not actual uranium, we're trying to kill BO, not sterilize the population...not that a sterile geek has any more or less of a chance or procreation, but still...)

The glow-in-the-dark soap comes to you from PerpetualKid.com and is a Vegan friendly, Human tested phosphorescent and ocean scented bar of awesome! Pick it up now for only 7 bucks! (US, plus S+H and taxes where applicable...)

A fair amount of you are math-hating types. I'm sure there's more than a few of my readers that either hated math in highschool, or are currently still in the process of hating their highschool maths... For you I have spent countless hours (The exact amount of hours can be derived by dividing my lack of a girlfriend by the amount of hours in a day and adding that to the sum total of the internet over the period of sleep I'm losing by allowing myself to post on this blog... somehow the answer is always Pi...) Long story short this video makes at least some math fun... and I liked it (which is a great bonus to editing your own blog... if you don't enjoy this, you're reading the wrong blog!)

Cheers to ViHart for putting this vid and many others together for our enjoyment, and cheers to make the mundane slightly more enjoyable through art and awesome,


-D-