It's budget time and it seems Harper is quite concerned about being frugal; Just the other day he was photographed getting his nickleback... (Sorry, I guess the previous post about puns wasn't enough for a day.)

If you guys aren't already aware of my incredible fancy for puns, then you're new here so let me show you around. Up there is the banner, the other pages... on the side is some gibberish that no one actually reads...oh and just above this text is an obsessive collection of ridiculously funny puns!

Cheers to how much I enjoy these...hope you do to!
-D-

We've all see the mini paragraph with the misspelled words. You might have gotten it as an email and you may have been blown away at your ability to read the words despite their peculiar arrangement... 

"Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe."
So it's no surprise that someone took the idea too far.

Introducing Wikipeetia!

That's right, an entire Wikipedia style encyclopedia that is readable even with it's bizarre spelling!

Cheers to people with too much time on their hands!
-D-
[Wikipeetia.org]

Cheers to the existential crisis we all face... can we all just revert to the cartoons and be kids again?
-D-
[Maneggs.com]

So a horse walks into a bar...

Cheers to pseudo-comedy, it's ironically funny!
-D-
[Maneggs.com]

The other day I posted an album of images from a trek a friend and I took into an old abandoned barn [014; The Old Barn]. The barn is on a pretty busy stretch of backroad and can even be seen from the highway. Very seldomly does anyone stop to take a look around or even inside the barn thought. It's pretty much just a distance silhouette to most.
The barn isn't even a mystery to most passerbys. No one even takes the time to wonder little alone to stop and take a closer look. The point I'm trying to make of course is that we often forget how to be curious and it makes our lives very stale and pretty boring at time.

By now I hope you're at least a little curious as to why you're reading this in the gaze of Matthew Broderick. He's just sitting there on the left of the text hangin' out. Well I promise you this makes sens:

Matthew Broderick played a famous role about teenage curiosity and adventure. The film itself was a masterpiece of comedy, but the messages that could be learned from it were simply inspiring. Ferris Bueller was an instant hit and is easily one of my favourite movies of all-time. Today is Matthew Broderick's birthday. That's right, Ferris Bueller turns 49 years old today!
So try to remember how you might have felt while watching that movie all those years ago. Let your wonder cause you to wander and go explore something new. Who knows the adventures that are waiting for you out there. 

Cheers, and Happy BDay, to Matthew Broderick, he's inspired at least a few and I hope he continues to for years to come!
-D-

[IMDb] 

By now we must all be familiar with the latest Pepsi Max commercial. A remake of the 1995 classic, Pepsi introduces the pop-cultural element of YouTube and cellphone cameras. So what makes this commercial the subject of today's "There's a word for that"? Simple, defenestration!
Some of the more clever among us just chuckled at the very word (probably the francophones who recognized the work "fenêtre" meaning "window" and "de" the prefix of "from") For those who still need a little help with this one, the world "Defenestration" is to be thrown through or from a window.
So next time you're sitting back to enjoy a cheesy 90's action flick, impress your friends at the moment of defenestration by noting that "There's a word for that!"

Cheers to English and all of it's wonderfully esoteric functions.
-D-
[Wiki]

If the G20 summit wasn't enough to show the world that Canadians aren't just an apathetic group of frozen Americans, this next protest will surely change some minds. No, it's not another violent outburst towards political tyrants, this protest has deeper routes and much more interesting participants. 

On their website, the organizers of the Toronto "Slut walk" state: "On January 24th, 2011, a representative of the Toronto Police gave shocking insight into the Force’s view of sexual assault by stating: “women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized”." That's right. One of our badge wearing finest has put his polished shoe in his mouth and has caused for outrage. The organizers of the protest strongly believe that women should have the right to look as they like. There is no threshold of "slutiness" that should warrant a sexual assault. 
Now I'm not going to say that women should advocate dressing as they please everywhere and anywhere... but there's never a justification for physical attacks. (Don't get all high and mighty if a guy's checking our your cleavage if you wish to provide him a screening...but guys, hands off the merchandise!)

I for one think this is a great form of non-violent protest and hope that all goes well for all participants. If you want to read more about the "Slut walk" click here. The basic info is as follows:

SlutWalk is scheduled for Sunday, April 3rd, 2011.
Speeches at 1:30. 2:00 Walk.Starting location is central Queen’s Park,
heading to Toronto Police Headquarters at 40 College Street.Facebook event invite here.

Cheers to crafty Canadians and to the good-life of journalists. Even our protests sound like great beer-fueled parties :)
-D-
[SlutWalkToronto]

                                       Cheers to Charlie, and whoever made this incredible piece of awesome!
-D-

[Imgur]

For years there has been a clear dominance of religion in the polls. As a percentage there was no nation on Earth which could declare, by any vast majority, its secularism. Lately it would seem that data shows a movement unlike any other in the history of humanism. The data was simply wrong.
In countries such as Libya, Egypt, and much of the Middle East, the people's religion was dictated by rulers and representatives. There was no actual census conducted and so we deemed the countries to simply be of that religion and bunched the population into respective categories. This made much of the world's data on religion corrupt and skewed, but what about the West?
In the democratic West it's been the norm for over a century to conduct censuses which clearly asked people their religions. This forms would offer at first a simple set of choices of major religious groups, and below that it usually had an "Other:________" section. This was great for collecting data for the most part, but there is a flaw. The non-practicing associative "religious" members. These might be those who call themselves religious and don't practice, or even those who simply filled in the section based on their childhood (usually parent's) religion.
This has been a flaw in the collection of data for years and there is a growing movement to put an end to it. The atheist movement, or more formally the secular movement, is gaining ground at an incredible rate. Some compare the atheists and agnostics of the 2010's to the gays and lesbians of the 1980's. Well it's time to come out of the ideological closet for some and collect the real data. 
In the UK this year there is a widespread campaign to get the real data. The British Humanist Association is focused on getting the people to speak out. Unfortunately in Canada, the Harper Govt. has decided to kill off the long-form census and some argue that these movements may just be the cause.

Cheers to getting the real story. Let's stop just making things up!
-D-