Amusing Duck is a toy series with a strong sense for playing. This quacktacular device will wander about, singing and quacking gleefully, pausing momentarily to lay an egg.
He’s even got his own website. Gaggle Gaggle!
I love it when news stories are so ridiculous, they seem better suited for print in The Onion than the New York Times.
This story from today’s Globe Life, while a bit more subtle, is a no less hilarious tale of life’s tiny conflicts being blown completely out of proportion:
“I watch football all year and my wife wants nothing to do with it. Now it’s the biggest game of the year and she wants to ruin it,” says Mr. Thomas, a 35-year-old financial planner who lives in Burlington, Ont.
In today’s editorial in the Gateway, I share my thoughts on the city of Edmonton’s uproar surrounding the Canadian edition of Monopoly.
At its simplest, this ploy is just another straw-grasping effort for Edmontonians to validate their existence as a notable city on a Canadian map, where we’re always between the lines of fame and fortune. We’ve seen it with our long-gone claim to fame for having the world’s biggest mall. We’ve seen it with the budget-busting Grand Prix that everyone pretends to attend, but no one really cares about. I can’t even remember the last time the “City of Champions” moniker was relevant — and I’m pretty sure it’s got nothing to do with that big tornado everyone keeps talking about.
You can read the whole article here.
A la Ryan’s blog
Ryan: I am no role model, sir.
Me: you are now
Ryan: I don’t want to be a Michael Phelps-style martyr. Which is sure to happen
Me: We’re not going to take you off the Gateway’s branded cereal box if you get high on your own time
Over on Mug Reviews, I’ve just posted a new article on one of my favorite mugs of all time: the Calgary Flames vintage mug.
Check it out here, and be sure to follow and bookmark us if you haven’t done so already!
This is the current state of the Gateway’s deputy news editor’s desk. I hope to be around when eventual hilarity catastrophe strikes.
As an aside, I think it’s a very telling depiction of the current generational zeitgeist when I’d rather take a photo and blog this instead of taking any sort of proactive and preventative measures.
