Category Archives: Satire

Grow a mustache and party like a Newfoundlander

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 22 Minutes contest has $11,000 first prize

22 Minutes Movember contest - Olivia Chow with what's his name (photo Facebook)

I was splitting my sides laughing after this week’s episode of 22 Minutes

The show is getting funnier despite being in its thousandth season. Eat your heart out Carl Reiner.

Flushed with optimism, I jumped on my computer and entered their Facebook Movember contest.

It’s one of those crazy things you do for fun not the prize. Grow a mustache and take your picture.  Continue reading →

Shakespeare plots new play on Royals

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The Royals on display

Bard building new play based on bawdy bedrooms at Balmoral and Buckingham

Over the last few nights I have been visited by the ghost of William Shakespeare.

On the third night, I followed him onto the deck and the ghost spoke:

“I am thy famed bard’s spirit, doom’d for a certain term to walk the night till the foul crimes done in these days are burnt and purged away.” Continue reading →

Bob Dylan’s childhood neighbor to write book

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Mystery woman claims to have been Dylan’s best friend in Jr. high school

Bob Dylan from his High School Yearbook

Edith Flynn has announced she is writing a book about her life with Bob Dylan,  growing up in Hibbing, Minnesota with the Bard of the 60s.

“I’m gonna write it and make a million bucks,” said Flynn.

“Everyone is writing books about Bob Dylan and I want to write one too,” she said in an exclusive NJN Network interview.   Continue reading →

Corporate tax cuts cost you $500 a year

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Stephen Harper is working hard to give your money to the big corporations

A new website and Facebook page is taking the satirical approach to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

They want to thank him for working hard to make corporations and their executives richer.

The videos will appeal to some voters, already disinclined to support Harper.

Will they make any impression on the millions of Canadians under the hypnotic spell of Stephen Harper?

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Links – People for Corporate Tax Cuts , Facebook and Twitter

Watching this video may get you a CSIS file

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The Harper Song (Steve It’s Time to Leave) by John Roby

The Harper Song by John Roby

Shoemaker’s elves posted this video.

Laugh quietly in the privacy of your home or cubicle.

The Harper Song AKA Steve Itʼs Time to Leave Words and music by John Roby Video recorded and edited by Scott Stephenson.

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Prime Minister Harper creeps out Facebook

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Conservative Party blames it on RCMP but RCMP deny it – just following orders from Conservatives

Prime Minister Harper is ejecting people from his political rallies if their Facebook pages show any connection with the other political parties. You have to register to attend. It hardly seems like democracy.

Awish Aslam is a young student excitedly trying to take in Canada’s Election.

She attended a Liberal rally. She had her picture taken with the Leader Michael Ignatieff.

Then she posted the picture on her Facebook page. Just another event in her life, thought Awish, to share with friends on Facebook.

Wrong, Canada is becoming a police state and your Facebook page can get you in trouble.

When she tried to attend the rally for Conservative Prime Minister Harper, his security police told the RCMP to eject her as an undesirable.

Only “true conservatives” can attend rallies for Stephen Harper.

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The innocence of the young clashes with the button down, control freak world of our Prime Minister

Words that come to mind: control freak, intolerant, fascist, liar.

Elections often show more about real motives than politicians would like.

Will UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities mean anything on PEI

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PEI celebrates the day with plagiarism, pontificating and prevarication

Minister of Community Services, Seniors and Labour Janice Sherry, press release to follow

The world celebrates UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities. On Prince Edward Island, we can look forward to political hot air.

The appropriate minister will rise in the Legislature to acknowledge her love for and empathy with the situation of Islanders living with disabilities. Those speeches are fulsome, with profound words that puff up those who listen.  In reality, they are hollow with pontificating and prevarication.  Continue reading →

New UPEI Dean of Arts old President rumors

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Professor Richard Kurial is leaving and Dr. Joe Velaidum, Chair Religious Studies is the name candidate

Dr. Joe Joe Velaidum, next in line for Dean?

The University of Prince Edward Island is all abuzz these days with rumors.

The top secret committee – so secret even it’s members don’t know each other – to select Wade MacLauchlan’s replacement as President is said to have picked Wade MacLauchlan. UPEI seems stuck in a rut.

MacLauchlan is rumored to be holding out for a British Lord title now that Conrad Black’s lordship is up for grabs. MacLauchlan is also rumored to be holding out for the cancellation of PEI’s Human Rights Act in secret contract negotiations. “First it was the cripples, now the geezers are after me,” some one report emanating from the President’s office.

No less spectacular are the rumours UPEI will appoint the first non-white Dean of Arts at UPEI. Kurial’s term is up and the front runner is Dr.  Joe Velaidum, known to his friends as Vlad.
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Jehovahs Witnesses make money calling for end of the world

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Prophesying the End of Days can make you money but has a limited shelf life, Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert @ebertchicago, the esteemed movie critic of the Chicago Tribune and the famed Siskel and Ebert show, has discovered Twitter in a big way.

A prolific journalist, Ebert has become an even more prolific tweeter who seemingly suffers from insomnia as do I.

It’s not so much insomnia as a life long desire to watch late night movies like the Ninth Gate on television.  Continue reading →

Lady Gaga to headline Summerfest 2011

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Secret Tourism Documents show ticket will include free membership in Liberal Party of PEI

Lady Gaga Lollapalooza 2010 (image: Rachel Been)

Lady Gaga who just staged the wildest comeback at Chicago’s Lollapalooza 2010 rock festival is heavily rumored to be the star act at next year’s Summerfest on Prince Edward Island.

Truth is stranger than fiction. This story is a satire but that could not have imagined Summerside were trying to get Beyonce and Justin Timberlake. Of course, that was another scam that has sparked a million dollar lawsuit.

Tourism Minister Vessey was inspired by the spirited performance of rock’s Lady of sexy kitsch and outrageous outfits to advance $1 million from the Tourism department’s Signature Investment Fund.

George Wendt is being paid $200,000 from the fund to play in Hairspray, The Cirque du Soleil at Summerfest got $250,000, and The Cavendish Beach Music Festival will receive $500,000. CBC

“This will raise the profile of Prince Edward Island as a premium tourist destination bigger that Regis and Kelly,” Minister Vessey told CBC in an exclusive interview to be broadcast Monday.  Continue reading →