Archive for September, 2008

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In Memoriam: My Grampa

In honour of Canada day, I am posting a little something about my late grand-father, a veteran of Wold War II with the Canadian forces. Update: Originally posted June 1st, 2008, prior to the site apocalypse.
My earliest memories of my grampa are of visiting the farm. I’d marvel from the backseat of my parent’s car [...]

3Sep2008 | Glenn | 0 comments | Continued
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From Dumping to Humping: World’s Worst Car Names

Sweet Irony

Deciding that likening an ugly ass car to an ugly ass fruit was a good idea, French automaker Renault tried to launch a campaign that compared the Renault 14 to the pear. The fact that poire, in French, can mean both pear and gullible was apparently lost completely on the manufacturers, as was the [...]

2Sep2008 | Fortey | 2 comments | Continued
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Animal Abuse – The Stupid Origins of 13 Animal Names

Not a lot of people stop to ponder where names come from these days, unless they run across some idiot with a name Xerxes, Jermajesty or Dane Cook. Even less noteworthy are the names of animals, which we all tend to take for granted. But as it turns out, a number of our little friends [...]

2Sep2008 | Fortey | 4 comments | Continued
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The RimJob Obsession

I should be writing more content for this website, and reposting my old material. That one article about animals named by morons was hilarious. Hilarious! It was actually nominated for several web awards, I assume. And I heard that the girl Glenn lost his virginity to only engaged in coitus with [...]

1Sep2008 | Fortey | 4 comments | Continued
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