Friday, 31 August 2012

Twitter Guy + Horoscopes - August 31st, 2012

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Booyakasha!

 Oh, Rats
Alberta, once the crown jewel of Canada, has seen its hallowed status as a Rat Free province threatened by the discovery of a colony near the city of Medicine Rat- I mean, Medicine Hat. Officials believe the rats were first attracted to the city by the good schools and affordable housing, but were at a loss when asked to explain how the large rodents were able to buy land without money. Concerned that an infestation of rats could threaten to take their jobs, politicians have summoned Alberta’s Teen Rat Squad to drive them into the neighbouring province of Saskatchewan, where they will be exposed to radioactive Uranium deposits and mutate into massive Super-Rats capable of chewing through a Ford Fiesta in under ten minutes.

What Happens In Vegas…
Speaking of crown jewels, subhuman celebrity gossip sludge factory TMZ has obtained photos of Prince Harry naked as a jaybird during a crazy party in Las Vegas. The weekend trip to Vegas has been a rousing success for the royal family, who hope to remain relevant to today’s jaded youth by portraying Harry as a hard-partying sex fiend that enjoys a snifter of brandy with his game of nude billiards. The reaction among young adults has been unanimously positive, especially among the ladies. “Become a princess AND get black-out drunk in Las Vegas? It sounds like Ke$ha wrote a concept album,” says Royal Stalker Catherine Mumfordandsons, “He’s rich, he’s naked, he’s royalty. More please!”
Sources close to her say that the Queen is thrilled with the invigorating new direction for the royal family- having hurled herself from a helicopter with James Bond earlier this summer- and has taken to keeping a bottle of Bombay Sapphire with her at all times in case a party should break out.

Tour de Farce
Retired inspirational figure and bracelet magnate Lance Armstrong has been banned from the sport of professional cycling for allegedly using performance enhancing drugs. The US Anti-Doping Agency has stripped Armstrong of his seven Tour de France wins based on the testimony of some guys they know after a drawn-out battle with the athlete over accusations of doping. Tired of the mudslinging and hoping to move on, Lance declined to take the issue to arbitration, threw up his hands and yelled “Screw you guys, I’m going  home” before flipping off everybody in the room and biking out a window. “If years of drug tests showed I’m clean,” he said in a later statement, “I figure, I must have been clean. But if I learned anything from Todd Akin, it’s that science is composed entirely of lies and not to be trusted. I don’t even care anymore, I have better things to do with the rest of my life.”

Friday, 17 August 2012

Twitter Guy + Horoscopes - August 17th, 2012

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All hail the mighty Hypnotoad!

A humorous mishap occurred during a live performance of the August 3rd issue of the Lethbridge Journal, and we accidentally replaced the middle story, ‘Welcome To Bikinis’, with an older piece about Noah Wyle’s ark. The piece that was replaced was perhaps the finest work I will ever create- pure, unfiltered journalism. Raw, like uncooked meat getting punched by Batman. I know in my heart that we could have easily won the Canadian small newspaper equivalent of a Pulitzer Prize with this stunning expose. Children would have wept in the streets, men would have raised me as their king, women would have been very aloof about it mostly, maybe even a little offended. Oh well, life goes on.

Kalamazoo Hullaballoo
Calgary, a city well-known for its labyrinth maze of underground fight clubs and pleasant cowboy aesthetic has claimed another victim. While visiting Calgary during the Stampede, but apparently not FOR the Stampede, off-duty Michigan police officer Walt Wawra and his wife were approached by a pair of gentlemen while walking through a park. In a detailed letter to the editor of the Calgary Herald, Mr. Wawra recounts what happened next: “They walked up to us and asked very aggressively if my wife and I had been to the Stampede,” he wrote, “Taking my passive-aggressive refusal to acknowledge their existence as an invitation to persist, they asked again in an uncomfortably friendly tone if I had been to the Stampede before offering me free passes. If I had had a gun to protect my wife and I from these lawless ruffians, the newspaper headlines would have been very different.” Because everybody knows what Calgary needs is another ‘Deranged Moron Slays Two’.

Why So Curious?
NASA has reportedly won a $50 bet with Russia that they can’t land a one-ton sedan-sized robot on the surface of a planet several hundred million miles away following the successful touchdown of the multi-billion-dollar Curiosity rover. The rover is equipped with the latest technology to help it search for signs that Mars supported life, including a little plastic shovel to take samples and a 4G LTE connection to make sure it can Tweet anything funny it might think of while driving around the barren wastelands. Scientists have high hopes for Curiosity, and as soon as they can NASA told reporters they would begin construction on a new rover in order to build a track and host the largest non-terrestrial go-kart race in the Solar System right there on Mars.

Friday, 3 August 2012

Twitter Guy + Horoscopes - August 3rd, 2012



I’m gonna blow your mind.

Not literally, calm down. You’ll still be alive in time for Yoga.

Chick-Fail-A
Popular American protein dispensary Chick-Fil-A has egg on its face following the public revelation that the famously devout company did not approve of Gay Marriage, and had for years been making donations to “Pro-Family” groups in an effort to stifle those pesky gays. Chick-Fil-A’s Senior VP of Yelling At The Press, Rooster Cogburn, was firm in his response to angry Liberals: “It’s not that we’re homophobic, it’s just that if God wanted them to marry he would’ve said something. The bible is like eight thousand pages long, I’m almost positive he could have slipped it in somewhere. You know, ‘And lo Jesus said unto his disciples ‘I’m cool if two dudes hook up and throw a sweet wedding’, something like that. But he didn’t, so marriage is for straight people, condoms are the devil’s raincoat, and you should eat our chicken sandwiches if you agree.” Competitors such as KFC have attempted to capitalise on the divisive issue by offering Pro-Gay menu items such as the rooster-based Cockmeat Sandwich, and by decorating their stores with sequins.

Welcome To Bikinis
Change has come to the small town of Bankersmith, Texas, and residents aren’t too happy. The town- though town may be a generous title- has been purchased by an entrepreneur named Doug Guller, who plans to rename it after his successful chain of sports bars. Guller’s website describes how in 2001 he ended up on in an Australian dive bar when an attractive young waitress approached to offer him a beer, presumably a Fosters.  That, says the website, was the moment when Bikinis Sports Bar and Grill was born. Billed as “America’s Only Sports Breastaurant™”, the franchise uses well-endowed women ‘dressed’ in bikinis to lure in lecherous Texans with promises of hot wings and beer, much like the Sirens of ancient Greece would attract a sailor. For his part, Guller hopes to turn his new town into a tourist destination. “If you build it and affix large breasts to every part of it, they will come.” he said, “They will come.”

DID YOU KNOW?
America has a long tradition of giving their towns really stupid names. Would you ever like to wash up in a place like…
-          Monkey Box, Florida
-          Beans, New Hampshire
-          Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico
-          Burnt Water, Arizona
-          Fleatown, Ohio
-          Toad Suck, Arkansas
-          Matlock, Washington