Friday, 17 August 2012

Twitter Guy + Horoscopes - August 17th, 2012

Click To Read In The Lethbridge Journal (LARGE PDF)


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.




ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Flash forward 30 years and suddenly the guy singing Hot For Teacher isn’t a rebel student, he’s a single dad trying to pick up a date on Parent-Teacher night. He’s got it bad, and by ‘it’ I mean male pattern baldness.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
You’re very curious about 50 Shades of Grey, and I can understand that. I’ll tell you up front, it’s better than Twilight because it skips the mopey teenager stuff and gets right to the quote-unquote “Romance” that you paid for. Plus, you’re allowed to read it on the bus without getting arrested for public indecency. For now.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Spongebob Squarepants. And do we all know WHY he lives in a pineapple under the sea? BECAUSE SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS DID NOT HIRE A REALTOR.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)
We all had the same thought as you: Olympic Open Water swimming would be so much more interesting if they put Piranhas in the water. Sharks would also be acceptable, on the condition that they be mutant sharks with a taste for manflesh.

LEO (July 23-Aug 22)
Years from now ironic hipsters will wear t-shirts with all the old memes from this era of human history. Troll face, LOLcats, this one coming up in 2013 called ‘Bears In Space’… Get in on the ground floor, start selling these shirts ASAP! You’ll attract the people that want to be into something before it’s cool for hipsters to be into it.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sept 22)
If you’ve ever thought about joining a wildlife conservation group, now is the opportune time. You’ve only got 8 months before the internet makes bears go extinct, and if you think I’m being general when I say “bears”, you don’t know the internet. Yes, even fictional bears and bears that aren’t actually bears but are rather marsupials or mammals or what have you.

LIBRA (Sept 23-Oct 22)
Your Orple ePad is a knockoff. I’m going to give you a minute to let that sink in. Knockoff or not though, that peerless high-resolution Optic Nerve Display was more than worth the 200 Mexican Pesos.

SCORPIO (Oct 23-Nov 21)
The juxtaposition of the Sun with your wrist watch means that this lunar cycle finds you in a state of upheaval. The key to keeping yourself grounded is to attach double-sided tape to the bottom of your shoes and only get drunk on days ending in evenings.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21)
I asked around for you, and it turns out people who speak other languages are CONSTANTLY getting the wrong word tattooed just above their butt or on their neck. English doesn’t make any sense to them, they can’t tell the difference between our word for Courage and our word for Soup. (The words are ‘Courage’ and ‘Soup’, respectively)

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19)
Yo mama so fat, she has an exponentially increased risk of heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and rolling to the bottom if she trips walking uphill. This is why you need to help her stick to a healthy diet of properly apportioned vegetables and clean proteins.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18)
Weed out your Facebook friends by uploading pictures of their children with moustaches, and claiming them as your own. The ones that don’t delete you either have a very good sense of humour or absolutely no idea what their child looks like with facial hair.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20)
It is time. Release the pathogen.

Birthday
Would it make you feel any better about your birthday if I told you that as a conduit for the stars I don’t age?

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