The new Pepsi on the block

They call it a "mid calorie" pop. It's got 60 calories. It comes out next spring.

25 worst passwords of the year

1. password
2. 123456
3. 12345678
4. qwerty
5. abc123
6. monkey
7. 1234567
8. letmein
9. trustno1
10. dragon
11. baseball
12. 111111
13. iloveyou
14. master
15. sunshine
16. ashley
17. bailey
18. passw0rd
19. shadow
20. 123123
21. 654321
22. superman
23. qazwsx
24. michael
25. football

An English lesson

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.

2) The farm was used to produce produce.

3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.

4) We must polish the Polish furniture.

5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.

6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.

7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.

8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

10) I did not object to the object.

11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.

13) They were too close to the door to close it.

14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.

15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.

16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.


19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?



Let's face it, English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France . Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is is a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down; you fill in a form by filling it out; an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

PS. - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick' ?


You lovers of the English language might enjoy this:

There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is 'UP'

It's easy to understand UP meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ?

At a meeting, why does a topic come UP?

Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?
We call UP our friends.

And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver; we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen.

We lock UP the house, and some guys fix UP the old car.

At other times the little word has real special meaning.

People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.

To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.

A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.

We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!

To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary.

In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions.

If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used.

It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.

When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP.

When the sun comes out we say it is clearingUP.
When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.
When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.

Occupy gone wild

Dorli Rainey, 84-Year-Old Occupy Seattle Protester, Pepper Sprayed In The Face

Occupy gone wild

Elizabeth Nichols, Occupy Portland Protester Pepper Sprayed In The Face

Mariahs little girl, so cute!

Guess who was in Tanzania?

From the coffee news

From Huffington Post

TORONTO - New guidance from the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is warning Canadian women against postponing pregnancy for too long.

The society says some women may be waiting too long to start their families, perhaps because they over-estimate their chances of successfully conceiving with fertility treatments, if the need arises.

It says women in their 20s and 30s need better reproductive counselling so that they have an accurate grasp of what waiting to start their families does to their chances of conceiving.

It says women need to know that fertility begins to decline significantly in the early- to mid-30s and that male fertility also declines with age.

"Some Canadian women may be inadvertently postponing pregnancy too long," says Dr. Kimberly Liu, principal co-author of the new guideline.

"There is a sense that women may be over-estimating the potential of assisted human reproductive technologies and underestimating the risks and complications associated with delaying pregnancy.'

A statement from the society says a lot of women are unaware of the limitations of assisted reproduction, as well as the fact that the success rates of these options decline steadily as women hit their late 30s and 40s.

"Fertility treatments aren't a sure-fire route to pregnancy -- their rates of success are greatly influenced by age-related declines in fertility," says Dr. Allison Case, Liu's co-author of the guideline.

"Time can be of the essence for a woman in her thirties who needs assistive reproductive technology -- it is important that she gets appropriate treatment for her age."

The society says the proportion of women who delay childbearing beyond the age of 35 has increased significantly in recent decades.

Best cupcakes ever LOL

The worlds largest bra

Size 1222B cup

The Oilers

I happen to be a HUGE Oilers fan.

I think it's only fitting that I announce last night's score...A whopping 3-1 win against the Montreal Canadians.

We're currently 6-1-1
3rd in the league.
It makes me happy to say as of today, Calgary is 23rd in the league, bahaha!


What can I say?

GO OILERS GO!

Shafia Court Case

Is anyone following the Shafia case?

The run down:
A man, his wife and his 20 year old son are charged with killing his 3 teenage daughters and his first wife. He was apparently in a poligamous relationship.

Mohammad Shafia, 58, his wife Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 41, and their son,
Hamed Mohammad Shafia, 20, are each charged with four counts of first-degree
murder in the deaths of three Shafia sisters, Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti,
13, as well as Rona Amir Mohammad, 50. [CBC]

The deceased were found drowned in a car in the Rideau Canal in Kingston.

Why'd he kill his 3 girls? Apparently it was an honor killing... They started showing interest in boys (dating, etc.)... Apparently it's frowned upon in thier culture, so the best way to nix it? Nix the girls. Why nix the first wife? Who knows.

The family is from Montreal, but the case is being held in Kingston Ontario (where the crime was commited).

I can't believe something like this happened in Canada.
I'm finding this case interesting, and personally cannot wait until justice is served.

Here's a good read in regards to this case: We Shouldn't Hesitate to Call Mercy Killings Barbaric

Canadian Loyalty Programs

So MSN.ca has come out with a list of the best customer loyalty programs in Canada... Here they are:

Aeroplan Miles
Canadian Tire (Canadian Tire Money)

Shopper's Drug Mart (Optimum Card)

Petro Canada (Petro Points)

HBC Rewards

Air Miles

Sobey's (Club Sobey's)

Scotia Bank (Scene Card)

Michael Jackson

So apparently, Michael Jackson's autopsy pics have made it on to the net...
Does anyone else find this completely absurd and disgusting?

Not the actual image itself, but the thought that Jackson's children and other family members could, and possibly have come across this on the net.

Imagine how they must feel seeing this.

Society is ill.
Our curiousity and addiction to media glitz and celebrity life is sickening.

If you haven't seen it, and want to, click here.