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The CAB Nations and their Rogue Currency

October 18th, 2009 · 2 Comments · American Humor, Amusing, British Comedy, British Humour, Canada Humor, Economic Humor, Economics, Farce, Funny Absurd, Funny Business, Funny Canada, Funny Economy, Funny Geography, Funny Government, Funny Politics, Funny Travel, Geopolitics, Jokes, Lifestyle, Offbeat, Political Humor, Puns, Satire, Summer Olympics, Winter Olympics, Zany

There are three nations that have survived the recession quite well, thank you very much, due to their raw material riches – Australia, Brazil and Canada. It would seem to be a natural progression for these three countries to come together in a new economic bloc to be known as the ABC nations.   Canada […]

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Ideas for an Everyman Olympics

August 18th, 2008 · Comments Off on Ideas for an Everyman Olympics · American Humor, Amusing, British Comedy, British Humour, Canada Humor, Cute, Family Humor, Funny Competition, Funny Sports, Lifestyle, Offbeat, Outrageous, Screwball, Silly, Slice of Life, Sports and Recreation, Summer Olympics

The Olympic Games are a wonderful sporting and cultural event. There is no doubt that the athletes are the world’s elite.   However, the games could do with being opened up a bit more. And I’m not talking about simply adding some sports that would seem to be obvious contenders such as drag racing, ballroom […]

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