Recent Posts
Recent Posts Tagged With 'toronto'
Olympic Flame out in Toronto
As our faithful readers no doubt have guessed, we’re not the most dedicated sports fans in the world. We happen to think that greater feats of athleticism can be found when a gag reflex isn’t triggered on the competitive eating circuit. O...
Toronto Transit Caper
Queen Street transit user's interminable wait for that ride into the sunset Offering all the convenience of an extortion plot, the Toronto transit system would be the envy of post-war Budapest. With a pitiful two and a half subway lines servicing...
Toronto Maple Leaf Jokes
The bottom feeders of the NHL The Toronto Maple Leafs are easily among the worst franchises in professional sport along with the Detroit Lions, Arizona Cardinals, Minnesota Twins and LA Clippers. Given the Leafs perennially occupy the NHL basement, w...
Toronto Strike Update
C.U.P.E., the Canadian Union of Public Employees is back on the job after late night hostage negotiations talks resolved outstanding issues, most notably the garbage strike which made the inside of a gym locker a preferable bouquet. Here are 30 sugge...
Toronto Garbage Strike: What a dump!
There are signs, finally, that the union is starting to wilt just like flowers within a 1 km radius of any of the temporary garbage drop-off locations, i.e., impromptu landfill sites. As you might have noticed, we’re self-employed and don’...
Toronto Garbage Strike: Talkin’ Trash
Regular Shark Guy readers take note. We will return to non-municipal dumping related posts on Friday (unless of course, you want us to switch formats like a failing new country station and stick with this exclusively). We will periodically update the...
Toronto Garbage Strike
Plug your nostrils everyone. We just passed Week 1 of the city-wide garbage strike (well, city-wide except for one borough that has private pick-up), smack dab in the middle of one of the city’s biggest tourist draws—Gay Pride. Here is Ch...
Best Subway Movies of All Time
On a city bus, your nostrils are often breached by the kinds of smells that keep garbage men so in demand with the ladies; and this, as you’re doomed to 8 mph and being overtaken by fleet footed hot dog vendors. When you finally reach your dest...
No Beer at Ball Games
The typical baseball game lasts about as long as The Godfather parts I and II, with long periods of inactivity punctuated by short bursts to the bathrooms to piss out all the suds used to down all the peanuts in the gallery. In these cheap seats, esp...
11 Ways Bangkok and Toronto Are Different
As regular readers and his immediate neighbors might be aware, Shark Guy Noel makes his home in Bangkok Thailand. He’s often asked to compare Thailand with Canada, and he would rather just send along this URL the next time that question comes u...
New York City Versus Toronto
Steve Martin recently said on a guest appearance on 30 Rock, “You can move to Canada with me. Toronto is like New York, but without all the STUFF”. Lest you get the impression we watch 30 Rock, we don’t. Why? You can find less muggi...
