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EAT BEES

“Bees are jerks and not even cool jerks like Walter White or Steve Jobs.”

Five important lessons you learn from riding the bus

1. MANY ITEMS GAIN HUMAN STATUS AND CAN TAKE UP SEATS This can include books, backpacks, and passengers’ lattés. 2. SEATBELTS AREN’T A CONCERN WHEN YOU ARE LARGE AND NEVER…

Canucks seek fresh start with new players, coaches

Yes, it’s that time of year again. After three long days without it in your living rooms, on your home pages, or guided down your throat with all the compassion…

What’s not funny?

Periodically, I laugh when another student makes a blatantly obvious comment in class, a comment so primal and basic, that it appears erroneous to state such an ‘insight’ at all.…

You can’t say that: Comedy, censorship, and sensitivity

Sitting in his new office on the Fine Arts side o’ town (just across from his old haunts at the Phoenix Theatre), Mark Leiren-Young looks like the kind of professor…

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Five ways to beat writer’s block

It’s that time of year again where you are forced to write papers about things that are stupid and meaningless totally worth your time and effort. Here are some ways…

Drawing inspiration from the funnies: UVic writing prof publishes new novel

UVic writing professor Lee Henderson recently finished his second full-length novel, The Road Narrows As You Go, which traces the life of a San Francisco newspaper comic strip creator, affectionately…

Cup of lukewarm tap water declared world’s most powerful sanitizing agent

This story was originally published in The Peak, SFU’s student newspaper.  HUMOUR — In a move that could very well change the way in which humans deal with sanitation and…

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