humour Archives | Ouno Design https://ounodesign.com/tag/humour/ Mon, 09 Jul 2012 23:06:46 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 Cartoonist Dan Murphy’s spoof of proposed BC pipeline https://ounodesign.com/2012/07/09/enbridge-spoof-dan-murphy-vancouver-province/ https://ounodesign.com/2012/07/09/enbridge-spoof-dan-murphy-vancouver-province/#respond Mon, 09 Jul 2012 23:06:46 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=14424

By cartoonist Dan Murphy of the Vancouver Province newspaper (which pulled it after he posted it). Hilarious.

“Jobs”… or not. This oil pipeline proposal is the worst deal ever for B.C., with all the benefit going to China and corporations.

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2012/07/09/enbridge-spoof-dan-murphy-vancouver-province/feed/ 0 Leonard Cohen in the documentary “Ladies and Gentlemen.. Mr Leonard Cohen” https://ounodesign.com/2012/03/05/leonard-cohen-from-ladies-and-gentlemen-mr-leonard-cohen/ https://ounodesign.com/2012/03/05/leonard-cohen-from-ladies-and-gentlemen-mr-leonard-cohen/#respond Tue, 06 Mar 2012 02:06:09 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=13663

Watch the whole thing. This is a Canada so different from the Canada from the one we’re in now, the Canada that now sits in a deep, dark, chilly trough dug by our illegitimate prime minister, Stephen Harper.

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2012/03/05/leonard-cohen-from-ladies-and-gentlemen-mr-leonard-cohen/feed/ 0 The Monkees https://ounodesign.com/2011/12/12/the-monkees/ https://ounodesign.com/2011/12/12/the-monkees/#respond Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:38:53 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=13148

Frank Zappa and Mike Nesmith

Update: Goodbye Davy Jones, 30 December 1945 – 29 February 2012.

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2011/12/12/the-monkees/feed/ 0 “I’m afraid your novel is unsuitable for us at the present time.” https://ounodesign.com/2010/04/21/dylan-moran/ https://ounodesign.com/2010/04/21/dylan-moran/#comments Thu, 22 Apr 2010 05:42:49 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=8792

From Black Books, Irish comedian Dylan Moran’s British TV series. Moran played Bernard Black, misanthropic second-hand bookshop owner. See also another episode in which Bernard, unable to figure out his tax forms, learns that he will receive an extension for filing his return only in the event of injury, so seeks injury by provoking skinheads.

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2010/04/21/dylan-moran/feed/ 3 Lost budgie – he really likes mirrors and is a very good flyer https://ounodesign.com/2010/03/26/lost-budgie-poster/ https://ounodesign.com/2010/03/26/lost-budgie-poster/#respond Sat, 27 Mar 2010 06:45:12 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=8743

In the “on the fridge” category.

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2010/03/26/lost-budgie-poster/feed/ 0 Maria Bamford https://ounodesign.com/2010/03/25/maria-bamford/ https://ounodesign.com/2010/03/25/maria-bamford/#respond Thu, 25 Mar 2010 07:49:42 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=8759

When she was younger, comedian Maria Bamford played a Star Trek character in a touring show that visited malls across the USA doing things like Jack in the Box promotions. She played a Bajoran – you know, those people from the planet Bajor in Deep Space Nine:

“Greetings!

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2010/03/25/maria-bamford/feed/ 0 Spring’s weltschmerz https://ounodesign.com/2010/03/17/springs-weltschmerz-cherry-blossoms/ https://ounodesign.com/2010/03/17/springs-weltschmerz-cherry-blossoms/#respond Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:56:01 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=8652

The strange, familiar oppressiveness of falling cherry blossoms in Vancouver.

Sorry about the quality.

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2010/03/17/springs-weltschmerz-cherry-blossoms/feed/ 0 Unhappy Hipsters https://ounodesign.com/2010/01/27/unhappy-hipsters/ https://ounodesign.com/2010/01/27/unhappy-hipsters/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:36:46 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=8067

Everyone always leaves.

The Unhappy Hipsters blog features Dwell Magazine photos with the captions they were crying out for. Because it’s lonely in the modern world.

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2010/01/27/unhappy-hipsters/feed/ 4 There was a ship and it was going to crash into the mothership. https://ounodesign.com/2010/01/06/there-was-a-ship-and-it-was-going-to-crash-into-the-mothership/ https://ounodesign.com/2010/01/06/there-was-a-ship-and-it-was-going-to-crash-into-the-mothership/#respond Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:11:43 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=7813 Screenshot from the internet. Dialogue between man-boy and his girlfriend:

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2010/01/06/there-was-a-ship-and-it-was-going-to-crash-into-the-mothership/feed/ 0 You asked for half a cup of coffee https://ounodesign.com/2009/11/16/you-asked-for-half-a-cup-of-coffee/ https://ounodesign.com/2009/11/16/you-asked-for-half-a-cup-of-coffee/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:53:52 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=7206

Mixed-concept mug for friends of owls who only want half a cup of coffee, and who don’t mind if their faux-wood-handled Canadiana is made in Japan.

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