Brad McLeod
My trick, my treat, my choice
October 28, 2013Although in my current position as the Humour section editor for this newspaper, I try to keep my personal politics and radical social views out of my writing, once a semester I’m called upon to break my silence and contribute a shocking and provocative piece to the Opinions section. Last semester I no doubt caused a firestorm of controversy with my Editor’s Voice in which I bravely declared my belief that Barack Obama has the credentials to go down in history as one of the presidents of the United States. I can only assume that the personal feelings I’m about…
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‘National Geographic’ to follow Playboy into energy drink market
October 15, 2013NEW YORK — Taking the logical next step for a magazine company facing the decline of print media, National Geographic has announced that they will soon be releasing their brand’s first ever energy drink. Inspired by fellow periodical turned…
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Happy Surrey family shocked to discover their neighbour lives in “the ghetto”
October 15, 2013SURREY — Despite living within six feet of him for the past seven years, a local middle-class family from a nice, normal neighbourhood has only now become aware that the man who lives next door to them is in the…
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SFU Quidditch team torments “nerds” from SFU Wizard’s Chess Club
October 7, 2013BURNABY— One of SFU’s newest clubs, the “Wizard’s Chess Club,” a club based on probably the most unimaginative activities of the Harry Potter world, is complaining that they have experienced significant bullying from members of the university’s popular Quidditch team.…
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Ex-Grammar Nazi discovered living in Argentina
October 7, 2013BUENOS AIRES — Despite being believed by many to be long dead, a former “grammar nazi” has been found to be living in a remote town in Argentina and, according to the man who caught him, he “will be brought…
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LGBTQ to expand to twelve letters by 2016
October 7, 2013NEW YORK — LGBTQ, the initialism which currently encompasses those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning, is set to increase its letters more than two-fold by the year 2016, so say some prominent queer-activists. Originally founded in…
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HUMOUR: Build SFU team abruptly stops SUB project, claims “it’s just not fun anymore”
September 30, 2013BURNABY — Despite being really excited when they first got the idea and were just playing around with ideas, the Build SFU team has reportedly cancelled the SUB project to “do something else, something fun.” According to those who have…
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New Miss America signals a triumph for acceptance of attractive diversity
September 30, 2013ATLANTIC CITY — The recent crowning of a new Miss America pageant winner made history as, for once, the honour was not given to a white, thin, able-bodied, stereotypically gorgeous woman but to someone who is all those things except…
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Lupus thrilled by advances in cancer research
September 30, 2013VANCOUVER — Thanks to the seemingly endless events and promotions designed to bring awareness to and research cancers, the disease is becoming more and more treatable, a development which has thrilled not only those fighting cancer and their families, but…
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