Besides my baby pirates and teddy bear pirates shirts, I also found time to design two shirts suitable for more adult senses of humor.

Stoner Brownies Dog by gbulmash
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Body By Steroids by gbulmash
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It may seem strange, but even before I knew about the internet, I had pen pals in other countries. It was neat getting to know people who had grown up in other cultures. Even now, I have online friends outside the United States. Some of them live in one of the strangest, most magical, and back-asswards countries in the world... a place called Canada.

They have stores there that you just don't see in the United States. Places with weird, foreign-sounding names like "Tim Horton's". So I was perplexed when a Canadian friend tweeted from that northern land of frost and ice: "I just want you all to know how delicious the first Tim Hortons IceCap of the year tastes."

An IceCap? Tim Horton's? These were unfamiliar terms to me. I've only been to Canada maybe 5 times. I stay in Hiltons and eat American-style food. I'd never been to a Tim Horton's or discovered the magical wonders inside. I always wondered if they served chili balls in fish syrup, crab and peanut butter cakes with cilantro vinegar, hamburgers with ketchup... you know, the weird exotic things you always hear they eat in Canada.

Thus I tweeted back: "For those of us who are Canadacally Impaired: What's a Tim Horton's Ice Cap?"

Another American friend (who I have since learned is secretly Canadian!) tweeted me a link that basically said "go look it up on Google" (but in a less kind way). Still, I wanted to hear it from the Canuck's mouth and eventually she tweeted back that an IceCap is an Iced Cappucino. Ha! Those wacky Canadians, shortening two words and cramming them together to make a cute product name... no wonder their leading export is marketing geniuses. Or is it actors? They do export a lot of actors. I secretly think they kick actors out because they lower property values, but I've heard Canadians are an exceptionally tolerant people... even toward actors.

Well, now I'm a bit less Canadacally Impaired than I was before. Please, if you have any more tidbits of amazing information about the dark and mysterious land known as Canada, post them in the comments below.

A few days back, the West Michigan Whitecaps announced they'd be serving a 4,800 calorie hamburger (equal in calories to about 9 Big Macs - or when broken down to joules of energy, equal to about 1/6 of a gallon of gasoline) at their ballpark. The minor league baseball team claimed the burger would weigh in at nearly 4 pounds, containing 5 burger patties, 5 slices of cheese, and a cup of chili among other elements.

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I come up with some of my oddest ideas while driving with my wife. This popped into my head just after "Volkswagon: it's what's for breakfast." For those who cannot read the text in the image, it shows a kiddie rocket ride like you see outside various stores, and it says "Ride me like I'm a rocket outside a Walmart".

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