http://www.metafilter.com/tags/wuss Posts tagged with 'wuss' at MetaFilter. Fri, 10 Mar 2006 20:45:19 -0800 Fri, 10 Mar 2006 20:45:19 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/49934/Rejoice%2Drejoice%2Dgreatly <a href="http://ctv2.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060309.wcantire0309/business/Business/businessBN/ctv-business">So long, farewell, aufwiedersehn...</a> The Canadian Tire Guy has left the airwaves for greener pastures and shinier decks. He's been profiled by <a href="http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/life/article.jsp?content=20051031_114409_114409">Maclean's</a>, who also managed to get a few of his <a href="http://www.macleans.ca/switchboard/columnists/article.jsp?content=20051031_114412_114412">diary entries</a> online). He's been lampooned not <a href="http://www.airfarce.com/video/031231.html">once</a>, but <a href="http://www.airfarce.com/video/040220.html">twice</a> by <a href="http://www.airfarce.com">The Royal Canadian Air Farce</a>. And now, at long last, the 'Ned Flanders of home improvement,' played by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Simonett">Ted Simonett</a>, will no longer appear in advertisements for <a href="http://www.canadiantire.ca">Canadian Tire</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.49934 Fri, 10 Mar 2006 20:45:19 -0800 advertising canadiantire commercial handyman saltandpepper wuss greatgefilte http://www.metafilter.com/26740/Is%2DA%2DWussy%2DBoyIs%2DNot%2DA%2DWussy%2DBoy <a href="http://www.synthesis.net/~wussyboy/WebSitePages/Index2.htm" title="Big Poppa E Performance Poet - Journalist - Zine Publisher... I AM WUSSY BOY, HEAR ME ROAR... meow">Wussy Boy</a>. <a href="http://www.synthesis.net/~wussyboy/WebSitePages/WussyPoem.htm" title="i remember shouting in high school, - ''no, dad, i'm not gay! i'm just... sensitive.i tried to like hot rods and jet planes and football and budweiser poster girls, but i never got the hang of it! i don't know what's wrong with me...'' "><em>Wussy Boy Manifesto.</em> <a href="http://www.synthesis.net/~wussyboy/WebSitePages/Pubs.htm" title="And Big Daddy's Makin' Biscuits, Booty Jungle, -Rants, Screeds, Diatribes & Other Ephemera, Tongue Ballet in My Bunghole, Dookie on a Stick, I'm Just a Torso, all the preceding being Rants, Screeds, Diatribes & Other Ephemera plus An Ecstasy of Fumbling, Your Mom and 33 Jobs & Several Nekkid Ladies #1 - Wild Sex in the Working Class among his titles.">The Wussy Boy Chronicles</a>. <br>Excerpt: <em><a href="http://www.synthesis.net/~wussyboy/WebSitePages/IsAWuss.htm" title="Is A Wussy Boy: Matthew Broderick - My boy has been at the vanguard of Wuss Cinema ever since he hacked into the military computer system at NORAD in ''WarGames.'' Dude has never swayed from the Wussy Boy character, and God bless him for it! Sometimes he picks some shitty movies for reasons that are beyond me (such as ''Godzilla'' and ''Inspector Gadget,'' but I imagine he did them for the money and, in the end, even Wussy Boy icons need to eat), and sometimes he gets a little too Wussy for his own good (see ''Project X''), but you gotta give the man a hand for maintaining a strong sense of Wussiness in each of his major roles">Is A Wussy Boy/Is Not A Wussy Boy</a></em> </a> - A wuss upon wusses. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.26740 Tue, 01 Jul 2003 20:24:06 -0800 brokenlink poems poetry wuss wussy y2karl