Classy Canadian Humour

While I was on my vacation, I found myself in some shopping malls from time to time. We always do a little shopping when visiting, and considering the Euro-Dollar exchange rate, this makes a lot of sense.

However, while at the mall in Newmarket, I noticed this T-Shirt stand. At first glance it just looked like a bunch of typical cheesy t-shirts. Many comic book themes, Green Lantern, Batman, Thundercats, etc...
Then I noticed the shirt in white, smack in the middle of the whole display... this piece of comic genius...
I almost fell down laughing. I have never seen such a piece of classless, tasteless humour in my life. It was so perfectly horrible that it was right off the scale of my "so bad it is good" thought process. I am not sure that I will ever see another shirt that can surpass this one as worst idea ever.

It brought so many questions to my mind;

1) Who would buy this?
"What I really want to tell the world is how much I love to fart. If only there was a shirt that would help me get this message out there. People need to know the perpetual stench that hangs around me like a cloud of sewage is produced out of my own love. "

2) Who thought this would be a good idea to sell?
"Hello marketing department of T-shirt-co, let me ask you this question... have you got a product that addresses the farting demographic?"

3) What is the single most inappropriate place you could wear this shirt?
this was a tough one.
-wedding
-funeral
-baptism
-job interview
-first date
-meeting partner's parents for the first time
-birthday gift

This shirt provided me with at least 2-3 days worth of constant entertainment. I would be sitting on the couch a day later and just break out laughing when I thought about how awful it was again. I think I was really getting on everyone's nerves with my obsession with the shirt, but I really have never seen such a testament to bad taste before.

In some ways, I regret not buying it. I would love to see their sales figures on this item.

That brings me to the second product that wowed me on the holidays. On the main street of Bradford is a discount store called Giant Tiger, a department store with inexpensive clothes, food, toys, stuff in general. It is the sort of place that sells lots of products very similar to the more expensive versions. Nikey shoes, or Adeedas shirts, that sort of thing.
We were in this store looking for just such a knock off, a cheapo version of the Crocs shoes. Giant Tiger had some for about $5 CDN, as opposed to the $35 the official ones cost. Anyway, while Claudia browsed the shoes, I had a wander around the store looking at the stuff, and I came accross this "hilarious" product.
It is a garden gnome with a motion sensor inside. When a person activates this motion sensor, the gnome makes a farting noise quite loudly. I was very pleased to see that Giant Tiger had managed to get "The Original Farting Gnome" and not some cheap knock off.

Once again, I was floored with laughter wondering fairly much the same questions I had asked for the T-shirt.

The gnome brought up one more question to my mind, how annoying would it be to work in this store, within earshot of a shelf containing about 50 farting garden gnomes that were activated every time someone walked past the shelf?