@burntfuse said:
Politics
In 1993, Doug Pederson ran in a local election as "YellowHead", and apparently painted his head yellow to attract attention. If this wasn't enough to get most voters to dismiss him as a nutcase, he also made strange campaign speeches [LINK TO SPEECH VIDEO] where he talked about "data processing data data processing." Since he unsurprisingly lost the election, he blames political "plants" and government insiders.
Correction, it was the 1993 Canadian federal election. He ran in the district of Yellowhead and finished with the smallest number of votes:
For context, he was beaten by the Natural Law candidate; members of the Natural Law party believe they can levitate solely with power of their minds (yogic flying).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Law_Party_of_Canada
On a related, here's a possible (lame) trivia section if you ever get desperate for content. A better (or funnier) writer than I could probably jazz this content up, if it is worth saving at all:
The Lowest Form of Humour? (Puns, Double Entendres, and Changing The Subject For No Good Reason)
Doug Pederson clearly has a great love for wordplay. He frequently incorporates puns and double entendres in his forum discussions and real-life actions, to the point of absurdity. For example, he describes his appearance in an old picture thusly: "That picture was from 1993 I ran in the federal election. The riding was named Yellowhead. I was Yellowhead." (http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PageIndex=2&PostID=178588) For Pederson, the idea of painting his head yellow to run in the Yellowhead riding was apparently an incredibly clever and funny play on words, and would guarantee his success in the election.
As another example, when a forum member jokingly suggested Pederson run for the office of Canadian Prime Minister, he responded:
"That was the only promise I made to the People of YellowHead. That I
would never Run again. Next time I would turn and fight. I never ran
before 1993 for anything and never will."
In his response, Pederson managed to "cleverly" change the meaning of "run" from "campaign for political office" to "run away".
When opportunities for great double entendres dry up, Pederson is always at the ready with a subtle and ingenious pun: "The most powerful stones on the planet. The greatest program on the planet. Weird coinci-dance isn't it?"
Of course, "coinci-dance" is a reference to Pederson's propensity for dancing with his magical rocks to gain some sort of mystical favour for himself or to curse his enemies.
If insanely funny puns and double meanings are not enough, Pederson will also randomly change the subject entirely, based on some implausible alternative meaning of a word or phrase under discussion:
http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/p/8159/153701.aspx#153701
"This sure doesn't look good for NetSquares.org. Treating Me like that, is almost like snubbing the [Medicine] Stones. Not a wise move.
Oh yeah I got the same birthdate as [Rolling Stone] Mick Jagger. I'm 5 years less old."
In the context of the original discussion, Pederson was clearly referring to his magic Medicine Stones. However, he abruptly changed the subject to the Rolling Stones, for no apparent reason. Is it possible that Pederson himself forgot what he was talking about?
Further proof of Pederson's propensity for pithy puns can be found on random forums at an internets near you:
http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/p/8159/153752.aspx#153752
"I started working for Capital Cable. They went through a name change to Shaw Cable. Making me a Shawman."