Every week, our editors will come up with a new Heel of the Week. This represents someone or something that has majorly ticked us off. If you have any good and funny ideas for a future Heel of the Week, mail it to us at [email protected]. Write 'Heel of the Week' in the subject line.
Well, it comes down to this. The Heel of the Year for 2001 is...
| Heel |
Date (DD/MM/YYYY) | Reason |
| People who are excited to see the LotR movies without having read the books. | 19/12/2001 | You can't possibly appreciate the story and characters without reading Tolkien's novels! |
| Canadian Tire. | 12/12/2001 | They fired that dude who plays Scrooge on the commercials. |
| People who say 'potato chips'. | 04/12/2001 | It's 'chips', plain and simple. |
| Stereotype western Canadians | 27/11/2001 | With the Grey Cup in town this week, all these cowboy hat wearing, cowboy boot shod, flannel jacket people were walking around town. Crazy! |
| Harry Potter hype | 22/11/2001 | It's not the advertizing that bothers me, but the media's hype! |
| The XBox's controller | 14/11/2001 | It's so damned clunky. |
| Major League Baseball | 07/11/2001 | For even considering contraction as a viable solution to Baseball's many problems. |
| Cold mornings | 31/10/2001 | Don't you hate getting out of your nice, warm bed and facing a painfully cold morning? |
| Anticipation | 23/10/2001 | I want my GameCube now! |
| Harvey's onion rings | 16/10/2001 | Firstly, they're so oddly shaped that only 3 fit in the box. And then when you take one bite, the entire strip of onion comes out, leaving a hollow shell!! |
| Standing on the bus | 10/10/2001 | And there's nothing you can do about it, either, unless you're with an infant, are horribly crippled or pregnant. |
| People who take the elevator down one floor | 03/10/2001 | Just walk down the stairs! How lazy do you have to be? You even have gravity on your side!! |
| Horny authors | 26/09/2001 | Why must these people play out their repressed sexual fantasies in every chapter of their novels? Nasty! |
| Contestants on The Weakest Link | 18/09/2001 | You can see them trying to be witty and sharp, to be on the same level as the host, but they fail so miserably that it's painful to watch. |
| Late heels of the week | 13/09/2001 | Don't you wish those jokers at itoop would take their site a little more seriously? |
| Wasps | 05/09/2001 | What's their point in life? To rip off chunks of human skin? |
| School starting up again | 28/08/2001 | Damn. |
| People who drive too slowly in the passing lane | 21/08/2001 | These clowns block the whole damned road. |
| Video game delays | 14/08/2001 | Why do they say one release date, only to postpone it over and over and...Ugh! |
| Loser blockbuster employees | 07/08/2001 | Never in my life have I seen such plastic smiles and forced courtesy. |
| MastaCSG | 31/07/2001 | MastaCSG for messing up our group movie outings. |
| The Game Boy Advance's screen | 26/07/2001 | Man, you could hardly see anything on it!! Rough! |
| Old ice cream | 17/07/2001 | Don't you hate opening up a bucket that's been sitting in your freezer for a while and then the surface is all covered with that weird ice-crust? Nasty! |
| What Women Want, starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt | 10/07/2001 | Who knew this wasn't a documentary? |
| Odd number of bus tickets | 03/07/2001 | I mean, what the hell are you supposed to do when you have one, or three tickets? |
| Toronto mayor, Mel Lastman | 26/06/2001 | He 'joked' with the press that he was fearful of his trip to Kenya, stating he was
afraid of being put in a pot of boiling water "with all these natives
dancing around me." |
| Wet shoelaces | 19/06/2001 | When you try tying them, as the lace passes through the knot, all this nasty 'water' comes dripping out. |
| Parking meters | 12/06/2001 | I hate not knowing when they'll run out, cuz they all have different concepts of the passage of time. |
| Shoddy razor blades | 05/06/2001 | Don't you hate the ones that leave your razor blade dripping with gore and your face mutilated beyond recognition!!! My solution, quit shaving. |
| Christina Aguilera | 29/05/2001 | Have you seen her, lately? Does she own a mirror? She puts on so much make-up that she looks like a clown! |
| NHL Playoffs in summer | 22/05/2001 | Does anybody really care anymore? Gaaah! |
| Manufacturer's mail-in rebates | 15/05/2001 | When they say '6-8 weeks', they really mean 'when we're good and ready'. |
| Jar Jar Binks | 08/05/2001 | Do I even have to explain why...? |
| Molly Shannon | 03/05/2001 | This former SNL personality is simply not funny. I've seen funnier cat spleenectomies on TLC. |
| Dennis Tito | 01/05/2001 | Leave it to pros, buddy. Unless NASA wants to research the effects of space on the incontinence of the elderly, I say real Astronauts should go up. |
| People who dye their hair | 25/04/2001 | I mean, just go grey with dignity, already! Yeesh! |
| New York Mets reliever Turk Wendell | 17/04/2001 | He suggested Montreal Expos superstar Vladimir Guerrero could "go back to the freakin' Dominican and find another line of work". |
| Shotgun rules | 10/04/2001 | Why do they exist? Who invented these weird rules? Who
cares who sits in the passenger seat?! |
| My keyboard, again. | 03/04/2001 | Now the right shift doesn't work. Do you know how frustrating that can be? |
| Un-escalating escalators | 27/03/2001 | Why do they stop escalators? Doesn't that defeat the entire purpose? I mean, they're just stairs otherwise! |
| Michael Jackson | 20/03/2001 | Give it up! Enough albums, already!! |
| Snow | 13/03/2001 | There's too damn much of it!! |
| The spacebar on my keyboard | 07/03/2001 | It never responds, causing a document to be one really long word. |
