![Next: a "Poutine on the Ritz" meme. Photo by Camelia.boban [CC BY-SA 4.0] via Wikimedia.](https://unclewalts.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/putin-poutine-768x403.jpg)
A dish named for its inventor, Vladimir Poutine. WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL — Epcot Centre’s Canada Pavilion has been in the news several times recently (here, here & here), and not always for positive reasons. Today, however, in a move certain to impact Russia almost as much as the banning of its cats from international competition,…
![Coming soon - the new Ukraine Pavilion at Epcot Center! Photo [CC0] via Wikimedia.](https://unclewalts.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/disney-epcot-centre-ukraine-pavilion-768x403.jpg)
They probably shouldn’t build it next to the Russia Pavilion. WORLD SHOWCASE LAGOON, FL — Bob “Bob” Chapek has announced that he intends to bring a new country to EPCOT: Ukraine! Chapek probably said this in a phone call with our own Uncle Walt. “As I was counting money with the news playing in the…
![Aw, is Vlad going to miss out on his parade down Main Street USA? Photo by Darcy [CC BY 2.0] via Flickr, Kremlin.ru [CC BY 3.0] via Wikimedia, and [CC0] via Pexels.com. Yes, it cracks us up that we're using a Kremlin photograph.](https://unclewalts.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/putin-not-going-to-walt-disney-world-768x403.jpg)
To be fair, it might have been in bad taste for Disney to run the ad. MOSCOW — Sources say that a dejected Vladimir Putin has canceled his planned “I’m going to Disney World” commercial. “It was going to be epic,” our source reported Putin saying (but in Russian). “We invade Ukraine, and Kyiv falls…
Nothing left in your bank account after a trip to see Mickey? How odd! WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL — Visitors to EPCOT Centre’s Canada Pavilion have reportedly had their assets seized and their bank accounts frozen. “I just walked through the place,” says guest Hugh Schwartz of Passaic, NJ. “Given what’s happening north of the…
![Freedom convoy at Epcot's Canada Pavilion. Photo by Steven Miller [CC BY 2.0] via Flickr, and Minas Panagiotokis/Getty Images.](https://unclewalts.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/canada-freedom-convoy-moves-to-epcot-768x403.jpg)
“Like the real Canada, but slightly less polite.” WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL — The self-proclaimed Canadian Freedom Convoy isn’t over. It’s just moved south. “We got the idea from our wonderful dictator, I mean, Prime Minister,” said trucker Léonel Legrand of Montreal. “We learned from reliable sources that he was hiding here when we were…