Can you do us a favour and not play audio related to somebody famous before telling us why? I can’t pinpoint exactly when it happened, but that’s kind of become the signal that the person has died. CBC World Report started playing Never Surrender this morning and for a good five seconds I was certain …
Monthly Archives: January 2019
Not Everything That Sounds Like A Slur Is A Slur, Trigger Happy People Of Rochester
https://www.facebook.com/alan.majors/videos/10212107639637618/ The audio isn’t great here, but what you’re listening to is a guy getting himself fired and thrown under the bus by his employer for what I personally feel is not a very good reason. A television meteorologist is out of a job one day after Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren and City Council President Loretta …
New Year’s Resolutions
Gill has a few words about making and sticking to New Year’s resolutions. I’m with her on her first point. If I bother making a resolution at all, I know that no good ever comes of aiming too high. If I get it in my head that I want to do something, I just tell …
Wrestling Notepad
A few random thoughts as I catch up on some shows I’m behind on. I’m trying to get back into the habit of leaving a Notepad file open and writing down whatever pops into my head in it the way I’d gotten sucked into doing on Twitter and then putting it up here when it …
Let’s Talk Dirty In…Finland?
I don’t remember exactly how the conversation came around to it, but at dinner last night Carin mentioned Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen’s fantastic name. “Whenever I hear it,” she said, “all I can think of is Lets Talk Dirty In Hawaiian.” This made me very angry, because she’s totally right and how did I not think of …
Somebody Tried To Eat Those Canned Hamburgers. Tried Being The Key Word Here
Many years ago, Carin discovered that there is such a thing as a cheeseburger in a can. She had basically the reaction that you’re probably having right now, especially if this is the first time you’ve heard the words cheeseburger in a can presented to you in the context of it being a thing that …
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A Real Person In An iPad Commercial
Zebra Corner, the guys who put that dude into all of those stupid Chevy commercials, are apparently still doing this. The Daytona 500 part is good, but I laughed out loud at the “What’s a computer?” iPad commercial. It’s so simple yet so perfect.
Hope I Can cut This Lock Before They Lock Me Up
You know, I could really use a new bike. But man, they sure are pricey. Maybe I’d be better off stealing one. Like that one over there by the police station. It looks nice. https://www.facebook.com/GladstonePoliceDepartment/videos/2139232539724771/ A man was arrested last week after allegedly trying to steal a bicycle from in front of the Gladstone Police …
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Bell’s Everything Tracking Is Back And Very Slightly Less Creepy
It appears Bell is taking another crack at the tracking every customer’s every move thing that went so well a few years ago. And though the end result still sounds like a whole lot of garbage from a consumer point of view (there’s still nothing in it for customers aside from ads the company thinks …
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All The World Juniors Analysis You Need
If there’s a more fun name to say in all of hockey right now than Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, I haven’t heard it. If Canada had to lose, at least it was to the eventual winner. I can’t say that anyone who thinks that any of this is “anti-francophone racism” is wrong, but personally I’m not so …
