The Score did a fun (depending on your perspective at least) little roundup of some of the stranger injuries in sports. I wasn’t sure whether or not I was going to post it, but then this happened. Bryce Mitchell (2018) Don’t stick a power drill in your pocket: That’s the lesson UFC fighter Mitchell learned …
Author Archives: Steve Wettlaufer
I Need A Drink. If Only I Knew What I Wanted. Perhaps A Cup Of Tea
Sometimes things are funny because they’re true, like this video here. Whenever I flip by a new country station or don’t have control of the radio, all I ever seem to hear is what sounds like the same two or three dudes singing the same song about beer, jeans, trucks and gravel roads. And the …
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the Following Goofy Sponsorships Are Brought To You By…
Every bit of a sports broadcast is sponsored. Penalty kills, powerplays, calls to the bullpen, the broadcast booth…I’m used to that. But hearing on a Bluebombers game the other day that “Doug Brown’s colour commentary is brought to you buy…,” that was a new one. Caught me off guard so much that I immediately forgot …
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That’s Not What Mugshot Means, Sir
It’s been a while since a story not about Donald Trump has made me scream out loud, but dear god, this one sure did. According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, 51-year-old Walter Frymire was arrested after deputies received a call regarding a naked man inside a bathroom at a public park. Sheriff Grady Judd …
Aaaaaaa! Warm Sleep!
I would have had no idea that anything had gone wrong had I not read about it in the news, but this week’s big Amazon Web Services outage most definitely affected a whole lot of others. This is, I’m sure we can all agree, very bad. But there’s one aspect of it that has me …
In Which I Use Pierre Poilievre To Teach An Important Lesson
I don’t have a clue what Pierre Poilievre looks like, but jesus christ, that voice! Gaaaaah! Every time I hear him talk, there are two thoughts I can’t shake: Even if we agreed on every issue in the world, I’d still want to slap the crap out of him. If you told me a guy …
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Some Things I Wrote Down
I thought I was finally starting to get a bit better at the posting thing again, but I’ve hit another wall, it seems. So maybe I’ll try jotting some stuff down and posting it when it feels right. Making myself do this in the usual ways hasn’t worked in years, so maybe this will. It’ll …
Is Somebody Scamming?
It’s crazy enough that this scam worked once, but now it’s worked twice, and on women in the same country, no less! A Japanese octogenarian was swindled out of thousands of dollars after falling in love online with a self-described astronaut who sought her help to avert a spaceship crisis, police said Tuesday. The hapless …
Yeah, Ya Did
I hadn’t thought about it until I came across this story just now, but how can it possibly be that more things don’t get set on fire while “We Didn’t Start the Fire” blasts away nearby? Or at the very least, how come I don’t hear about them if in fact there are more? My …
Name That WWF Golden Era Tune
I’m so mad! I’d have had a perfect score on this quiz if not for the damn Nasty Boys! I needed juuuuuuust a bit more time on that one. But 14 out of 15 is still pretty great. Amazing what happens when most of the music is either iconic, easy to associate with the person …