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The SILLY/SERIOUS Show at the Old Church
The second show of Slydog's SILLY/SERIOUS show to raise funds for the Skeena Watershed Conservation group (google Skeena Watershed) and the Smithers Animal shelter was a joy. We performed at the "Old Church" in Smithers and the show was well attended....
Tags: Theatre, fundraiser, church, silly, humour, allnews, Canada, Smithers, Skeena, Bulkley Country, Bulkley Valley, Human Interest, Stan Rogers, Valerie Laub, Amelia Duckheart, old church, environment, community
Sarah Sells Her Book
Sarah Palin is out on the Talk Show circuit plugging her "tell-all" book these days. Perhaps the woman that can see Russia from her back door has her eyes on an Oprah Winfrey Book Club deal these days. "Fat Chance" I say. (no offence to Oprah intended)...
Tags: Sarah Palin, book, humour, Alaska Public Safety Commissioner dismissal, I-can-see-Russia, Public image of Sarah Palin, allnews, United States presidential election, Anchorage, Palin, Katie Couric, Sarah Sells Her Book, Al Gore, Piper, Tony Blair, Caribou, Stephen King, Trig, John McCain, Eric Clapton, Willow, Oprah Winfrey, Carl Hiaasen, Track, Tina Fey, Alaska, Tony Orlando, David Letterman
Get Out
I am aware of the fact that US policy analysts monitor Afghan public opinion, but I wonder if US policy makers do so as well. Do the strategists in the Obama administration find comfort in the fact that the majority of the Afghan population supports...
Tags: economy, history, humour, law, politics, science and technology, society
Take a Chill Pill
I think that there's way too many foreign policy wonks that focus on worst case scenarios. They've bought into Murphy's Law: "Whatever can go wrong will go wrong." Well, Saad's Law says that "Worse case scenarios almost never happen... so quit trippin',...
Tags: history, humour, law, politics, science and technology, society
At least he has a nice tan
The Nobel Committee has zero credibility. Occasionally, the good folks in Oslo get it right (e.g. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, President Jimmy Carter, etc.) And sometimes, they get it wrong... dreadfully wrong.Henry Kissinger butchered countless women and...
Let It Grow On You
I was watching a Quentin Tarantino interview a while back, and he mentioned that his favourite movie of all time was Taxi Driver... directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro. And my reaction upon hearing that was, "You have got to be...
Tags: culture, history, humour, science and technology, society
In my day... pubs were community centres
When the boiler went on the blink, we didn't have to prize the yellow pages out from its invaluable role as a replacement bed-leg. We didn't have to trawl through thousands of pages of Google results listing every 'water system on-site...
Tags: English pubs, bars, community centres, humour, social life, celebrity chefs
Stupid Advertising
SABC has been flighting an advert for Foundry Premium Cider which always makes me laugh. In the advert the young chap licks the Great Wall of China and then tells us that despite the number of people it took to built and the number of years it was under...
Tags: Silly adverts, humour, satire, TV, advertising
Matchmaking Public Option
George Sodini walked into an all-female dance class at a Pennsylvania gym. He put his duffel bag on the floor. There were 4 handguns in the bag. Once George had turned the lights off, he used 3 of the guns to spray the gym-goers with 36 bullets. 12...
Tags: humour, law, politics, religion, science and technology, society
32 Ways to Spell a Name
One of my idiosyncrasies is that when I see a story in the paper about Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, I look to see what spelling the reporter decided on using. According to the Library of Congress, here are the various spellings of his name:(1) Muammar...
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