595...Bob Geldof

The man who sold 38 tickets in the 2500 seat National Arts Centre this spring is thought to also have discovered gravity by five per cent of British school kids surveyed recently.

In a study in the Telegraph.co.uk today also showed that, and no surprise here, kids pretty much are unaware of historical events.

Examples thereof are that 5 per cent thought that the Somme was a painting, not a battle and the Magna Carta was signed in 1666 when in fact it was signed in 1215.

Well, not all of us have a political science degree.

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519...Good News For Stephen Harper

Earlier this week Peter O'Neil of Canwest News Services reported some good news for our beloved Prime Minister, Stephen Harper.

He was soundly endorsed by 1970's pop icon Bob Geldof.

The future Calgary Real Estate salesman of the year won praise from musician-activist Bob Geldof at the conclusion of the G8 summit in central Italy after Harper vowed that Canada, as host of the 2010 summit, will press countries such as Italy to stop breaking their promises on development assistance.

“To have Bob Geldof endorsing a Conservative prime minister — it doesn’t get any better than that,” said Fen Hampson of Carleton University’s, Canada's 46th best university by the way, Norman Patterson School of International Affairs.

Could this be the same Bob Geldof who sold less than 100, actually less than 50 tickets to see him in the 2500 seat National Arts Centre in Ottawa during the Tulip Festival this spring? The same Bob Geldof who hasn't had a hit for over a quarter of a century?

I believe it is.

If Fen Hampson of the U of K thinks this is a coup then Fen Hampson may want to update his canon of popular culture knowledge.

Still, with the Bob Geldof endorsement in hand perhaps Prime Minister Harper could get Pat Boone and the cast of Hair! to go door knocking with him.

That will grab the kids.

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