Wednesday, January 16, 2013

5517...Google Anything

And you will see a tribute to the immortal 112 year old Frank Zamboni.

Not literally immortal coz he is dead but you know wot I mean.

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5516...Lance Armstrong Is Going On Oprah

I don`t know if you heard but she has her own network now, OWN.  It has wickedly poor numbers but the whole world seems to talking about this interview with Lance Armstrong.  Mr. Armstrong, who has, at best, an estranged relationship with the truth, is apparently coming clean during this interview.  Or not.  He is a liar after all.

This quote from the interview puzzles me:  "As soon as I heard Paul Ryan claim he'd run a marathon in less than 3 hours, I knew the madness had to stop"  That is your jump the shark moment Mr. Armstrong? 

Oy and frigging vey I say.

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5515...Boycott Over

Before it started.

If you are in a major Canuckistanian city like Ottawa you know that two weeks ago they, they being hockey fans, were going to show them, them being the NHL owners and players, what was what by not buying merch or tickets.

Now that the lock out is settled, not so much.

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5514...In The Midst Of This Year's Flu Epidiemic

Racism rears its ugly head.



From tastefullyoffensive.com.

Yes, you are right, I do seem to have a lot of time on my hands.

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5513...You Don't Get Much For 6,000 Billion A Year

Remedial journalism.



Via Bleacher Report through my Facebook friend Gare Joyce.

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5512...Why Brits Have Big Teeth

And they do.

Found out why in The Daily Telegram.  According to that esteemed rag Tesco, Iceland, Lidl, Aldi and Dunnes Stores, uh these are grocery stores that are as big as say Loblaws or Safeway or Super C, have been selling hamburgers that contain just a tad under 30 per cent, think Ken Dryden, Secretariat.

The problem is that they, the grocery stores, did not tell anyone.

Imagine.

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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

5511...People Don't Like Change

Check this out from Airchecker Canada.  It is a cut and paste about the early days of the car radio.

n 1930, laws were proposed in Massachusetts and St. Louis to ban radios while driving. According to automotive historian Michael Lamm, “Opponents of car radios argued that they distracted drivers and caused accidents, that tuning them took a driver’s attention away from the road, and that music could lull a driver to sleep.” 

Even the Auto Club of New York agreed. In their 1934 poll, 56 percent deemed the car radio a “dangerous distraction.” Arguing the other side was the Radio Manufacturers Association, who pointed out that car radios could be used to warn drivers of inclement weather and bad road conditions, as well as keeping them awake when they got drowsy. 

A little history on the car radio: The first one was introduced in 1922 by Chevrolet. It cost a whopping $200, and with an antenna that covered the car’s entire roof, batteries that barely fit under the front seat and two mammoth speakers attached behind the seat, it was about as convenient as taking a live orchestra along for a ride.

Sounds a bit cell phonish, eh?

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