Tuesday, November 30, 2010

3165...Coolest Urn Ever

Front page news in La Belle this day, and page A3 of today's Ottawa Citizen, was info on future Hall of Famer Pat Burns funeral in Montreal.

The coolest thing is the great man's urn.

It is a model of the Stanley Cup, which he won with Jersey.

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3164...I Love My Dog

So much. Her name is Mara and she is the prettiest, most fun Lab in the world. She will be a year old on December 13th and I am crazy mad in love with her.

Not as much in love with though as other dog partners.

Take Wade Strickland. He is a 62 year old resident of Los Angeles and NBC LA reports that he has been placed on three years' probation for having sex with his dog, a female German shepherd mix.

Here is where it gets weird.

He was arrested by the police Animal Cruelty Task Force on February 2 after he was seen sexually violating the dog beneath a freeway overpass. You know, in public. Bad enough that he is, er, intercoursing the puppy but in plain sight?

He got three years probation, cannot own a pet during that time and has to go to counselling.

The German shepard was not available for comment.

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3163...Stop Ou Arreter

Cranston, Rhode Island, is a town of 80,000 people, about the size of Kingston.

A safety minded resident or residents of that town has put up 700 unauthorized stop signs in the city. Actually that is only part of the story "...as WPRI-TV reports, [city officials] say they've only partially solved the mystery of who put up nearly 700 stop signs that hadn't gotten proper approval. State Department of Transportation officials have said their workers were responsible for about one-third of the signs. The other two-thirds? A spokeswoman for the mayor says many may have been installed by city residents."

Question One: Where does one go to buy a stop sign?

Question Two: Are they valid, like, dya have to stop?

I don't have the answer for Question One but the answer to Question Two, direct from the mayor's office, is that "drivers ... should not take this as a free pass. A stop sign is a stop sign."

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3162...You Think YOU Had A Bad Day

A 21-year-old southeast Missouri man is expected to face charges after being arrested twice in the same day for possessing marijuana.

The Sikeston Standard Democrat reports that the man was first arrested five minutes after midnight Sunday at the Caruthersville Community Center. Police say they found several baggies of marijuana and several hundred dollars.

At 11:10 p.m., the same man was stopped for improper vehicle registration. Police say a search of his vehicle found several baggies of marijuana.

The suspect's name has not been released.

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3161...Next Wednesday Is Tomorrow

Scott Bradley, Liberal candidate for Ottawa Centre wants you to help him help the Ottawa Snowsuit Fund and the Shine Music Foundation.

Plus you can win a trip to Vegas direct from Uplands via Westjet.

A pair of bands lined up to get you in the Christmas. The (almost legendary) 20th Century Boys will again be playing hosts for the event and take the stage at 8 to get the night rocking. They'll be followed, fresh off their Hintonburg Hootenanny gig, by the audibly authentic "The Middlemen" - just after 9:30. Good times, recognizable music!

Tickets are $10 at the door, $5 for students, and 100% of the proceeds go to charity.

As a veteran of these events I have discovered that the more one drinks the better the 20th Century Boys sound.

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3160...Dan Lett Explains All

He scribbles for the Winnipeg Free-Press and he summed up Monday's bye election action thusly:

The Tories captured the last in a series of right-leaning suburban seats in Ontario. And it was the indefatigable Lamoureux, not the Liberal Machine, that triumphed in Winnipeg North. You can search for greater meaning in these results -- and Lord knows, we in the media will keep looking -- but it's not really there.


The sky is not falling. Unless you are Jack Layton.

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3159...This Is Why You Should Say Hi In The Halls

Of your apartment building.

So you don't spend three weeks trapped in the toliet.

ABC, the Oz ABC, reported last week that "French firefighters have freed a 69-year-old woman who spent three weeks trapped in her bathroom."

She became stuck after the bathroom door lock broke.

Police said the woman, who is recuperating in hospital, survived by drinking warm water from the bathroom tap and at night tried to call for help by tapping on piping but her concerned neighbours thought somebody was doing home unauthorized home repair and launched a petition to find out who it was and to have it stopped.

All though all tenants profess love for the unnamed woman, they didn't think to knock on her door for three weeks, that is 21 days and beaucoup de hours.

I have to think the unnamed woman was quite the b*tch.

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