The Many Rants of Larry Russwurm- Are Plants Drunk Off the Excess Carbon Dioxide?
- The Articler
- In the Presence of Dentyne
- The Space Yoyo
- Pieing Lou Ferrigno
- Light at the End of the World
- H. G. Wells, the Teenage Sidekick of the Father of Science Fiction
- The Right is Right, But the Left is More Right: A Mathematical Proof
- The Ads About Nothing
- Newfoundland Houndstooth
Monthly Archives: August 2011
Truth in Advertising
I felt weird the first time I heard the Conservatives of Canada being called Cons. It was even weirder that it was a Conservative Party supporter that I heard it from. I’ve heard it again, also from a Conservative supporter … Continue reading
Musicians are Tone Deaf
Right off the top it might not be all musicians. I am going by all the songs I know in the English speaking world. Why the English language? That, as it turns out, is important. The English language itself has … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Language, Music
Tagged Bee Gees, Bon Jovi, English language music is tone deaf, falsetto words as questions, guitar tabs are good, last word rise in pitch denotes yes/no question, old notation songbooks are wrong, Questionable Music as new genre, rise in pitch for a sentence means it's a question, Roger Dean, Roundabout, Supertramp, the urban Ontario dialect, Yes
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Solving the Exercise Difficulty
There is a loophole in my post of last week. In that post I explained that couch potatoes if they exercised 15 minutes a day to get 3 years of extra life, this was equivalent to 1.2 years of solid … Continue reading
About the New Banner
Many thanks to my sister Laurel for creating my new banner for this blog. She is very skilled in photo manipulation as evidenced by this banner and creates the best cards from her computer and many pictures she takes. For … Continue reading
Hope for Couch Potatoes
It was a much ballyhooed study that took the media by storm for a day. As little as 15 minutes a day of exercise can add an average of 3 years of extra life. You could tell the media was … Continue reading
Superpower: Sun Shielding
I made myself a deal when I thought of this cartoon. I knew I was going to publish it for today but I didn’t know the how of it. I said if there is an easy to use backward baseball … Continue reading
Posted in Cartoon, Fashion, Humour, Politics, Writing
Tagged backward baseball cap, Bitstrips, comic strips, redneck, sun shielding
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Zombie Jobless Headed Toward Me!
Here are the straight goods as revealed to me by this article. Windsor, the Canadian city across the river from Detroit, has for awhile held the title of worst economy in Canada. But just recently the title came to London, … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Geography, Humour, Politics, Pseudo Science
Tagged Detroit, Kitchener, London, Toronto, unemployment stats, Windsor, zombie jobless
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Hands Inking Hands
I think Escher tried to be inclusive in his famous “Drawing Hands” picture. After all, one of the hands is a left hand and the other is a right hand. Or maybe Escher just wanted to produce ‘one magical … Continue reading
Obese and Wonderful
The obese and wonderful segment of the population, while perhaps being bad in a few ways, is good in at least one way. Of course much of the public would see any increase in obese numbers as bad and unwanted. … Continue reading