Hospital Ship for Greenland?

Posted on 28 February 2026 by Larry Russwurm

Rump recently said he would send a hospital ship to Greenland. This is, of course, an attempt at bribing Greenlanders that falls flat on its face. You see, Greenlanders already have free health care. If Rump sends a hospital ship, it only means that Greenlanders have two free methods of getting care for what ails them.

Perhaps Rump would be better off looking at home if he wants to offer free health care. Many, many, many people in the US would love to have this free health care Rump is offering. Why not offer it to his own citizens? This might pull up his tanking poll numbers.

Rump understands bribes. After all he has accepted a golden jet already for the presidency. And a made up peace prize from FIFA. And is currently accepting moneys to go toward rebuilding the White House. He is probably surprised that Greenlanders are still rejecting his overtures.

But of course Rump tries to give free health care to those who already have it. The rich get richer is his mantra and what his time in office is all about. This may seem like a waste to any normal human but to Rump it is just a redundancy that guarantees Greenlanders free health care.

I don’t understand how this hasn’t caused a flurry of protests in the US as he offers foreigners free health care but pulls back health care to his own citizens. Some Americans are waking up (again the tanking poll numbers) but it is so very slow.

Also, I have doubts on the use of hospital ships. I wouldn’t trust surgery on them in anything even approaching rough seas. “Oops! The surgeon cut in the wrong spot and then because of sea sickness, puked in the gash!” Yes I would have nightmares about having surgery on a ship.

It’s not just that. Getting a swab or a needle or taking a blood sample might be similarly dangerous During a storm, a hospital ship might be entirely useless. And I wonder if it would be trapped in the ice off of Greenland’s frozen shores in the winter. A hospital ship that can only operate in the spring, summer and fall doesn’t sound too great to me. Don’t get sick in the winter!

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February 2026 Grab Bag o’ Humour

Posted on 7 February 2026 by Larry Russwurm

The first two hands of a clock are the minute hand and the hour hand because they are always present. Some clocks or watches only have these two hands. So they could be called the first and second hands. But what is the third hand of a clock or watch called? The second hand. This means that any of the three hands could be called the second hand!

To me this is first hand information, To you it is second hand information. For anyone you tell, it is third hand information.

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Have you seen the price of a one bedroom apartment in New York City? It’s about $5 000 a month on average for a NYC renter.

But capitalism has a way of subsidizing these apartments. All the renter has to do is show up at a game show or a talk show and cross their fingers for a giveaway. And you wondered why game and talk shows always seemed to be hosted in these big cities. Now you know why.

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You’ve heard the latest craze for kids all over? They laugh hysterically when the numbers 6, 7 come up and in that order. My sources tell me there is no real reason for the laughter. There is no real reason it is these two numbers being funny. It’s just a fact of life in today’s world.

Teaching kids to count must be hard, especially when you get to that 6, 7 trigger. But usually kids are taught to count that low of numbers when most of them aren’t socially aware. So they might not realize that saying 6,7 is supposed to trigger laughter. So maybe counting is safe.

And fortunately, 67 is a prime number so it doesn’t come up when kids are learning their multiplication tables.

Still, I would hate to be a Canadian middle grade history teacher. You see, Canada’s confederation came in 1867. So that number gets mentioned a lot.

So I’m glad I am not a middle grade history teacher. But let’s be truly honest. I’m glad I’m not teaching middle grade school at all. Thus, I don’t have to deal with those brats.

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A Stupid Name

Posted on 31 January 2026 by Larry Russwurm

The Las Vegas hockey team chose a stupid name for their players. The Golden Knights implies they wear a suit of armour made of gold, This is a ridiculous idea.

First of all gold is a denser material than the steel that a knight’s suit of armour would have been made of. The density of the steel those suits of armour were made of was around 7.75 grams per centimeter cubed. Gold is much denser at 19.32 gram per centimeter cubed. It is about 2.5 times denser.

Secondly gold is more malleable than steel and most metals. That means if you are trying to deflect a mace blow or a lance strike, you would want more gold than the steel you would normally wear as a knight. I think it would have to have twice the thickness of the steel.

An average suit of armour weighed about 50 pounds. With the 2.5 times density multiplier, it would weigh 125 pounds because of this difference. Doubling the amount of gold to make up for its malleability would make the suit weigh 250 pounds.

That’s a lot of extra weight for a man to be able to lift in combat while battling away. It would set him at a severe disadvantage to the steel suited competitors.

And the cost! 16 ounces times 250 pounds times $5 000 dollars an ounce for gold makes each suit cost 20 million dollars in materials. Multiply that by 20 players and it costs 400 million dollars to outfit a team of Golden Knights.

And I still don’t know that doubling the thickness of the golden suit would be enough to make up for its malleability Is there is anyone out there strong enough to wear a 250 pound suit and wants to see if their suit can match a steel one in combat? Any takers?

That’s why Golden Knights is a stupid name.

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On Musical Roads

Posted on 24 January 2026 by Larry Russwurm

At the link you can read about the musical road in Hungary. If you play the video you can hear it as the car drives over the musical road. Apparently it only plays when the car is moving at the correct speed. I can see a couple problems with this.

Firstly, what if the musical road is set to play some mind crushing ear worm like Baby Shark? Hopefully the parent driver recognizes this travesty before their child does and deliberately speeds on this road in order to have the song not play.

Secondly, what happens if the radio is already on in the car? There will end up being two competing songs to listen to. That’s never good, especially if the songs are in a different key and have a different beat. This cacophony will also encourage the driver to speed in order to avoid this.

Thirdly, what if there is an intersection on the road in the middle of the song? You could put the music on the major road so there would likely be no slowing down to complicate the song but what if I want to take that secondary road? Slowing down to take that secondary road will stop you from hearing part of the song. Likely this lesser road will have no song on it and I am left hearing an incomplete song.

I don’t know about other people but often, when I hear an incomplete song, the back of my mind starts to play it in my head. With no ending, so it just goes on and on for the rest of the day. This is as bad or even worse than an ear worm.

Fourthly, How does the copyright of the song get calculated? The speeding cars don’t hear the song. The slow drivers don’t hear the song. Turning cars only hear a partial song. It sounds like cameras with radar guns will have to be put up to decide copyright royalties. What a total pain.

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President Rump’s Plan

Posted on 10 January 2026 by Larry Russwurm

Why does President Rump want Greenland so badly? Why is he so willing to put Greenland and their current owners, Denmark in a bad situation?

Well, we at Many Rants have crunched the numbers and have looked at the situation backwards and forwards and sideways. The only thing that makes sense is that President Rump has seen the stats about Denmark and their level of happiness.

Denmark’s happiness has been at or near the top in the world for the last few years. For the last two years only Finland has been higher. But Finland is poor in offshore possessions and Denmark has Greenland.

I believe what President Rump wants to do is called leveling. He wants to instill so much fear in Denmark, that their level of happiness drops 25 places and is lower than America’s level of happiness.

Some may think I am giving President Rump too much credit for his intelligence. But I am seeing him doing a similar thing with Canada.

President Rump has also prattled on and on and on about making Canada the 51st state. Why does he fixate on something he’ll likely only get with a war? It’s because we have an even more embarrassing stat than Denmark has.

Per capita, America spends almost double what Canada spends on health care. Canadians live an average of 3 or 4 years longer than Americans. You can say bad things about socialized medicine but this North American contrast shows the benefits of such a system.

Perhaps President Rump wishes Canada would spend more on its military so not so much could be given to health care. Or perhaps he wants an outright annexation of Canada so he can force the same ill performing system on Canada. Again this could be called leveling.

If President Rump is successful at leveling with these two nations, what’s to stop him from coming for the rest? There are other lists that give America a poor ranking.

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Practically Homeless Elon Musk

Posted on 3 January 2026 by Larry Russwurm

Perhaps you’ve lived under a rock these past few years and hadn’t heard that Elon Musk gave up all his mansions and practically lived under a rock. Maybe your rock, if your rock is in Texas.

His new home is worth $50 000 and is 400 square feet. It’s meant to be efficient. Perhaps Elon doesn’t want every other weekend with his kids. “Sorry kids,” he might say “but I’m strapped for space.”

At least he’s not wasteful like other half trillionaires. Okay so there are no other half trillionaires. But let’s just look at what he could do in the real estate market with that half trillion.

The average value of a fully detached home in my area is nearly a million dollars. Elon could buy a new one every single day to rest his head in somewhere that is pristine. He could then bulldoze the home in the morning. He would go through about one tenth of his wealth in his remaining 50 years or so if he did this.

If he wanted to make people exist in his current squalor of a $50 000 home, he could put up 10 million of the things and house a population the size of Sweden’s. Every man, woman and child of Sweden could have their own Elon house.

Maybe Elon just wants street cred with the homeless. “No I’m not quite there,” he can say despondently, “But I am down to 400 square feet to live in.”

Maybe feeding the homeless in an episode of the Big Bang Theory wasn’t quite enough for his street credibility. After all, the show is fictional and didn’t feed the actual homeless. And although Elon said he wanted to eat a pie with a bite out of it, they never actually showed the pie or him eating any part of it.

After this show people might think Elon actually had something in common with the homeless. However, years of actions afterwards proved that he didn’t and now, living in a 400 square foot home, he might move back to those halcyon days when people thought he might actually care.

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Best Posts of 2025

Posted on 27 December 2025 by Larry Russwurm

2025 was another interesting year here at the Many Rants. Early in the year I wrote Betelgeuse. At first, today, when I read it again, I thought I had counted wrong for this post. Then I realized I hadn’t counted the title. For the same reason, I now say Beetle Juice, Betelgeuse, Beetle Juice,  Betelgeuse, Beetle Juice.

Little Drummer Cat is my tribute to my cat, Bast, who unfortunately died earlier this year.

The New Gladiators is my road map to make hockey even more of a blood sport than in 1970’s Philadelphia. It might happen, yet.

I think I wrote Elmira, Sartins and Hockey well enough that outsiders from northern Waterloo Region would understand what I’m talking about, too.

Money is Time and Elon Musk and His Time Machine got me followed by two of Elon Musk’s kids on Twitter or as the kids say, “X”. I post about my posts there but do almost nothing else over there.

Then finally I think I identified something in the human condition. I called it Poop!

Here at Many Rants, we wish everyone a prosperous and good new year.

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December 2025 Grab Bag o’ Humour

Posted on 6 December 2025 by Larry Russwurm

I just saw a McDonald’s ad using the phrase “Up and at M” where M was really the golden arches. But because copyright law rewards the most aggressive companies the most, I now fully expect McDonald’s to sue the Simpsons.

You see the Simpson’s crossed the line when they, 30 years previously, had Radioactive Man utter the catch phrase “Up and Atom.”

Now the Simpsons could aggressively sue McDonald’s if they do it right away. But the Simpsons likely won’t, assuming that McDonald’s is an advertising customer at times.

If McDonald’s does this on the down low, expect newer airings of those Radioactive Man episodes to contain the more boring phrase, “Up and at them”.

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I’m thinking of starting my own dictionary. Yes it has to do with the way dictionaries choose their word of the year.

Look at it this year. The Oxford word of the year was “rage bait”. Macquarie dictionary chose “AI slop” as its word of the year. Collins dictionary chose “vibe coding” as its word for the year and Dictionary.com chose “six seven” as its word of the year.

But hope remains. Cambridge dictionary chose “parasocial” as its word of the year. That’s right, only one of these five dictionaries knew the definition of word. That’s a big fail for most of the dictionary world.

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I remember thinking what the *bleep* when I watched the video 6 years ago of “Harleys in Hawaii” by Katy Perry. You see, at the end, the video says “Produced by Canada for Katy Perry and Capitol Records”.

I wondered if the government of Canada was trying to make inroads into the music video market. Perhaps more production money would flow into Canadian coffers. But I have yet to see a video since produced by Canada. And why this one? With American Katy Perry. Set in Hawaii. So much about this is weird.

The Canada logo they show is not the one they use for normal government branded stuff. Perhaps there is some American production company going by the name Canada.

Now Justin Trudeau, prime minister of Canada six years ago, is dating Katy Perry. Is this supposed to be Canada’s payoff for producing the video? As a Canadian I have to say it doesn’t work for me.

But I got curious and did some digging and found that Canada is a Catalan production company.

Maybe Katy manifested something Canadian by choosing that production company.

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November 2025 Grab Bag o’ Humour

Posted on 22 November 2025 by Larry Russwurm

Kudos to Demi Moore for correcting the pronunciation of her name. It’s not Deh-MEE like we thought many years ago. It’s Duh-MEE as she corrected us. And it does take courage to correct the public.

Especially if you know that 10% of people are going to say DUH!-mee. As well, a further 25% of people are going to say Dummy or DUM-Ee.

Not to mention at least 1% will know her name is mispronounced but think its the second name. They will say Deh-MEE MOR or Deh-MEE MOR-Ay.

Correcting this pronunciation may be hard, but Duh-MEE can handle it.

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24 Sussex Drive is supposed to be the First address in Canada. But first one prime minister discovered that repairs could be delayed to curry favour with the public. Then the next prime minister did the exact same. So eventually we are left with a rotting structure that no prime minister has lived in, in recent memory.

Not to be outdone, Donald Trump tore down the whole east wing of the White House in the United States. He says he is going to build a grand ballroom where the east wing once stood. But we all know Trump’s taste is toward the more garish.

Now Trump has set a new precedent for the next president. Perhaps the next president will tear it down to build something they think is better. Or maybe they like garish and will live in the ballroom while tearing down the west wing of the White House. Symmetry might demand two garish sides to the White House.

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A few weeks ago, Elon Musk appeared on the Joe Rogan show and blamed immigrants for many things wrong with America.

“Musk and Rogan blamed immigrants for everything from budget shortfalls to democracy itself” said the article I linked to.

Elon Musk should know, himself being probably the most high profile immigrant in the United States. Tax his immigrant billions and I bet there will be no budget shortfall.

I wish all the problems of the world would be this easy to solve.

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The Baseball Bandwagon

Posted on 8 November 2025 by Larry Russwurm

The Toronto Blue Jays amazing run to the world series (and their almost win!), created some odd new baseball supporters. We would like to showcase some of them today.

There are new fans who are fashionistas who might be a bit off on their terminology. “Yes,” said one, “I really am struggling to understand how runs can be good. In fashion a run is a very bad faux pas where you need to bring in brand new stockings.”

“And I’m wondering about runs batted in,” says a second fashionista. “How can one bat one’s eye and cause even one run? Some of these players are causing multiple runs with one bat of the eye! The carnage in stockings is terrible!”

Then the original fashionista jumps back in, “But home runs make sense. They are the best of all the runs. The run happens at home. So one can easily switch the stockings with that horrible run for good stockings. No one is the wiser.”

We even found some medical workers who were new to the game of baseball. We chatted with some personal support workers (PSWs) about baseball.

“Who thinks that runs are good?” asked one. “They cause a stinky mess that needs to be cleaned, Then again, I’ve heard from a doctor myself, they’re usually not that bad for health as long as the patient stays hydrated.”

“As for runs batted in,” continues the first PSW, “I find it disgusting that someone would play with their own runs. It makes a horrible mess. Who do you think will have to clean it up? Me.”

But their friend has a different take on home runs. “Home runs are really better than normal runs. They happen at home so, I , as an in hospital PSW, do not have to clean it up. In fact, home implies that they might even make it to the toilet for this run. Even my in house PSW friends might not mind this one.”

We talked with a producer at a record label. She said “ I can’t understand how a hit isn’t everything. Sometimes it doesn’t even count on the scoreboard. But for me, a hit means future business. It means a small fortune on its own. It can even mean a good career.”

We also talked with someone who wouldn’t give his occupation. He said, “I always wondered about bats in baseball. Everyone talks about them but they are very rare at a baseball game. I’ve heard of a seagull getting hit but never a bat. But they (and baseball) become more important in October. I was not surprised that they were mentioning bats a lot on Hallowe’en when the Jays and Dodgers played. But I was a bit puzzled why they kept up the talk on the November 1st game. I mean, honestly. Hasn’t everyone moved on to Christmas by that date?”

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