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Author Archives: Larry Russwurm
Most Beautiful
Unmentionable magazines are fond of generating publicity by having a list of the most beautiful or sexiest people in the world. It drives magazine sales, produces a lot of link love and just plain old publicity for the publication. Indeed, … Continue reading
The Kitchen, the Loo, and the Bridge
It has come to my attention that the three cities in Waterloo Region (in Ontario, Canada) all can have derived architectural nicknames. Kitchen can stand for Kitchener. Indeed that city uses the slogan “Keep Kitchener clean as a Kitchen”. Loo … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, Humour, Politics
Tagged Berlin, Brantford, bridge, Cambridge, ford, kitchen, Kitchener, Light Rail Transit, loo, LRT, outhouse, Stratford, Toyota plant, twin cities, Waterloo, Waterloo Region, with sunken basements - houses have bridges
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Franking
First of all, who was the nasty person that dragged poor Frank’s name through the dirt, forever associating his name with the act of Canadian politicians sending mail to constituents at no cost through Canada Post? I do take exception … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Wry
Tagged 17 acts of junk mail, 4 free acts of franking by each MP, Action Plan, Canada Post, Conseratives, franking, Harold Albrecht franked 17 times between July 1 2013 and July 1 2014, Kitchener-Conestoga, Liberals, mail, member of parliament, NDP, probably $600 000 worth of franking for each Conservative MP, Probably 97 million dollars of franking by Conservative party, propaganda, riding
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Homeopathy and the High Price of Chemicals
Homeopathy is the discipline (hah!) that states that a properly diluted chemical can still have an effect on your immune system. The dilutions are so extreme, that there is either a vanishingly small amount of the original, active ingredient or … Continue reading
Vertical Stripes
Sports fans sometimes are bewildered by things in other parts of the public sphere. Where they can go on and on about the whys and wherefores of each subtle movement in the game of their choice, they are at a … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Sports
Tagged criminal trials for sports fans, gavel, judge, O. J. Simpson, vertical stripes, whistle
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Horizontal Stripes
Jails started the erasure of the stereotypical image of doing time. They no longer clothe criminals in horizontal black and white striped garb, complete with a number. For some reason they chose a new image. That new image was of … Continue reading
Alligator Tamer
We’ve all heard of the daring lion tamer. Often this act will see the tamer controlling these large animals with a whip. I don’t recommend you doing this at home. But the grand finale of some lion tamer acts will … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Science
Tagged alligator, alligator tamer, alligators are cold blooded, alligators are reported to have the strongest bite of any animal, alligators lie dormant through the winter, glass enclosed and chilled show, lion tamer, putting a human's head in an alligator's mouth, putting a human's head in lion's mouth
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Cats Are Conservatives and Other Inescapable Truths
I can feel it. Some of the readers of this piece are set to argue that their beloved cat can’t be a conservative because their owner is not and even doesn’t socialize with any conservatives. But let’s review the facts. … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Pets, Politics, Social Science
Tagged cat/dog spectrum, cats, cats mark stuff that has moved, conservative/socialist spectrum, Conservatives, conservatives don't like change, conservatives have exhibited glacial change on racism, curiosity killed the cat, dogs, dogs are socialist, Don Cherry is conservative and has a dog, Liberals, liberals prefer what's good for the pack as long as it doesn't hurt, socialists, socialists believe in the welfare of the pack
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A Plague of Trilliums
I was in shock earlier this week when I noticed all the trilliums in this bush. A bus I take goes by this bush and I honestly had never seen so many trilliums. In all directions the trilliums went for … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Politics, Science
Tagged jack-in-the-pulpits, law or provincial folklore?, maybe we can pick trilliums soon, Ontario, plague of trilliums, provincial flower of Ontario, queen ann's lace, selective picking, trillium scarce childhood, trilliums, whole plant dies when we pick the trillium flower
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