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Category Archives: Geography
Australian Woman Wakes Up With Irish Accent After Surgery
With such a mind bending headline we hit the streets to see what the average North American thought about this oddity. First we interviewed a woman who wouldn’t allow us to publish her real name. So we will call her … Continue reading
The Ontario Whale
Take a look at this drawing of Ontario. Doesn’t it look a bit like a whale. Lake Nipigon is it’s large almost cartoonish eye. Perhaps the western part looks too angular to be a head but squint your eyes and … Continue reading
Gutters Are For Bowling
The television advertisement for Leaf Filter drives me batty. They tell me that they can install over your gutters and keep leaves and other debris out of the gutters. But to me, gutters aren’t a part of the house. They … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, Humour, Language
Tagged advertisement, boroughs, Boston, Boston accent, Boston accent is missing in Cheers, cheers, Chicago, eavestroughs, Frasier, Friends, gutters, gutters only exist in bowling, in jokes, Leaf Filter, Married With Children, NCIS, New York, Staten Island, stereotypes
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Red, White and Chartreuse
I hear Americans saying the red, white and blue all the time as if it is obvious to what they are referring to. They are referring to their flag but to non Americans it is not obvious what they mean. … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Geography, Humour, Politics
Tagged Amercicans, Australia, Britain, burgundy, Burgundy went in and out of fashion, Canada, chartreuse, countries, exotic colours go in and out of fashion, flags, France, Japan, LGBTQ+, New Zealand, primary colours, purple dye used to be very expensive, rainbow flag, rainbow flag not a rainbow, same coloured flags, secondary colours, security council, spectrum, stars and stripes, Union Jack, United Kingdom, USA
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IRE Land
While on my way to Ireland from the mainland, I stopped in at Britain. While there, I got into a conversation with an Englishman who asked where I was traveling. I told him and he immediately said, “It’s called Ireland … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, Humour, Language
Tagged angry land, Britain, England, Englishman, Gaelic, ire, Ireland, Ireland is green, racism, serenity, Shetland
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Monoliths Forever
Imagine you’re an alien that visits Earth. Your species keeps a low profile because you know just how violent and destructive humans are. You secretly watch Earthlings so they don’t know, and you come to the conclusion that they are … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, History, Humour, Social Science
Tagged alien, bighorn sheep, California, Covid 19 monument, Earthlings, monolith, monolith destruction ought to be punishable by jail time, monolith lasted a couple years, monoliths, monoliths are the visual symbol of 2020, monoliths seem only to last a few days, prism shaped, Romania, the desert, Utah
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Are We In Napoleonic Europe?
Last Sunday, I heard from London, that Paris had burnt Berlin, only to meet its Waterloo and be detained since. Shades of the Napoleonic wars. Napoleonic France (whose capital was Paris), conquered Prussia (where Berlin is the capital) (Napoleon didn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, History, Humour
Tagged American football, arson, Austria, Berlin, Britain, Brussels, Dublin, Europe, France, Kitchener, London, Napoleon, Napoleonic Europe, Paris, Prussia, Russia, Southwestern Ontario, Stratford on the Avon, Walmart stores, Waterloo
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The Amish Wasp
The wasps in my area changed rather suddenly. I am used to the yellow and black wasps which have lived in my area of Southern Ontario all my life. Last month I saw my first black wasp while on my … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, History, Humour
Tagged 2020 wasps, Amish wasps, dress in black, great black wasps, immigrated from Pennsylvania, less swelling, more painful sting, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Dutch, southern Ontario, sphex pensylvanicus, wasps, yellow and black wasps
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Fun With Flag Burning
Hate is so common in the nation of Iran that the country supports a business that makes American, Israeli and British flags just for burning. Iran regularly holds protest days in the year so the business is quite steady and … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, Humour, Politics
Tagged America, could make up reasons to burn a specific country's flag, flag burning, flags, Great Britain, hate, Iran, Iran holds protest days, Isreal, Liberia, making a bigger carbon footprint, moon on flags usually means a Muslim country, Muslim, need to explain to everyone we are burning the Iranian flag, profit off hate, Sunni Muslim, tricolour flags, US state
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