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Category Archives: History
The Evolution of Walking the Plank
Pirates liked making their captured enemies walk the plank. That is they would nail a plank to the edge of the ship much like a diving board. Then they would tie the enemy up so they couldn’t move anything except … Continue reading
Posted in History, Humour, Sports
Tagged bound victims, can't swim because they are bound, competitive diving stopped piracy, diving board, drowning, mind games, one victim explains they will see much better dives if they don't bind victims, perfect dive allows pirates to let go of victim, pirates, police actions didn't stop piracy, quality of dives, ships, torture, walking the plank, where piracy exists there is no competitive diving
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Maybe We Should Conscript Tomboys
Ever since the entrance of females in the military, most of the developed world has avoided the thorny question of ‘to conscript or not to conscript.’ Quite simply if we conscript every able bodied young person then the home front … Continue reading
Posted in History, Politics, Social Science
Tagged baby boom to get out of war, conscript men but only vounteer women allowed in a war?, conscription, conscription hasn't happened since women have been allowed in the military, feminism, girly boys, girly girls, home making, homefront, homophobia, if a couple is raising a baby should this make them exempt from conscription, men 18-40 used to be conscripted, military, should girly men stay at home?, should we conscript feminists?, some would enjoy seeing feminists in a war against their will, thank you unlisted women for making our leaders scared to conscript, thorny issue, tomboys
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Eat $#!+ and Live
No this title is not an example of a sentence that is totally changed with the insertion of commas. It is uncomfortable because it needs to be. For a very long time scientists have dreamt of resurrecting the woolly mammoths. … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, History, Science, Science Fiction, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged arctic, artificial womb, baby elephants must eat their mother's scat, ban ivory, cloning, de-extinction, DNA, elephants, elephants are being killed faster than they can reproduce, gene splicing, gut flora, Ice Age Park, Indian elephant, ivory, mammoths, Panda eats shoots and leaves, petitions to save elephants, swear words, woolly mammoths
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Notwithstanding the Notwithstanding Clause
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms has an odd clause. I know, I know you guessed it because of the title of this post. The notwithstanding clause allows the provincial government to override the Charter. I think it was … Continue reading
Posted in History, Humour, Politics
Tagged Canada, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, city councilors, Doug Ford, first past the post, force Toronto to get rid of councilors, judicial review 5 years later, Ontario, premier of Ontario, smoking crack, the notwithstanding clause, Toronto, torture confessions are notoriously bad, waterboard, Why no one should use the notwithstanding clause
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The Generational Shrinking of the Sitcom Family
I don’t remember when the shrinking between generations started happening in sitcoms. But the most obvious icon of this phenomena was Gary Coleman in Different Strokes. For that show there was the excuse that the parent wasn’t a blood parent … Continue reading
Posted in History, Humour, Stage and Screen
Tagged bad for you cake thing is only 50 cents, Different Strokes, does Hollywood pick short kids to play younger?, Gary Coleman, generational shrinkage in sitcoms, large apple costs $1, middle ages, Modern Family, poorer nutrition means you might be shorter, small kids, suits of armour, tall adults, the kids in Modern Family are all smaller than their parents, will bulgin stomach plates be all that's needed for younger generations to fit suits of armour?
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The Duchess of Cambridge’s Revenge
In 2012 a paparazzo took a topless picture of Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge. This happened in France by a French magazine. The British royals have not seen France the same way since. Just this week Kate gave birth to … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, History, Humour, Language, Politics
Tagged 814 a.d., Britain, British royal family, democracies often have disparaging views of monarchies, Duchess of Cambridge, France, in 1870 the French monarchy fell, Kate Middleton, Louis -Phillipe, Louis the fat, Louis the pious, Louis the XIX, Louis XVI, Louis-Napoleon, Napoleon, paparazzo, Prince Louis, the French monarchy loved the name Louis, the French revolution
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See! 1984 Didn’t Happen!
I am just old enough to have gone through high school in 1984. Being science fiction literate, I was aware of George Orwell’s prognosis for that year. But Big Brother didn’t show up that year, at least not as heralded … Continue reading
Posted in History, Politics, Science, Science Fiction, Wry
Tagged 1984, 1984 as guidebook, AIs are good enought for limited things, album, big brother, book, Cameras are really cheap, Canada has secret trials, David Lee Roth, dictatorships, facial recognition software works now, fake news, free countries, George Orwell, Trump, Van Halen, watchdog media
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Water Roads
“Well,” the tour guide explained to the aliens aboard the gondola, “We humans accidentally had the city of Venice sink beneath the waves. But before that happened, for a long time it sank slowly and we were treated to some … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, History, Science, Science Fiction, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged arctic and antarctic, coastal cities, Earth, fossil fuels, global warming, gondola, industrial revolution, July 13, Manhattan, Manhattan henge, sunset, two thousand foot buildings. thousand foot buildings, Venice, water roads, we meant to do this, what do we tell the aliencs?
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