Category Archives: Wee Bit O’ Humour

Portents and the Hesitation of Our Ancestors to Call it a New Year

I’m expecting many of you to know about comet Lovejoy – the little comet that could. It had a run in with the sun that it was not expected to survive in mid December. Not only did it survive but … Continue reading

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Yer Favourites

This is my 200th post so today, I’m going to do a best posts of the year sort of thing. Yer Favourites is a title of a Tragically Hip collection I have. Hopefully the name is correct and I have … Continue reading

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Boxing Week is for Year in Review Stories

Happy blogiversary the second. That’s right, today’s post marks the conclusion of a 2nd full year of posting. Last year, I posted links to the most popular posts I made that year. This year I won’t do that. Why? Because … Continue reading

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The Safety of the American Greenback

In these times of economic uncertainties, many a time the market has gotten cautious and money hid in the “safety of the American greenback” (doesn’t the American dollar also have a green front?). So doesn’t this mean the American market … Continue reading

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Unhate

In case you were living under a rock last week, you might not have heard of Benneton’s new ad campaign, Unhate. In this campaign there were pictures of perceived political enemies kissing each other. Merkel/Sarkozy (although Germany and France seem … Continue reading

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Harold Albrecht Spin Machine is Back

Harold Albrecht, my Canadian MP, made it back to parliament, along with his Conservative government. He continues to waste the resources of Canada Post by assailing me with propaganda. MP’s don’t pay for mail sent to their constituents. On the … Continue reading

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Things That Make Sense Can Be Deeply Funny

I was going to rail against a quote in the Natalie Imbruglia song Wishing I Was There. But the two lines “I wish you made sense, Like a joke that no one gets” are fine sentences and don’t need to … Continue reading

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I Think I’ve Been Experimented On

The new Coldplay album, Mylo Xyloto is out. I’ve been waiting since June because I wrote this post mentioning Coldplay and some thing, perhaps human, perhaps a bot, alerted me that Every Teardrop is a Waterfall was out. I checked … Continue reading

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Poor Millionaires and a Possible Penance for Cherry

It’s becoming more and more well documented that concussions are serious. Largely news of this reaches us from the sport of football and studies done on exNFLers. Which makes sense – the most likely sport for getting a concussion is … Continue reading

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Are You Taking a ConCERN Position on the Large Hadron Collider

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider or LHC has drawn so much interest that some of it is negative. There are fears that we’re dealing with forces of nature we don’t know how to control or how they fully work. Look, that’s … Continue reading

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