Here’s an old Union Carbide ad from Miss Fipi Lele. It has the title Science Helps Build a New India:
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R.I.P. Pierre Berton
SvenGolly asked if it would write some kind of elegy for Canadian journalist/historian/author/television personality Pierre Berton. As I mentioned earlier,
my schedule today is rather packed, but let me say that one of the
things I admired most about Pierre was his ability to challenge and
confront other people in a genial, gentlemanly way.
If you want a good elegy for Mr. Berton, allow me to point you to Colby Cosh, who provides an interesting writeup; after all, he’s a new-school conservative who’s writing up an old-school liberal.
And for your enjoyment, I’ve enclosed a video that you’d never see a
similar American figure take part in; it’s of Pierre Berton explaining
how to roll a joint.
(The video is included with this article as an enclosure.)
In the words of Louis Riel, “What you need is a fatty boom-batty blunt!”
[via Relapsed Catholic] Here’s a breathless writeup of a pro-Bush rally organized by the unintentionally funny site FreeDominion.ca (“Show up and be counted”, the banner ad for the rally says).
Judging from the photos, I think I get more people at my birthday parties, and I’m not a world leader. Yet.
A funny moment: The “Queen Amidala Decoy” trick actually works in real life!
Finally, the big moment — the fake Bush came through with his
motorcade and we cheered, not quite certain if this was the real thing.
Fortunately, the Secret Service intervened and held us back, at which
point everything clicked for those of us who weren’t certain. In
hindsight, it seemed a little strange that the President was driving
his own cadillac.
In addition to being unlikely to solve quadratic equations anytime soon, they’re also bad hosts:
Also unlike the anti-Bush rally, we outnumbered the Americans by about
10 to 1 at our pro-Bush rally. Nevertheless, the Americans who showed
up displayed the class as the President — after the pre-rally, they
approached each of us Canadians and personally thanked us for giving
the President a warm welcome. (They also showed American hospitality
when, despite our protests we should treat them as our guests, they
picked up the tab for coffee and donuts at Tim Horton’s between the
pre-rally and the rally.)
Yup, despite outnumbering the guests 10 to 1 and being more likely to
have the local currency on hand, the FreeDominioners completely fell
down and let the visitors
pay for coffee. The poltical right, in spite of the fun I poke at
them, are generally much better with the social graces than their
cousins on the left, but ours completely fell down on the rules of
hospitality while the Americans went above and beyond the rules of comity. We’re not talking chateaubriand-and-claret dinners here, folks, but coffee! No wonder we Canadians have a rep for being bad tippers.
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Thank You!
eye Magazine is one of Toronto’s “alternative” weekly magazines.
Last Thursday afternoon, I was in a small town outside Boston, eating Thanksgiving hors d’oeuvres
at my future in-laws’ place. During that time, I noticed that I’d
received a phone message. I checked it later that evening and got a
rather excited voice mail from Meryle telling me that The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century had won “Best Local Blog” in eye Magazine’s 2004 Reader’s Choice Awards.
I didn’t even know that they were taking nominations, so my thanks to eye Magazine and all of you who voted for me!
Here’s a hilarious-yet-sad story
about a father who tried to scare his kids off drunk and disorderly
behaviour by calling the cops on them, only have the tables turned on
him:
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A father’s attempt to teach
his daughter a lesson about drinking backfired when the teen led police
to a stash of drugs and weapons inside their home.
Kevin Winston, 46, called police at 2:45 a.m.
Friday after his 16-year-old daughter came home drunk and unruly. When
police arrived, however, the girl told them she feared for her safety
because her father stored drugs and weapons in the home.
The girl led officers to a crawl space above the
ceiling where they found four semiautomatic guns and more than 600
vials of cocaine.
Winston was charged with numerous weapons and drug charges. His five daughters were placed in the custody of a relative.
“He called us on her and ended up getting locked up himself,” said Newark Police Director Anthony Ambrose.
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Textbook Disclaimer Stickers
[via MetaFilter] You may be aware of this stickers being put into science textbooks in Cobb County, Georgia — they look like this:
Colin Purrington, Associate Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Swarthmore College has come up with his own disclaimer stickers.
I suspect that if I were a high school student in Cobb County, I’d
being doing detention for applying these stickers to my classmates’
books.
I refer you to the first verse of M.C. Hawking’s Fuck the Creationists:
Verse 1
Fuck the damn creationists, those bunch of dumb-ass bitches,
every time I think of them my trigger finger itches.
They want to have their bullshit, taught in public class,
Stephen J. Gould should put his foot right up their ass.
Noah and his ark, Adam and his Eve,
straight up fairy stories even children don’t believe.
I’m not saying there’s no god, that’s not for me to say,
all I’m saying is the Earth was not made in a day.
For my take on the whole thing, read my one-act play, Sacrelicious!
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