February 20, 2007
Don't Park It There, PM Campaigns For Popularity, Sumatran Rhino Gets It On All Night Long
Howard Moscoe to jerks: "Hey, stop abusing disabled parking permits!"
Bill Gates and Stephen Harper have pledged millions of moolah to the Canadian HIV Vaccine Initiative. Polls suggest the Conservatives have taken the lead in public popularity, but Harper claims he's in no rush for an election.
Today in City Hall: a $6.2 million renovation is rejected and nobody wants to sit nicely for the class photo.
Fiddler extraordinaire and Toronto resident Ashley MacIsaac got married to Andrew Stokes onstage at the ECMA's Cape Breton Rocks show. Apparently he's also running for Federal Leadership of the Liberal Party?
3 NBA players have been cleared of all charges after assaulting a male exotic dancer outside of For Your Eyes Only in 2003. Because it's okay to beat up strippers, especially if you're in pro sports.
Where have all the coaches gone? OFSAA reports that the number of sports coaches in Ontario high schools is in steady decline.
The body of a 70-year-old Long Island man was found in front of his television, mummified! Nobody noticed he was dead for a whole year! The low humidity preserved his corpse! Creepy!
Headline of the Month: "Sumatran rhino takes Indonesian sex tour" from the Toronto Star. Not even the Sun could trump that.
Photo courtesy of Letincelle&Soseau.
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...because we seem to accept (sometimes encourage) behaviour from athletes, celebrities and politicians that we would never accept from a friend, relative or even coworker.
"Mom, Dad, can I spend the night at the Neverland Ranch?"
"Honey, I want you to meet your' new step-dad, OJ"
"Oh, Yeah, I found this great babysitter, her name is Britney/Anna Nicole/Lindsay/Paris"
"OK, Courtney, here's your' desk, if you need anything, just yell."
I like Karen's morning posts rather than the Incredible Sarcastic and Insulting Guy that was doing it before.
It boggles my mind that people can be so staggeringly selfish to use a handicap parking pass when they don't need one. I can't even process what would make someone feel entitled to do that, especially since you're parking in public where people can see you. We need to bring back public stocks to shame offenders in Dundas Square or something...or can we force them to walk around for a month with "DOUCHE" written on their foreheads?
As for the Ashley MacIsaac article, some of the comments underneath that article would be hilarious if they weren't so scary. I love #44, though:
"people can say what they want , but our boy from cape breton could marry what ever he wanted and would still go down in the book ,takin'er down on the fiddle ,with the likes of the Master , Buddy himself. Saw him on the ECMA's and though they were going to have to take a extinguisher to the fiddle when he was done. Keep on Ashley , you got the Cape behind ya"
Take 'er down, baye! Cape Bretoners so rule.