Category Archives: Humour

I Should Have Been A Weatherperson

My career would have taken off if I had been a weatherman in a wheelchair like Lieutenant Governor David Onley

David Onley digital journalist at CITY TV (photo digitaljournal.com)

David Onley was a weatherman with a polio disability for City TV who used a scooter on camera.

Prime Minister Harper liked Onley so much he made him Lieutenant Governor of Ontario.

Looking back I can see my career mistake was being a regular news journalist instead of a weatherman in a wheelchair.

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The PEI Press Gallery hung me out to dry and the Prime Minister never calls me, even on a sunny day. See Media wrong in Pate-gate

Other than that, David Onley and I are pretty much alike – 60ish, male, polio survivors, journalists, and disability advocates. Continue reading →

Jimmy Fallon and Bob Dylan cover Christmas

Jimmy Fallon covers “Jingle Bells Batman Smells” like Dylan and Dylan covers “Must Be Santa” like Brave Combo

“Jingle Bells Batman Smells” by Jimmy Fallon (NBC photo)

Christmas brings out the cover singers and karaoke.

I got caught last night singing ”White Christmas” just like Bing Crosby, really!

Jimmy Fallon does a credible Bob Dylan so when a fan suggested he sing “Jingle Bells Batman Smells” why not? Continue reading →

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Grow a mustache and party like a Newfoundlander

22 Minutes contest has $11,000 first prize

22 Minutes Movember contest - Olivia Chow with what's his name (photo Facebook)

I was splitting my sides laughing after this week’s episode of 22 Minutes

The show is getting funnier despite being in its thousandth season. Eat your heart out Carl Reiner.

Flushed with optimism, I jumped on my computer and entered their Facebook Movember contest.

It’s one of those crazy things you do for fun not the prize. Grow a mustache and take your picture. Continue reading →

I Wish I Had A Pencil Thin Moustache

All this Movember craze has me feeling like a black and white movie

Pencil thin mustache

I can’t remember the reason but all the guys are growing moustaches this month. Oh yes, to bring attention to Prostate cancer.

I gotta follow the herd right off the cliff on this one.

In the meantime, I do get fewer kisses since my upper lip is prickly.
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Shakespeare plots new play on Royals

The Royals on display

Bard building new play based on bawdy bedrooms at Balmoral and Buckingham

Over the last few nights I have been visited by the ghost of William Shakespeare.

On the third night, I followed him onto the deck and the ghost spoke:

“I am thy famed bard’s spirit, doom’d for a certain term to walk the night till the foul crimes done in these days are burnt and purged away.” Continue reading →

Bob Dylan’s childhood neighbor to write book

Mystery woman claims to have been Dylan’s best friend in Jr. high school

Bob Dylan from his High School Yearbook

Edith Flynn has announced she is writing a book about her life with Bob Dylan, growing up in Hibbing, Minnesota with the Bard of the 60s.

“I’m gonna write it and make a million bucks,” said Flynn.

“Everyone is writing books about Bob Dylan and I want to write one too,” she said in an exclusive NJN Network interview. Continue reading →