He cheated! So What? At least that seems to be the consensus. During the Olympics, South African swimmer Cameron van der Burgh, broke the world record on his way to winning Gold in the 100M breaststroke last week. However, video footage shows that van der Burgh took three “dolphin kicks” at the beginning of the…
De-evolving
Sometimes I suspect that if Darwin was alive today he would amend his theory to state that human beings are actually de-evolving. I read an article a while ago about the pitcher on a high school baseball team who was hit in the head by a line drive. Which actually might explain the rest of…
Vindicated
The dingo did eat the baby! Have you ever been vindicated? You know, after someone lied about you & in the end, it came out that you had been right all along.A month ago, an Australian Coroner ruled that at least one dingo was responsible for the death of baby Azaria Chamberlain in 1980. If…
It’s All In A Name
Last week a gentlemen asked me if I knew Denny Guptill. Well before I was Denn Guptill, I was Denny Guptill but I wasn’t the Denny Guptill he was asking about. Instead he was talking about D.P.(Denny) Guptill, who was the chief of Police in Saint John, New Brunswick during the prohibition years. When I…
It’s all about “U”
It is just a “U”, but it is the difference between something being right and something being wrong. Perhaps you know what I’m talking about; It’s the “U” that our neighbours to the south neglect to include in words like harbour, colour and saviour. Which is fine if you live south of the 49th, but…
Stupid is Forever
For those of you who doubt the health risks associated with tobacco and alcohol you have obviously never read the story of 38 year old Jeff Foran from Foreman Arkansas. I came across this old story about how the highly intoxicated Mr. Foran jumped from his automobile to retrieve his cigarette which had blown out…
Strange attractions
Well, that is a little disturbing. Actually, it is very disturbing. But unfortunately, not unexpected. Since the news was released about Luka Magnotta’s murder and dismemberment of Jun Lin in Montreal, he has garnered literally hundreds of online fans. His largest fan page on Facebook has over 1400 members and that is just one of…
Walking the Wire
What were you doing Friday night? A lot of people were watching Nik Wallenda walk across Niagara Falls on a wire. Pretty impressive. I don't want to rain on Nik’s parade, but I have always been a fan of the Great Blondin who made numerous walks across the Falls in the mid 1800s, including once…
Late Night Phone calls
The phone was ringing and it was 4:45 in the morning! You know that if you get a telephone call at that hour it can't be good news. Nobody calls you at quarter to five in the morning just to say hello or to tell you that you’ve won the lottery….. in which case it…
Bizarre? Maybe not
It’s been a bizarre couple of weeks, with stories in the news about the Cannibal Zombie in the Miami area, a gunman opening fire on shoppers in the Eaton’s centre in Toronto, body parts being mailed to the Prime Minister and yet another murder here in Halifax. It leaves people shaking their heads and asking,…