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Friday Fun Link – World Tag Championships

This is pretty cool!

Posted 10 September 2021 § FridayFunLink § Photo § Randomness § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “And Cody says, ‘He didn’t raise the dead’ Says ‘religion’s just a trick/To keep hard-working folks in line”/He says it makes his stomach sick.”

“Cody” – The Killers

Posted 06 September 2021 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Pick The 10 Most Unrelated Nouns You Can Think Of

This is fun. I’ll post the 10 words I picked below and my results but would encourage you click that link before looking at my answers so you’re going in fresh and unbiased. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . […]

Posted 03 September 2021 § FridayFunLink § Meme § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

“The Walls Are Closing In On The Unvaccinated”

An Angus Reid poll showed that 75 per cent of Canadians agreed with the statement “I don’t have a lot of sympathy for people who chose not to be vaccinated and then got COVID-19.” In B.C., 53 per cent favoured making vaccines mandatory in public places to make life harder for unvaccinated people, while another […]

Posted 31 August 2021 § Canada § Jobs § News § Politics § Technology § Travel § United States § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Music Monday – “I was born in a cross-fire hurricane/And I howled at my ma in the driving rain/But it’s all right now, in fact, it’s a gas”

“Jumping Jack Flash” (Charlie Watts isolation footage) – Rolling Stones

Posted 30 August 2021 § MusicMonday § News § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – What Do I Want To Be When I Grow Up? (June 2013)

I took Pace to a wrestling show last weekend but it wasn’t his first – we’d gone to one or two over the years and though he never became as obsessed as I was at his age, he did obviously watch wrestling on TV with me occasionally given what he told his kindergarten teacher he […]

Posted 26 August 2021 § Humour § Jobs § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Wrestling ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

A Few Highlights From CWE “Cruel Summer” Wrestling Show in Weyburn, SK

Took Pace and his cousin to a wrestling show in Weyburn last Saturday and it was a blast bringing back fond memories of my dad taking me to a handful of Stampede Wrestling shows in Regina and Fort Qu’Appelle and even a few shows in my own hometown of Indian Head. A few highlights… 1. […]

Posted 25 August 2021 § Family § Humour § List § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § Sports § Wrestling ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Calgary Flames Fans Debate Vaccine Requirements

This thread may be the biggest shit show in the history of CalgaryPuck, a Calgary Flames fan site/message board I’ve been reading since 2001. What starts as a discussion of the Jets announcing they’ll require proof of vaccination devolves as a series of antivaxxers keep popping up to make all sorts of logically and factually […]

Posted 24 August 2021 § Internet § MemoryLane § News § Politics § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Music Monday – “Well I looked in the sky today/Didn’t see a single plane/All my life there’s been streaks through the sky/Yeah I looked in the sky today”

  “Another Day in the Life” – Cole Chaney

Posted 23 August 2021 § MusicMonday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

What’s The Easiest (and Hardest) Olympic Gold Medals To Win?

With the Summer Olympics on, I can’t be the only person with this question. (Of course, I broke my wrist going off a bike jump a couple years ago and broke my leg playing beer league hockey about a decade ago.  So maybe sports dominance isn’t in my future, no matter how “easy” the sport?)

Posted 04 August 2021 § Humour § Jobs § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: