Here’s a stat I read just yesterday, which your comment brings to mind: 90% of Canada’s population lives within 320 km (200 miles) of the US border. Of the remaining 10%, roughly 50% lives in the Edmonton metro area. Personally, I think it’s closer to 40%, but still...

No, pretty sure it was Grandma. She didn’t have no schoolin’.

Or soccer. My boys and I played beach soccer for over an hour with a Swiss kid who didn’t speak a lick of English. And I have to say, that’s the best pedicure the bottoms of my feet ever got.

I sense the translation for this is “There was beer involved.”

Hold on, now. Are you telling me there were movies made before 1980? What the hell am I reading all those online lists for, then?

Thank goodness you were here to explain this. Pretty sure we were all on board with the initial word.

Hurry home early, hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini’s fighting Bobby Chacon

Grade 8 or 9, I’d been downtown to see a movie with a buddy and we were riding home on the bus. A kid I recognized as a tough maybe-bully was sitting across from us, eyeballing me and making me very nervous (I was skinny and a smart-ass, a combination that caused trouble for me now and again). Finally, he said, “I…

My dog’s usually not too bad about eating weird stuff, but once we watched her yelp for a good 10 minutes as she shit out a whole pine cone.

Your library clearly sucks, since our library gives you three weeks to not read a book. Unless they file it under “Hot Reads,” and then you only have a week.

Maybe he can just catch some while touring.

This wouldn’t have been an issue if the Rhinoceros Party had won the national election all those years ago. One of their promises was to switch Canada to driving on the left side of the road. But as an answer to those who were concerned the switch would be too sudden, they promised to start with large trucks and buses…

It’s ALWAYS in Toronto, at the Hockey Hall of Fame. Which is the closest Leafs and their fans can get to it. Ultimate troll.

I don’t disagree, but damn, that’s a difficult place to chip from, and because he’s on the run it’s easy to believe he just hit to ball a little too early on the follow-through and it all worked out well.

At least Lloris was out of the goddamn net and it was an actual shot. Bradley chipped that one, on the run, from a distance. If he did that on purpose and didn’t mishit (and I suspect it was on purpose) it was both audacious and risky.

This is baseball. Is there another reason required to discover someone has researched obscure ephemera?

How do you mak a dead baby float? Just add root beer and two scoops of ice cream.

She’s still writing it out with a finger on the palm of her hand.

Not me, but a guy I used to work with (who died of cancer fairly young, I will add, not that this has anything to do with the story). When he was young he and some buddies would head out to a wetland at the edge of the city and catch frogs. They would then locate the frogs’ assholes, insert a plastic straw and blow,…