At one point in time,ESPN aired a series of competitive matches involving timber sports. Competitors were challenged with chainsawing logs, rolling logs in water with their feet, and everything short of singing “I’m a Lumberjack, and I’m Okay.” It was a fun little diversion, and I have to say that the program itself was quite…
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The “I Am Canadian” commercial returns!
In 2000, prior to the Stanley Cup playoffs that year, Molson Beer produced this one-minute commercial, in which a man named “Joe” – actually Canadian comedian Jeff Douglas – extols the virtues of life in the Great White North. No, it’s not all Dudley Do-Right and Bob & Doug McKenzie and people spelling Canada as…
Read MoreSo did Canada just make the USA its 11th province, or its fourth territory?
I haven’t given much attention to ice hockey in a very, very long time. I’d personally have to go back to maybe the mid-1990’s, when I freelanced for a minor league hockey publication and followed the action in the American Hockey League. This morning, I caught the news that the United States and Canada met…
Read MoreYou can neuter someone and set them free!! Perfect for that Valentine’s Day revenge!!
I’ve had wonderful Valentine’s Day memories, and I’ve had dreadful ones. Heck, one time my dreadful memories actually turned into a gift from a glue company. So there’s that. So with that in mind, I share this little Valentine’s Day promotion. Especially for those times when you’ve found your significant other didn’t treat you with…
Read MoreDon’t drive in this weather like a headless horseman.
Long-time readers of my blog will note that I refer to “The Twelve,” a series of elementary and secondary schools I attended from kindergarten to high school graduation. Because my parents moved frequently from one location to another (and I moved away from my parents a couple of times), I never stayed in one school…
Read MoreOh, it’s HISTORY Science Theater 3000. Got it.
I tell you, every time I go to YouTube, their algorithms try to pitch me on anything and everything. I could link a YouTube clip to my blog on item “X”, and the next time I visit YouTube, I’ll see 15 recommended videos about item “X”. And their recommendations can be quite maddening. Almost like…
Read MoreThe speed-reading joke
I’m going to say I was in sixth grade at the time, which meant I was at Veeder Elementary School in South Colonie (School #7 of “The Twelve”), when one of my classmates brought in a couple of phonograph records for us to listen to during a break period. Those phonograph records were Cheech &…
Read MoreRedlines, OrangeTrack and Blue Streaks
NOTE: This article was originally written by Chuck Miller and published in Toy Collector Magazine in 2008. Hot Wheels celebrates 40 yearsDesigners from six automobile manufacturers, working from a challenge to celebrate a legendary company’s 40th production year, built prototype cars with names like the General Motors Chevroletor, the Mitsubishi Double Shotz, the Dodge XP-07…
Read MoreI see your pawn and raise you a queen.
Chess is one of the most intricate and complicated strategy games ever created. People spend their entire lives memorizing thousands of gambits and sacrifices and strategies. This isn’t just a game of “horsey takes pawn.” Case in point. In chess, if a pawn happens to reach the eighth and final row of the chessboard, the…
Read MoreThe “Be Kind” dramatizations – morality plays with hilarious acting
These come up on my YouTube feed now and again, and one in a while I’ll click on the clickbaity title to watch them. And trust me, these morality plays – which all center around being a good person, doing good things, and if you do bad things, you’re going to get your comeuppance in…
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