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Entries Tagged as ‘TV’
February 4, 2008
you are reading this now
For the first time in a long time, I tuned into CNN yesterday. They were showing a Mitt Romney press conference. The word “LIVE” was prominently displayed in the upper left-hand side of the screen. Can anyone explain why they felt the need to supplement this with the words “Happening Now” along the bottom of [...]
January 10, 2008
airbus chery and airbus jean-jacques
Infoman – aka Jean-René Dufort, aka Radio-Canada’s (funny) answer to Rick Mercer – pulled off a funny one on Brian Mulroney, getting the former prime minister to sign not one but two copies of his autobiography for people claiming their first name was “Airbus.” One claimed to be named “Chery Airbus” (see above), the other [...]
October 17, 2007
wasted away again in larrydavidville?
Big news out of Côte St. Luc.
For a price, you can now slap your name on the city’s infrastructure. This reminds me of a recent Curb Your Enthusiasm episode in which Larry David has a wing of an environmental group’s building named after him after he makes a big donation.
1) Larry David is very rich.
2) Côte [...]


