What I Think Really Happened.....

 

What A Wonderful Man

 

Any idea who the man on the left is?  Taken in 1949.

Here's another hint.

This one from 1920.

One more hint and that's it......

Ha ha.

In the first picture he is with.....?.....

....Walt Disney.

Here he is exhorting people to buy War Bonds in 1918.

I previously posted a picture of him with Albert Einstein, showing his great wit.

Slow News Day.....

 

Florida Man.....Whaaaa.....?

 

Wait.  This is actually a good story about Forida Man.

Huh?

This military veteran decided to try skydiving for his 90th birthday.

Hey, cut it out - you're giving Florida Man a good name!

Whew.....that's better......

They Can't Help Themselves

Some locations have been shamed into finally loosening up some Covid lockdown restrictions.

But they just...can't...fully...let...go.

Oh Sweet Mother Mary.

Another city in California is now going to allow public pools to re-open - but you can't get wet.

You can't make this stuff up. Well, maybe I made that last one one up.

But the whole thing reminds me of the 1986 Howard Jones hit "No One Is To Blame".

Lyrics from the first verse:

"You can look at the menu, but you just can't eat,

 You can feel the cushion, but you can't have a seat,

 You can dip your foot in the pool, but you can't have a swim,

 You can feel the punishment, but you can't commit the sin."

Boy, if that last line doesn't sum up the last year......

At least we don't have it as bad as some people.....

Public Service Announcement

There are going to be a lot of people who will soon be looking to really bust out.  Or at least bust out of their clothes. 

So as a public service announcement - actually most posts on this blog are public service announcements, except maybe the ones about Florida Man - here are two books that will help you shed those unsightly "Covid pounds".

The first one is "Younger Next Year".  

Written by a doctor and a lawyer.

The doctor makes all kinds of outrageous claims and the lawyer makes sure he doesn't get sued.

No, that's not it.

The lawyer provides anecdotal examples of how he follows their recommendations, and the doctor comes in and explains the physiological reasoning behind their recommendations. 

Not surprisingly it comes down to exercise and diet. But presented in a very compelling manner. 

The doctor explains that primordial man was constantly moving. walking for weeks in search of prey. Then running to catch prey, or to avoid being caught by prey.  Either way, primordial man was never sedentary.

If you were, to your brain, it meant you were dying.  Or starving, after which you would soon be dying.

Man was not meant to be sitting for eight hours a day at a desk and sitting for another eight hours watching TV. 

So to trigger that primordial brain, the recommendation is to stay active as much as possible.  It may not reverse the aging process, but could certainly slow it down.

The second book is, and there's no sugar coating this;

And the answer is "Because you eat too much!"

No, that not it. It is not eating too much.  But too much of something.

And it is just one word;

Carbs.

Now this guy could probably use a lawyer.  And a doctor.  He's a journalist, and some of his claims are disputed. But the way he presents his claims.....make sense.

All carbohydrates convert to glucose in the blood.  Even whole grains, and brown rice and whole wheat pasta. And that triggers the dreaded insulin response that stores that glucose in your fat cells. 

I won't go into any more details because that would be an amateur blogger trying to describe a journalist's explanation of a scientific process and I don't want to have to hire the lawyer from the first book.

And if those two books don't help, I don't know what to offer.  Well maybe I do.

[And the Pearls Before Swine insight provided by Stephan Pastis]

Even After All These Years......

 

...after Jim Unger has passed away - he died in 2012 - his Herman strips still strike a chord.  Like today's paper....

He began producing Herman in 1974, when he was working for the Mississauga Times newspaper.  After Herman became popular, he moved to Ottawa. 

 

Pfft...That's A Typical Toronto Backyard

 

Florida woman Got Schooled!

 

Well, let's see what our favourite girl...er, woman...has been up to.......

Not bad.

That'll do, Florida Woman, that's do.

And It Was In Canadian Dollars

 

I did not know that.

That Arnold Palmer's first career win was at the 1955 Canadian Open.

He won $2,400.

Boy have prize purses changed since then.

The Canadian Open winner now receives over $5,000.  

If you are too lazy busy to read the rest of the paragraph, Arnie's career earnings were 1.9M$.  This winner of this week's Arnold Palmer Invitational will earn 1.7M$.

Tiger revolutionized golf.  But Arnie is a big part of the reason winners now earn 1.7$, not $5,000.

My favourite Arnie story was when he was having a terrible round and got 11 on one hole. When asked by a reported how he could possibly get an 11,  Arnie replied, "Lucky putt."

What a great stateman.

But this is how I really remember those guys; striding up the 18th fairway on a Sunday afternoon, watching on a 19" Philco TV.