Category: humour

global freezing in Calgary

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The next Ice Age looms.

Here’s the evidence.

… a month that saw three times the normal amount of snow snarl city streets and put a damper on the plans of thousands of travellers eager to make it home for the holidays.

If winter weather was delayed in coming, Mother Nature packed a wallop when the first of many big winter snow storms hit Dec. 12.

Calgary International Airport saw 49 centimetres of snow during the month –more than triple the usual amount for December.

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Calgary Herald – December’s cold, snow made lives miserable

related: News.com.au – Climate change questioned after 2008 tipped to be coolest year of the century

Flight of the Conchords

On By Rick McIn humour, music, product endorsements, TVLeave a comment

Have you seen the TV show yet?

Here’s a snippet.

Flight of the Conchords is a Grammy Award-winning New Zealand comedy duo composed of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. Billing themselves as “Formerly New Zealand’s fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo”, the group uses a combination of witty observation, characterisation and acoustic folk guitars. The duo’s comedy and music became first the basis of a BBC radio series and then an American television series, which premiered in 2006, also called Flight of the Conchords. …

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I think I’ve seen all 10 surreal episodes of season one. Interesting, quirky and original.

The boys try to make it BIG in New York City. And fail hopelessly.

Lovable losers.

Sunny Days and Nights

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Comedy radio from the same team that brought us The Great Eastern. This was a summer replacement program aired From July 3 to August 31, 2004.

Our hero, Paul Moth, is interim host of cottage-country radio on a CBC affiliate somewhere in Ontario. Hilarious.

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His sidekick Julie Secord is charmingly subtle in her disdain of Paul’s egomania.

You can download the 10 episodes here.