In South America these beasts are popular tourist photo ops:
Of all pets, the Obama family may consider a Peruvian Hairless Dog to parade around the White House.
Last week Obama promised his children they would be getting a new dog, his criteria being that it was allergy-free and, as Obama himself said, “a mutt, like me.”
…Peru generously offered a four-month old Peruvian hairless dog named ‘Machu Picchu’ (nickname ‘Ears’) to Obama and his family …
1957 Classic – original – flickr – thebig429
Billed as Newfoundland’s Cultural Magazine, The Great Eastern was an hour long summer replacement show on CBC Radio One for the first two seasons, and then became a half hour regular show for the next three seasons.
Rockin’ Downtown Rocktown Ronnie sent me a CD of the 1994 to 1999 broadcasts as MP3 files.
Fantastic.
I’ve just finished Season 1 and am enjoying it immensely. It’s as smart and sophisticated as The Daily Show, Colbert or Rick Mercer.
It’s a spoof of all lame, self-important local radio affiliates everywhere, propped up by tax dollars.
Paul Moth, the radio host, kept a blog during the production of The Great Eastern, it seems.
Happily, a fan named Gerry Porter maintains a website dedicated to the Great Eastern which includes a full archive of the shows. Episode 1, series 1 starts here if you want to check it out.
Or click the link to hear a sample “historical” clip from the show where the Mayor of St. Johns, NFLD surrenders the city to the Germans.
CBC Radio is too slow, fat and thick to make those classic broadcasts available on their own site. (Someone should parody that company.)
In 2004, the character of Paul Moth was put in a new CBC show called Sunny Days and Nights. Fired from the BCN, Moth gets a temporary job with fictonal CBC affiliate CBNR in the “cottage country” region of Ontario. … The series ran for only one summer.
The Great Eastern – Wikipedia
We miss you Paul!
Those guys who made such a good living dealing in bad loans.
What are they doing now?
FUNNY.
(via Consumerist)
Does this sound like your job?
… At Kayabukiya Tavern, a restaurant just north of Tokyo, two Japanese macaque monkeys, one named Yat-chan and the other, Fuku-chan, fetch drinks and bring people warm towels to wipe their hands.
Dressed in waiter-like outfits, the duo are certified to work here. Customers love them and ply the monkeys with soya beans as tips. Because of animal rights regulations, the monkeys only work two hours a day, but according to this Mail-on line article, there are three more in training. Click on the video to see them in action. Some folks think the monkeys can understand drink orders.
Jon Stewart won, as usual.
But this year his protégé got one as well.
“I really look forward to the next administration, whoever it is,” Jon Stewart said as he accepted the best variety, music or comedy series award for “The Daily Show.” “I have nothing to follow that. I just really look forward to the next administration.”
Later, Stewart and Stephen Colbert, whose “The Colbert Report” won a writing trophy, teamed to present an award — and exchange banter in which they used a package of prunes as a metaphor for the upcoming presidential election.
“America needs prunes. It may not be a young, sexy plum. Granted, it’s shriveled and at times hard to swallow. But this dried-up old prune has the experience we need,” Colbert said. …
Vodpod videos no longer available.
I laughed, but not nearly as much as for the first TV commercial.
Most everybody hates this one … except for Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins.
Jon Stewart loves to expose blatant liars: Karl Rove , Bill O’Reilly and others.
Rick McCharles 