That bugger! I tagged him and what did he do...??? TAGGED ME RIGHT BACK!

Yup, another dreaded meme... by way of DeMediaCratic Nation...

The deal is, apparently...

Here are some questions and answers. The questions can be changed (Matthew's Note: I'm not changing them...) when you "tag" some other blogger. If you’re tagged, answer the questions on your Blog.

Well, since I tagged people earlier, I'm only tagging THREE people this time... so here's the questions...

1) Name your favoUrite band and singer. (The singer can’t be from the band)

My favourite band would be The Clash and my favourite singer is Diana Krall... although Frank is a VERY close competitor... it depends on my mood.

Heck, somedays my favourite band is any fife and drum band and my favourite singer is Nivek Ogre... so it's a tough call.

...then there's Tom Waits...

OF COURSE, however, Lionel Jeffries is a GOD always.

2) FavoUrite historical politician (domestic)? (Historical = Dead)

William Lyon Mackenzie

3) FavoUrite historical politician (International)?

Ooo... hmm... probably Abraham Lincoln.

4) You’re giving a Hollywood pitch (25 words or less) about your Blog — GO

Two paranormal investigators and their kid have a dream... to get and restore a dusty old green bus which means a lot to them on many levels.

5) Other than where you live now, what city do you like?

London, England.

...although I could add DOZENS of great cities aside London... London is my fave.

6) FavoUrite modern politician? (In office now)

BELIEVE IT OR NOT, because she's a "New Democrat" (NDP) candidate, my local member of Provincial Parliament is now a Goddess in my eyes... and this coming from someone who considers themselves a "Red Tory" or more aptly, a "Blue Liberal"... Cheri DiNovo ran a good, clean campaign, actually gives a damn about her constituency, and the latest thing totally won me over...

Recently, our MPPs gave themselves a little raise... a HEFTY raise in fact. Some, like Cheri, didn't like this as it was money better spent elsewhere.

Well, an old movie theatre nearby was being sold as it's owners shut down the business... and it was snatched up by two investors who know NOTHING about running a movie theatre, but realised the old place was a landmark. They held a meeting and fifty people showed up... they were looking for investors and Cheri invested her entire "raise" to get the theatre back up and running.

She wins right now... even if I'm not too fond of all her party's platforms.

7) Are you a Wilsonian Idealist or Nixonian Realist in foreign policy?

Neither... but this is also because I'm Canadian.

I'm a Trudeau-ist in that Canada is "cool"... a Pearson-ist in that Canada should try to remain the strong, intelligent, silent type that's respected... and other than that, I'm okay with our current policies SO FAR...

8) Favorite (change spelling in honoUr of my favoUrite American) obscure movie?

This is a tough one... because your definition of "obscure" and mine could be different...

Not Seen By Many but Mainstream*: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Not Seen By Many but Mainstream*: My Favourite Year

* - Not a "blockbuster".

Independent Film: Bubba Ho-Tep

Foreign (Not North-American, Aussie/Kiwi or British) Film: La Cage au Folles (GET THE SUBTITLED VERSION!)

(I would have said "Das Boot" for the above, but most folks have seen it... and if you haven't GET the subtitled version to rent!!!)

Now... to choose my three victims tagged folks...

Well, of course Sue... and I haven't pestered ThreeCollie in a while... and lastly, I'll snag Candy Minx...

Now, I admit... the last two posts you see were "time stamped"... while sick last night, I wrote them up and "post-dated" them for when you've seen them... so I will be by later (once I recover enough) to comment and alert the TWO victims tagged bloggers to let them know that I've ruined any "blogging-roll" they may be on with a DREADED meme tag!

Oh, and Blandly... you MUST learn more about French Taunters sir...

The standard last note on the old blog... PLEASE SUPPORT THE DREAM!

This blog is here to help promote a dream that an entire family shares... that dream is to rescue an old London Double-Decker bus.

Please, if you have a few minutes, take some time to find out more about this bus and the kooky dream by clicking here.

This bus is VERY special to myself and the whole family, and any help any person can lend us would be most gratefully accepted.

If you or someone you know might be interested, there's our tiny banner site, HelpCoverTheBus.Com and a PayPal donation button (see the upper-right hand side of the blog) and, of course, a Cafe Press shop for T-Shirts and shtuff!
(...and who doesn't need some shtuff!)

Please help us make this dream a reality and save a piece of history!

We thank you for your support!

Please Note: We are also hoping for help from a public relations/marketing standpoint... If you might be able to assist OR know someone who might be willing to, please click here and read this entry...

"If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done." - Peter Ustinov

You know he was right...

I've always liked the definition of an "expert" as being someone who knows more and more about less...

Below are some hand-picked scientific notes from people that knew more than their audience did... and proved that scientists and learned men are sometime complete horses patoots.

#7: "...The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery, and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which man shall fly long distance through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration of any physical fact to be."

- Simon Newcomb, Sidelights of Astronomy published in 1906 - three years after The Wright Brothers took their maiden flight.

#6: "There has been a great deal said about a 3,000-mile high-angle rocket. In my opinion, such a thing is impossible and will be impossible for many years... I don't think anybody in the world knows how to do such a thing and I feel confident it will not be done for a very long period of time to come."

- Dr. Vannevar Bush to the U.S. senate Special Committee on Atomic Energy, 1945 (Dr. Bush was FDR's Special Science Advisor...)

#5: "That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done....The bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives."

- Admiral William Leahy to President Harry Truman, 1945

#4 AND #3 - a DOUBLE!

"Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean."

"Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia."

- Dr. Dionysus Lardner 1830(?)

#2: "When the Paris Exhibition closes electric light will close with it and no more be heard of."

- Prof. Erasmus Wilson 1878

#1: "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."

- British Scientist Lord Kelvin 1895

The standard last note on the old blog... PLEASE SUPPORT THE DREAM!

This blog is here to help promote a dream that an entire family shares... that dream is to rescue an old London Double-Decker bus.

Please, if you have a few minutes, take some time to find out more about this bus and the kooky dream by clicking here.

This bus is VERY special to myself and the whole family, and any help any person can lend us would be most gratefully accepted.

If you or someone you know might be interested, there's our tiny banner site, HelpCoverTheBus.Com and a PayPal donation button (see the upper-right hand side of the blog) and, of course, a Cafe Press shop for T-Shirts and shtuff!
(...and who doesn't need some shtuff!)

Please help us make this dream a reality and save a piece of history!

We thank you for your support!

Please Note: We are also hoping for help from a public relations/marketing standpoint... If you might be able to assist OR know someone who might be willing to, please click here and read this entry...

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Yup, it was a thing of beauty... for the Friday List-Er-Ino... I typed it Thursday night after dinner... and once finished, my computer crashed.

No worries! I thought... I'll just use the restore feature in Mozzilla and bring it back! It's saved my bacon countless times!

...but as I rebooted, I started talking to Sue... and without thinking, when prompted, I clicked "Start New Session" instead of "Restore".

ARRRGH!!!!!!

I hate that...

...a lot.

Sadly, because of an outlandish workweek (LOADS of work,) and also being violently ill late last night (and taking a sick day today because of it)... I'm afraid that this is now an unscheduled "Live Morning" off from posting for me... Yup, the next three posts are "time stamp specials" written EARLY this morning... like 1am through 3am...

My post was perfect...and it had French taunters... and made fun of certain types of mouth wash... had comments about pets... how to reconcile all the issues in the Middle-East without violence... a possible cure for the common cold... a brilliant treatment of quantum string-theory physics in relation to the time-space mesh theory of relative dimensions... information and how to find the evidence on who really killed Elvis Presley... a plan that would, if used properly, develop a perfect energy system that would save the earth's environment while giving everyone in the world free power... and I even talked about Häagen-Dazs and how Kawartha Dairy is better... and mentioned that I don't work for them, have no family working for them, and no, Kawartha Dairy did NOT sponsor the post...

...all in less than 800 words.

...but 'tis all in vein thanks to my old, nasty, stinky, rotten, needs-to-be-replaced, still-running-Windows-'98 laptop.

Sue? PLEASE!!! I need a new 'puter!!!!

..dangit, that was an award winning post too that was GUARANTEED to get so many hits and comments as to assure us of help to get our bus...

Rats!

The standard last note on the old blog... PLEASE SUPPORT THE DREAM!

This blog is here to help promote a dream that an entire family shares... that dream is to rescue an old London Double-Decker bus.

Please, if you have a few minutes, take some time to find out more about this bus and the kooky dream by clicking here.

This bus is VERY special to myself and the whole family, and any help any person can lend us would be most gratefully accepted.

If you or someone you know might be interested, there's our tiny banner site, HelpCoverTheBus.Com and a PayPal donation button (see the upper-right hand side of the blog) and, of course, a Cafe Press shop for T-Shirts and shtuff!
(...and who doesn't need some shtuff!)

Please help us make this dream a reality and save a piece of history!

We thank you for your support!

Please Note: We are also hoping for help from a public relations/marketing standpoint... If you might be able to assist OR know someone who might be willing to, please click here and read this entry...

Yes, that right, the baby is going to be turning 12 years old in a couple of months, and party preparations have already begun. To me 12 is a milestone. It is the last year of real childhood before the teenage years kick in, and therefore I want to make this year's party extra special.

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