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The On Call Story - Truth and Justice Denied
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Who's Your ISP?
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This a story of double dealings and abuse of monopoly by Telus. OK, the narrator is annoying as hell, but not nearly as annoying as the abuse of monopoly as executed by Telus.
Crack Addled Squirrels
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- Category: Ideas & Questions
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This is an old one, but a great one. Apparently in some places in South London (Brixton), New York, Chicago, anywhere where drugs is a bit of a problem, there are these squirrels that have become unusually aggressive in their search for drugs - having become, as it were, addicted to crack. Or, as I like to say, crack-addled squirrels.
Now there's more than a slight whiff of Urban Legend to this one, but it's been so widely reported that one can't held thinking that maybe, just maybe there's a slight grain of truth to it...but..., well, it's the media after all. Read with caution.
Links: The Sun (UK) - Squirrels go nuts on crack, The Guardian, The NY Times, Various YouTube videos on the Crack Squirrel Problem, Christine O'keefe Aptowicz performs Crack Squirrels, and finally, a seemingly irrelevant connection to Russia where they don't seem to have made the connection - Russian Squirrel Pack Kills Dog.
I couldn't make this stuff up.
A Bomb Under the Table
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Conversations
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"We should put a bomb under the table" he tells me, the Bosses nephew. "Blow it up. Kill them all".
He has a certain charm, this Italian accent, thick, he continues...
"Sure, at first everyone would be upset, they have family and children...but in twenty years they would thank us!"
He's right, of course. It's taken him a while to cotton on, but we serve, pander to and pamper, the worst clientelle in the city. Moneyed, yes, class, manners, education - 0. That's the thing about Calgary, you have money, you don't need the rest....
And the bomb under the table, it could be the start of a brave new world...
The Jersey Devil
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Ideas & Questions
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Forteana and Cryptozoology are interests of mine. Not, particularly, going out to look for Bigfoot or Nessie, but the folklore of it, and - in some instances, the mystery behind what it was people saw that made them believe or think as they did.
Like Ghosts or UFO's. I've never seen one, but I'd be curious to have the experience.
Here's an old legend - reported by various sources (none so convincingly recently) - The Jersey Devil. Curious.
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