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SOWNY » On Air News People That You Liked at One Point.....But Now Not So Much » April 21, 2021 10:07 am

Bill Carroll did it for me. I started listening to him regularly when he was at 640. In those days he was a great talk-radio host, tackling the issues of the day with an informed take. But as the years went by he became more and more self-absorbed. I did follow him to 1010 but only for a bit. His favourite topic was too often himself (and his terrible love life) and I couldn't stand it. But I did come to understand why women dumped him.

SOWNY » The "I Listen To CHUM" Contest Resurfaces - This Time, On TV » March 26, 2021 12:15 pm

That CHUM contest had people everywhere answering their phones that way. When it ran, I was a teenager in a rural Niagara Peninsula community, hardly the core market. But whenever you called someone the same age, it was common to hear, "I listen to CHUM." However, I don't recall anyone in my burg winning anything.

SOWNY » Cam Woolley Retiring From CP24 In April » March 18, 2021 4:47 pm

grilled.cheese wrote:

The above image is courtesy of The BIll Parnaby Real Estate Team in Caledon; It's possible Bill Parnaby shares a relation to one Taylor "Hap" Parnaby, who is also a Caledon resident and share a resemblance and last name.

Bill is Hap Parnaby's son. One of three I believe.

SOWNY » CTV's New Holmes Family Effect Picked Up By Fox » December 16, 2020 1:06 pm

The thing that set my dad off the most about Holmes was that he would go into a house to fix some renovation disaster and tear everything out, toss it and buy all new materials. My father was the original recycler and he always complained Holmes could have reused a lot of the materials, such as the lumber, and saved the homeowner a pile of money.
 

SOWNY » CTV's New Holmes Family Effect Picked Up By Fox » December 16, 2020 11:06 am

My father was a building contractor for more than 50 years. If you want to see him do a slow burn just mention Mike Holmes. Dad sees him as a blowhard with little substance, a guy who "fixed" things with very expensive (to the homeowner) overkill.

SOWNY » Toronto Sun’s Joe Warmington Makes Bizarre Prediction On Sauga 960 » October 14, 2020 11:59 am

I must shed my Lurker guise for this one. When you look up doofus in the dictionary, you'll find Warmington's picture, complete with goofy hat. His ramblings are not those of someone with a working brain. That has more to do with why he can't get on a real radio station.

SOWNY » Charles Adler is now officially a liberal » September 1, 2020 11:13 am

The only thing Charles Adler is, is an opportunist. If you listened to him more than a couple of times over the years, it was fairly obvious his right-wing stance was shtick. Now that it's too crowded on the loony right side, he's had this great epiphany. Yeah, right.

SOWNY » Did the Toronto media drop the ball on the Auston Matthews charges? » September 26, 2019 11:31 am

cash wrote:

geo wrote:

cash wrote:

Cover-up or incompetence?

How would you present it?    Please be specific.
 

If these so-called "insiders" didn't know, they should have. 
 

Really? Aside from the media, Kyle Dubas and the Maple Leafs found out the way everyone did - on Twitter. Even before the media cutbacks no one was monitoring police reports in Scottsdale every day. The only people who screwed up here were Matthews, his agent, his lawyer and his equally graceless father.

SOWNY » Talking about Howard Berger, what's what with Strombo? » March 22, 2019 7:22 am

He was on the Canadaland podcast recently. At one point he mentioned he can't talk about his departure from Hockey Night yet. So aside from his YouTube stuff and radio show, I'd say he is still waiting for his severance package to run out. Life could be worse.

SOWNY » Streaming TV Service Subscriptions: How Many Is Too Many? » March 20, 2019 11:57 am

Compare what you pay for streaming services to what you pay or used to pay for cable or satellite service. Before I cut the cord, I was paying about $125 per month for the satellite portion of my $300 bill. Internet and a landline plus long-distance package made up the rest. Yep, the CRTC lets Bell and Rogers gouge us. But I digress.
Now I have a Roku and three streaming services. I pay about $160 per year in total for Netflix, Acorn and Britbox (my wife and I love British mysteries). So even if I add a much more expensive sports package I'm still paying way less per month.

SOWNY » It's a wrap for Psychedelic Sunday! » May 28, 2018 12:51 pm

Question for Mr. Grant - is there an ignore function on this board? I searched and could not find one. But I would really, really like one in order to weed out the inane drivel spouted by cGrant.

SOWNY » Radio host has stormy denial about Stormy Daniels » March 28, 2018 1:02 pm

Right, betaylored, ever since McCown started mailing it in, as the OverDrive boys say, their TSN show is the go-to one for the drive home. Yes, Brunt is back to bring some semblance of interest to Prime Time but now I'm in the TSN habit.

SOWNY » Radio host has stormy denial about Stormy Daniels » March 27, 2018 12:23 pm

The really funny thing about O'Neill's reply is regular listeners know he often mentions his, um, familiarity with porn stars. So this dismissal is coming from an auteur.

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