turkeytop wrote:

The Simpson trial was a clear demonstration of the unreliability of DNA evidence. DNA said he was guilty. Turns out he was innocent.

You win the internet with that one.
 

The Star claimed 1000, and it was called a "rally", not a parade. Mayor John Tory skipped it in favour of a council meeting.

Geez, when I was a kid we used to go down to CNE stadium and the place was packed. And that was for a losing team.  AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOS!!

Sad story. And curling? I live 500m from a curling rink. Don't see a lot of cars in the parking lot these days.

But Rachel Homan still has beautiful eyes, so there's that.

RadioActive wrote:

a wonderful Facebook site called "Friends Who Like Vintage Toronto,"

That is a cool site. No fan of FB, but thanks for posting this one, it's quite interesting for those of us who were around in the day.


 

mic'em wrote:

Anyone who lives in Collingwood, Wasaga, Blue Mountains etc will tell you the weather in Barrie can be quite different.

That's very true. Here's a link I find handy for finding out the conditions in real time:

https://www.collingwood.ca/culture-recreation-events/experience-collingwood/downtown-webcam

Who needs teevee weather forecasts? One minute spent on Environment Canada's weather site (or app if you're a youngun that lives on the phone) tells you what's going to happen. 30 seconds to view the forecast for your location, 30 seconds to check the radar.
 

Dave The OTA guy wrote:

Plex is another good FAST service worth having.

Yeah, Plex is real easy to install and set up. /s
 

I thought, visually at least, the Grey Cup broadcast experience was really well done. The Green Day performance captured my interest such that I stuck around to watch the game.

It was good football, and the camera & replay work was superb. Light years ahead of the last time I watched a football game. And much better than the run...run...incomplete...punt of the boring NFL product.

Can't say anything about the commentary, the sound was OFF.

I went there at halftime after the Raptors blowout of Detroit, mainly to see if Green Day were going to lip sync a la Super Bowl. They didn't, and were surprisingly good. So I stuck around for the second half and saw a damn good football game. Hadn't watched a football game in decades.

The song is quite underwhelming, but after all, the bar couldn't be set any higher. Pretty hard to meet the standard.

The video is very cool. Wonderful to see those guys when they were fab.

MarcCullin wrote:

RoundUp is displayed behind locked display cabinets but is popular in poison ivy country where it continues to be sold in 5-litre containers with a built-in spray gun feature.

True, but it is ridiculously overpriced, and it's premixed. A jug doesn't go very far. It is possible to buy the concentrate (the kind that used to be available here) from some web sites in the USA. I decided to gamble and ordered some (generic glyphosate concentrate) from an equine oriented site. I was somewhat surprised when it arrived at my front door via UPS, no questions asked.
 

paterson1 wrote:

The last video you posted with the theme is ok, but all of the others are black screen with video unavailable

Ditto. Checked with Waterfox, ad blocker enabled. Then checked with Chrome, clean browser no add-ons. Same.

Logged in thru OpenVPN, will try again later without VPN.

EDIT: Disabling VPN made no difference.
 

I still don't know who Steve Ryan is. Is he the former cop? Is that the guy?

Wah-SAY-ga

John D wrote:

I've said Wah SAY-Ga beach since childhood.  Doesn't make it right.  I interviewed the Mayor of the city, and he set me straight.  He said it is indeed WAH-SAW-Ga beach.

Who says he's right? I was around long before he was, and I say it's wah-SAY-ga. He's just a pup. Where did he get his expertise?

Honestly, it's entertaining but ridiculous, like the Loch Ness Monster.

BTW, I have no idea what I'm doing in a Steve Ryan thread, I've never heard of him.


 

We lost the "Windjammer" which was across the road. I tilted a few in there. It was called something else before the "Windjammer", but my memory is failing.

That's a risky proposition! It looks like the Dard is about to be razed. A piece of history.

I expect the news was probably about the town's opposition to unauthorized auto rallies. I know they intended to moblize the Gest... sorry, the OPP.

I was there two weeks ago, but I always clear out ahead of holiday weekends.

Once school starts, the place becomes much more comfortable. But I miss the days when water came from a hand pump outside the back door, and my mom cooked on a Coleman stove powered by gasoline.

We won't talk about the outhouse, but there were three of them in a cluster. Neighbours, ya know. Everyone was fully visible on every visit, and no one cared at all. It was part of life in those days.

Not to mention the ice truck that came by with blocks of ice in sawdust. They had a barrel of water, and would dip your block in it to wash off the sawdust so you could take it inside and put it in the icebox.

I have a pair of the tongs they used to use.

Do I qualify as a local?