Corner Brook, Newfoundland & Labrador Blog
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A few of my friends asked me how it came to pass that Gene Simmons gave me free concert tickets to see the legendary rock band KISS in Halifax Nova Scotia.
Well – here is the story.
About twelve to fourteen months ago, when Twitter was really ramping up, I registered my Twitter name.
After registering my username, [...]
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If you are reading my blog from the United States, don’t forget to check out Canada Day Across America.
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Google looked a little different back in 2001.
In honor of Google’s 10th birthday, they brought back their oldest available index. Take a look back at Google in January 2001.
Where was YouTube or FaceBook?
A Look Back At Newfoundland
A search for Corner Brook in 2001 reveals 22,500 results while a search today, comes up with [...]
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If you read my last post on the Humber Valley Resort, you will have counted at least 15 spelling mistakes and perhaps the same number of grammatical errors.
After numerous edits, there still might be a pile of mistakes there.
Geeze that gets my knickers in a not or knot or bunch or whatever the hell it’s [...]
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Meet Wilma the Neanderthal.
For the very first time, artists and scientists have created a model, using analysis of DNA from 43,000-year-old bones, of a Neanderthal woman based in part on ancient DNA evidence.
She was called Wilma after she was found to have red-hair like the Flintstones character.
VIA Daily Mail & National Geographic
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Very interesting video from Bill O’Reilly and Megyn Kelly of Fox News about the stolen emails from Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin.
A hacker recently impersonated Palin and managed to hack into her personal Yahoo email account. The hacker then forwarded the emails on to a website which publised the personal emails online.
The FBI and the [...]
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Roses are red
Violets are blue
I have a bum
And you do too!
Warning: In an effort to promote strong family blogging – this post rated bare bums.
Moon Stephen Harper
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Some guy in Luling New Orleans has set up a webcam and is broadcasting live images of hurrican Gustav.
If you are having trouble seeing the video below, you can go here.
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This explains a lot about Michael Phelps. Seems like he has always been a great swimmer.
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Much has been written about the people of our province and the various accents and dialects.
Many Newfoundlanders and Labradorians can tell where a person is from based upon their accent.
How good are we at determining the accents of other people? Can you guess where other people are from based upon their accent?
Take the test.
Speaking [...]
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