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Set the Night on Fire, Briefly! An Oral History of the Perseid Meteor Shower
01:47:32 meteor: It’s funny, you know? No one ever said outright, “Let’s be the most brilliant meteor show in the night sky.” It just sort of happ— … Continue reading
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Tagged humor, meteor shower, night sky, oral history, oral history parody, parody, perseid meteor shower, perseids
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The COVID Mask of Zorro!
Hola. My name is Don Rosseto de la Vista Cruza, as my father was before me but with hairier shoulders. To the people of los Muncipios del este, I am but a mild-mannered writer of pandemic pamphletos. I am particularly … Continue reading
Posted in Canada and/or Quebec, Never Happened
Tagged anti-maskers, coronavirus, COVID-19, humor, mandatory masks, Mask of Zorro, parody, Quebec mask regulation, satire, Zorro
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Plato’s Allegory of the Cake
SOCRATES: Imagine this: People live in an underground dwelling. They are chained to the floor and can see only that which is before them. A fire behind them casts a glow within this grotto, and before them is a low … Continue reading
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Tagged cake, cake meme, cave allegory, everything is cake, fake cakes, humor, memes, parody, philosophy, Plato's allegory of the cave, Socrates
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Classic Canadian Television of the 1970s
Fly-In Postman Set in the remote woods of Northern Ontario known as “Windchill Country,” this half-hour drama centred on the adventures Sam MacPherson, former RCAF pilot turned remote Canada Post mail carrier. Each episode saw Sam land his seaplane on … Continue reading
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Tagged 1970s, Canada, Canada Day, CBC, humor, parody, Seventies, sit-coms, television
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