These Are The Things I Think About -- June25th-July2nd

First off Happy Canada Day Weekend! Hope you had an excellent one.

Not only was it Canada’s 145th birthday. On Thursday, the Birthday song had it’s Birthday. “Happy Birthday to You” was written by a Kentucky teacher in 1859. Happy 153rd “Happy Birthday”…There’s your useless fact of the day…. And perhaps a slightly painful overuse of the word Birthday*

Our American neighbours celebrate their Independence Day on Wednesday. If you watched any news last week you most likely heard The US Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare. The essentials of this, every American is required to have health insurance. Its estimated 4 million people absolutely refuse to. Fighting to NOT have health insurance, only in America!

Continuing with celebrations, next time you are out partying, mix those drinks a little lighter. A new test reveals each liter of Coca-Cola & Pepsi respectively contain .001% alcohol. Yeah, true.....I hear spit comes in at .003%

In entertainment, word is Simon Cowell interested in doing a Canadian version of the “The X Factor”. I already have a suggestion: they change it to The “Eh” Factor. Guaranteed at some point a judge will note “Hey that was pretty good Eh!” to one of the performers anyway; so why not just get that whole re-brand done from the start. Just sayin’...

Finally a little more Canadiana. He’s since returned home and is recovering, but it was Double Jeopardy for Alex Trebek last week. Alex was back in hospital after suffering a second heart attack in just a few months....And yes bad pun intended

-Gilmore

--Oh P.S. For the ladies, who instantly clicked when they read “Fifty Shades of Grey”, gotta talk about that, I guess. First, calm down…Seriously, you women are going way too crazy over these lady porn books! Secondly, if you hadn’t heard, the story is being made into a movie. And third, just so you know, the husband of the Fifty Shades of Grey author has written a book. His is called Crusher....Yeesh the things I do for my readers :-P

P.S.S.-- For the rest of us non lady porn obsessed folks.

It was announced this week Comedy Central is going to roast Roseanne this August. Very cool, although I had a somber moment as I instantly thought of late comedian Greg Giraldo, like his other roast appearances, he would have been awesome for this one. Need proof. Watch any of the roasts featuring him…particularly the roast of Larry the Cable Guy. It including the line at 1:05*…classic!

*-- To over use the word again, Gary Busey had a birthday on Friday, that “horse faced lunatic” is 68.