Thursday, January 25, 2007
Memories
Since yesterday was my birthday, I should do a post about an important life event. I call this:
The Time I Learned That Newspaper Humourists Are Generally Not Very Humourous
It was summer in the late 70s and I was quite young. The weekend paper, The London Free Press, arrived and there was a full page bit on the cover of the entertainment section comparing Burton Cummings to Burt Reynolds, the joke being that Americans are "sexy" while Canadians have bad perms.
But I was a kid and didn't get the "joke". It confused ad upset me so I complained to my mom who said, "It's supposed to be funny." And I just stood there with a dumb look on my face thinking, "IT IS?"
I think of that moment every time I heard the name, Linwood Barclay.
11:22 PM
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