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Showing posts with label useless facts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label useless facts. Show all posts

Sunday, March 18, 2007

Week of 18th of Mar...

Lets start the week with a useless fact from The Book of Useless Information...

Dinosaurs were among the most sophisticated animals that ever lived on Earth. They survived for nearly 150 million years - Seventy-five times longer than humans have now lived on Earth.

that's a bit depressing...

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Now for what's on The Hour this week. Apparently not Mark Wahlberg yet... maybe next week.

Monday
Chris Gardner homeless to Hollywood
Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols goes to the newsstand.

Tuesday
Sienna Miller This is about sexy...
Rob Stewart (not Rod) This is about sharks

Wednesday
Tony Campolo talks about the church and the State
Jim Cuddy of Blue Rodeo

Thursday
Master Corporal Paul Franklin gets back to work.
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In other news

Tonight's Strombo show looks like it's going to be live..

Saturday, March 10, 2007

Who's on The Hour from the 12 to the 16th

Is the strombo show live?
This week The Hour talks to 4 Prime Ministers

Monday on The Hour
The right Honourable Joe Clark is the first of four in four night talking to George.

Stephan Gandhi Jones is Reverend Jim Jones' son and talks about his father.

Tuesday on
The right Honourable Kim Campbell, first female Canadian Prime Minister.

Richard Branson offers 25 million dollars find out more.

Wednesday
The right Honourable Brian Mulroney you know Ben's dad. Brian says it like he sees it.

The one and only Ron Jeremy if you have ever watched any kind of porn from the 70ties and 80ties well then you know. He now has a myspace and an autobiography...

Thursday
The right Honourable Paul Martin. Our most recent Prime Minister.

Bob Lefsetz (The Lefsetz letter) talks about the music business.

Friday
The best of the above.
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In other Hour related news

Jian Ghomeshi is in Toronto Life this issue

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This part has nothing to do with The Hour
Bit of trivia for you from The Book of Useless Information.

It's physically impossible for pigs to look up at the sky.
also
Scientists say that pigs, unlike all other domestic animals, arrive at solutions by thinking them through. Pigs can be - and have been - taught to accomplish almost any feat a dog can master ('cept looking at the sky) and usually in a shorter period of time.

Saturday, January 27, 2007

Jan 29th The Hours week looks like..

Besides Howie Mandel, Sienna Miller, Ken Dryden, Lisa Ray and Bob Saget The Hour has a report on Jehovah's Witnesses Monday,
James Cromwell rescheduled for Tuesday
Johhny Briggs will be Thursday...
According to my source Howie Mandel with be Friday... I don't think that's possible...The Hour not even on Friday... My source also reminds me 'things change, it's television'
So correction then, Howie Mandel will be on Wed.

I'll update this all when it changes maybe...

This next bit has nothing to do with The Hour but you might like it.
little bit of trivia...If you live in Michigan, it is illegal to put a skunk in your boss's desk...
In Cleveland Ohio, it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
In Hartford, Connecticut, it is illegal for a husband to kiss his wife on Sundays.
In Oklahoma, it is against the law to hunt whale.
One more
Under the law of Mississippi, there's no such thing as a female Peeping Tom.
and that is from The Book of Useless Information.