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    Dave Broadfoot, Royal Canadian Air Farce comedian, dead at 90

    Sad news, but it happens to all of us. Bye Dave, I'll catch up with you down the trail. Dave Broadfoot, Royal Canadian Air Farce comedian, dead at 90 Comedian and former Royal Canadian Air Farce actor Dave Broadfoot has died at age 90, his family confirmed to CBC News. Broadfoot was best...
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    Oil Companies Don't Advertise Like They Used To

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlqiTqHX7mU
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    Talk is talk is talk...

    According to people with many letters after their names, it's okay to be accepting of most cultures and ideas, except when you're talking to a Brit, university students, or members of a religious cult. When you're talking to individuals, or groups that are not tolerant of a certain ideas or...
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    Radio Roma presents, Father Mo Murphy, Priest for Hire!

    Radio Roma presents, Father Mo Murphy, Priest for Hire! The name is Mo Murphy, Father Mo Murphy, priest for hire. No case is too difficult. Nothing is turned down. I'm the intersessionist's intersessionist. Oh, and Mo is short for Patrick. It was a rainy Sunday afternoon in October when I...
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    The Dope Farm

    The Dope Farm copyright 2016 - murphy That's what the city fellow from Toronto called it. He came over one day last spring, introduced himself and told me that he just bought the farm next to ours. He didn't look like the farmin' type. His hands was smooth, he smelled of cologne, and was...
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    US fast food chain in Malaysia told to change hot dog name

    The imams representing the British mosques have decided that the term "piggy in a blanket" is no longer acceptable and must be changed. The conference also proposed that once they take over the UK, all pork products will be banned. From Malaysia to Milton. The times they are a changin'...
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    The Burtle Beast of Evermore

    The Burtle Beast of Evermore Like so many times before, In the village here, In Evermore, The burtle beast, Would start his feast, In the blackness of the night. The first to go was Timid Jimmy. The ground shook, And then redound. We could hear the burtle beast, Coming up from underground...
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    Christmas Ads

    on radio or in print. On posters, the newspaper (if anyone reads them anymore) or flashing on your computer screen. I started seeing them two weeks ago. For many years, first as a cassette, and later as a CD, the first ad I saw on TV was a Christmas album. It started with Bing Crosby singing...
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    The Cold War returns or, I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts

    Moscow, not that long ago Good, now that I have your attention, a very, very short narrative. I am no longer pursuing people who have violated the Code of Criminal Procedure, Now, I am forced to listen to tourists boasting of their theft of state property. They speak of how rude the people...
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    THE SCIENTIFIC GOD. /by Socratus/

    I've heard that. And that's my THING.
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    Two New CBC Shows - All This Fall!

    All this fall on CBC, two new shows for Canadians! Potted Plants Join emcee Don Cherry every Monday night at 7. Canadian sports celebrities answer questions about potted plants. Here's an exerpt from the premiere episode. Grapes: Ok, Dick. Wait! Hey everybody, this is my brother Dick...
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    Hippy Thanksgiving! Tree Huggers!

    As most of you don't know, I live in the country. I'm a rural person. Because I live where there are trees and vegetation, we are visited every autumn by city people. They come to see the colours and buy our fresh fruit and veggies. They also return around Christmas. It's like a picture...
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    And Finally Tonight - Elvis and Kids

    Elvis entertains some cute German kids in this 1960 film, GI Blues. But come on, he was really making eyes at Juliet Prowse. Punch and Judy shows never go out of style. www.youtube.com/watch?v=05ZgyoZvhgI
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    In Honour of the Theatre - a Soliloquy

    Jared the Strong I wrote this rather than bury an old car in the backyard, or start a tire fire. Just sayin’, as they say. I was bored. Hey, it was uni. Soliloquy is pronounced, so - LIL - o - kwee, an old Indian word that means ‘crazy man who talks to himself’. Soliloquists must be very...
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    Still More of Murphy's Medicine for the Mind

    Hey kids, guess what happened today, September 19th, 1957? The US blew up their first, all underground, nukey bomb. It was in Nevada at the Nevada Test Site. They dug a tunnel 900 feet (foots) underground and blew up a nukey bomb. It was said you could feel the tremors as far away as Alaska...
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    What is this Global Warming You Speak Of?

    The polar ice cap is melting! The ozone layer is disappearing! Whales (or whatever) are at risk! Blah, blah, blah. I'd like some irrefutable proof please, not speculation like - maybe, probably, it appears that, I predict, etc. --- It’s time now for Two Minutes with Murphy, published every...
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    Does anyone have solar panels on their roof?

    If so, what got you into it? Here in Onterrible, with electrical costs rising so much, so fast, it seems like one way to combat high bills. I live rurally, so there are a few other reasons. The biggest being power loss which runs pumps. It would be nice not to be a slave to the grid.
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    Dead Celebrity Toke

    Dead Celebrity Toke (And boy, that ain't no joke!) Once upon a sleeping pill, Before the world awoke, The 'me' of 'Silly Love Songs', Decided on a toke. I sat beside the fireplace, Basking in the heat. Bare-a-naked by the woodpile, Flames licking at my feet. I lit a big, fat doobie, And...
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    The Space/Time Conundrum

    Well, I agree there is something having an influence on his synaptic function. Steve has a theory. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvaEJzoaYZk
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    The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance Speaks!

    Fiction. For immediate release. Tags - Government of Canada, Finance, Parliament. 7 Sep 16. Ottawa. Canadian Politics. Daily minister's brief. 788 words --- The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance Speaks! Copyright 2016 – Murphy Media Question: Good morning. Skiff...