Biogenesis Not Just A Baseball Problem

Breaking News: Major League Baseball has just announced 50 game suspensions for all of the players involved in the Biogenesis scandal, except Alex Rodrigues. who received a 211 game suspension.

What, he worried?

Now, my crack team of investigators have uncovered other well know people, not just athletes, who have been using Biogenesis to further their careers. Regretfully, all of this has been done through plagiarism, alas, what a crack team.
For those of you who do not know, Biogenesis is the production of new living organisms based on the use of living materials.
Here are some examples:

Liza! Liza!

Back to the Future

Buddy Holly would never have believed this

Mr. and Mrs. Smith?

Monkey See, Monkey Talks

Hey ugly, who you callin' Slimer?

I deny these false accusations, and furthermore, I look nothing like Mr. Magoo!!!

Breaking News: Edward Snowden is in Siberia

Once again, my crack team of investigative reporters is ahead of the curve on this one. We found where the Russians' have moved Edward Snowden to. This is Pulitzer Prize stuff. Way to go guys!

So, where did we find him. SIBERIA

And, we have the photos to prove it.

Here is Edward with his team of reindeer's heading for market:

And, here he is returning from market:

Here are his new neighbours saying hello to their new neighbour:

and more friendly neighbours:

and even a few human neighbours, with similar transportation:

Our reporters were able to follow him home, and here is the first ever seen photo of Edward Snowden's new home.

The good news for him is that he lives in a lovely neighbourhood.

Here is his next door neighbour, Olga, sun bathing.

Did I mention that Olga has a husband?

And some lovely kids.

Truly a paradise for Eddie. He doesn't even need a home alarm system, he has an around the clock team of Russian guards.

Why does he need guards?

SPOILER ALERT. Season 3 of Homeland is all about how Carrie Mathison and Saul Berenson go about the task of bring Eddie back with all of the modern technology that the CIA has to offer them.

O.K., now where's our Pulitzer?

You're a Monster

I just saw this headline on the CBC News website ...

WRONG, YOU'RE A MONSTER!

Carlos Danger Tweeted Around The World

Another exclusive from my crack team of investigative snoops. The famous Carlos Danger, The Sicko Weiner, as we call him, not only tweeted under that pseudonym, but set up various pseudonyms to tweet around the world.

Here are some of the various names that The Sicko Weiner used to tweet around the World:

When tweeting in Italian, he called himself, Francesco Cosa Nostra;


When tweeting in Arabic, he was, Osama Al Quada;


When tweeting to his Montreal following, he was, Jean-Claude Hell's Angel;


When he tweeted in French, the world knew him as Pierre Dangereux;



When he tweeted in Australia, his pseudonym was Jack Rattlesnake;


In Hong Kong, he calls himself Anthony Jackie-Chan;



When you're in Poland, the annoying guy hogging the tweet channels is named Copernicus Kielbasa;


                 
In Israel, they know him as Shlomo Shlang.



  And in Toronto, we just say, yes, Mr. Mayor.


That's what my guys have learned so far. But, let me assure you, this is just the "tip" of the oops, never mind.

Marketing Company Announces New Line of Canadian Baby Memorabilia For the Royal Baby Birth

This is so exciting. My crack team of marketing experts discovered that while there are many British companies successfully marketing The Royal Baby Birth Commemorative Products, there are NO Canadian companies yet to launch product for the Canadian Royal Family Watchers. So, we have decided to be the first. (note: the value of the market in the U.K. is estimated to be $400 million).

Every good product on the market needs a brand logo. Ralph Lauren has the horse, Izod has an alligator (or is it a crocodile?), Nike has a swoosh, Adidas has 3 stripes, and so on. My team decided on Dudley Do Right(c) .

Who better than Dudley to represent my Canadian brand?, Dudley, as described by Wikipedia "is a dim-witted, but conscientious and cheerful Canadian Mountie". Great choice for our brand if I do say so myself.

Now that we selected a logo, we need to ascertain the rights to the symbol. Even as we speak, my crack legal team is in  progress to begin talks with the Dudley Do Right people. (note to reader: that is marketing talk for nothing has happened yet. Start watching Mad Men and you too will know this stuff).

While this in progress (hah hah), my product team is assembling a range of Canadian Flavoured products to offer to the consumers.

Let's have a look.

First, no Royal Baby can be said to represent Canada who doesn't own a Hockey Stick. Here's ours:

O.K. I'll bet your now as excited as I am about the brand. Here's our second novelty product, the Edible, Maple Flavoured Silver Spoon:

I know. The silver spoon looks tarnished. It's not tarnish, it's maple!

Are you as excited about our new line of products as we are yet? O.K. so how about product #3, Royal Canadian Bacon (maple flavoured of course):

And, what could be more Royal and Canadian than Beer So, we present to you our commemorative Dudley Do Right "Guiness-like" Canadian Beer.

Did I mention that the beer is flavoured with maple?

And, not to exclude babies, we have the Royal Maple Flavoured Baby Food products, tomatoes, peas and carrots all with a delicious maple twist.

And, finally, what every Royal Follower wants, their own Royal Baby replica pet beaver.

Epilogue

After learning about the brilliant Dudley Do Right Royal Birth product line, the Royal Family invested gazillions into the concept, and in order to help with sales, announced to the world, that if the Royal Baby is a boy, they planned on naming it Snidley Whiplash, and if a girl, Nell Fenwick, naturally.

The Optimal Glass To Break At A Jewish Wedding Ceremony

As part of getting ready for the Wedding, and I do mean capital W, the Rose and I were given the task of finding the wine glass to break.

Chabad, the ultimate Jewish authority on the web (note: they must have a great I.T. group), says use a flash bulb. O.K., so the I.T. group is great at web pages, but don't get out much (see The Big Bang Theory for example).

A what? A flash bulb? There are no more flash bulbs to be found in modern civilization without a hefty ebay price tag.

So, The Rose and I decided we would go to the dollar store and see what we could find.

We found 3 options, pictured below...

The potential candidates for the ceremony are the flute glass, the traditional wine glass and the shot glass.

My job was to step on each one and make the decision.

Here's the test, carried out using the strictest of scientific means, as you will see...

By the way, the reason that I am so snappily dressed in black socks, dress shoes and shorts is that it's like a million degrees outside today. Too hot for long pants.

Back to the findings.

First, the shot glass is eliminated as I was incapable of breaking it. 

That leaves the wine glass and the flute. From a sound perspective, I didn't really hear a difference, and on instant replay, same conclusion. However, the flute was significantly easier to break, and it made a lovely shattered glass sound.

I vote for the flute.

Anyone out there have a different vote, or another suggestion?

You Gotta Believe..The Amazing Blue Jays of 2013..Maybe Not?

The Jays have now won 8 in a row, with a lineup that should have been playing 600 ball since the start of the season. So, with 91 games to play, are they a playoff contender? Highly unlikely. Let me explain.
You all know that I love statistics. (Remember I predicted the last provincial election, only missing 2 ridings, better than any news pundit did, by simply using previous history and current trend percentages, see blog posting October 4, 2011). So, let's look at the most number of losses that a team has had over the past 10 years, and still made the playoffs. Here are the stats....

As you can see, in the American League, over the past 10 years, the average number of losses allowed to still make the playoffs is 67. And, it's even tougher in the AL East with an average of 65.5. So, let's give the Blue Jays the benefit of a bad year overall and let's see what it takes for them to make the playoffs with 65,66, or 67, but also, with 68,69,70 or 71 losses.

Is anyone depressed yet? The best team in the majors right now is the St. Louis Cardinals with a winning percentage of 0.644. However, the next best team is the Boston Red Sox with 0.587.
So, if the Blue Jays play as well as the Boston Red Sox, they don't make the playoffs, and, if they play the rest of the season as well as the Cardinals are playing now, they will still finish with either 68 or 69 losses which has barely been enough to make the playoffs in the AL East.

What the Blue Jays need to do is play the way the Amazing Mets of 1969 played. That team began the season with an 18-23 record through their first 41 games, but, went on to win 82 of their remaining games for a win/loss percentage of 0.678.

Possible, yes, probable, NO.

But then again, maybe this is next year!