News not yet breaking, but certainly creaking, from the PD News Desk:
* The international Olympic Committee, after voting to have wrestling eliminated as an Olympic sport, scrambled hastily to issue a "maybe not" after being visited by the ghosts of Ed "Strangler" Lewis, Gene Kiniski and Gorgeous George.
* US President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union address last evening. Seated behind him were Vice-President Joe Biden, who looked ecstatic, and Speaker of the House John Boehner, who resembled a man undergoing a colonoscopy.
* Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is said to be writing a book on hockey. We are now waiting for a book on politics by Eddie Shack.
* Herman Wouk's first novel, a comedy titled "Aurora Dawn," had in it an advertising firm named Grovel & Leach. It is now believed that for some time there has been a political ad company operating in Canada and the US under the name Lyer and Smearer.
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Being a Saskatchewan boy of certain vintage, you may recall the delightfully-named Minister of Finance in the CCF government of T.C. Douglas.
ReplyDeleteThe Wheat Province's tax collector was Clarence M. Fines.
Loved your post, Mr. PD. It gave me a chuckle!
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