Funny you should ask … and more on my mind

Spring cleaning notes:

 

  • WHY was Tony Clement’s mug the Google Doodle of the day February 21?

It was either him or Fredrick Banting, for the day he died in 1941?

Or the day Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Orchestra paid tribute to Benny Goodman?

No, none of the above. It celebrated Har Gobind Khorana, an Indian-American biochemist whose passion for science started under a tree in the small village of Raipur, India, and grew into Nobel Prize-winning research on nucleotides and genes.

Who’s the guy on the right? Why it’s ….
  • Gordie Howe would have his elbows up over this SNANFU.

    YORK-SIMCOE PC Party candidate Caroline Mulroney boasted about being a member of the board of the new Gordie Howe International Bridge in Detroit when in Bracebridge during the leadership race. Well the feds, who are footing the bill, have stepped in to bring construcdtion costs under control. A report this week says the builders were exceeding spending targets now at $4.8 billion. And she wanted to run Ontario?

 

  • GOOD to see Gravenhurst’s Marta Proctor has moved on. The town didn’t need a $117,000-a-year “Culture Minister.”

 

  • KIDS, glorious kids! That was Oliver! Oliver! that wrapped up at the Algonquin Theatre last week.

Never has an audience wanted more … “Boy for sale ….” And ‘Please sir, I want some more. …”

Huntsville’s Rotary musical was another dutiful Dickensian romp filled with dirty, little, lovable workhouse child actors picking your pocket.

 

  • ROCKY CREST Golf Resort is the latest prized Muskoka giveaway.

It’s not enough that cancer fundraisers have been raffling off Muskoka for years.

Now, 407ETR — Mike Harris’s taxpayer giveaway toll road — is offering a Muskoka Stay ’n’ Play or one of two ClubLink Players Club membership prizes.

That is if you switch to paperless billing.

No thanks, I’ll keep track of my overbilling myself.

 

ONE GOOD thing about spring is that no snow means no more Carillion plows chewing up Muskoka highways.

Let’s just hope it doesn’t snow before August when their early-terminated contract with the province runs out. And to think the province paid them more to buy more plows when it was revealed they didn’t have enough equipment to do the job. Think about that when voting.

 

  • Can you tell the difference?

    WHEN DONALD TRUMP and Kim Jong Un meet in the next few weeks, will they require the Barber of Civility?

Or do they both already have Wealthy Barbers?

Can you tell the difference?

In these online photos from Real Funny, Trump looks like Mitt Romney and Kim looks like the songwriter who made millions with the Gangum Style video song.