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Not Just Punxsutawney's Big Day

Comments 1 by Rebecca Bollwitt

11sharesWhenever I think of this day, I get “I Got You Babe” stuck in my head thanks to the movie, Groundhog Day. In traditional weather lore, if a groundhog emerges from its burrow on this day and fails to see its shadow because the weather is cloudy, winter will soon end. If the groundhog sees […]

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Canada is the New Texas

by Rebecca Bollwitt

18shares A fellow blogger at Metroblogging – Chicago pointed this out. It’s an interesting map compiled by a Norwegian blogger, placing countries (based on their GDP) in corresponding US States [TheBigPicture] Canada: 1.035 trillion USD Texas: 989,443 billion USD If you want to get really picky… you could break it down by Canadian province. British […]

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I Want to Eat the Bowl

Comments 9 by Rebecca Bollwitt

22sharesAccording to Hockey, A People’s History (which John and I watched religiously but are too cheap to purchase the DVD box set) Tim Horton was trying to subsidized his meager hockey earnings by becoming an entrepreneur. He worked for Conn Smythe’s [wiki] cement company before starting up his own burger joints and eventually the donut […]

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