I think the last time I heard the CBC’s official 1 o’clock time signal was last summer. That, it turns out, was about two months before they decided to kill it after nearly 84 years. It’s sad to see it go. It was a fixture on my radio growing up, as I’m sure it was …
Author Archives: Steve Wettlaufer
Would You Like Fries With That? Should I Toss Them In The Coke?
I haven’t heard anything about how Google and Wendy’s are doing with their AI ordering experiment, but according to this here report from the BBC, IBM and McDonald’s have been trying something similar and it’s gone so well that the system is being removed this summer. It seems that it failed for the very reasons …
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We Hope You’ve Enjoyed Flying With Us Today, And That You Will Continue To Enjoy It While We Ruin Your Plans For No Good Reason
Passengers travel from London to London on 9-hour ‘flight to nowhere’ Pilots on a British Airways flight from Heathrow to Texas discovered a minor technical issue while over Canada and decided to return to the UK rather than divert to a local airport I was not on this plane, but I can feel my blood …
He Was A Good Man, Taken Too Soon By The Schools And The Gun Lobby That Swore To Protect Him
In the right context, I don’t see anything wrong with asking high school students to write their own obituaries. I took a writer’s craft class when I was that age, and I recall more than one assignment that required us to write things about ourselves. It wouldn’t have felt out of place at all if …
That’s Some Fine Police Work…Hey, Where’d Lou Go?
Hooooh boy. I can’t wait to hear how the OPP explains this, assuming, of course, that it’s better at finding explanations than it apparently is at finding bodies that are right under its nose. To be fair, it does sound like the service did a lot of work here. Unfortunately it ended up being the …
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Everybody Knows The C Stands For Corn!
“I’m gonna be super pissed if this KFC doesn’t have any corn,” said this one guy and no one else ever. Seriously, what does KFC even put corn in? The sad bowls? Do they even still make those things? Investigators say a suspect was in the drive-thru of the restaurant when he tried to place …
Best News Bloopers Of May, 2024
Good morning, I’m Daisha Jones.
I’m Suddenly Not Very Thirsty
I just got what should have been a very tempting marketing email. “Splash into our summer cocktail menu,” it offered. It also used this emoji. 
“What,” you might be asking yourself at this moment, “is the problem there? I assume there’s a problem since you said “should have been tempting”.” The problem, my curious …
Probably Our Next Music Playing Kid
I apologize for this being a TikTok video since their screen reader accessibility is butt, but once I got it to play I felt like sharing it since it’s cute and kind of fits one of our ongoing themes. @babylaughh #baby #cute #foryou #foryoupage ♬ original sound – babylaugh Here’s a description of what’s going …
I Swear I Thought It Was A Plant-Based Nose
I just heard Carin mention Beyond Meat during a phone call and it reminded me that for some reason I never got around to letting you all know that a couple of years ago the company’s chief operating officer tried to bite a guy’s nose off during a road rage incident. I apologize for my …
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