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I’m sure this may offend somebody but really, I don’t care!

What goes on in the minds of those who believe honour killings are justified!?!?!

By now you’ve heard all about the Shafia trial where a father, a mother and a brother were all found guilty of murdering 4 family members, 3 sisters and a second wife!

What would your child have to do in order for you to make the final decision to take their life?

Think about it!

Like every other parent I know, I would gladly jump off a bridge before allowing any harm come to my children.

To sit back and watch them die by my hand? I can’t even say the words let alone barely type them!

Mohammad Shafia, his wife, Tooba Mohammad Yahya, and their son, Hamed somewhere in that bizarre realm of reality they live in, deemed it fit to drown Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, Geeti, 13, and Rona Amir Mohammad, 52.

Why?

They were shamed and upset by the conduct of the eldest girls, Zainab and Sahar.

Both girls had been dating young men against the wishes of their parents.

They were also upset about Geeti’s defiance and Rona was agitating from a divorce to escape the polygamous marriage hidden by the family in Canada.

If you ask me, if they were doing this for ‘honour’, they should’ve jumped in the car with them. It would be the ‘honourable’ thing to do!

I don’t think many in this world would feel bad to hear of their demise, not because they’re Muslim. I have many Muslim friends who love their kids just as much as I do, but because they willfully took the lives of their children.

Think of how many mothers and fathers who have lost their children to accidents, disease, or miscarriages.

How dare the Shafia family take away a gift that would’ve gladly been accepted by one of those moms and dads?

‘Honour’?

Mohammad, Tooba, and Hamed, you make me sick and you better pray that your God is more forgiving than mine.

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I woke up Sunday a little more lazy than usual.

How lazy?

The kids and I watched 5, count ‘em FIVE Harry Potter Movies! Only 3 more to go…I think!

Despite knowing that the garage needed cleaning, and the Christmas lights were still on the house, I proceeded to further cement my ‘spot’ on the family couch when it dawned on me that I’ve really never sat down and did a movie ‘marathon’, and if you saw me you’d understand that ‘Bill Hart’ and ‘marathon’ will never be seen together in the same sentence.

Unless you count, ‘Bill Hart gets trampled by runners in local marathon!’

The Hart family is nowhere near the level of those hard core Harry Potter fans, since we didn’t stand in line to see any of the movies at the theatre, heck none of us have even read the books but I’ll tell you, those movie producers made themselves a great series.

Proof being that both kids were so enthralled in the magical wonder of Hogwarts neither child broke the audience silence with questions like ‘Why does Harry Potter wear glasses?’ ‘Why is Ronald’s family poor?’ ‘How do you spell Hermonie…Herimone…?’ gee thank goodness they didn’t ask me that!

We all sat quietly watching Harry Potter growing up before our eyes!

After each movie, we did our ‘oohs’ and ‘ahs’, debating what would happen next, as the girls begged me to put the next movie on!

We started at 730AM, it all wrapped up around 7PM. Time to get ready for bed!?!?

We wasted an entire Sunday! The garage still needs cleaning, the Christmas lights are still on the house but once the guilt subsided I realized that the Sundays where my daughter(s) would gladly spend a day cuddled with their Dad on the couch are numbered.

It felt good!

They say ‘Laziness’ is one of the 7 Deadly Sins, but I’m here to tell you that once in awhile you have to put the work away, postpone the chores and just ‘veg’ with your kids.

I’m told I’m not going to be the #1 guy in my daughter’s lives forever!

So before some boy moves in on my territory, I shall teach my girls the ways of the force, the wickedness caused by one solitary ring, and if time permits all the super hero movies Spiderman to Captain America: The First Avenger!

Who am I kidding, I smell another Barbie marathon!

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EE-yikes! This is like the beginning of a scary movie!

Researchers writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science found what they characterized as “severe declines” in the population of small and mid-sized native mammals in the Florida Everglades.

These mammals include raccoons, opossums, marsh and cottontail rabbits, foxes and bobcats, as well as a number of water birds – grebes, herons and the federally endangered wood stork.

So what the heck is going on here!?!?!

Burmese pythons! (Dun dun dunnnnnnnnnnnn!)

If you’ve watched enough Discovery Channel you know Burmese pythons don’t belong here or else they’d be called Florida pythons. They thrive in South and Southeast Asia, not the United States.

It’s believed that a few irresponsible pet owners purchased a Burmese python and thought how cute the little fella’ was without realizing that these things can grow to be anywhere from 10 to 19 feet long! So they panic as their baby snakes quickly mature into giant, dangerous adults, and instead of calling animal control, they flush them or release them into the wild where they are obviously living the good life!

Just when you thought Florida had the whole gator thing licked!

It was a tough Sunday morning!

 
Any morning after a Leafs loss is tough, especially a loss to the dreaded Montreal Canadians!

The coffee is not as strong; the marshmallows in my Lucky Charms are not as sweet, and the spring in my step is not as, well springy!

 
My daughters Danielle and Allannah came down stairs and couldn’t care less about what the Leafs did last night because they root for the Bruins and Red Wings respectively.

  
They joined me at the table and knowing the Leafs were on TV asked if they won last night!

  
‘No’, and then this; ‘Daddy, why do you cheer for Toronto?’

  
Everybody has a reason for cheering for their team.
 

Maybe you jumped on a bandwagon and stayed there.

 
Maybe you liked the logo as a kid and stayed loyal.

  
Maybe a junior player you idolized jumped to the NHL and you followed!
 

For me, no, no, and no!

 
You see for me, my love for the Leafs started more as a dislike for the Montreal Canadiens.

Picture it, Trenton Ontario! The year, 1979!

Cartoon watching only happened on Saturday mornings; a pack of hockey cards had a stick of gum in them; kids stayed out until the streetlights came on; and we played road hockey….ALOT!

On my street, we’d play before school, after school, weekends, snow days, right up until it got too dark to see a tennis ball flying at your face!
 

Unfortunately, I was grouped with the ‘young kids’.

The older kids would always stack their team and DEMANDED that they were the Montreal Canadiens, and we were designated as the Toronto Maple Leafs!

 
It lit a fire in me because I wanted to stick it to the older kids so badly, I would hack, slash, trip my way to score on ‘Ken Dryden’.

  
Since they hated the Leafs, I would score as Darryl Sittler, Lanny MacDonald, or Borje Salming and it would tick them off BIG TIME!

I LOVED it!

So I would start watching hockey on TV more and see these guys I was pretending to be and got excited whenever they would score, just like me outside my house on Regina Crescent.

The Leafs and Canadiens would meet in the playoffs that year with Guy Lafleur and company sweeping the Buds in 4 games. The older kids would not let me forget it, so I played harder.

At that moment, I knew that from now on all I would want in life is for the Leafs to wins, and the Habs to lose.

That feeling continues to this day, over 30 years later, and yes I see the irony in that if Montreal didn’t win all those Cups in the 70’s, I could very well have been wearing the red, white, and blue of Les Habitants.

Or maybe the Sabres, Islanders, Bruins!

But it didn’t happen that way, Fate played the ‘fate card’ and I folded!

Go Leafs!

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I have to hand it to Jim Carrey, nobody gets a free ride just because you come from the same gene pool.

I missed American Idol Sunday night but heard that Canada’s own funny man’s daughter Jane auditioned.

Auditioned?
Wow! I’m sure that Daddy has more than enough contacts to allow his little girl to get into the recording studio so this is SO refreshing.

No easy ride, no golden road, no silver platter on which your dreams are handed to you. It’s all about earning your stripes, and wish more celebrities would do that.

Jane does have a band called the Jane Carrey Band so there is a little ‘leaning on the family name’ but if she climbs the ladder on her own, she has my respect!

Here’s a video of her audition!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWaGs-8MjGQ&feature=player_embedded
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It’ll be awhile before I complain about the cold again!

Last week in Calgary the temperature was around minus-20C , falling to -30C overnight.
Where are my shorts?

This goes against everything I believe in, known for, and takes pride in.

With all the questionable celebrities out there today, like the Kardashians, Hiltons, & various other reality stars, it’s my job to make fun of them and let me tell you they sometimes make it too easy!

Remember Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt? Gee whiz, sure they got the exposure they wanted but at the expense of looking like idiots?

Musicians fall into the same boat sometimes, what with all the Brittany Spears shaving their heads in the world!

It’s to the point now that my body craves putting them down, and will react negatively if I don’t.

Yet, here I am about go 100% positive on Justin Bieber. (A shiver just went down my back!)

Make fun of singing, his hair, his clothes, his videos, but don’t even think of raking him over the coals for letting success go to his head. This past Christmas, he did what I think VERY few celebrities would, he came home and shared the wealth. (Feeling itchy!)

By now we’ve all heard of those famous ‘Justin sightings’ in local malls right? The guy could’ve easily flown to Los Angeles and spent his money there, but he didn’t. (Is that a hive?)

Then this story comes across our desk that shows how important friends are, real friends.

Jeremy Daniel, 28, a salesperson at Auto Sales in Waterloo, got a call before Christmas about a white 2009 Mustang convertible with black stripes. It was a gift. To be delivered on Christmas Eve.

He figured the buyer might represent a wealthy corporate business person shopping for their teenager, until he saw the name on the cheque: Justin Bieber.

Wow, Justin bought himself a new car from a local dealership!?!

Not quite!

On Christmas Eve, the car was delivered to the Stratford home of Ryan Butler, Bieber’s childhood friend.

According to the Record, Daniel called Butler’s father 10 minutes before arriving to give the Butler family time to gather out front for the big surprise. When Daniel pulled up in the flashy white convertible, about a dozen people were on the lawn of the Butler home — including Bieber himself.

 “It was a great buddy moment. Justin and Ryan were jumping up and down,” said Daniel. “Justin ran up and shook my hand and thanked me for bringing the car over and then the two jumped in the car and took off.”

Justin didn’t buy this for a record rep, a promoter or anyone that could help with his career. He did it for a friend who hung out with him long before he was an international star.

And you know what? I respect that.

Now if you’ll excuse me I have to find a bathtub full of Aveeno!

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Meet Dominika Jurek and Nicholas Vandal.

They’re not celebrities, politicians, pro athletes, just a couple of hard working Canadians.

They’re both third assistant directors on the Nikita TV show, and were carpooling home together six minutes after wrapping up a film shoot at 5:15 a.m. Saturday morning in Toronto, when a black Mercedes-Benz ML450 roared in front of their vehicle as they waited for a green light and headed towards a Queens Quay pier.

The truck hopped the curb, went through a fence and a park bench before plunging into the icy water near a docked harbour cruise ship.

Dominika called 911 while Nicholas ran across the street and called to the driver, who had emerged from the sunken SUV’s sunroof, suffering from shock and cold.  According to reports the temperature was -12 C but wind-chill made it feel like -25 C.

Paramedics arrived and rushed the driver to the hospital, where he was treated for hypothermia.

He will survive, but some are asking if it was a life worth saving?

The driver was 19 year old Hung Jiang and it’s alleged he fell asleep behind the wheel. Later that afternoon, he was brought to a police station and charged with impaired driving.

The kid was drunk and flying through the streets of Toronto.

What if somebody was going for an early morning stroll down by the pier?  What if they were walking a pet? What if they brought their kids with them?

I’m hoping his parents hugged him until he passed out, but brought him back with the mother of all butt kickings.

I hope he feels ashamed of himself, and realizes just how lucky he is. Not so much because he’s alive but because nobody else was hurt.

I hope the first thing he does this week is find those two that saved him and give them the most sincere thank you he can muster.

I hope he takes his punishment like a man and remembers this for the rest of his life.

Dominika Jurek and Nicholas Vandal have provided you with a second chance Hung Jiang, what are you going to do about it?

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Ask any musician and they’ll tell you the big dream is scoring that first record deal. Today, you just ‘rent’ one!

Tim McGraw had a beef with his label and is now independent. Really though, how much help does Tim McGraw need now?

Not to be outdone, The New York  Post’s Page Six is reporting that BNA Nashville artist Kenny Chesney wants out of his deal and has shopped a $30 million, five year record deal to EMI, UNIVERSAL and WARNER. A source told the Post that Kenny wants to be “more mainstream.”

However, KENNY’s manager is reported to have said, “This is very inaccurate. We have no plans to be anything but a Country-music artist . . . Also, we have enjoyed a long-term, successful relationship with SONY . . . The numbers you speak about and WARNER BROS., etc. are purely rumors that are far from the truth.”

$30 million? Does Kenny need that kind of money? I know for a fact that Kenny and Sony get along just fine, but time will tell!

It’s a brand new year! Any regrets from the Christmas that has come and gone? Well yeah. I didn’t watch Polar Express (fell asleep), never got that sleigh ride in (not my fault, need snow for that), and last year’s carolers were nowhere to be seen, or heard.

 
Come to think of it, I never heard near as much Elvis as I should have either.

However, I did watch Charlie Brown, Rudolph, and A Christmas Story.

 
I did successfully get the gift my wife wanted.

  
I did hear the NORAD Santa reports on the radio Christmas Eve.

 
But it seems like a lot of little things were forgotten during the holidays because there was too much running around, everyone was too busy, or Christmas chores needed to be completed.

Because of this, I wrote myself a little note for Christmas 2012;

Dear Bill,
You have just finished moping around the house on January 2nd, taking the decorations off the tree, packing away the Christmas movies, and returning the lights to their boxes.
What’s the problem? Christmas was a great time, family was happy, nobody went hungry, and there’s still rum in that bottle above the stove.
It went by too fast? Christmas can last days or weeks if you want it.
Too stressful? Did you forget last January that Christmas is coming again?
Missed a few movies? Dec 22nd 2012 has been deemed ‘Family Movie Night’, tell your kids not to make plans.
No carolers this year? Pick up the phone NOW and call the church that came by in 2010 and volunteer to join them if they need more voices.
Go to as many Christmas tree lighting ceremonies as you can.
When you walk by Santa in the mall, stop and wave to him. Remember how cool it was when he waved back?
Turn off your computer, and call your friends who you won’t see this Christmas.
Keep the computer off, and buy a box of Christmas cards.
Don’t PVR every special on TV, remember the anticipation you felt as a kid when you were just 2 minutes away from watching ‘Santa Claus Is Coming To Town’?
Buy a Bing Crosby Christmas CD this week.
Lastly, take a moment and step outside on Christmas Eve and look at the sky. Take a deep breath, enjoy the quiet, the fact that it’s absolutely free, and believe that maybe, just maybe you will see a guy in a red suit fly by.
Merry Christmas!

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My wish for 2012 is for Steven Tyler, Alice Cooper, “Weird Al” Yankovic and a couple of guys from the Doobie Brothers sing the Beatles’ tune “Come Together

 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SX63mUW0-B0
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And lastly, my bold predictions for 2012 include the following;
1. The Maple Leafs will make the playoffs
2. Lindsey Lohan will disappear, but nobody will notice until 5 months after the fact.
3. I will eat something I’ve never tried before, and used to be alive.
4. I will catch a foul ball at a Blue Jays game
5. The world will NOT end!!!!!

Look our Kreskin!

Well ding dong merrily on high, it’s finally December! Easily a strong candidate for the best month of the year, what with Christmas, birthdays, World Junior Hockey, College Football, and the return of turkey! Good thing since I believe the Hart family just finished the leftovers from Thanksgiving.

However, and Nanny used to tell us this, for all the good there has to be some bad!

December means the idea of running to the mall for a quick purchase is about as realistic as the Leafs winning the Cup this year! (All jokes aside, it COULD happen!)

It’s the only time of the year when grown men get emotional over the little things; I can still see the tears in my Fathers eyes when he scored a parking spot next to the mall entrance. It truly was beautiful. It kind of sucked when Dad made us wait an hour before we went home so we could ‘enjoy the moment’ since this could very well never happen again.

It’s a trait that has been passed on to me as I still circle the parking lot 187 times knowing that a spot will eventually become available. I’m not the only one because on any given day, you can see the cars circling like vultures.

One could have a lot of fun spending the day walking between the mall doors and various cars!

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Call it tacky, call it obscene, I call it genius, but would you do it?

A young New York City woman who was having trouble keeping up with skyrocketing rent says she was able to enjoy about $1,200 worth of fancy restaurant meals per month, thanks to a popular dating site.

Through an elaborate schedule of dinner dates set up on Match.com, Minerva McGonagall, 23, (isn’t she in Harry Potter?) told Business Insider she was able to eat out five nights a week and let five different men pick up the cheque.

She went from spending $500 a month eating alone, to having free meals worth $60 each night.

“Before I barely had enough money to pay for food,” said McGonagall. “After using Match.com I found I wasn’t going into debt anymore.”

After a while, she got tired of online dating and found a boyfriend.

“It was exhausting,” she said. “I needed my sleep and I was done playing the game.”

Besides, can you imagine how many doggie bags are in her fridge?

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And reason # 7 why catching snowflakes could be hazardous to your self!

Woo-Hoo!

Happy Halloween! Love this time of year, and while I now longer can partake in the merriment of knocking on strangers doors for a reward of free candy, I can still walk the streets with my kids or wait at our door for the creatures of the night to come to me!

Sadly, when I leave the confines of my home I end up finding a house I personally want to cover in toilet paper.

2 years ago I was taking my two girls around and having the time of my life meeting the neighbours, seeing great costumes, and getting a good lay of the land. We got to one house where a guy was working on his truck. My daughters and I walked right by him, we smiled at each other and proceeded to his door for yet another treat. We knocked and waited. Waited some more, as the guy continued to work in the driveway. Finally, a guy answered the door only to tell us, ‘No treats!’

‘No treats’!?!

Instead of banging on the door that was just shut on our faces, I turned my attention to the idiot who watched us walk to his door, heard us knock on said door, and knowingly allowed us to waste precious trick or treating time.

We walked to his truck, knowing that I would have to watch what I say because my kids were with me, but I was disappointed to see this moron escaped to the safety of his garage.

We went along to the other houses who were gladly celebrating All Hallows Eve, and that guy’s neighbours across the street casually mentioned that they saw what happened earlier.

They didn’t like him as much as I did!

Which would’ve come in handy if I had decided to come back later and egg his house?

If you don’t like Halloween, or decide not to celebrate, at the very least don’t suck the fun out of it for everybody else.

I have eggs!

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Well, here’s one costume I’ll never wear again!

Found this really cool Roman Warrior costume and for a tall guy like me, it fit!

I’ve worn many costumes over the years, including a Mr. Incredible suit that gave me a continuous wedgie the entire night, a zombie ensemble that was two sizes too small, and a Robin outfit with a mask that covered half my eyes.

I couldn’t lose with this one! Not this year.

I looked bigger, felt bigger, and straight up felt cool!

I strolled into work this morning to all the ooh’s and ah’s only to have our news guy look at me and say….

Great Ottawa Senators costume!’

What the!@#$!$#@!

What hurts more is that the previous night his Sens beat my Leafs 3-2!

Dressed as the enemy? Not on my watch!

For sale, one Ottawa Senators Fan Costume!

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OK, I have watched a lot of videos in my lifetime. Not just music videos, but those that are shown on Youtube all the time.

They show pranks, natural events, funny, scary, and sometimes just downright stupid!

However, there is one video that to this day gives me chills, and since it’s Halloween I’ll share it with you.

There will be no ‘faces’ popping up, or loud noises (I hate those), just turn out the lights and watch and think of this the next time you talk a midnight stroll through the forest!!!!

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXNg93HFRgE&feature=related

 Happy Halloween!

Wow, what a long weekend!

Is it wrong to feel so much joy while a dead bird is roasting in the oven? Love Thanksgiving because thanks to my lifelong failures in the kitchen, I have been regulated to watching sports on the couch and stuffing my face, with some clean up duty afterwards.

Seems like a sweet deal to me!

It was during this time of hardship I was watching the first game for the NEW Winnipeg Jets (please wear the retro jerseys once in awhile huh?). Great opening, emotional too with the Kenny Chesney ‘Who You’d Be Today’ accompanied video tribute to Rick Pypien who passed away this past summer.

The Jets are back, and to be honest they should have never left because some hardcore hockey fans live in Winter-peg! Sadly none were around during the second intermission while Hockey Night in Canada’s Ron MacLean was interviewing Jets legend Dale Hawerchuk on live television.

If they were, the loser behind Dale would have NEVER gotten away with putting two fingers behind Dale’s head. What, he thought this was funny?

It’s sad enough that folks think it’s funny to smile and wave at the camera for their friends to get a laugh while the rest of the country thinks they’re a moron, but this blatant disrespect to one of the greatest stars to ever lace up their skates was proof that sometimes cousins marry. You wouldn’t see somebody do that to Guy Lafleur in Montreal, or Darryl Sittler in Toronto would you?

Thankfully, my respect for Ron MacLean grew on this day as he politely stopped Dale mid-sentence to remind this ‘fan’ who Dale was and what he represented so show a little respect!

GREAT move from Ron and I hope that loser ended up sitting in a plate of nachos once the third period got underway.

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A little commotion at my local grocery store this week!

At the very back of the store, a ruckus could be heard clearly from the front.

It turns out a very irate customer was being escorted out and made sure she wasn’t going to go quietly.

So what went down?

This idiot was not happy with something and figured raising her voice while berating and embarassing the young girl behind the counter was the way to go. There was nothing the girl could do to retaliate because she’s been told to never talk back to a customer.

So this ‘lady’ had free reign to bully her, that was until somebody had enough.

A customer in the same lineup proceeded to throw down the gauntlet and see how she would do with a partner who talked back.

Not too well I’m afraid!

The loudmouth was told to leave with every insult being matched tit for tat by the next person in line. Adding fuel to the fire was that by now, EVERYBODY in the store was watching and now laughing at her.

It boggles my mind how some people feel they can demean somebody like that. Got a problem? Explain your situation like a grown up!

Trust me, nobody in the working world is being told to not help a customer who’s polite!

Plus, you never know who’s in the lineup behind you!

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Seriously? THIS is someone’s house?!?!

Are you kidding me!?!

With all that’s going on the world, Iran has a problem with this?

What you’re looking at is the 2012 Summer Olympics logo, and London unveiled it 4 years ago, and only now is Iran kicking up a fuss over it’s ‘racist’ theme!

Racist!?! What! Really!?!?

Yes, really! Iran is threatening to boycott the 2012 London Olympics because the secretary-general of the country’s Olympic committee is convinced the Games logo secretly spells the word “Zion”,  a biblical term widely recognized to refer to the city of Jerusalem.

I guess you have to be Muslim to get the racist reference because I don’t get it!

As for ‘boycotting’ the games, I think the world will get over it. They’re acting like the kid who refuses to go to his neighbour’s birthday because they don’t like the colour of the balloons!

The logo is fine and I’ll boycott watching the games if it’s changed!

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Have you ever paused a movie to get a better look at a scene?

I did just last weekend during Open Season 3. I stopped it to show my kids that the bear was playing a banjo with 5 strings but as you follow them up the neck, they became 4! 

The kids were impressed but I can tell you won’t find my discovery on the list of top 5 Most Paused Movie Moments!

A new poll shows that the honour goes to Sharon Stone’s provocative leg-crossing scene in Basic Instinct, you know the one I’m talking about! According to lovefilm.com, over one third of those polled reached for the remote during that moment. 

Runner up was American Idol judge Jennifer Lopez, who bared her butt in 2010 comedy The Back-Up Plan, but not all paused moments involved nudity!

Third place went to a blooper in 1977 hit Star Wars, when a Stormtrooper hits his head on a ceiling.

Followed by Jamie Lee Curtis’ topless shot in Trading Places while a scene in which Jessica Rabbit’s dress rises up in Who Framed Roger Rabbit rounded out the top five.

I’ve seen that Roger Rabbit movie a thousand times but I can’t say I remember THAT scene!

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And finally, for all you hippies from the 70′s who travelled across the province in a smoke filled VW Mini Bus, grab yourself a road map;

http://www.autonet.ca/autos/news/2011/02/28/17441011-autonet.html

OK know this about me, I am NOT a violent guy!

I have the belief that if I don’t go looking for trouble, it will in turn never have the opportunity to find me.

Of course, standing 6’5 helps when the bar is closing and a guy sees two of me.

I also don’t mind a ‘noisy’ party or two in the neighbourhood because I was young once too.

So with that said, know that I must have been really pushed to do what I did during the early morning hours of this past Sunday.

It was after 4, closer to 5 and since I’m used to getting up at 3am during the week I found myself awake checking the scores on Sportsnet, when I thought I heard voices.

I turned down the TV and sure enough, I did hear voices. I thought one of my daughters was up but it turns out it was coming from the house across the street.

Despite the early hour, there was still some energy in these 20-somethings because it came out as sound during the walk from the front door to the cab, and loud enough for me to hear it in the living room with the TV on.

My dogs heard it to and started whining which would surely wake the family up, so I stood in the front door where they could see me hoping the hint would shut them up.

They finally got into their cabs, drove off, and silence once again filled the early morning air.

Went back to the living room when I heard something that sounded like ‘WHOOOOOHOOOO!!!!’

Now I’m mad!

I go the front door and see this young couple on the front yard of the house across the street, HE obviously not man enough to handle his booze, SHE trying her best carry his sorry ass out of the house.

The were walking in the middle of the road outside my house when he decided to give another victory yell.

That did it!

I opened the door as he decided raise his voice only this time that was followed by me raising MY voice, ‘Why don’t you shut up!?’…..of course for the purpose of the blog I had to clean it up a little.

It got their attention, as both hurried on their way to sleep it off.

I stood on the front porch watching them stagger away, and feeling quite proud of myself.

I’m the man of the house, and I just single handedly made the neighbourhood a better place to live, it was MY moment….which would’ve been a little more ‘manly’ if I wasn’t standing outside in a pair of Super Friends pyjama pants.

All the pictures of Batman, Superman, and Green Lantern on my legs weren’t enough to make me look cool at that second!

But at least it was quiet!

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Did you catch the Leafs game last Saturday?

Kind of sucked that they lost to Pittsburgh in a shootout but there was another thing that kind of bothered me.

When is it proper to have your national anthem performed by harmonica?

Now I’m not ‘dissing’ the mouth harp, but it has it’s place, and that place is Blues clubs, Country bars, kick butt rock shows, and as a way to pass time when stuck in jail.

The American anthem was performed that way Saturday night at the ACC and I thought it was terrible, not the player but just having to sit through The Star Spangled Banner with all that spit flying!

Just didn’t seem right!

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Proving once again you can’t lose on American Idol, Chris Medina appeared on The Tonight Show last Friday just a few hours after being told by the AI judges to go home, check it out;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc1xDq_r0CM

Who remembers their first celebrity crush?

We were talking this morning about Brad Paisley’s 4 year old son who is smitten with one Carrie Underwood, picking her flowers and showing off in front of her.

This made me think back to when I was a little Billy Hart and which famous faces had me swoon like only a little boy could!

Let’s start with all 3 of Charlie’s Angels, I had a ‘dinky car’ collection that included a Charlie’s Angels van and when I was tearing up the front lawn to make way for a new road, Kelly, Sabrina, and Jill were back there with me. Nothing happened, heck I was only 7!

Of course, the Angels had to share my admiration with Wonder Woman (Lynda Carter)!

During the 80′s with my hormones in overdrive, my attention turned to Daisy Duke from the Dukes of Hazzard! My buddy Lee Beazley and I used to argue about who was actually Catherine Bach’s boyfriend and then we’d ride our bikes to the store to buy hockey cards.

Her competition turned out to be a fish, well actually a mermaid (no, not Ariel!)

Although, it was a Disney movie I went to see on that fateful night!

I actually couldn’t sleep after seeing Daryl Hannah in the movie Splash! THIS was my first REAL crush as I seem to recall I named my pillow ‘Daryl’ which was disturbing to the family because ‘Daryl’ was my cousin’s name, and HE was no beautiful blonde mermaid!

Thank God for Google and Youtube because I can see those former future Mrs Harts anytime I want!

Don’t laugh, I’m sure you had weird crushes when you were a kid!

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If you have young kids in your house, I guess I don’t have to tell you who Phineas and Ferb are, right?

Even I love these guys, and Disney has them doing the talk show thing now and guess who was a guest on their show recently?

Check it out;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVwkIl97OZY&playnext=1&list=PL1429702DF05B4534

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You can put Hogtown back in the pen. Return T.O. to your alphabet soup. Store the T-Dot wherever it is you keep your Hammer pants. Toronto has a new nickname.

It’s true, and the following celebs has a say in what the ‘Big Smoke’ shall now be known as;
Russell Peters: The Toronto-born comic was the first comedian to sell out the Air Canada Centre
Emily Haines: Lead singer of Metric
John Tory: CFRB radio host, head of CivicAction and the mayor we never had
Matt Galloway: Host of CBC Radio’s Metro Morning
Jen McNeely: Editor and founder of city blog She Does the City
Michael Cooke: Editor-in-Chief of the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest newspaper
Evan Solomon: CBC TV host, novelist and co-founder of Shift magazine
Vito Piazza: Partner and Toronto managing director of branding agency Sid Lee
Amir Johnson: Toronto Raptors power forward

After 500-plus public submissions, and two rounds of elimination, our judges have delivered their verdict…

El Toro!

Huh?!?! El Toro!?!

They chose this over the other ‘contenders’ like T-Bone, T-Town, and The Big Maple!?! Heck, I’ll take ‘The Fort City’ over El Toro!

Sorry guys, there’s NO way I’ll calling my buddies to take a drive to ‘El Toro’ to see the Blue Jays!

I’ll stick with ‘T.O.’ thank you!