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Ever see somebody doing something stupid?

I’d like to say ‘hello’ to the woman who was driving along Charles Street this past Saturday afternoon. She’s driving a grey car, with a pink Superman logo on her trunk.

Tell me, who takes pictures with a digital camera while they’re driving???????? 

I mean literally holding a camera out her window and making sure she got her shot WHILE THE CAR WAS IN MOTION!!!!

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OK, so I heard 80′s Pop Star Tiffany is once again going to try and find success down the Country Music road. No real suprise here, but word of another non-country star thinking about doing the same made me say ‘What?’ out loud…. 

He won CMT’s ‘Gone Country’ reality competition show last year, and now Sebastian Bach really is going country on an upcoming album. His own definition of country, that is.

“I hate to use that word ‘country,’ because people have a weird idea,” the former Skid Row frontman says. “My idea of country is Neil Young ‘Old Man,’ or Allman Brothers, or Willie Nelson ‘Whiskey River’ and stuff like that. I like outlaw country. I like the bad ass Waylon Jennings!

Perhaps a follow up to Skid’s ‘Youth Gone Wild’ is in order, ‘Dad Gets Prostate Exam’!

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Who owns the rights to a lime?

Brick Brewing Co. Ltd. here in Waterloo says it is being taken to court by the world’s largest beer maker, which claims they have violated the trademarks and copyrights for Bud Light Lime.

Brick says Anheuser-Busch, Inc. and Labatt Brewing Co., both subsidiaries of the world’s largest beer company, are seeking an injunction from the Federal Court of Canada.

The beer giants also want compensation from the folks at Brick or an accounting of profits from Brick’s sales of Red Baron Lime beer.

Brick says it will defend itself from the legal challenge.

Sing it with me, ‘You put the lime in the beer, and someone’s gonna sue…..’

 Right off the bat, I am totally against cruelty to animals. I am however, a meat eater from a ways back, so when I heard that Blake Shleton & PETA were having a ‘Twitter squabble’, I had to go see what was going on….

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-officialpeta: Only animals should wear fur! -blakeshelton: Yeah, but they hide all the meat under there!!!! -officialpeta:That’s right, there’s nothing funny about BBQing cats:

Save a Life, BBQ this Weekend!!!

Billy Ray Cyrus skyrocketed into the country music scene in 1991 with ‘Achy Breaky Heart,’ and — all jokes aside — he is convinced that the tune that made him famous is still a hit. Approaching the 20-year anniversary of ‘Achy Breaky,’ Bily Ray says that “there are some major stars who want to re-do that song.” And while the singer has not officially agreed to let someone else record it, he says, “I’m flirting with the idea. There’s one cat in particular that if I told you who it was, it would blow your mind. But I’ve got to keep it under my hat right now.”

Really, who would want to? Alan Jackson? Keith Urban? The Jonas Brothers?

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Jessie Farrell called us recently and told us the name of her new CD will be”Good, Bad and Pretty Things”, set for release in the fall.

The latest single you’ve been hearing is ‘You Make Me Feel’ and if you thought the song brought out the summer in you, check out the freshly released video…..

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

 ….for the record, I’m still in the running to play her next love interest for her next video…..purely for artistic purposes of course!

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Line of the day, I was listening to our sister station 570 NEWS today and heard a caller (who’s a truck driver) tell Jeff Allan,

‘Why do we have speed limiters on our trucks hauling 500 lbs of rubber dog doo, yet a school bus full of kids is free to fly down the highwat at 115 kph?’

Yeah, really! What’s up with that?

The Maple Leafs are coming, well some of them…. 

The Toronto Maple Leaf rookies, will be calling Kitchener  home starting Sunday, Sept. 6.

The Leafs rookie camp will include former Kitchener Ranger Nazem Kadri and run from Sept. 6 through 10.

There’s also a rookie tournament the will features newbies from the Ottawa Senators, Boston Bruins and Pittsburgh Penguins.

 Where’s my face paint? Go Leafs!

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Megan Fox has become the latest star tipped to take on the role of Catwoman in a forthcoming Batman movie.

The sex-ay star is rumoured to be in the running for the part, if The Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan decides to resurrect the legendary comic book character, last portrayed on film by Halle Berry in 2004′s Catwoman.

According to British tabloid The Sun, 23-year-old Fox will step into the famous PVC catsuit to join Christian Bale and Michael Caine when filming begins next year.

The as-yet-untitled project is expected in cinemas in 2011.

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Shania Twain is inviting everyone to her cyberspace birthday bash, and the guest of honor is the one giving the gift! In a short video blog posted on her website, the singer reveals how she plans to commemorate her 44th birthday on Aug. 28.

Check it out;

 http://www.shaniatwain.com/

 I would’ve said Chuck Norris!

Jessica Biel is the most dangerous celebrity on the web.

Security technology company McAfee Inc. today reported that searches for the 27-year-old actress are more likely to lead to online threats such as spyware and viruses than searches for any other celebrity.

McAfee said fans searching for the actress have a one-in-five chance of ending up at a website designed to damage one’s computer. Its the third annual report on the subject from McAfee, which last year found that Brad Pitt was the “most dangerous” celeb online.

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It’s Record Breaking Day at KIX 106!

Country singer Jack Ingram is promoting his new album, Big Dreams and High Hopes, out today, by attempting to break the Guinness World Record for the most radio interviews in 24 hours — approximately 225 five-minute chats. It’s not the craziest thing he’s ever done: That, he says, would be riding a steer in a celebrity event hosted by bullriding champion Tuff Hedeman.”Three seconds later, I couldn’t breathe for, like, literally two weeks. The next morning I could not get out of bed. Not because I was sore but because something was definitely wrong. It turns out I cracked a couple of ribs. I called Tuff, and he said, ‘You know what you do for a cracked rib, right? You say Ouch.’” Ingram shot the video for his current single, “Barefoot and Crazy,” the next day.

Jack will be calling us after 5 today!

Watch him live…

http://cmtlive.cmt.com/

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This is SOOOOOOO cool….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj7DPK1C500

I am so ashamed of myself. I am a husband, a father of two, and respected  acknowledged by my broadcasting peers. So why the shame? I wasted almost 4 hours of my Sunday afternoon playing Guitar Hero. The backyard never got mowed. The basement never got cleaned. The pictures I was supposed to e-mail family members never got sent.

So I got caught up in the moment (yeah for 4 hours, that’s quite a ‘moment’). I went from being a grown adult who ‘just wanted to see what the fuss was all about’, to a budding rock star who was ready to dodge the first bra thrown my way!

Of course, all my wife saw was a 38 year old kid who didn’t clean the house while she was at work.

She didn’t throw anything either

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LeAnn Rimes has been questioned by police following what is believed to have been a minor traffic accident. The LA Times reports that the singer was accused of a “misdemeanor hit and run” this past Thursday night in Los Angeles. Further reports that LeAnn “was driving a 2009 Audi Q5 when she allegedly rear-ended a 2006 BMW X5 that was stopped in the left turn lane.”

Of course she will, it’s not like she fooled around with someone’s husband……….oh  yeah!

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In case you missed it, watch the AMAZING triple play that ended the Mets/Phillies game…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8QZxVz0KYc

By now, Michelle Obama has firmly established her sartorial right to bare arms. But baring thighs may be another matter.

Photographs of the first lady descending the steps of Air Force One in shorts have the media in a sweat. Some are saying Mrs. Obama — on her way to the Grand Canyon for a family vacation — may have revealed too much skin.

What is the problem here? Gee whiz, ‘too much skin’? It’s summer for crying out loud! Just because she’s the first lady, is she supposed to pass out from heat stroke for the better of the U S of A?

Anyone who believes this needs to soak their head. BTW, nice legs ‘dere Michelle!

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LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian may not be admitting to an affair, but they are no longer meeting in secret. The singer and actor, who met while co-starring in a made-for-TV movie, were spotted together Thursday playing golf in Valencia, Calif.

LeAnn and Eddie were first accused of having an affair back in March, after the two were caught together on what appeared to be romantic dates at a hotel and at two different restaurants. After both tried to mend their respective marriages, the infidelity rumors resurfaced in July, as the two were reportedly spotted together at the home of a longtime friend of LeAnn and her husband, Dean Sheremet.

Hold on now, let’s not get too carried away! If there were anything romantic about golf, we’d be taking our wives to the greens every Sunday!

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And lastly, I stand (actually I’m sitting) before you a changed man! Sure I knew of Kenny Chesney, but never really was a HUGE fan. I mean, I liked some songs but never understood what the fuss was all about. Why all of those Entertainer of the Year Awards?

If Kenny were here now, I’d apologize. After watching him last night in TO, I was BLOWN AWAY!!!! This guy deserves every fan’s admiration, every award, and the respect of every Country star who wants to see how working the crowd is done right!

Now, if you don’t mind I just bought a blue chair, and a bucket of Corona and I reserved a spot in my kids swimming pool! Turn it up Kenny!

There’s renewed hope for the majority of mankind.

New research has found many women are no longer turned on by the rock-hard abs and perfect-pecs of Calvin Klein-type models.

A recent poll conducted by a UK ice cream manufacturer found a shift of feminine desire away from the self-pampering “metrosexual” icon, and toward a renewed appreciation for guys with beer bellies and hairy chests.

The survey by Lion Bar Ice Cream found 80% of women no longer long for a tall, slim, fine-featured male.

In fact, more than 4,000 of the 5,000 women who took part in the poll said they’d rather an unkempt man, with ruffled hair and a bit of a belly, than a toned specimen like British football star David Beckham.

The news gets even better for those men who don’t really give a damn, and whose gym membership long ago expired. Even those among our gender too tired to get up to shower have reason to feel good about themselves this morning.

A fifth of those polled don’t mind “a bit of body odour.”

Today, I am proud to be a man, somebody pull my finger!

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Local Archie comic fans lined up bright and early at comic book stores across the city yesterday to get their hands on a copy of issue No. 600, in which Archie Andrews pops the question to Veronica Lodge.

After nearly seven decades of participating in one of the comic book world’s most famous love triangles, the freckle-faced, redheaded Riverdale teen asked the wealthy and beautiful brunette to marry him — a proposal Lodge accepted, much to the chagrin of her rival, girl-next-door Betty Cooper.

Fans can follow Archie and Veronica’s love drama in the next five issues in a series entitled Archie Marries Veronica.

What does Reggie say about all this?

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Darius Rucker’s ‘Alright’ is such a feel-good song, it’s hard to imagine it involved two trips to the hospital to get it finished! The song had to be written in two sessions several months apart, because Darius developed an infection in his knee after their initial writing appointment and had to go to the hospital. They completed the tune four months later in Charleston … with another disaster!

“We’d just finished the song up, and we heard this crash.”

“There was a neighbor girl visiting, and she’d pulled an aquarium down on her face and sliced her nose, and had to go to the hospital. So we had two major hospital trips in the middle of that song, but we kept saying, ‘Everything’s going to be alright.’”

A B.C. billboard campaign for Coors beer is being pulled after area Torontonians were offended by the ad.

About 30 billboards scattered across the province boldly state Coors Light is “colder than most people from Toronto.”

Adam Moffat, Molson brand and marketing public relations manager, said a handful of offended customers e-mailed to complain.

But, when a Toronto newspaper reported on the billboards yesterday, a public relations firestorm erupted.

“Landing in the newspaper today has really been the spark of the debate and it really has become quite heated,” Moffat said.

He added, the idea for the “light-hearted” and “cheeky” campaign came from “insight gleaned from people in the west.”

Toronto doesn’t deserve this kind of insult! It’s not like they called the army after a snowstorm hit……..oh yeah!

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Alan Jackson is in Norway and Sweden and played to over 40,000 fans.  In Norway, over 20,000 fans waited for 9 rain-soaked hours to see Jackson play. 

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On a personal note, I want the world to know that I’ve been married to the most beautiful woman in the world 9 years today! 9 years of me saying how lucky I am, 9 years of her thinking she could’ve done soooo much better! What the traditional gift for 9 years married? LCD or Plasma?

LOL, this cracks me up….

A news release sent out Monday outlined Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s itinerary as he began a five-day tour of the North. The release repeatedly spelled the capital of Nunavut as Iqualuit – rather than Iqaluit.

So what you say? So it’s an extra ‘u’, mistakes happen right?

The extra “u” makes a world of difference in the Inuktitut language.

Iqaluit, properly spelled, means “many fish.”

Spelled with an extra “u,” the Nunavut language commissioner’s office says the word translates as a derogatory reference to “people with unwiped bums.”

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Here’s a picture of Canada’s new jersey which will be exclusively worn at the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games by the men’s, women’s and sledge hockey teams representing Canada. 

That’s not a stain on the Maple Leaf, that’s actually artwork, which will be hard to see with a gold medal in front of it!

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Seen alot of these this summer?

The pesky yellow and black bugs are flying around KW in numbers not seen in recent memory.

We’re hearing the influx in the bothersome bugs might have something to do with the cool weather we’ve been having over the past few weeks and the hot spell happening right now. Wasps are running out of time in their life cycle to build their colonies up, so they’re taking advantage of the weather. The good news is that wasps don’t pose a huge threat to public health, except for the minority that are allergic.

The bad news is that these things are eating my fence (like the one above is doing), and drinking water from my A/C. The good news is that I have something to shoot with my daughters water gun! BWAH- HA-HA!