Saturday, December 1, 2012

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

Either graphics are getting better, or Canadians are getting drunker. Either way, a bizarre problem has cropped up at Mosaic Stadium in Regina, Saskatchewan.

For weeks, the cheery image of the burning log was displayed on the video scoreboard at the Saskatchewan Roughriders home venue. The flaming log was also shown on banner screens across the stands.

The problem was, from a distance some people thought the stadium was on fire - there have been four frantic calls to 911 in the past few weeks.

Deputy fire chief Gerard Kay said callers were very descriptive, reporting "a very bright flame. In some cases even the smell of smoke."

Standing in the parking lot at the nearby Regina field house recently, a CBC journalist saw the televised flames apparently looming over neighborhood houses.

A fire crew was dispatched to the scene just last week. "It's funny, someone jokingly said, 'Y'know, I don't know about that Yule log. Someone is going to think the stadium is on fire,'" Roughriders CEO Jim Hopson said. "Sure as heck, someone thought the stadium was on fire."

Another holiday-themed display will likely go up later, he said.

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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*-- Bizarre December Holidays --*
December 1 is National Pie Day and Eat A Red Apple Day
December 2 is National Fritters Day
December 3 is National Roof-Over-Your-Head Day
December 4 is Wear Brown Shoes Day
December 5 is National Sacher Torte Day
December 6 is National Gazpacho Day and Mitten Tree Day
December 7 is National Cotton Candy Day
December 8 is Take It In The Ear Day
December 9 is National Pastry Day
December 10 is Festival For The Souls Of Dead Whales

(More 'Bizarre December Holidays' Next Issue)

*-- Funeral mixed with football game viewing --*
HUGO, Minn. - A Minnesota woman said the funeral for her late boyfriend will involve pizza and watching the Minnesota Vikings take on the Green Bay Packers. Terri Moffitt of Hugo said Don Brommerich, who died of brain cancer Nov. 11 at the age of 53, was "a no-fuss kind of guy" as well as a diehard Vikings fan, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported Thursday. "I didn't want a priest or minister that Don didn't know up there blabbing for an hour about a guy he never knew," Moffitt said. "We were looking at the football stuff and I said, 'Oh, there's a Packer-Viking game on Sunday. That's it.'" Tim Tarmann of Roberts Family Funeral Home in Forest Lake helped Moffitt plan the celebration of Brommerich's life. "We are seeing a shift in funeral services where more and more families are wanting a unique celebration to honor their loved ones," Tarmann said. "The Viking-Packer rivalry was significant to Don, so what a perfect way for family and friends to honor his life. Just the way Don would have wanted it."


*-- Woman collects 1,030 jigsaw puzzles --*
MANILA, Philippines - Guinness World Records confirmed a retired woman in the Philippines collected 1,030 jigsaw puzzles to break the world record. The record keeping organization said Gina Gil Lacuna, 61, of Manila, amassed her collection at her family's bed and breakfast, The Puzzle Mansion, and shattered the record of 238 puzzles set by Luiza Figuereido of Brazil, the Philippine Daily Inquirer reported Thursday. Lacuna said she has spent three to four hours per day assembling the puzzles during the past 26 years. She said her collection is still growing and she is planning to donate some of the puzzles to cancer patients.


*-- READER COMMENTS --*
Lewis, as to your lead story, I bet the man's first wife is having the last laugh. Talk about payback for running off with the nanny.

Another thing people don't realize is that by seceding from the union, they will have to come up with their own currency. Not to mention other important issues like trade laws and custom laws. -Chuck
[Easy; you could just take existing U.S. laws that you like, cross out the words "United States" and write in "Republic of Texas" or whatever.]

This person telling those people that want to leave the union that they would have to fund the welfare, schools, and other state services. HAY, every state already do these things NOW. it is now just that we send the money to the federal government and PAY THEM to distribute the money BACK to US to fund these things. With the federal government out of the picture each state would have an enormous amount of money to actually funds those things. -Donald

I've decided after many years, to quit this mailing.. I find no humor in stories like this...the only thing weird about it is that you feel it's something to make fun of. Your homophobia is shining bright today. goodbye. -Momper
[I have never said that bizarre is necessarily funny. It just so happens that in the case of that story...it is. But whether the story is funny or not has nothing to do with homophobia. Why did Monica keep her sexual status a secret from her husband for 19 years?]

*-- END OF READER COMMENTS --*
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