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Last week on Marketplace they took on gas and electricity re-sellers who go door to door…. Saying that people who sign with them just aren’t getting the savings they’re being promised

A study in Toronto found that young people attending concerts say they would wear ear protection if it was handed to them at the door

As of June you’ll need a passport to cross the border with the U.S. by land…..and while 75% of Canadian adults now have passports…. The problem could be American’s coming here since only 23% of American’s have passports

A Duke University study found after one year of dieting….people’s enjoyment of "Fancy Time" doubled!!

Welcome SPRING!!!!! 7:44 this morning!


Today, we decided to read out another riddle for you to solve to win John Pinette tickets....


A black dog stands in the middle of an interssection in a town painted black. None of the street lights ar working due to a power failure caused by a storm. A car with two broken headlights drives towards the dog but turns in time to avoid hitting him. How could the driver have seen the dog in time?

The first caller through was Jennifer and she had the correct answer! She said the driver saw the dog in time because it was daylight. I guess this means no more riddles...our listeners are too smart!!!!



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On Saturday’s date in 1666 the first Canadian census counted 3,000 people

The thumb is such a major player in the human body that it has a special section, separate from the area that controls the fingers, reserved for it in the brain.

Researchers claim that the color light-green is effective in relieving the feelings of homesickness.

In his martial arts movies. Bruce Lee was so fast, that in some movies, they had to slow the film down so the audience could see his moves

Men are going to love this story......
Staring at women's breasts is good for men's health and makes them live longer, a recent survey reveals. Researchers have discovered that a 10-minute oogle at women's breasts is as healthy as half-an-hour in the gym. A five-year study of 200 men found that those who enjoyed a longing look at busty beauties had lower blood pressure, less heart disease and slower pulse rates compared to those who did not get their daily eyeful. Dr Karen Weatherby, who carried out the German study, wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine: "Just 10 minutes of staring at the charms of a well endowed female is roughly equivalent to a 30-minute aerobics workout.



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The latest dieting tips making the rounds: Sniff your food before you eat it. Inhaling the smell can make you feel you've eaten more than you have…..AND….Eat your food piping hot. The smell will be more intense, which may make you feel full sooner.

What is a genuine pizza? Pepperoni, mushrooms and cheese? No!!! That’s according to Italy's National Standards Body………..they have ruled that ‘genuine pizza’ can only contain San Marzano tomatoes, buffalo milk mozzarella, and extra virgin olive oil.

In Alberta they believe they’ve discovered the remains of a tiny little meat eating dinosaur that lived 75 million years ago…..Hesperonychus was about half the size of a house cat

Going out of town…packing your luggage – listen to this: 30 million bags are misplaced by major airlines around the world annually ….and about 1% of all luggage is never found

When horses have ‘fancy time’…it’s called “COVERING”!!! When sheep have ‘fancy time’….it’s called, “RUTTING”. And…speaking of ‘fancy time’…ready for this one? Experts say that a man can boost his ‘fancy time’ drive…if he does THIS…a half hour everyday: GARDENING

Another hectic morning! But great!

We had Anna Costa bring us coffee and breakfast from Robin's Donuts...that was today's task for earning John Pinette tickets!

Of course we had another entry into our Wedding SOS contest...it was the wedding party that sent in today's message.

It was a busy morning with a LOT to talk about including a Thunder Bay singer who was on American Idol last night! Shayne Stolz! He is in the area for March break his father Romeo told us this morning. He called his dad and told him he was going to try to get into the show. He was in a few shots..but then came the opportunity of a lifetime...the audience was asked if anyone could sing...Shayne was brought up on stage and started singing "Me and Mrs. Jones"...the band picked it up and played along...must have been amazing! Randy Jackson asked Shayne why he wasn't on American Idol...of course Shayne replied that he's Canadian. Perhaps that portion of the show will be shown on tonight's American Idol...we'll have to see......
You'll remember Shayne from many events in the city...he also won the 2008 CLE Northwestern Ontario Talent Search. He sang his rendition of Me & Mrs. Jones as well..who knows where yesterday's performance will take him....

Top o' the mornin' to ya!

Danny and I were among 10 stations whose morning shows were chosen worldwide to be granted an interview with a Leprechaun, Patti O'Lantern....he was hilarious!
We also gave tickets away for next week's John Pinette Show...had an awesome Battle of the Sexes game this morning AND we gave away 5 boxes of Lucky Charms Cereal to help you celebrate St. Patrick's Day! Whew! Love giving stuff away!


I am hurrying off this morning to go out with the Coffee Crew today...no green coffee, we're bringing some wonderful Robin's Coffee along with some oatmeal bars to a lot of businesses today. All they had to do was go to our website, tell us how many staff work there and where they are. From there we plan our routes!



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The White House in Washington is modeled after the Irish House of Parliament in Dublin
A "Shillelagh" is a walking stick
The Irish call “Irish Whiskey” the “water of life”
By kissing the Blarney Stone you acquire “the gift of the gab”
This year there will be well over 200 St. Patrick’s Day parades in North America.... but only four in Ireland
Almost 10 million pints of Ireland’s Guinness Beer are consumed each day

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy Monday! It's also St. Patrick's Day Eve....we have to thank Peggy Maggrah, RDH for sending us some great St. Patty's Day gear....2 headbands with bouncy clovers on top, a clover bead necklace and a clover rubber wrist band! We'll be decked out tomorrow! We may even have the opportunity to speak to a Leprechaun...all the way from Dublin, Ireland...We entered into a draw in Ireland to win an interview with a Leprechaun about 3 weeks ago. We find out today..and if we are lucky enough to have been chosen, then we'll interview him on air tomorrow morning!

PLUS!! More John Pinette Tickets to be won. Today the task was to look up page 202 in the TBayTel phone book and tell us what was listed at the top of the third column...
Laura White was the first caller through and told us it was the Thunder Bay Community Auditorium. Of course, that's where John Pinette will be performing! Listen tomorrow to hear what the task of the day is for you to win tickets!

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This for sure has to be a referee’s nightmare, and the sports commentators too. Everyone who plays in one of Italy’s amateur league teams, believe it or not…has the last name “De Feo”. Even the coach, the team secretary and doctor of the…Team De Feo Club. This is in Serino, southern Italy. Apparently…De Feo is the area’s equivalent of Smith or Jones here in North America.

The average number of friends we have…is about 150. That’s according to Oxford University anthropologists.

70% of married couples say THIS is one thing they are still satisfied with about their wedding. Their first song!!!!

The last couple of weeks, Wheel Of Fortune has been celebrating a pretty big feat. Their 5,000th episode!!! And…here are some fun facts….about Wheel Of Fortune – you may not have known:

…the show was first called “Shoppers Bazaar”
…Vanna’s in the Guinness Book of World Records as “the world’s most frequent clapper” – applauding an average of 720 times…per show.
…Since it debuted….Wheel of Fortune has given away over $170 million in cash and prizes!!!!

Wanted to share this latest survey with you...you should try it!!!!

The survey in the United Kingdom looked at long term marriages and has come up with the perfect recipe for a long and happy marriage! Their findings suggest a couple needs to.....

Kiss four times a day
Cuddle three times a day
Hold two romantic dinners a month
Share two hobbies
Have Fancy Time three times a week



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Let’s talk about taking a shower!!! A recent study suggests we fall into 2 distinct types when it comes to showering ... those who soap up a section of their body at a time and then rinse, and those who lather up their entire body before rinsing off. Medical experts say the first method is better, because it lessens the drying effects of soap

Be careful when you eat those pancakes. A Russian man has died after winning a pancake-eating contest by downing 43 whipped cream-and-banana-stuffed pancakes before choking on a piece of pancake lodged in his throat. A witness says it appeared he really enjoyed the pancakes but then he started foaming at the mouth and ‘went down like a sack of stones’.

Listen to the irony in this: 16 people have been arrested for fighting at a concert in Silver Spring, Maryland the other night. It was a benefit for an advocacy group called ... “Stop the Violence

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Burger King has opened it's first "Whopper Bar" at Universal City Walk in Florida. Basically….they say to think of it like a Subway, except having a custom burger assembled in front of you, with 22 options to choose from.

2-out-of-3 people have lied about reading a book at least once in order to impress someone, according to a new survey. And here are the top 3 titles that people say they've 'read':3. “Ulysses”, James Joyce (25%).2. “War & Peace”, Leo Tolstoy (31%).1. “1984”, George Orwell (42%).

Twitter is the latest, most addictive trend in social networking. Essentially it’s a mini-blog that allows you to post what you’re doing in 140 characters or less. Many musicians have embraced Twitter as a way to communicate with their fans and/or rant about their favorite causes.

Today we gave another pair of tickets away to John Pinette...he'll be here March 26th. Monday, we gave the tickets to Connie Bruno...it was "Go Commando Day". She said she would go commando the entire day. Yesterday the task was to bring us breakfast. We paid for he breakfast, we just wanted someone to bring it to us. Randy Morine answered the call and he chose to go to the Husky to pick up some French Toast, Home Fries, Fruit Cups and Chocolate Milk. It was great! Today we had a riddle for you to figure out.....

Brad stared through the dirty, soot smeared window on the 22nd floor of the office tower. Overcome with depression, he slid the window open and jumped through it. It was a sheer drop outside the building to the ground. Miraculously, after he landed he was completely unhurt. Since there was nothing to cushion his fall or slow his descent, how could he have survived the fall?

It was Susan DeBoer that had the answer.....Brad was so sick and tired of window washing, he opened the window and jumped inside.



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A series of love letters written by a 26 year old Prince Charles to Canadian woman Janet Jenkins are now up for sale on e-Bay with a starting bid of $30,000….Janet Jenkins sold the letters to a dealer and thought they’d end up in a museum instead of on eBay….

In the past 10 years, Canada has become the car theft capital of North America. According to Stats Canada, one car is stolen every three minutes. Car theft makes up more than one third of all property crimes in this country and costs consumers, police, insurance companies and the government more than $1 billion annually.

Nasa’s “Discovery” shuttle is set to blast into space tonight at 9:20. The launch, comes one month after the original launch date. It will be a 14 day mission, and Discovery will deliver a 4th and final set of solar panels to the Space Station. Starting in May, the Space Station will go from 3 permanent crew members to 6.

According to a new poll in Canada…. 80% of the people on the “do not call” list say they are receiving fewer calls…. 13% said they’re receiving more

Five Canadian female ski jumpers will add their names to a lawsuit trying to force the International Olympic Committee to allow female ski jumping at the 2010 games….

It's another Monday where I look to work as a bit of a break from the weekend!

Friday it was a night of fun at my daughter Kayla's house...dinner, then playtime with the kids..then babysit while she and her hubby went out to a shag. They found all of us....me, my son Matt and their two boys, Brandon and Garrett all sound asleep on the couch when they got home. Yes, we all fit.
Saturday, Kayla was sick so Matt and I went over and picked up the boys and took them out to Gammondale Farm for March Fun Day. We loved it. Garrett who is 1, was hilarious as he doesn't want to be carried sometimes, but all bundled up in his snowgear, he can't walk very far without tumbling to the ground...it adds to the hilarity when you hear his teeny little voice saying "whoa" as he goes down. We went on THREE sleigh rides with Sue Gammond at the reigns. Each trip was a little more informative...she talks about the history of the area and the farm. It really was fun.
Then, after we dropped the little sleepyheads off at home, Matt and I went off to the Sportsdome for winter baseball. Long day.

Sunday..I went to the Women's Expo at the Valhalla with my daughters Kayla and Victoria...then out to lunch with mom. She would have come to the Expo as well but unfortunately she forgot to change her clocks ahead. We did at least get to spend time with her at lunch.
Oh, but the weekend was not over yet...Matthew and I went to see Fired Up! in the afternoon. It was actually funny. I thought the only thing I was going to enjoy was the popcorn, and ended up having some laughs as well.

Needless to say, it was very easy to fall asleep last night......

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Did you know…it was on this date…in 2005 the Hudson Bay Company signed a $100 million dollar deal to outfit Canada’s Olympians for the next 4 games

Earth Hour is coming back. A number of Canadian cities are joining cities around the world again for Earth Hour… a plan to turn their lights off for one hour on March 28th at 8:30 P.M. to raise awareness about global warming

Insurance giant AIG reported a $62 billion dollar quarterly loss yesterday….forcing Washington to cough up another $30 billion to keep it afloat….so far Washington has dropped $180 billion on the company

The Ontario Lottery Corporation is at it again… a courier in Toronto found a bag on a city street with $3,400 dollars worth of unscratched lottery tickets – he did the right thing… called the OLG up to say he’d found these tickets…. They told him to…. Return the tickets to their head office during business hours…..he said NO…you come pick them up – they did come to an agreement …that he would bring them to a police station – and they are going to compensate him for their error.

Frozen Dead Guy Days are this weekend in Nederland, Colorado…. Where they bring out the frozen body of Grandpa Bredo……Grandpa Bredo is an actual dead guy who is kept in dry ice and brought out for Frozen Dead Guy Days


ORIGINS OF HI-TECH NAMES:

‘BlackBerry’ – ‘Strawberry’ was first considered because the phone’s tiny keys resemble seeds. But when ‘straw’ was thought to sound too slow, another berry was tentatively selected as a temporary replacement. It stuck

‘Bluetooth’ – It’s the English translation of 10th-century Danish king Harald Blatand’s last name. He became famous for uniting warring factions under one banner, Bluetooth’s objective with various technologies

‘Wii’ – Pronounced like the word ‘we’, which emphasizes the social concept that Nintendo envisioned for the console. The double ‘I’ spelling was thought to resemble 2 people standing side-by-side.


‘Wikipedia’ – In Hawaiian, the word ‘wiki’ means ‘fast’. It now describes website content that can be added to and/or edited by users. But taken literally, ‘Wikipedia’ means ‘fast encyclopedia’.– Excerpted from Neatorama.com.


LAUGH OF THE DAY....

A father passing by his son's bedroom was astonished to see that his bed was nicely made and everything was picked up.
Then he saw an envelope, propped up prominently on the pillow that was addressed to 'Dad.'

With the worst premonition he opened the envelope with trembling hands and read the letter...


Dear Dad:

It is with great regret and sorrow that I'm writing you. I had to elope with my new girlfriend
because I wanted to avoid a scene with Mom and you.

I have been finding real passion with Stacy and she is so nice.

But I knew you would not approve of her because of all her piercing, tattoos, tight motorcycle clothes and the fact that she is much older than I am. But it' s not only the passion...
Dad she's pregnant.

Stacy said that we will be very happy. We share a dream of having many more children.

Stacy has opened my eyes to the fact that marijuana doesn't really hurt anyone.
We'll be growing it for ourselves and trading it with the other people that live nearby for cocaine and ecstasy.

Don't worry Dad. I'm 15 and I know how to take care of myself.

Someday I'm sure that we will be back to visit so that you can get to know your grandchildren.

Love, Your Son John
PS. Dad, none of the above is true.
I'm over at Tommy's house.
I Just wanted to remind you that there are worse things in life than a Report card that's in my center desk drawer.

I love you.
Call me when it's safe to come home.

Danny is hurting today after an unfortunate incident in the kitchen with a sausage. It happened Sunday morning, when Danny was preparing to cook sausages for his family. Seems he thinks oil needs to be added when cooking sausages. Silly Boy. He also thinks that cooking sausages involves flipping them in the pan. ? So...when he was flipping the sausages...oh, by the way, did I mention he was cooking in his pyjama bottoms...no top? You see what's about to happen here.
As I was saying, he was flipping the sausages when the boiling liquid in the pan exploded and splashed up onto Danny's nipple! Yes, it burned.

This provided quite a topic of conversation on the show this morning. Some were inclined to call in and offer their concern and some advice on how to treat the wound. Others, like Danny's cousin and brother sent him messages like this....
Cousin Tony...."Only you would do something like that...."
Brother Claudio..."What's going on Emeril? Wow, flipping sausages...you burned your nipple?"
No sympathy from these two. But my Joseph called to offer some soothing words and make Danny feel better, of course he laughed after he had comforted Danny, but at least he made the effort.

Whatever crazy things may happen to us, they are all up for discussion on the morning show!

DR. SEUSS.......
Today is Dr. Seuss Day. Theodor Seuss Geisel was born on this day in 1904. Theodor, also known as Dr. Seuss would say..."Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained and delighted."

Some more Seuss-isms......
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Young cat, if you keep your eyes open enough, oh, the stuff you would learn! The most wonderful stuff!

Words to live by.