Mar. 14, 2016 Comedy comparisons:

A character asks a question and gives a stupid and funny answer:

Once Upon a Time: It was done on the TV show Once Upon a Time where Dr. Whale (David Anders) is helping deliver a baby.

Dr. Whale: Why would anyone want to steal a baby when it's more fun making one?

My opinion: Yeah.

I'm sure some of you guys are laughing at this part of the line and/ or me agreeing with him.

David Anders is one of my favorite actors.

The Simpsons: It was done on The Simpsons. Homer looked like he sexually harassed the baby- sitter by getting a piece of candy off her butt.

Bart: Why would you want to touch a girl's butt? That's where cooties come from.

"The Simpsons" Homer Badman (TV Episode 1994) - IMDb

Jan. 29, 2019 The Simpson's ep "Krusty the Clown":

Bart: Where am I supposed to run away to? College?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8340896/?ref_=ttep_ep8

Mar. 14, 2016 A character puts on perfume or cologne and gets a rash:

2gether: It was done on the TV movie 2gether about a fictional boy band. TRL host Carson Daly plays himself and he criticizes this cologne called "Yo Girl."

Daly: "Yo Girl" should be called "No Girl." Because after I put it on, I got this huge rash and all these guys kept hitting on me.

My life: I put on my brother's cologne "Phoenix" by Axe. I did get a rash on my skin. I had put it on my neck. Then I stopped putting it on my neck, and I put this cream, and it healed my skin.

That was more of a TV and real life comparison.

Jun. 16, 2016 Homer Simpson singing a song to another tune:

Homer creates a website where he's Mr. X:

Cut to Homer sitting on a toilet in a stall. He is singing: "I've been sitting on the toilet" to the tune of "I've been working on the railroad."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpJwsoe4wXc

"The Simpsons" The Computer Wore Menace Shoes (TV Episode 2000) - IMDb

The episode where the Simpsons join a cult called the Movemetarians:

Cut to Homer fishing. He is singing "Na na na na fishing, fishing, fishing" to the Batman theme song "Na na na na Batman, Batman, Batman."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4UcAJNuyy8

"The Simpsons" The Joy of Sect (TV Episode 1998) - IMDb

Oct. 13, 2016: The former president George Bush moves across the street from the Simpsons. Prior to it, there was a rummage sale in the neighborhood.

Homer: Now, lets give it up for Table Five!

He starts singing Table Five to the song "Staying Alive."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkO7uF0u5_0

"The Simpsons" Two Bad Neighbors (TV Episode 1996) - IMDb

May 20, 2017 Character A asks several different questions and Character B gives the same answer:

This happened in real life:

Later, my grandma had missed dinner because she was on the phone. She comes to the table and only P and Tracy are eating. We are all talking in Chinese.

Grandma: Did S eat?
P and Tracy (unison): Yeah, everybody ate.
Grandma: Did mom eat?
P: Yeah, everybody ate.
Grandma: Did dad eat?
P: Yeah, everybody ate.
Tracy: "It ate everybody!"

The Simpsons: Does anyone remember the episode where Homer becomes a truck driver and Bart comes along? They go to a drive-in movie theatre and watched a movie called
"The Monster that Ate Everybody."

Cut to Homer and Bart watching it.

Female movie character: Did it eat Patrick too?
Male movie character: It ate everybody.
Female movie character: What about Erica?
Homer and Bart (angrily and in unison with the male movie character): It ate everybody.

It's in the 4 min 22 sec part:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrG3OH72CTQ

"The Simpsons" Maximum Homerdrive (TV Episode 1999) - IMDb

The Sausage Factory: It was an old show that I saw back in 2002. There was an alternate title "Much Ado About Whatever."

JC meets a girl and they have so much in common.

Gilby: So what's her last name?

JC: I don't know.

Gilby: So what school does she go to?

JC: I don't know.

Gilby: So where does she live?

JC: I don't know.

"Much Ado About Whatever" Dances with Squirrels (TV Episode 2001) - IMDb

Job interview: It happened at a job interview that I went to in 2012. I was to be a server in fine dining. The woman boss was asking me all these specific questions about:

What do you know about wine? What goes well with steak or fish?

My answers were all: "No" and "I don't know."

The interview ended with her thanking me for coming and how I won't be getting hired.

Jan. 24, 2018 The jokes that are "just sitting there":

It was done on the sitcom Clipped: Buzzy is talking to Charmaine.

Charmaine: You're the one who called me Dr. Dradle.
Buzzy: You're black and you're Jewish. It was just sitting there.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2361094/?ref_=nv_sr_2

The Social: They were interviewing Jordan Axani. I wrote about this before.

Host: So who do you want to play you in a movie?
A woman in the audience yells out: Matt Damon!
The audience laughs.

My opinion: I was going to say that.

Axani: Yeah, Matt Damon. If I get to do Jason Bourne stuff like shoot guns and stuff. I was going to say Sean Connery.

https://www.shiftcollab.com/jordan

Nov. 27, 2020 A character is doing something embarrassing and it's recorded on tape or the radio:

This is Us episode "Honestly": Randall is a city council man and he records his daily news on the website. Malik is a teen boy who is shadowing him for the day. Malik gets a phone call from his baby- sitter and has to take the call.

Randall then starts changing his clothes as the recorder is still on. Randall was humiliated. However, his video got 100, 000 views than the usual 5000.

I told this to my little brother P and he said it was done before:

Futurama ep "The Problem with Popplers": The alien leader LRRR is angry and sends a threatening video to eat humans. At the 34 second mark he ends the transmission. Then he starts scratching himself.

(109) Futurama Full Episodes Season 2 Episode 18 - The Problem With Popplers Part 2 - YouTube

Radio Active: This is a old Canadian teen sitcom I used to watch when I was in jr. high school. Tanya and Morgan are arguing.

Tanya: You're the one who was dancing, and everybody was watching you because you had toilet paper on your shoe.

Morgan: Oh my God, we're still on air!

Radio Active (TV Series 1998–2001) - IMDb

This is a Jun. 2016 post:

Tracy's writing career/ Getting the right people's attention on the internet

Feb. 19, 2016 Funny Between video: I decided to check out about the Canadian TV show Between. I went on Twitter and follow the Edmonton actor Kyle Mac on the show (he plays the bad guy Ronnie.) There is Jim Watson (who played the good guy Pat) on the show. Watson is at Chuck's trailer. Justin Kelly (from Degrassi plays the popular jock Chuck on Between).

Watson slowly opens the trailer's door. There is some music playing.

Cut to Justin Kelly wearing a cowboy hat and his letterman jacket on his elbows. He's dancing to it and then he turns his head. He's startled when he sees the door is open.

Watson closes the door quickly and runs.

I was surprised to see it. I laughed at it.

It looks like it was unintentionally funny.

Yeah, well at least Kelly wasn't changing his clothes.

Tracy's blog: Tracy's writing career/ Getting the right people's attention on the internet (badcb.blogspot.com)

This week doesn't have a theme:

It's Just Lunch (Part 4)

Tracy's blog: It's Just Lunch (Part 4) (badcb.blogspot.com)

"Online dating scams are on the rise, FBI and FTC warn. Here are some red flags"/ "Online dating scams are now among the most common ways to lose money to fraud"

Tracy's blog: "Online dating scams are on the rise, FBI and FTC warn. Here are some red flags"/ "Online dating scams are now among the most common ways to lose money to fraud" (badcb.blogspot.com)

My week:

Aug. 2, 2022 "Despite warm summer, red-hot inflation putting a chill on ice cream truck profits": Today I found this article by Hina Alam on CBC:

It's been a scorching summer across much of Canada, but that is cold comfort for ice cream truck operators like Meedo Falou, who says inflation and high fuel costs are melting away his profits.

"Ice cream went up over 60 per cent. We had to jack the price up by a dollar. We couldn't do more, because of the consumers. We just want them to be able to afford ice cream."

"Ice cream truck owners need to seek out catering opportunities, food truck events, go to office blocks and hospitals and say, 'Hey, we can put on a corporate event for you,"' he said.

"They need to hustle now a little more than probably they ever had before."

Despite warm summer, red-hot inflation putting a chill on ice cream truck profits | CBC News

Aug. 5, 2022 Edmonton Valley Zoo: My friend Cham invited to her work BBQ that was held there. She bought 5 tickets ($6 each) and brought her sister and the sister's 3 daughters (9- 12 yrs old). I may have been to this zoo once when I was kid with my family. This costs $15. 95 for adult admission.

They picked me up in downtown and when we drove there, the neighborhood by the Zoo has really nice houses. They had 2nd floor patios.

The BBQ served coleslaw, potato salad, and mac and cheese. There was chicken and brisket (beef). I, my friend and her family all thought the meat didn't have much flavor. The coleslaw was good.

I thought there was going to be hamburgers and hot dogs. There was a lot of bottle water and cans of pop.

Then we got ice cream. There were lots of flavors and I got toasted smores in a cup.

There were lots of displays of animals like a hummingbird, a leopard, etc. made out of Legos. I took pictures of them.

I saw some 2 zebras standing, and then they ran around a bit.

The tiger was resting.

The lynx was walking around a bit.

The 3 seals were resting.

There was a huge boa constrictor sitting in an aquarium. It looked it weighed 200 pounds.

I didn't see the elephant Lucy in- person. However, Cham's sister videotaped Lucy come out of the building by sticking her head out for a bit, and then going back in. Cham said that when she was a kid she threw some snow at Lucy, and Lucy threw some snow back with her trunk.

The weather was good because it wasn't too hot or cold.

Aug. 6, 2022 Cariwest Festival: I told the Personality Meetup group on Whatsapp that I was going there and I may see them there.

I looked at the jewelry, bags, and clothes. There was loud dance music playing. There were food booths that sold jerk chicken.

I was there for 30 min. by myself checking this out. Then I was going to go home, but then Mei from the Personality Meetup group was there with a two other guys. I then stayed and hung out with them for 1hr 30 min. I waited in line with them so they could get a caricature drawn of them by Laurel Hawkswell.

The pictures were being drawn for free for the customers, because Cariwest paid Hawkswell. There was an hour line up to get your drawing. I didn't want my picture drawn.

Laurel Hawkswell | Edmonton Artist edmonton.art@gmail.com | @hilaurel

City Centre: I went to the food court and it was full during the festival.

Animethon: I didn't go to this because you had to pay at least $35 to get in and I'm not really interested in this. I did see a few people in the mall and on the street wearing Anime costumes.

Aug. 8, 2022 "Nearly 9 million Canadians have uncashed cheques from the CRA — worth $1.4B": Today I found this article by Pete Evans on CBC:

Canada's tax agency says nearly 9 million Canadians are owed some sort of government cash, and it's going to send out reminders starting this month to tens of thousands of people to let them know.

The Canada Revenue Agency said Monday that it has roughly $1.4 billion worth of uncashed cheques on its books, some of which has been owed as far back as 1998. As of May, 8.9 million Canadians had some sort of uncashed cheque attached to their name. The average amount owed is $158, the tax agency said.

"We want to make sure this money ends up where it belongs. In taxpayers' pockets!" the tax agency said.

The CRA said Canadians can check if they have uncashed payments by logging in to or signing up for an online CRA account.

Nearly 9 million Canadians have uncashed cheques from the CRA — worth $1.4B | CBC News

"Singer and actress Olivia Newton-John dead at 73": This is on CBC. I was never a fan of hers. I did watch Grease in gr. 7 and 9 drama class:

Olivia Newton-John, the Grammy-winning superstar who reigned on pop, country, adult contemporary and dance charts with such hits as Physical and You're the One That I Want and won countless hearts as Sandy in the blockbuster film version of Grease, has died. She was 73.

Newton-John, a longtime resident of Australia whose sales topped 100 million albums, died Monday, her husband John Easterling wrote on Instagram and Facebook.

"Dame Olivia Newton-John, (73) passed away peacefully at her ranch in Southern California this morning, surrounded by family and friends," Easterling, announced in the post.

Newton-John's family did not give any details about the cause of her death but described her as "a symbol of triumphs and hope for over 30 years sharing her journey with breast cancer."

Singer and actress Olivia Newton-John dead at 73 | CBC News

Aug. 10, 2022 "Domino’s Pizza quits Italy after locals shun American pies": Today I found this article by Giulia Morpurgo and Antonio Vanuzzo on the Financial Post:

Domino’s Pizza Inc.’s footprint in the home of pizza proved to be short lived with Italians favouring local restaurants over the American version.

The last of Domino’s 29 branches have closed after the company started operations in the country seven years ago. It borrowed heavily for plans to open 880 stores, but faced tough competition from local restaurants expanding delivery services during the pandemic and sought protection from creditors after running out of cash and falling behind on its debt obligations.

The U.S. chain entered Italy in 2015 through a franchising agreement with ePizza SpA and planned to distinguish itself by providing a structured national delivery service along with American-style toppings including pineapple.

Its ambitious expansion ran into trouble as traditional pizza makers scaled up deliveries or signed deals with third-party services such as Deliveroo Plc, Just Eat Takeaway.com NV or Glovo to bring their products to customers’ homes while restrictions prevented dining out.

Domino’s Pizza quits Italy after locals shun American pies | Financial Post

My opinion: Yeah, well at least Domino's scaled slowly by opening 29 stores and last 7 years. Unlike Target opening over 100 stores in Canada in 2013, and then closing down all of them in 2015.

Aug. 11, 2022 "McDonald's will soon reopen its locations in Ukraine": I found this on CBC. I like this article because this is good news that McDonald's paid for the 10,000 employees who aren't working:

McDonald's will start reopening some of its restaurants in Ukraine in the coming months, a symbol of the war-torn country's return to some sense of normalcy and a show of support after the American fast-food chain pulled out of Russia.

The burger giant closed its Ukrainian restaurants after Russia's invasion nearly six months ago but has continued to pay more than 10,000 McDonald's employees in the country.

McDonald's said Thursday that it will begin gradually reopening some restaurants in the capital, Kyiv, and western Ukraine, where other companies are doing business away from the fighting. Western businesses like Nike, KFC and Spanish clothing retailer Mango are open in Kyiv.

While it will start to reopen in Ukraine, McDonald's has sold its 850 restaurants in Russia to a franchise owner. That came three decades after McDonald's opened its first location in Moscow, becoming a powerful symbol of easing Cold War tensions.

McDonald's had shuttered hundreds of Russian locations in March, costing the company about $55 million US per month. Selling its Russian restaurants was the first time the company has "de-arched," or exited a major market.

McDonald's will soon reopen its locations in Ukraine | CBC News

Aug. 11, 2022 My birthday: I went to the Marble Slab Creamery at 11 am when they opened and showed the East Indian girl my coupon and got a free ice cream in a cup. I chose Birthday Cake and it didn't really taste like anything. It wasn't really sweet. I put the mix- ins of Nestle Crunch and marshmallows.

At dinner, I ordered 2 large pizzas from pizzas from Domino's online. If you have an account, after you order 6 pizzas, you can get a free one. The coupon was unlimited large pizzas with 2 toppings for $10.99.

My dad then picked up the ice cream cake from Dairy Queen. The design was a unicorn with a rainbow mane and horn, with red icing and rainbow sprinkles around it. That design is something I never would have chosen because it's too bright and colorful. The design doesn't matter, because it's about the taste.

Then I remembered that the birthday cake in the Dairy Queen ice cream cake tastes like the one in Marble Slab Creamery. They taste the same.

I didn't really do anything exciting on my birthday.

However, I did use my digital camera and took pictures of all the fun places I went to like the Edmonton Valley Zoo, the Cariwest Festival, and a few pictures of the cake, and me with the cake.