Links & Blinks

This past week, a 68 year old man died in in Florida by the name of Paul Vance. This man had said that he was the author of song "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini." A local reporter interviewed his wife and wrote his obituary accordingly, where it got picked up by the Associated Press. Unfortunately, the real Paul Vance read his own obituary last week and was shocked to discover he had already died.

It seems that the former Paul Vance was a musician in his younger days and for the purpose of impressing his future wife, he said that he had written the song because of the shared name. He said that he had foolishly signed away his rights as a young man so he had nothing to show for it. His wife relayed this detail to the reporter et voila. The actual Paul Vance that authored this song has been receiving royalties for decades and has made millions off of that song, and had to prove it to intrepid reporters by showing his recent royalty payments. The wife of the deceased isn't too pleased to discover that her husband had been lying to her about this for all these years.

In other hilarious news, go read this blog by my friend Steve. He relates his recent experience when he was trapped inside a car wash for a full half hour. His car was stuck and he couldn't get out of his car because the car wash was still working away. No one responded to his beeping and he had trouble getting a cell phone connection to call for help. Hijinks ensue!

As for other friends, I would like to mention that Richard has found a new place to live. Whenever he's off from work and he's in town, he'll be sharing a place with Joel Terry. It's a perfect win-win situation for everybody. As for Tara, she recently started working at Giant Tiger with steady shifts so everything has worked out well for her, too.

And finally, I would like to say GO JAYS GO! The MLB season ended yesterday. It came down to the very last day but the Jays placed second in their division! That was well behind the hated Yankees but, more importantly, it was one full game ahead of Boston. Unfortunately, that wasn't enough to get into the playoffs. That's funny because everyone assumed at the beginning of the season that the second place team in this division would automatically be good enough to be in the playoffs and it didn't work out that way. In any case, I appreciate that the money we blew this past summer wasn't entirely for nothing.