talk about a burn

So today there was a fire at a local tanning salon. Thankfully no one was severely hurt or injured. But I did find some irony in the story. First off I went to the local paper's website to see if there were photos, luckily for me there were.

Photo #1: Front of building with over two dozen firemen. You might think that is a lot of firemen but don't worry, it was because the fire hall is located right across the street. I'm sure they had no problem walking across the street and I'm sure every fireman wanted to check out this scene. Why? Who goes to a tanning salon? Mostly women, especially women who get naked! Chances are some of those women would have been so scared they would just run out into the cold without any clothes on and who better to come to their aid then firemen!?!? I wonder was their response time was.

Photo #2: Receptionist from the tanning salon. I emphasize that she worked at the tanning salon - she was orange. And leathery. She should find a new job.

Photo #3: The man who first noticed the fire. So the fire actually started in his tanning bed and and he is actually very lucky to have escaped with just some burns on his 'stomach' (is he too embarassed to tell the truth?). But in this photo the man is ghostly white - obviously he is new at this tanning thing. But he comments that this won't be ending his 'tanning career'!! Career?!? I didn't know it was such a sought after career!! Another one of his comments was that he 'barely made it out of there'! Funny again!

So I decide to check out what, if anything, the CBC site has to say about this. Bonus, they got something!! The title of their article? Naked man flees from tanning bed. Hilarious!! Was the word 'naked' really needed in the title?!?

On another note, the Running Room is located right beside the tanning salon - I wonder how fast they got out of their place?

EDIT: Perez Hilton mentioned this story on his site, too funny!

participACTION

So, there is a new commerical out for ParticipACTION. Don't judge right away, this commerical is very modern and actually really good. It has no comparison to the old commericials from when I was a kid when everyone had really short shorts and shorter crop top tees, when roller skates ruled and rollerblades were unheard of. But don't get me wrong these commericials are no where near the excellence of Hal and Joanne McLeod on (make sure you sing this.... I know you know it) Oooooooh, Body Break!

And ParticipACTION is a great thing to promote to today's society! Just a quick glance at their website and you can easily read that childhood obesity has tripled over the past three decades, one in two Canadian adults are overweight, and this is all causing a major burden to our healthcare system. People need to get out there and do physical activity. I say this all as I sit here at my computer with my feet up and a bag of Doritos and a Coke easily within reach.

But anyhow, back to the task at hand - the new participACTION commerical. It has a whole bunch of Canadian sport icons telling us to get out there and get active! I love our Canadian athletes, honestly I do! BUT I AM GOING TO HELL!!! Rick Hansen tells people to walk to work. Really?!? You're going to have the Man in Motion, who is in a wheelchair, tell people to walk to work. The guy who cannot walk and is famous for NOT WALKING?!?!?

The irony alone made me laugh for a good half hour. I'm still laughing.

falling in montreal

So things make me laugh. Lots of things actually. One of those is people falling.

This past fall (pun not intended, but still funny), I was in Montreal for the Grey Cup festivities and game. At the game, I had a primetime seat right by the stairs for the seats below me. For some reason unknown to me, every third person was missing the last step. It wasn't hidden, it wasn't half the size of the other steps, it was clearly marked... there was nothing special or different about this step - but so many people missed it. People carrying beer missed the step and then they were wearing their beer. People carrying popcorn missed it and then lost their $9 box of popcorn! Seniors, children, the drunk and the sober all missed this step!!

I had a good few hours of enjoyment from watching the people at the game... and parts of the game too.

Alas, it was karma that had my number at the end of the day. We were headed back from the Big O on the subway, as we made our way back downtown the trip (again, no pun intended, but it's still funny), nothing eventful really happend. UNTIL - I decided to take the stairs up instead of the escalader... I fell flat on my face!! As I lay with my face so close to the disgusting germ infected filthy subway stairs I had to laugh because karma, my friends, is a bitch.