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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio.
Tonight, for your delectation, here’s Justin Wilson cookin’ Chicken &
Andouille Gumbo ¤ and Dirty Rice ¤ in 1982, and tellin’ the story of
The Bureaucrat ¤.  “Oooh-eee, on-yon ~ Ah gar-on-tee!”  (Notice the
colours of the kitchen appliances and utensils 😉

“Way back when I first started as a [refinery] safety engineer, I took myself pretty seriously, and I found I was putting my audiences to sleep. So having lived all my life among the Cajuns of Louisiana, and having a good memory for the patois and the type of humor Cajuns go for, I started interspersing my talks on safety with Cajun humor.”
— Justin Wilson

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

24 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Vitruvius- Justin Wilson’s version of The Bureaucrat– that’s good.
    A few years back, a joke was circulating around the internet with the same premise, except the setting was on a Sask ranch, and a gubmint resource guy in a similar predicament…”Show him your card, show him your card!”
    I guess recycling isn’t restricted to the greenies!

  2. I think that probably most of the good raconteurs’ stories are,
    like The Bureaucrat, thousands of years old, Snagglepuss.

  3. Repertoire? Not raconteur?
    In any case, I know what I’m gonna be cooking this weekend – thanks!

  4. I was fixing it while you were correcting me, Erik!
    Raconteur is the story-teller, not the story. Oops.
    Sorry about that, folks ~ it’s fixed now.

  5. I have Cajun friends in Baton Rouge, LA. ! Those guys are hilarious! Thanks Vit!!

  8. top ten reasons why Conservative ethics is an oxymoron.
    w.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/05/06/shory-clients.html

  9. “It is unknown if Shory knew the money was being transferred overseas.”
    top reason why mr.chuckles is a moron

  10. lol who’s the cbc link whore? Always on sda comment threads with one line snears and endless lies from cbc, gee think you have a ‘fan’ Kate.
    Makes ones so inspired to click on that vital link that gonna proves cbc’s daily “lets smear the conservatives” has some actual proof of their lies and for sure it’s this time, but again nope … maybe they’ll get that proof tomorrow, ops forgot myself there, next week perhaps.

  12. Great big mosque going up next to World Trade Centre site. Some people seem unhappy about it.
    (You all know the Cajuns were once Acadians, right? Why, they’re practically Maritimers.)

  15. ldd, watched The National last night and as expected the CBC buried the Derek Lee story, getting to it 20 minutes deep into the news cast. Even a story on PK Subban of the Montreal Canadiens came before it while Jaffer/lobbyist stories had been given top billing over the past number of weeks. And when it was reported on it was just a 30 second blurb from Mansbridge. No reporter actually assigned to do the story. No Van Dusen, no Barton, no MacDiarmid, no McKinnon. No CBC reporter in Ottawa it seemed. And after Mansbridge dismissed it with his passing blurb it was onto Shory where – surprise – a reporter WAS assigned to do a story… followed of course by a daily CBC Jaffer/Guergis update. A CBC newscast wouldn’t be complete without one. I wonder how defenders of the CBC will defend that.

  16. Will Liberal Chretien be brought to court?
    PET Cemetery Worst Government Ever in Canada Award goes to:
    Liberal Ad$Cam Chretien for the following achievements:
    1. Ad$Scam.
    2. China Sidewinder.
    3. Red Book of Lies/GST FlopFlip.
    4. Somalia CoverUp.
    5. Shawinigate CoverUp.
    6. Pepper Spray.
    6. Others too numerous to list here.
    MSM does not use the word, “Liberal”, in this report.
    …-
    “Reporter denied right to protect source
    Ontario ruling in National Post case casts ‘chill’
    In a decision that the Canadian Association of Journalists called a “major setback for press freedom,” the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled yesterday in a case involving the National Post that there is no “blanket” right for reporters to protect their sources.
    The court ordered the National Post to turn over to the RCMP a document and envelope from a confidential source. The material was related to a series of stories published in 2001 and dubbed Shawinigate, about potential conflicts of interest involving federal grants and loans awarded in the riding of Jean Chretien, who was then the prime minister.”
    http://www.nationalpost.com/scripts/story.html?id=835498
    http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2010/05/07/lorne-gunter-would-hate-living-in-ontario/#comment-81378

  17. “Iceland’s volcano sends more ash towards Europe
    7 May 2010, 1848 hrs IST
    REYKJAVIK: Iceland’s Eyjafjoell volcano threatened European skies with a new ash cloud Friday raising the risk of more flight cancellations, officials said.
    “Renewed and more intensive ash eruptions took place overnight and as a result, the area of potential higher ash contamination is forecast to extend from Iceland as far south as the western edge of the Iberian Peninsula during the day,” Eurocontrol, the European intergovernmental air traffic control coordinator, said.
    “Lava has stopped running from the crater and the eruption is now again an explosive eruption,” Icelandic geologist Bjoern Oddson said.
    “When there’s more explosive activity, the ash does become finer and if the activity increases, it could possibly cause problems in Europe’s airspace,” he said, noting “the ash is spreading to the south-east” of Iceland.”
    http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ET-Cetera/articleshow/5903377.cms

  18. The Russians are having a 65th end of WWII parade this weekend in Red Square – and had invited various heads of state.
    Gordon Brown of the UK couldn’t make it because of the election; Prince Charles was suggested instead – and Putin refused. Obama was asked and ‘is busy’ and suggested Biden. Putin refused him as well.
    “For the first time, troops from Britain, France and the US – the Soviet Union’s wartime allies – are taking part in the victory parade, marching alongside 10,500 Russian soldiers. More than 25 foreign leaders will attend, including France’s president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel.
    But there will be no senior British figure. Both the UK and US will be represented by their respective ambassadors.”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/07/putin-snub-west-war-celebrations

  19. Ekos poll that they did exclusively for the CBC emphasizing that women aren’t the same as men:
    http://www.ekospolitics.com/index.php/2010/05/women-see-it-differently-may-6-2010/
    Ekos weekly poll:
    https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbc.ca%2Fnews%2Fpdf%2Fekos-100505-vote-intention-tables.pdf
    Sample size in both polls is 2192, so likely the CBC is paying the costs of EKOS doing their weekly poll.
    In the “women vs. men” poll, when breaking down the results by political leanings, the sample size drops to 1887, which is listed in the weekly poll as the total number of decided voters. Looks like Graves relabelled the “Other” voters from his weekly poll as “Undecided” in the poll for the CBC.
    My brain hurts and I’m on a crappy computer, so I can’t figure out right now if this mysterious shift in sample size was used to massage the numbers in one direction or another to make things look better for the Libs…maybe somebody wants to dig the numbers to see if they can figure out why this was done.
    As someone who is not a statistician, this is either sloppy (at best), or unethical (at worst). Considering Graves recent advice to the Liberal party, I know what I would suspect. Either way, us taxpayers get to pay for Graves paycheque through our funding of the CBC!

  20. Sorry…let me clarify. In the “women vs men” poll, the sample size is 2192 when they do the breakdowns by region, gender, age, and education. The sample size drops to 1887 when they show the breakdown by current vote intention; they seem to have reclassified the “other” responses to “undecided” and entirely dropped the “undecided” responses.

  21. Al Gore’s Weather (AGW):
    2 F-words, and the b-c words. ‘Snuff modelling for Moi.
    Ahm bringin’ Mah pot inside; Ah don’t want their tips to freeze off.
    …-
    “Frost, freeze, big chill aims for Midwest, Northeast this weekend
    The same storm bringing snow to the northern Rockies and High Plains now will drive a blast of freezing temperatures into the Upper Midwest and Northeast this weekend. Much cooler air will also invade the Southeast.
    The reprise of wintry temperatures will follow rain and wet snow over the western Great Lakes and potentially destructive thunderstorms from the eastern Great Lakes to the Ohio Valley Friday night.
    If you have purchased and/or planted tender plants and vegetables, you will want to protect them from the anticipated frost or freeze by covering them or bringing potted items indoors.”
    http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/31241/frost-freeze-big-chill-aims-fo-1.asp

  23. “New volcanic ash alert: Spain to close three airports
    AFP, May 8, 2010, 05.20am IST
    MADRID: Three airports in northwestern Spain will be closed today due to the arrival of a huge new cloud of ash from an Icelandic volcano which shut down Europe’s skies last month, aviation authority AENA said.
    The airport at Santiago de Compostela, a major pilgrimage centre, will close at 2:00 am (0000 GMT) while those at La Coruna and Vigo will close from 6:30 am local time, it said.”
    http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Europe/New-volcanic-ash-alert-Spain-to-close-three-airports/articleshow/5905378.cms

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