Murray's Musings

Here in Toronto (and I believe all of Ontario) the municipal elections are coming on October 25th.  Signs have started to pop up here in the city (they weren’t allowed to go up before today) and I thought it was interesting that today on MSNBC came a news story from San Paolo, Brazil that was entitled “No joke! Illiterate clown triumphs in election” (see http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39495001 for the full article).

It seems “Francisco Everardo Oliveira Silva, better known by his clown name Tiririca, received more than 1.3 million votes in Sao Paulo state in Brazil’s presidential and congressional elections. That was more than double the votes of the second-placed candidate in Brazil’s most populous state.”  His campaign slogan was “It can’t get any worse”, but apparently it just did.  It turns out that “Tiririca” (also know as “Grumpy”) is illiterate and in his campaign material it read… “What does a congressman do? The truth is I don’t know, but vote for me and I’ll tell you.”

What a sad story.

Now, I can’t tell you WHO to vote for (and in fact, at this point I’m not even sure who I’M going to vote for) but voting is your responsibility (assuming you’re qualified and eligible to vote).  People from all over the world come to Canada to enjoy the freedoms that our forefathers fought for — including the right to vote.  PLEASE don’t vote for clowns (figuratively, or literally)!!

TTFN!

Well today is the 50th Anniversary of the Flintstones.  The cartoon series ran from September 30, 1960 to April 1, 1966 and was, and still is, one of my all time favourite cartoons (Let’s see… in 1960 I would have been 2.5 years old and when it was over I would have been 8 (yeah, I know I just gave away my age!  Who cares!!)).  But even after it went “off the air” it lived on in re-runs. 

I can remember coming from school every day for lunch (we lived a block away from the school and virutally everyone went home for lunch at that point) and having my Mom serve me lunch on a TV table in our back room while I watched about 45 minutes of cartoons — and it was usually the Flintstones.

Of course when I found out that today was the 50th Anniversary (thanks to Google’s banner!) I popped over to Wikipedia, the source of all perfect knowledge 😉 and read all about it (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flintstones).  The animation was great!  The jokes were hilarious!  The site gags and the storylines were always harmless!  I’m going to have to see where I can find me some of the cartoons. 🙂

They certainly don’t make cartoons like that any more. *sigh*

Until next time… YA-BA-DA-BA-DOO!!!!