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He’s Been Reading That Book Again

November 17, 2024November 17, 2024 Sunonline/Orillia Humour, Jim Foster

My first thought was perhaps a lonely bachelor had just finished off a bottle of Bombay gin and realized another evening was over and once again love had passed him by and…

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Live, Love, Laugh – Especially Laugh

November 10, 2024November 12, 2024 Sunonline/Orillia Humour, Jim Foster

Shakespeare knew a lot about women and romance. His gals were never prim and proper ladies who were subservient to men.

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Memories Of Scenes From A Wedding

November 3, 2024November 3, 2024 Sunonline/Orillia Humour, Jim Foster

ShareA Geezer’s Notebook, By Jim Foster A few years ago I was fiddling around with the idea of coming out

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One Thing Leads To Another, Sort Of

October 27, 2024October 27, 2024 Sunonline/Orillia Humour, Jim Foster

Lying in a column is called poetic license, story enhancement, and sometimes pure bull droppings.

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You’re Soaking In It

October 20, 2024October 20, 2024 Sunonline/Orillia Humour, Jim Foster

One of the problems of being a world-renowned columnist is hundreds, if not thousands, of loyal readers base their daily lives on our sage advice…

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On The Lost Art Of Creative Rhyming

October 13, 2024October 13, 2024 Sunonline/Orillia Humour, Jim Foster

… but Mr. Swartz, my esteemed editor has become a bit of a prude in his old age even threatening to have me fired and charged under a number of obscenity laws.

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Things They Made Us Do In School

October 6, 2024October 7, 2024 Sunonline/Orillia Humour, Jim Foster

All Bill needed to say was ‘Them’s nice flowers’ which almost anyone could memorize unless you had the misfortune to be educated in Barrie.

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The Evolution Of Musicals

September 29, 2024September 29, 2024 Sunonline/Orillia Humour, Jim Foster

Years ago I ended up standing beside Ken Brown and he couldn’t remember them either.

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From The Compendium of Comedic Citations

September 22, 2024September 22, 2024 Sunonline/Orillia Humour, Jim Foster

I should have listened to my mother. I could have married a doctor.

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Back When Theater Of The Mind Was King

September 15, 2024September 15, 2024 Sunonline/Orillia Humour, Jim Foster

Nine months to the day after an all-afternoon cartoon fest at the Oxford the population of East York rose 27 percent.

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