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Column celebrates 25 years of bad jokes
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he column called Cam still going great guns, thanks to Hutchinson & Friends: the work of Dwight Perry. It’s Views of a World — a a dandy. For another good one name I don’t particularly like, — and for the best information but haven’t changed— turns 25 there is on the Western Hockey soon. League — visit greggdrinnan. It was difficult to get items com. The column is called Takfor the column back in 1994 ing Note. when I took the reins. I know A bunch of joke contributhis sounds odd, but it was a tors popped up frequently in dream come true to follow in those columns. Janice Hough the footsteps of those that comand Bill Littlejohn were two piled the column before me. of them. Along the way, they Editor The Internet wasn’t what it became part of my column’s became, so I would often go to the Book writing group. Others that joined up are Nook in Cumberland Square and rumTC Chong, Torben Rolfsen and RJ Curmage through the papers it carried to find rie. facts and quotes. Those folks send jokes every week, and As time evolved, there was much more I sort through them to pick an assortment access to material and to the work of other for the column. It isn’t easy with so much writers. For a time, there was a whole good stuff. A few years ago RJ started bunch of us compiling columns and the writing a separate piece. jokes would move around among us to The notebook column in Canada goes some extent. Papers such as the St. Louis back 50 or more years when the legendary Post-Dispatch, the Denver Post, the Los Jack Matheson wrote one in the Winnipeg Angeles Times and the San Francisco Free Press. Former StarPhoenix columnist Chronicle had daily columns. Larry Tucker brought it from Winnipeg We considered Tom FitzGerald of the to Saskatoon. It was my favourite read in Chronicle to be the dean of these columns. the SP, before and after I started working When you had a joke in Tom’s column, there. you felt like you were going places. I am These columns were known as dibs, not sure where, though. maybe because the jokes were told in As far as I know, none of the papers small amounts. Some of us still use the mentioned above have sports notebook word. columns. I don’t get that because they are During the time the column I compiled a quick read and hopefully can bring a was published in the StarPhoenix, it took smile to a reader’s face. on a life of its own. At one time it apThe paper that now has the longest peared weekly in the Montreal Gazette, running one is in the Seattle Times. It’s Edmonton Journal, Calgary Herald and
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Vancouver Sun. It popped up in other papers as well. One of the highlights was doing a daily column during the 2010 Winter Olympics. The lowlight was getting threats from a couple of readers, one of which I took seriously. Rod Pedersen, the former play-by-play voice of the Saskatchewan Roughriders, was offended by one of my jokes and put it in his blog, so his faithful followers could slag me. As the blog went on, he included my photo so they could talk about my looks. With all due respect, Rod isn’t that pretty either. I wish I could remember what I said to get Rod so upset. I do recall one person telling the others that the joke could have been made about any city, and not to take it so personally. Now that I think about it, the joke might have been about things Regina is known for, and the list included goose poop at Wascana Park. Every city has goose poop, just not as much as Regina. I have compiled more than 1,200 columns since 1994; there was a spell when it ran twice a week in the StarPhoenix. It’s hard to believe there have been that many of these. That, in the case of my contributions, is a lot of bad jokes. I apologize for each and every one of them. ***** The Globe and Mail recently celebrated its 175th year in publishing. Its first feature was on Gordon Lightfoot. ***** $4.6 million for bike lanes? My goodness.