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Posted by Li Robbins on Jan-26-09 at 03:00 AM
Every Friday Tom Allen cycles over to my house with the Blog Question Of The Week in a special envelope marked "Confidential." True, or urban legend?
Yes, it's urban legend time on Radio 2 Morning, as the Blog Question Of The Week resumes after a brief sabbatical. The question is simply: "know any good urban legends/tall tales?"
Like the one about old rotary telephones circling the sun? Or Apple's new keyboard-less laptop? Maybe you know one relating to music -- like the one about playing Gordon Lightfoot's Canadian Railroad Trilogy backwards and hearing "CN, CP, CN, CP". That sort of thing.
So send in your urban legends, good yarns, myths and tall tales -- and Tom will delight in reading them on Radio 2 Morning (6 a.m.-10 a.m.) all week.
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Posted by Li Robbins on Dec-15-08 at 03:00 AM
"What music puts you in the Holiday spirit (and why)?" -- that's the blog question of the week!(Courtesy of Tom Allen at Radio 2 Morning.)
Maybe it's Erran Baron Cohen's version of The Dreidel Song, on perpetual loop. Maybe it's The Vandals Oi To The World, or The Pogues Fairytale Of New York . (A personal favourite of mine, as well as whoever it is that chooses the music for Christmas scenes in Coronation Street.) Or maybe it's the bliss of not hearing music related to any holiday at all.
But regardless of whether or not you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Festivus for the Restofus, International-Eat-Lots-Of-Cookie-Dough-Day, Tom wants to know: "What music puts you in the Holiday spirit?"
He'll be reading your responses all week on Radio 2 Morning, so send 'em in, via commenting on the blog. (Note, if you discover you have to sign in to comment, fear not -- it takes literally under a minute!)
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Posted by Li Robbins on Dec- 8-08 at 03:00 AM
"What would you choose to PROROGUE?" -- that's the blog question of the week! (Courtesy of Tom Allen at Radio 2 Morning.)
Not so long ago some of us would have been scratching our heads at that word, thinking: "Um, positive-towards-men-who-behave-badly?" Or "Pro-logue? Storytelling on the hill?" "Or even: "P(r)erogies?" (With or without sour cream? No, wait, that's another blog question.)
But prorogue, a word that now trips off all our tongues, can also be used in a non-parliamentary context. In fact I'm doing it right now, I'm PROROGUE-ING by not getting to the point. But here it is:
What you would put off today that you could do tomorrow? Cleaning beneath the car seats? Alphabetizing your CDs? Talking to your boss about that issue, you know, the one you haven't had the nerve to bring up for the past three years?
What would you prorogue? Tom will be sifting through all the many things people would rather put off than do, and sharing them on air all week on Radio 2 Morning (6 a.m.-10 a.m.).
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Every Friday Tom Allen cycles over to my house with the Blog Question Of The Week in a special envelope marked "Confidential." True, or urban legend? 
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