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obitoftheday:

Obit of the Day: Diamonds and Sheets

Janet Perkin was a heckuva softball and baseball player. Good enough, in fact, to head out from her home near Regina, Saskatchewan to Kenosha, Wisconson in 1946 to pitch and play outfield for the Comets of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. After playing one season, and finishing with six losses against zero wins and batting a meager .173, she headed back home to where she was truly comfortable - the curling sheet.

Perkin, far left, would skip the 1953 women’s team that would win the Western Canada Championship, the first interprovincial tournament for women. (Her teammates were Phyliss Day, Jean Graham and Joyce Miller who were each awarded a $100 gift certificate for their win.) Eleven years later, in 1964, Perkin would skip a new foursome to a national title.

For her prowess on the ice, Perkin was inducted into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame as well as the Saskatchewan Legends of Curling Honour Roll. She was also inducted in the Regina Sports Hall of Fame as a member of the 1954 Regina Govins softball team.

Mrs. Perkins passed away at the age of 90.

(Image of the 1953 Perkin team is courtesy of the Saskatchewan Legends of Curling Honour Roll. And, look, REAL BROOMS!)

Ed. note: If you are a regular reader of OOTD, you might be saying to yourself, “A female sports star from Saskatchewan? That sounds awfully familiar.” Because it is. On May 2, OOTD featured Daisy Junor, another inductee into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame, who played for four seasons in the AAGPBL.

So lovely to see Janet Perkin and my home province of Saskatchewan featured on OOTD.

Keep up the good work!

Ps. My Papa (a man so great and noble that I named *both* of my sons after him) was also inducted into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame.

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obitoftheday:

Obit of the Day: “Uncle SMS”

In 2010, a Thai government worker received four texts that appeared to be from Ampon Tangnoppakul. The texts were turned over to authorities and deemed “insulting to the queen.” Although Tangnoppakul, a 60-year-old grandfather suffering from mouth cancer denied sending the messages, or even knowning how to use the text function on his phone, he was found guilty.

According to Thailand’s Criminal Code, Article 112, “Whoever defames, insults or threatens the King, Queen, the Heir-apparent or the Regent, shall be punished with imprisonment of three to fifteen years.” (These type of laws are called lese majeste and have existed in various forms since the Roman Empire.) Tangnoppakul was sentenced to twenty years in prison which took into account violations of Article 112 as well as the 2007 Computer Crimes Act.

No one knows the cause of death or when Mr. Tangnoppakul passed away, his wife was simply notified on May 8, 2012.

(Image of Mr. Tangnoppakul’s original arrest is courtesy of RobertAmsterdam.com)

So sad.

This appeals to my sense of disorder and to my fascination with men and power tools. Double yay.

(via chrisdejong)

In January 2011, right smack dab in the middle of makin’ a baby in a petri dish, my now-friend Jeph Maystruck of JephMaystruck.com wrote a blog post entitled “The Top Tweeters on Twitter in Saskatchewan” and in it, said I was “arguably the funniest person on Twitter.”

ON TWITTER. Not just IN SASKATCHEWAN.

All in all, the second and third weeks of January 2011 were pretty stinkin’ spectacular.

The reason Donald Trump banned transgendered Jenna Talackova from competing in his Miss Universe pageant is because he didn’t want people to confuse a transgendered pageant queen with his daughter WHO LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE A TRANSGENDERED PAGEANT QUEEN.

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The reason us Germans aren’t crazy about geneology is because we’re all secretly terrified we’ll go back a generation or two and see the name “Hitler” pop up.

I hope the Food Truck fad doesn’t die out before I get to live in a city big enough to have a Food Truck.

It’s on the “Most Popular of All Time” page.

OF ALL TIME!

No big deal.*

*(THEY’VE HAD OVER 100,000 SUBMISSIONS! TOTALLY A BIG DEAL! !)