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COLD AS IT GETS by Peter Nolan Smith

January 31, 2019 – 2:02 am

Mount Washington is far from the tallest mountain on the face of the Earth, however in 1934 the summit observatory recorded the strongest wind on the planet at 231 mph or 372 km/hr. Winter temperatures on Agiocochook, or “Home of the Great Spirit” regularly dropped as low as -50F. Death from hypothermia can occur within […]

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Habs Versus Bruins Toujours

March 27, 2014 – 10:30 am

The other evening my younger brother Padraic and his wife went to the Bruins-Canadians match at TD Garden. Here’s his report. Kathy and I took in last night’s Bruins Canadiennes shootout loss 2-1. One Montreal fan must have been drinking the whole bus ride to Boston. His ‘Ole, ole, ole, ole’ was mocked with ‘you’re […]

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Supreme Snow Lord

December 15, 2013 – 10:30 pm

Last week North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un executed his uncle for treason. His crimes included not applauding his nephew with enthusiasm. Jang Song-Thaek was killed by a machine gun firing squad after the state media had declared that “despicable human scum Jang, who was worse than a dog, perpetrated thrice-cursed acts of treachery in betrayal […]

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Pole Dancing for $$$

June 9, 2013 – 3:48 pm

Whenever a sports commentators has compared hockey to ballet, I cringe in horror. Hockey is hockey and ballet is ballet. My opinion on pole-dancing is equally obdurate in that this dance genre deserves to be preformed in a bar before drunken fat men, although recent efforts to elevated the exotic dance into an art form […]

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HOCKEY CHICK

February 10, 2013 – 3:56 pm

Back in the 90s I had an affair with a punk rock singer. Claudia wasn’t the prettiest girl in the East Village, in fact some of my friends considered her ugly, because of her long twisting nose, however Slatta liked me and no woman in New York had liked me for a long time, so […]

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