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Post Parade Redux
Back To Post Parade ReduxDecember 04, 2009
Past Posts
Favourite answers from past Post Parades
Kelly Spencer (above) (Jan. 5, 2009):
You dress up as Mrs. Claus each year to give out presents. What’s the best line you’ve heard from one of the seniors?
“Dearie, kindly tell your husband to bring me a new colon for Christmas.”
What’s your best-brush-with-greatness story - psychic edition?
“In a past life: I was a horse trainer in a famed Russian Circus. In this life: Billy Bragg is my friend on Facebook.”
Jimmy Takter (Sept. 16, 2004):
What do people often get wrong about you?
“A lot of times when you speak a different language, sometimes you can sound ruder than you actually are. Language can sound a little bit too tough. We don’t have the word ‘please’, for example, in Sweden. Here they always say, ‘please’. People coming from Europe never say ‘please’. People here say sometimes we’re rude.”
Frank Salive (April 10, 2008):
What’s your hidden talent?
“I used to be gifted in rapid calculations of multiplication and division. It’s been eroded from not using it much over the years.”
The Commish
Everyone gets the “If you were the Commissioner of all of harness racing...” question. Here’s the best responses.
Ron Gurfein (March 20, 2008):
“I would create penalties for performance-enhancement such that if a guy continuously takes horses from established trainers and always improves them, they would be banned for life. Any trainer who wins 40 per cent of his races or 50 per cent of his races is doing something wrong and deserves to be evicted by his peers.”
Jim Simpson (May 22, 2008):
“Ban one-handed whipping.”
Hugh Mitchell (Nov. 27, 2008):
“I would make myself the industry’s benevolent dictator, but I wouldn’t last long.”
Handicapping Challenge
Post Parade subjects set the odds when asked the “chances the following will occur in the next 10 years”
Betting on harness racing will reverse the current trend and start rising?
The Ontario government will change the slots-at-racetracks deal and give the industry a smaller cut of slot revenue
Hugh Mitchell (Nov. 27, 2008) — “Even money.”
Kelly Spencer (Jan. 5, 2009) — “4-1”
Chris Roberts (Jan. 22, 2009) — “3-1”
Hec Clouthier (Feb. 12, 2009) — “4-1 (or less if we don’t get our act together)”
Jack Darling (June 18, 2009) — “3-1”
Sarah Lauren Scott (July 30, 2009) — “20-1”
Ian Fleming — “10-1. The current deal is good for everyone.”
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