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May 20, 2010

Worst job ever? Picking rocks and stooking grain

By Dave Briggs

Worst job ever? Picking rocks and stooking grain

  

 
Past Posts
Favourite answers from past Post Parades
 
Peter Heffering (above, centre; March 31, 2005):
What was the worst job you’ve ever had?
“I never got really excited about picking stones off the fields or stooking bundles of grain, which was done before combines came about.”
 
Darryl MacArthur (April 16, 2009):

 
What’s harder — closing a real estate deal or a horse deal? Why?
“The real estate deal hands down. I haven’t lost a horse deal because they wouldn’t leave the appliances.”
 
You have to knock them dead at karaoke, what song do you pick?
“Don’t Stop Believing — Journey... and bring your lighters.”
 
Geoff Stein (May 26, 2005):
 
 

You live in the same New York town as former president Bill Clinton and his wife Hilary. Ever bump into them at the grocery store?

“No, but my kids have bumped into them quite a bit, Bill especially. Bill goes to a deli quite a bit. I think we have different eating habits, me and Bill. They’re around town a lot, more than you’d really think. In fact, one of my sons was running around the track at the high school and Clinton was jogging around the track, too. It was just the two of them, besides the Secret Service which my son called ‘two scary-looking guys sitting in the grandstand.’”

 

The Commish

Everyone gets the “If you were the Commissioner of all of harness racing...” question. Here’s the best responses.

Randy Waples (right, with friend Alan Kirschenbaum; June 9, 2005):

“Allow personalities to come out without any retribution.”
 
Nick Eaves (Jan. 14, 2010):
“Appoint a customers’ panel to balance the participant-side thinking.”
 
Ray Schnittker (July 24, 2008):
“I would look up most people’s records and if a guy’s got more than two or three positives that were not b.s. positives, I’d throw him out of the game.”
 
Handicapping Challenge
Post Parade subjects set the odds when asked the “chances the following will occur in the next 10 years”
 
The number of Ontario breeders will increase
Hugh Mitchell (Nov. 27, 2008) — “25-1.”
Kelly Spencer (Jan. 5, 2009) — “3-1”
Chris Roberts (Jan. 22, 2009) — “25-1”
Hec Clouthier (Feb. 12, 2009) — “20-1”
 

 

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