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My local news station is hosting a contest to win a weekend in Calgary Alberta Canada All I have to do is send in an email telling them in a few sentences if I won what I would like to do there I thought Id take it to another level and submit a photo essa

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Growing up country

So I grew up in middle of but fucking hillbilly vile of Alberta Canada. Eventually my parents did what seemed to be the fad, and divorced each other. Both of them eventually moved to the city. I really wish they did this before I was born

So fourth grade was the first time I was in a school within the city. First day we get a "pop quiz" just to see who is the dumbest kid in the class is. So I'm the last person working on my test and the teacher asks me "Tyler, are you almost done?" With out hesitation I say " Pritner about done"

Well I think we just found the dumbest kid in class

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Tim Hortons

Being Canadian coffee is like heroin to me. I'm a Triple double kind of guy. Just that extra bit of sweetness that I lack in my every day life. The thing that gets me though is they never ask what's the double and what's the triple. How the fuck do they know if I want 3 sugar and 2 cream or 3 cream and two sugar? There has to be some sort of Canadian standard? what comes first? It should always be the sugar cause you eat sugar and you get fat, and cream is fat therefor the triple should be the sug's and the double the cream.

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Obit of the Day: The Man Who Put Seinfeld in Jail

John Pinette had a small, but vital, role on the last episode of Seinfeld. The stand up comedian from Boston played the victim of a carjacking. It was that carjacking, caught on tape by Kramer while Jerry, Elaine, and George traded barbs about the victim, that landed the foursome in jail at the end of the episode. More than 76 million people watched the series finale, giving Mr. Pinette a place in pop culture history.

Originally an accountant, Mr. Pinette’s comedy talent was obvious to his co-workers who encouraged him to try out comedy. He earned his first big break when he opened for Frank Sinatra in Las Vegas. Sinatra later took him on tour.

Winner of the 1999 Stand-Up of the Year at the American Comedy Awards, Mr. Pinette had a recurring role on the show Parker Lewis Can’t Lose and appeared in several films including Junior, The Punisher, and Revenge of the Nerds III and IV. He also played Edna Turnblad in the Broadway production of Hairspray in 2006.

Using his size as a source of much of his material, Mr. Pinette weighed nearly 450 pounds before deciding to have gastric bypass surgery. Still a big man he insisted that he didn’t tell “fat jokes” but instead talked “about the trials and tribulations of a large mammal in our society.”

In 2013, Mr. Pinette entered a rehabilitation program for drug abuse. He had just begun to start performing again when he died on April 5, 2014 at the age of 50.

Sources: NY Times and IMDB

(Video of Mr. Pinette performing at the Toronto Just For Laughs Festival from June 2009. It is copyright of Just For Laughs through their YouTube account.)