The Oppenheimer Report 9/16/19

After her landmark win against Serena Williams to win the U.S Open Women’s Singles competition last week, Mississauga, Ontario tennis superstar Bianca Andreescu is the newly anointed queen of the tennis world, and the pride of Canada. Accordingly, Toronto Mayor John Tory declared today Bianca Andreescu Day. I’m not sure what officially designates a day as a “Day” but apparently, based on Tory’s declaration, it has to do with some elected official establishing it as such.

Every weekday morning, shortly after 8:30 AM, Hunters Bay Radio Managing Director Jeff Carter, along with morning host Grant Nickalls, and a rotating group participants, play a game called “On This Day”. Sometimes it is quite amusing. Jeff asks a question about some event that happened on the given day in history, and the guest players try to answer that question. I hardly ever get the answers correct when I play, and some of the wrong answers offered by the players are (intentionally) hilarious. The late James Carroll, who was the beloved voice of Hunters Bay Radio once upon a time was a master of the wiseass answer to these questions. After the quiz section, Grant lists notable birthdays that occur on that day, and finally, Jeff runs through a list of designated “days”. For instance, in addition to the newly established Bianca Andreescu Day, today is also International Day For The Preservation Of The Ozone Layer, Collect Rocks Day, and National Play Doh Day. I know, it’s about time someone acknowledged the awesomeness of Play Doh. I used to love that stuff; I even had the little Play Doh brick making machine. Do you want to know something else, you can eat Play Doh and you won’t die. Tomorrow is National Apple Dumpling Day, September 22nd is Elephant Appreciation Day, the 25^th is National Tree Day, the 29^th is World Rivers Day, Oct 4^th is World Animal Day, October 7^th, the day before my birthday, is World Habitat Day, and the day for which we’ve all been frothing in anticipation, October 21^st, is Reptile Awareness Day. I think, technically speaking, any day one is bitten by a reptile is reptile awareness day. Finally, mark it in your calendars, October 24^th is the beginning of Bat Week, which, appropriately ends on Halloween. We used to have a lot of bats around here, but I have not seen any lately. I miss them. Shauna does not, she’s terrified of bats, so bat week is a non starter for her

I saw an ad the other day that made me shake my head in disgust. For most of my life, I’ve been a fan of vintage sports cars. While there are some good-looking sports cars made otday, usually the really expensive ones, most of the cars today resemble stool softeners on wheels. With so much emphasis on aerodynamics and fuel efficiency, body style has suffered horribly. Gone are the days when one could easily identify a car by its unique body style. Although they were often unreliable and not particularly well engineered, many of the old British sports cars are beautiful. Among my favorites were the older MG’s and Jaguars with their swooping body designs and low-cut doors. I don’t know what happened to Jaguar, but their cars don’t look so cool anymore. The other day, I saw an ad for the new Jaguar F-Pace SUV, and I was horrified. It just seems wrong that Jaguar, once famous for their classic body designs, like the XK 120, and the E Type, now makes an SUV that looks like a Nisson Murano. Ugh, the world is going to hell in a handbasket.

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Jamie Oppenheimer, Songwriter, Author, Blogger, Radio Producer, & Host has been writing THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT every MONDAY since 1992 and has published the articles on his blog since 2006. We are including Jamie's weekly reports, as a new feature of #HuntersBayRadio, The Bay 88.7FM.
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