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These days, it is very difficult to avoid all the back-to-school hype that is present in advertising and in the retail stores. Have you ever wondered what the case was in the month of August in our yesteryears?
THIS FILM SHOULD BE PLAYED LOUD. That's what greets viewers just seconds after pressing play on The Last Waltz, the Martin Scorsese-directed concert film of the last show The Band ever played.
Welcome back, dear readers, to another edition of The Chaff, where we separate the wheat from the conspiracy theories. This week, we're diving headfirst into the wacky world of Canadian politics...
There's an old saying that, "Ignorance is bliss", and sometimes that seems especially true. The current situation in international news proves the point.
A "crap-pee" idea, Pretends to be shocked, No direction home
As you read this column week after week (after week), you must think to yourself, "How could it ever get better than this?" I don't know that even I have the answer to that question...
Ah, the illustrious and often overlooked event known as the Huron County Chaffing Match! While the Huron County Plowing Match might steal the limelight with its grand displays of precision furrow-making, the Chaffing Match...
It's almost impossible, if you follow current events, to ignore the history being made south of the border with the charging of a past-president Donald Trump with illegal attempts to keep the current President Joe Biden from taking the office in 2021.
A closer look, The path forward, Underspending, understaffed
Years ago, I remember a debate around the movie Reservoir Dogs and the potential impact it would have on tipping in restaurants.
Ladies and gentlemen, thrill-seekers of taste, and epicurean explorers, brace yourselves for a jaw-dropping journey into the elusive world of the Bugloni!
Uncertain about the actual meaning of the term civic, as in the Civic Holiday, which is this coming Monday, I looked up the term on the internet and found the definition, "strives to help foster the spirit of community among residents".
When does it end?, A new way of thinking, Know when to hold 'em
There is an old saying that, in springtime, a young man's fancy turns to love. In the Huron County of a few generations ago, that saying could have been that a young man's fancy turns to harvesting...
Welcome back to The Chaff, your weekly wander within the wildly wanton and wonderfully whimsical world of wasting time and patience.
Greetings, my fellow Chaff-nadians! As everybody knows, The Chaff is completely committed and definitely dedicated to very real facts, and more importantly, facing them.