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BS: Another Shane McBride???

28 Jun 08 - 04:38 PM (#2376310)
Subject: BS: Another Shane McBride???
From: Little Hawk

I did a Google search for "Shane McBride". Turns out that there is some young guy on MySpace called Shane McBride. He identifies himself as a folk-acoustic-punk singer. How about that?

Here's his site:

The other Shane McBride

On it you will get to hear his music, and yes, it is folk/acoustic/punk.

He doesn't look the least bit like our pal Shane from Blind River. Nor is he into the same kind of music.


28 Jun 08 - 11:00 PM (#2376482)
Subject: RE: BS: Another Shane McBride???
From: Rapparee

Someone ought to warn him about this place.


28 Jun 08 - 11:31 PM (#2376497)
Subject: RE: BS: Another Shane McBride???
From: Amos

And since he already has a Myspace page and presumably a physical body, it would seem someone out there has a stronger imagination than you... ;>)



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29 Jun 08 - 09:18 AM (#2376612)
Subject: RE: BS: Another Shane McBride???
From: Little Hawk

How do you figure? It doesn't take much imagination to be born and have a physical body and get a page on Myspace. All you have to do is talk to various people in this town to confirm that....

Hell, the guy could have the imagination of a potatoe for all you know.


29 Jun 08 - 09:34 AM (#2376618)
Subject: RE: BS: Another Shane McBride???
From: Emma B

Surely you mean 'stranger' imagination?

Hey! I look in here everyday for the 'everyday story of Blind River folk' it sure beats The Archers, they haven't had a single alien abduction in the plot line in 50 years!


29 Jun 08 - 10:08 AM (#2376637)
Subject: RE: BS: Another Shane McBride???
From: Azizi

EmmaB's comment leads me to ask, Little Hawk, when are you going to write a book about "your" Shane McBride and the other folks in "Blind River"?

I sure would buy it [I'm talking about the book itself, and not the veracity of the stories that you [or Shane] would tell in the book].


29 Jun 08 - 10:35 AM (#2376646)
Subject: RE: BS: Another Shane McBride???
From: Little Hawk

(sigh) Well, if I only had the time...and the self-discipline...

There are so many different things I like to do, but where is the time to do them?

I would probably have to change the name of Blind River slightly to avoid various flak from the real town. It has occurred to me that it could be called "Blonde River" instead. ;-) That would have amusing possibilities...and people in Ontario would have no doubt about what place it really was referring to.


29 Jun 08 - 12:28 PM (#2376706)
Subject: RE: BS: Another Shane McBride???
From: Les from Hull

Ah but then you'll end up by upsetting blondes. I understand that they're real easy to upset. You cold can it Bind River, but then you'll have to pay me 0.00001% of the royalties!


29 Jun 08 - 12:29 PM (#2376707)
Subject: RE: BS: Another Shane McBride???
From: Amos

Well begun is half done, as they do say, Mister Hawk. So go off, now, and strengthen yer will and write the book, there's a good lad...


29 Jun 08 - 12:36 PM (#2376712)
Subject: RE: BS: Another Shane McBride???
From: Little Hawk

Yeah, but I also have to finish my record album, write a huge epic about Elves and Orcs/etc, get Chongo elected, do up a full history of the affaires of Penelope Rutledge and family, romance Winona Ryder, secure that date with Hillary, do my administrative duties at the William Shatner School of BAAAAD Acting, run my export business, find a cure for Spaw's, ummm, "problem"...

Busy, busy, busy.


29 Jun 08 - 02:30 PM (#2376776)
Subject: RE: BS: Another Shane McBride???
From: Les from Hull

Well for a start, I think that there's already a huge epic about Elves and Orcs and things, and you're probably in the wrong country to get Chongo elected - although I understand in your neighbour to the South they'll elect anything! See, that's a lot of your work done for you already. The invoice is in the post.


29 Jun 08 - 02:46 PM (#2376787)
Subject: RE: BS: Another Shane McBride???
From: Emma B

Maybe you should start on a smaller scale LH and put Chongo up for Mayor it worked in Hartlepool


30 Jun 08 - 12:18 AM (#2377105)
Subject: RE: BS: Another Shane McBride???
From: Little Hawk

You're quite right, Emma. What Chongo really should do is run for Mayor of Chicago and use that as a springboard later to get into national politics. I think that like Dennis Kucinich he's mainly just trying to make a point and get his views heard in this election.


30 Jun 08 - 09:00 AM (#2377287)
Subject: RE: BS: Another Shane McBride???
From: Rapparee

Hell, Richard II's offspring will be Mayor of Chicago. Then his grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, and.... Chongo's got a chimp's chance in Gehenna of being elected.

Now, he COULD lead an armed rebellion -- stage a coup d'etat -- and take over by force. Or go out to the Chicago cemeteries and fill in all the names on the tombstones, thereby depriving Daley of thousands of voters.


30 Jun 08 - 10:03 AM (#2377323)
Subject: RE: BS: Another Shane McBride???
From: Bee-dubya-ell

According to howmanyofme.com, there are 38 people named Shane McBride in the US. (That figure is derived using a statistical algorithm, not by actual count.) So, if the frequency of occurrence of "Shane" and "McBride" is the same in Canada as in the US, there should be 4 or 5 people named Shane McBride in Canada. But "McBride" may be considerably nore common in Canada since a higher percentage of Canadians are of Scottish ancestry.


30 Jun 08 - 12:34 PM (#2377482)
Subject: RE: BS: Another Shane McBride???
From: KB in Iowa

Some months ago there was a "GUEST" purporting to be Shane McBride who voiced his disapproval at the goings on of our Shane. This fellow claimed to be a member of the RCMP but I couldn't find any record of him.


30 Jun 08 - 12:39 PM (#2377486)
Subject: RE: BS: Another Shane McBride???
From: Little Hawk

Yeah, I bet he was perturbed about Shane's goings-on...

Rapaire, you are quite right. Chongo should lead an armed rebellion in Chicago. It's the only way to throw out the scoundrels who are running that city. If the rebellion succeeded it could result in some pretty radical changes for the Windy City, let me tell you.

I predict that the price of bananas would be halved under a Chongo-led regime.


30 Jun 08 - 01:06 PM (#2377511)
Subject: RE: BS: Another Shane McBride???
From: Rapparee

He could chop the prices of guillotines in half, too, considering how many would be needed for Chongo to get a head.


30 Jun 08 - 01:14 PM (#2377523)
Subject: RE: BS: Another Shane McBride???
From: Little Hawk

Man, I can just hear the tumbrils now...


30 Jun 08 - 01:19 PM (#2377532)
Subject: RE: BS: Another Shane McBride???
From: Rapparee

I kin hear them tumbrils rollin'
They're rollin' down the line
And they're slicin' lots of folks up
A-slicin' mighty fine....