Sctv

  • Posted: March 29th, 2010 - 12:56pm by Doug Powell

    Long before anyone heard of them, Second City TV had a Canadian show on a lousy network. Saturday Night Live was getting rave reviews with a bunch of Second City alumni in the U.S., so many of the Toronto cast-offs got together to form a weekly skit television series that certainly warped the mind of this-then 14-year-old beginning in 1976. Every week, the show began with the tagline,

    “Don't touch that dial! Don't touch that one either! And stop touching yourself! SCTV is on the air!”

    (I also used to bike home from school at lunch and watch Roger Ramjet, a cartoon that was almost certainly written by stoned college kids.)

    A spokesthingy for the Weston A. Price Foundation, promoters of raw milk, and founded by a dentist, said the other day that if people get sick from drinking raw or unpasteurized milk,

    "We just don't see that as an issue.”

    Lots of foods make people sick. Some of these illnesses are easily preventable.

    Below is a table of some of the outbreaks linked to raw milk that an advocacy group just doesn’t care about (aboot).

    http://www.bites.ksu.edu/rawmilk

    Also below is the incredibly talented Harold Ramis, who was only on the first year of SCTV before he went on to co-write Animal House, Ghostbusters, direct Groundhog Day, and now shows up as the stoner dad in any decent movie – Orange County, Knocked Up – with his take on do-it-yourself dentistry. Sorta like do-it-yourself food safety.

     

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  • Posted: December 13th, 2009 - 8:16pm by Doug Powell

    That’s host Sammy Maudlin (right), as Dave Thomas’ drink-loving Captain Kangaroo answers the phone during the 1978 Second City TV (SCTV) satire of TV telethons.

    Once a year, I ask for money to support the 2-3 X daily distribution of food safety news to tens of thousands, with consecutive posts dating back to 1994.

    The funding is no longer there.

    So it’s time to do something else.

    We will continue to blog about food safety developments, and be relevant rather than repetitive. Tonight will be the last bites-l listserv posting. I may revisit things in a couple of months, but for now, it’s time to do something else.
     

     

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