Russell Peters One Heck Of A Comedian

Russell Peters was born in Toronto, Ontario to Eric and Maureen Peters, and raised

in Brampton. He is of Anglo-Indian descent. His father was born in Bombay, India and

worked as a federal meat inspector and his mother was born in Calcutta, India. He

has an older brother named Clayton who was also born in Calcutta

Peters began performing in Toronto, Ontario in 1989.[3] He has since also performed

in the United States, UK, Australia, mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Denmark,

South Africa, the Caribbean, Vietnam, New Zealand, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sweden,

India, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon, and Trinidad among other

places.

He has been nominated for four Gemini Awards,[5] the Canadian television awards. He

has also been nominated for Best Male Comic at the Canadian Comedy Awards.[citation

needed] Peters has been featured at such shows as Montreal's Just for Laughs (Juste

Pour Rire) Comedy Festival, the Winnipeg Comedy Festival, and the Edinburgh

Festival. He hosted the Canada Day Comedy Festival 2006.


His comedy special Russell Peters: Outsourced, aired on Comedy Central on August 16,

2006. The DVD version features his uncensored performance. The DVD has been popular,

especially in Canada, selling over 100,000 copies. Outsourced remained on the

National DVD Chart over one and a half years after release.

Peters' DVD/CD combo Russell Peters: Red, White, and Brown was recorded on February

2, 2008 at The WAMU Theatre at Madison Square Garden. Peters and his brother

self-produced and financed Red, White and Brown.


Peters also currently produces and stars on the radio situation comedy series,

Monsoon House, on CBC Radio One.

Between June 2008 and June 2009, Peters earned $10 million, making him one of the

highest-paid comedians during that twelve-month period.

'Nerbs and Vouns' By Barend Vlaardingerbroek

What do 'lecture', 'access' and 'impact' have in common other than being words of two syllables? Answer: they are used as both nouns and verbs. But the second two shouldn't be.... or perhaps only the third one shouldn't be...... or perhaps none of them should be.

To gain access to something is to.... well, access it, I suppose. The 'gain... to' doesn't really add anything other than ink and reading time. So why not? To have an impact on something or to impact something - hm, it doesn't feel quite as right, especially not when one considers that the stress in speech has moved from the first to the second syllable. But maybe that's my age talking.

Unlike the continental European attitude whereby the meanings of words are decreed, the more practical English attitude is to define words according to how they are used by 'standard English speakers' (whatever that means in practice). The Oxford now acknowledges the legitimacy of using 'access' and 'impact' (with the shift in stress, even) as verbs. Civilisation has truly come to a vainglorious end.

Perhaps we should invent a new category for words that are making the transition from noun to dual noun/verb status. We could call them nerbs or vouns. Maybe we could have both and decide on which to categorise a word in depending on its main use. 'Access' would probably be a nerb (thanks to the computer age) while 'impact' would probably be a voun. For now, anyway.

Well worth looking up is
For a scathing but humorous commentary on directions in modern English in general, consult the BBC's Lucy Kellaway; an example of her wit is to be found at http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/25ead124-f70e-11de-9fb5-00144feab49a.html

By Barend Vlaardingerbroek

Killer KitKat Greenpeace (The only honest organization)

Nestlé, maker of Kit Kat, uses palm oil from companies that are trashing Indonesian

rainforests, threatening the livelihoods of local people and pushing orang-utans

towards extinction.

We all deserve to have a break - but having one shouldn't involve taking a bite out

of Indonesia's precious rainforests. We're asking Nestlé to give rainforests and

orang-utans a break and stop buying palm oil from destroyed forests


My Opinion : Neslte Must understand that in order to keep the company's reputation

it should take a step back and think for a second that if it destroys every forest

first of all every acre is oxygen to 18 people daily. SO, Give the orang-utan a

break! Stop Nestle using palm oil from destroyed rainforests !!!!!

My advice : Stop Buying Kitkat...Its fuckin bad for the health anyways..? N'est ce

pas!

Obesity In Teens....What the fuck is the problem?

Norwood, Massachusetts (CNN) -- One-third of America's youth is now overweight or obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In Norwood, Massachusetts, 14-year-old Maria Caprigno no longer wants to be one of those statistics.

Maria has been overweight since she was about 3 years old and as she got older, she just got heavier. She told CNN her eating habits were to blame.

"I'm a junk-food person and because I'm a couch potato I don't like to get off the couch," she said. "It's also kind of just like my genes: Both my parents are heavy and that's just the environment I was raised in."

Maria said people have stared at her all her life because of her weight.

"The first thing that goes through their mind is, 'Why is she so fat?' And, 'Oh my god, she's so fat. Why doesn't she just hop on a treadmill?' And I think people don't really understand that it's not just exercising ... it's extremely hard.

See Maria growing up in pictures

"I get self-conscious," she said. "I don't like to go to crowded places -- like if a mall's crowded, I'll sit in the car."

The CDC says obesity rates for Maria's age group, those 12 to 19 years old, have tripled since 1980. Maria pleaded with her mother to find a doctor who would perform weight-loss surgery on teenagers.

Dr. Evan Nadler, who started a program for adolescent surgery at National Children's Hospital in Washington, said he felt "compelled" to help Maria.

"Her BMI [body mass index], which is a measurement we use to determine how obese someone is, put her in the highest risk category. Not just morbidly obese but two categories higher than that," Nadler said. "So I felt that withholding a known therapy that works based on her age alone was really almost unethical."

Between 2000 and 2003, some 800 teenagers went under the knife to lose weight, Nadler said.

Before she was approved for surgery, Maria had to meet with a nutritionist, a pediatric cardiologist and a psychologist. In the end, Maria was approved for an experimental procedure known as a "gastrectomy," during which about 80 percent of the stomach is removed, including the part of the stomach that controls appetite.

Nadler said the procedure "basically restricts the amount of food that can come into the stomach at any one time and it really makes the patient have a sense of fullness or a lack of hunger."

Maria had the "gastrectomy" last month and already has lost about 45 pounds. Today she weighs 400 pounds and is down to a size 32. Maria said she would like one day to be a size 12 but isn't trying to reach a specific weight.

"It's not about the numbers; I want to be at a healthy size," she said.

"I want to be able to go into a normal store and buy something and be able to wear it. I want to be able to run. I haven't been able to run since I was 5 years old. I want to be able wear a bathing suit without feeling embarrassed.

"I just want to be normal."

But Dr. Edward Livingston, a Texas surgeon who also has helped adolescents lose weight, said surgery for teenagers can be risky. He has turned away most teens sent to him for evaluation, he said, and has operated only on those more than 500 pounds with serious health risks such as blood clots and congestive heart failure.

I want to be able to run. I haven't been able to run since I was 5 years old. ... I just want to be normal.


My Advice : No WillPower Leaves Nothing To OverCome...:S

The Future Womanizers

LONDON - Mums all over the world, please take note: Baby boys who have a nanny ‘turn

into womanisers’, claims a psychiatrist.


The Telegraph reported, child-rearing responsibilities too soon risks equipping your

son with life-long double standards when it comes to women, Dr Dennis Friedman says

in his book The Unsolicited Gift.

“It introduces him to the concept of The Other Woman,” said Dr Friedman who is 85.

“It creates a division in his mind between the woman he knows to be his natural

mother and the woman with whom he has real hands-on relationship: the woman who

bathes him and takes him to the park, and with whom he feels completely at one.

“As a result, he grows up with the idea that although he will one day go through all

the social and sexual formalities of marriage, he will have at the back of his mind

the notion of this other woman, who not only knows, but caters for, all his needs,”

the expert added.


In case of girls, if they have a nanny to look after them they will be filled with

a “vacuum of need” inside them which they fill in a variety of ways such as drink,

drugs, sex or money.

He said the solution was not to employ a nanny or au pair until after the baby’s

first birthday. (ANI)

My Advice : Just Fire Your Nanny :)

Hmmm...CrackBerries Anyone?

BlackBerries have become synonymous with "CrackBerries". The Proof of this naming is

found on your local friendly campus or rather world. My friend is sitting next to me

right now and skimming through her crackberry while guzzling down

uhummm... "brand" ....coffee . Crackberries are now found in the hands of a 10 year

old, in addition to that, they can even be found in the hands of philipinos and

ethiopian maids on "Dora" roundabout. One example is when I was standing in front of

AUB I saw this woman mezmerized by her Crackberry as she crossed the street and

almost got run over by a van. So. Heil The CrackBerry...

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