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An editorial cartoon, c. 1910, portraying Johnny Canuck A portrayal c. 1942 of Johnny Canuck as a World War II hero. Johnny Canuck is a Canadian cartoon hero and superhero who was created as a political cartoon in 1869 and was later re-invented as a Second World War action hero in 1942.
The Lumberjack Song; S. Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves; The Spirit in the Bottle; T. Timber Jim; W. The Woodcutter and the Trees
Black Friday tends to cause a bit of chaos every year. Especially because it’s not so much a single day of good deals as a constantly expanding period of non-stop sales (and annoying ads). It ...
The term lumberjack is of Canadian derivation. The first attested use of the term combining its two components comes from an 1831 letter to the Cobourg, Ontario, Star and General Advertiser in the following passage: "my misfortunes have been brought upon me chiefly by an incorrigible, though perhaps useful, race of mortals called lumberjacks, whom, however, I would name the Cossacks of Upper ...
Poster for the 1926 film Alice the Lumber Jack.Margie Gay plays Alice. After completing the film, the studio went bankrupt and was forced to shut down. After raising money by working as a freelance photographer, Disney bought a one-way train ticket to Los Angeles, California to live with his uncle Robert and his brother Roy.
Whether your idea of celebrating Fat Tuesday (a.k.a. Mardi Gras, in French) involves throwing beads from a fancy float in New Orleans or eating a colorful slice of king cake from the comfort of ...
Michael Palin performs "The Lumberjack Song", with Connie Booth as his "best girl.". The common theme was of an average man (usually Michael Palin, but in the City Center and Hollywood Bowl versions by Eric Idle) who expresses dissatisfaction with his current job (as a barber, weatherman, pet shop owner, etc.) and then announces, "I didn't want to be [the given profession].
For he goes birling down and down the white water. That's where the log driver learns to step lightly It's birling down, and down white water. A log driver's waltz pleases girls completely. The lyrics are often misheard as "whirling" or "twirling" instead of "birling".