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Paws Up!Our Salute to the Awesome!
From Solid Cat: Not Cocaine Dan Kennedy Dan Kennedy is a good man. How so? A huge bag of money literally fell off the back of a Brink's truck, and Dan Kennedy notified authorities to return it Read more about it at The Deseret News here. To Dan Kennedy, for doing the right thing, without hesitation, we salute you. PAWS UP! From Solid Cat: Gay Camels Derek Mitchell A 570-pound man by the name of Derek Mitchell completed a 5K race. Mitchell says if he can do a 5K, then anyone can. His finish time was about 90 minutes. Read more about it at WDRB.com here. To Derek Mitchell, for just getting up and doing it, we salute you. PAWS UP! From Solid Cat: Fat Americans Japan Japan is hoping to boost tourism by using one of the most famous figures from its history - the ninja. A "ninja council" has been set up by mayors and governors from around the country, who ditched their office wear in favor of ninja gear to launch the new initiative, and are hoping that global interest in the mysterious figures will encourage people to visit Japan. Read more about it at BBC News here. To Japan, for being Japan, we salute you. PAWS UP! From Solid Cat: No One Suspect the Stegosaurus Kyle Waring A man has found a way to profit from the several feet of snow in his yard: He's shipping it to people in warmer climates for the bargain price of $89 for six pounds. He got the idea while shoveling snow earlier this winter and launched ShipSnowYo.com. Read more about it at Excite.com here. To Kyle Waring, for taking lemons and making lemonade (figuratively speaking), we salute you. PAWS UP! From Solid Cat: Not Impressed Mahesh Savani Mahesh Savani hosted a mass wedding for 111 couples near the city of Surat, India. All of the women came from "humble" backgrounds and had lost their fathers, so wouldn't have been able to finance the nuptials themselves. He began funding weddings several years ago, after an employee died 12 days before he was due to marry off his two daughters. Read more about it at BBC News here. To Mahesh Savani, for being generous to perfect strangers, we salute you. PAWS UP! From Solid Cat RETURNS Alfie Date At 109 years old, Alfie Date is Australia's oldest man alive. But he's gaining his 15 minutes of fame, not for his age, but the fact that he knits sweaters for penguins. Seriously. They are very helpful when these birds are victims of oil spills. Oh, and they're super cute. Read more about it at Blue Nation Review here. To Alfie Date, for doing something that's kinda cool, and kinda cozy, we salute you. PAWS UP! From Solid Cat: My Dad's Nuts Mili Kasurinen Ten-year-old primary school student, Mili Kasurinen, wants to head the council in Kemijarvi, Finland's northernmost town. She's up against 18 adults for the job and says her application is as serious as all the others. Asked how a 10-year-old could balance work with education, Mili says she would go to school for half the day, then "run down to the town hall and start working hard there too". And as a part-time worker, she says she'd also accept half the advertised salary. Read more about it at BBC News here. To Mili Kasurinen, for being politically active while still be a kid, we salute you. PAWS UP! From Solid Cat: Turkey & Taxes Larry Grossman and Buz Kohan It was about the most unlikely pairing imaginable: gender-bending glam rocker David Bowie and stodgy crooner Bing Crosby. And yet, when the two got together to sing a duet on the 1977 TV special Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas, they made holiday magic. However, Bowie balked at doing "Little Drummer Boy." Writers Larry Grossman and Buz Kohan hit upon the idea of introducing a counter melody to "Drummer Boy" that Bowie could sing while Crosby sang the traditional arrangement, and did so within an hour. Read more about it at Yahoo here. To Larry Grossman and Buz Kohan, for finding creativity and delivering it at the spur of the moment, we salute you. PAWS UP! From Solid Cat: Tickle Cock Bridge Polar Man What began as a Halloween costume inspired by the Lone Ranger became a bona fide persona known to everyone who lives in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada and most people who visit. But after 22 years, local hero "Polar Man," aka Derek Emmons, is retiring and leaving town. With his distinct costume of black and white, and in winter, a snow shovel, Polar Man became an icon on Iqaluit's streets, making it his mission to keep the town's playgrounds safe for children, and often shovelling walkways. Read more about it at CBC News here. To Polar Man, for being a beacon of the community and an inspiration for its citizens, we salute you. PAWS UP! Paws Up! BONUS The fans of the Toronto Maple Leafs With the Nashville Predators in town to play the Leafs, the singing of the U.S. National Anthem is expected. What happened when the microphone on the anthem singer failed was not. Without missing a beat, the fans in the stand finished the national anthem of a country that was not there own. Read more about it, and see the video at CBC News here. To Leafs fan, for stepping up in such an awesome way, we salute you. PAWS UP! From Solid Cat: Things That Creep Val Out Noritaka Kaneko Noritaka Kaneko, A father of an autistic child and an executive of a Saitama IT company, is working on an iPad app to help children become comfortable while making visits to the dentist. Read more about it at Mainichi Daily News here. To Noritaka Kaneko, for seeing a need and working to fill it, we salute you. PAWS UP! From Solid Cat 100: We're Like Jesus Ottawa Senators The Milwaukee Brewers have sausage races. The Washington Nationals have the racing presidents. Now the NHL's Ottawa Senators will have the racing prime ministers. On Thursday the team announced that mascots depicting Sir John A. MacDonald, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, William Lyon MacKenzie King and Sir Robert Borden would take part in races at some games this season. Read more about it at Sportsnet.ca here. To the Ottawa Senators, for rocking a novel concept... for Canada, we salute you. PAWS UP!
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