I have never heard of this and now I feel I must try it...

England can find their own folk minstrel to write a song about it. Gordon Lightfoot can’t write songs for everyone’s tragedies! Partly because he’s passed away, but mostly because Canada calls dibs on him first! (Though he did write a song about Detroit called ‘Black Day in July).

Where I grew up the danger wasn't deer because most people drove big trucks. The danger was moose.
A moose can total a car.
A moose can flip over your truck cab to land in the back of your truck and then kick your back windows.
A moose can and WILL stomp you flat for looking at their calf.

I work in the public service (not in the UK), and specifically deal with records management. Sometimes this means very old records that have been in storage for 50 years. Trying to get someone to take responsibility for these (whether to archive or to destroy) is a similar process.

Man, I had forgotten all about this!! Of course it was such a usual thing when I was growing up that I never thought about it, it just was something that happened on the radio. I never knew it was a cbc specific thing. Thank you for sharing!

Fascinating! I wonder what we would have colloquially called a voyageurs dollar coin?

The bit about the vacation home going to three colleages who hated each other... that just cracked me up! I think this guys was using his will to just mess with as many people as possible.

This bit about the vacation home solidfies for me that this guy mastered trolling people from beyond the grave.

I think my heart gave out reading this. Egads!!

Giving big "Draw me like one of your french girls" vibes.

It's maybe a bit out there, but really, anything by Terry Pratchett. It's not obvious that's it's about politics and power, because they're funny fantasy novels, but then you end up with bits like this that just punch you in the gut with their truth: www.goodreads.com/quotes/72745...