Hey, Gary Dunford! Do You Still Have This Old Column Lying Around?
Sometime in 1997 (I think….it was during the first smoking ban and my favourite pub had been empty for two or three weeks) I emailed you from CBC, using the pseudonym ‘Deep Pants’ about the municipal government’s looming ban on fatty foods in eating establishments.
You used it the very next day, and it was about one third of your column. I was reading the Sun on the subway that day and barked out loud when I turned to Page Six.
(I’m not bragging. I mean, hell, I couldn’t have done it without you!)
And to prove it’s really me, Deep Pants, I’ll tell you something only you and I would know; I said there would be no second-hand fat lawsuits, but you changed that part.
And to jog your memory a bit more, I mentioned healthy menu items like ‘60 Year Old Swede & Sour Pork’ and ‘Aerobica Coffee’.
I kept the email and the column for years, but have now found it missing.
Any chance you have an overflowing business box in a storage facility in Scarborough you can dig out and sift through?
That’d be real menschy of you.
Miss your columns; some days they were the best part of the paper.
Just found your blog. Working on the passively humorous curmudgeon, are you? Well, good for you and God love ya.