NOVEMBER 15TH 2012 30 YEARS AGO (1982) WE HAD OUR 2ND TASTE OF WINTER WITH 3-4 CMS OF SNOW AND A HIGH OF ONLY 0 DEGREES AND A LOW OF MINUS 7...IN 1981...VERY VERY WARM WITH A HIGH OF 18..A BEAUTIFUL DAY...1982 GAS WAS 44.8 AND GOLD JUST OVER $400 A GOOD TIME TO BUY GOLD i GUESS WITH IT NOW ABOUT 1700 PER OUNCE. 1492: In history's first written reference to a new discovery, Christopher Columbus made notes in his journal about the use by New World Indians of tobacco...CHRIS WAS AHEAD OF HIS TIME...The only place you could smoke on board was the CROWS NEST. William Lyon Mackenzie King retired as Prime Minister of Canada on this day in 1948. He had held the post 21 years because he possessed a unique political ability. He could speak English out of one side of his mouth while speaking French out of the other OR MAYBE THAT WAS CHRETIEN. On this day in 1877 the Northwest Territories Council passed the Buffalo Conservation Act. Which decreed that anybody caught GOING TO BUFFALO COULD BE SENTENCED TO 20 YEARS OF WATCHING IRV WINESTEIN. ED ASNER IS 83 AND Singer Petula Clark turns 80 today. She had a '60s hit called "DOWNTOWN" WHICH MUST NOW BE CHANGED TO "UPTOWN" IN BARRIE. MORNIN' EVERYBODY..HAVE A GREAT ONE.