Rye Humour

Category: Newspaper article

I sent this letter to 'The Ottawa Citizen' in April 2005.


Some people will do anything to make a quick buck on e-bay.

First we heard of the ‘Virgin Mary appearing on a slice of cheese toast’ and more recently there was the ‘Virgin Mary potato holding the likeness of the baby Jesus’.

Later a man from Kingston Ontario tried to sell a fish stick that he cooked a year ago claiming that it shows the likeness of Jesus Christ.

Now a stripper by the name of Tawny Peaks is selling her breast implants on e-bay and someone else is selling ‘alien grass’. Alien grass is grass that aliens have supposedly walked on (more likely grass that this man puts in his pipe).

Say!… I have a sad looking slice of leftover rye bread in my freezer, maybe I can put the likeness of Brooklyn Dodgers Hall of Fame catcher Roy Campanella on it and call it ‘The Catcher in the Rye’.

I could sit back and watch the dough roll in.