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Brown-John: Ontario's Sunshine List needs some 'mooning'

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19.04.2024

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By: Lloyd Brown-John

There is a term of behaviour which has been around since at least Roman times: “Mooning.”

Baring one’s butt as an insult to another, after the Romans, seems to have been popularized during the Middle Ages or Dark Ages (roughly from about 470 to 1400 AD).

I mention this for two reasons.

The first is simply because many of us fortunately witnessed a total solar eclipse on April 8. Now, how many of us realized that we always see the same side of the moon?

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As the moon revolves around the Earth it rotates so that the same side is always facing the Earth. Consequently during an eclipse the backside (or butt!) of the moon faced the Sun.

Putting it prosaically, during last week’s eclipse the Sun was mooned by the moon.

My second reason stems from then-Premier ‘Common Sense’ Mike Harris’s 1996 introduction — in a fit of populist spite — of what is........

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