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Pukatawagan explosion  

Aside Markosun Manitoba, Music

RCMP explosives experts are on their way to a remote Manitoba First Nation community to deal with a dangerous situation that prompted the evacuation of more than a dozen trailers.

A man in the community of Pukatawagan on Tuesday evening found a box full of blasting caps while cleaning out an old business that had been owned by a construction company and took them home.

He left the box in his yard, near a playground.

RCMP spokeswoman Const. Line Karpish said when police were alerted to the explosives they evacuated 20 trailers in the area.

A blasting cap is a small explosive device generally used to detonate a larger, more powerful secondary explosive such as TNT or dynamite.

Those larger explosive compounds require a certain amount of energy to detonate. Blasting caps, which are much more sensitive and easy to detonate, provide that.

However, they can go off unexpectedly and are hazardous for untrained personnel to handle.

“It wouldn’t be like a huge bang but for all intents and purposes, you know, it could certainly hurt someone’s hand and then, you know, you put 20, 30 together it definitely has potential for harm,” said Karpish.

Karpish warns anyone who may find old explosive materials to just leave them alone and call authorities.

Pukatawagan is located more than 800 kilometres north of Winnipeg, near the Saskatchewan border.

The Pukatawagan theme song:

Big Time Operator

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Here is a song with consistent rhyming.  It gives a whole new meaning to the word alliteration. The lyrics would also appeal to people who have the sky is the limit dreams.  Video below lyrics.

Big Time Operator by Keith Hampshire.

I started off a newsboy on a paper

 For a time I worked in an elevator

 But all the time I knew that later I would be a higher rater Finally, a big time operator
For a while I drove an excavator (yes I did)

 Then I became a wine and brandy waiter

 A builder, then a decorator

 Later on, an estimator

 I’m gonna be a big time operator
(Oh ya got to believe in me)
I took a job as an airline navigator

 Then I became a crime investigator (yes I did)

 For a time, a commentator

  Then I was an administrator

 I’m gonna be a big time operator (yeah yeah yeah yeah)
Well dont you know I’m gonna be in the big time baby

 A big time operator

 I’ll have a whole lotta people workin’ for me

 Gonna have a chauffeur

 An upstairs maid

 Big limousine

 Racing sports car

  50 foot yacht

 Race horses
I’m gonna give new meaning to the word ‘big’ A big time operator now now

Tribute to Shane MacGowan

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Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan (25 December 1957 – 30 November 2023) was an English-born Irish singer-songwriter, musician and poet, best known as the lead vocalist and primary lyricist of Celtic punk band the Pogues. He also produced solo material and collaborated with artists including Joe Strummer, Nick Cave, Steve Earle, Sinéad O’Connor, Ronnie Drew, and Cruachan. Frequently noted for his exceptional songwriting ability, MacGowan was described by The New York Times as “a master songsmith whose lyrics painted vivid portraits of the underbelly of Irish immigrant life.”