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Wbttb~' FiOê P~ss, os~day~ oe~be~27,,~1~3, Ps~ê~' Too bizarre What do you say about an election result that nobody predicted because nobody dared to? This column. is being written on Monda nigbt. At this moment, the Lib eral Juggernaut las rolled westward to Aberta. We are awaiting -the resuits from British Columbia. Whatever happens, we know that this is the strangest Parliament in history. From your vantage point on Wednesday, you, dear reader, know the final details with ail the 'I's dotted. But already we can make some intelligent comments on what we see so far. First: this was not the time te be running as a Tory. Second: this election result is almost as bard on__________________________________________ columnists as it bas been on Tory cabinet ministers. Who could ever bold their beads high in public again predicting election results? 1 don't want te embarrass myself too tboroughly, but for those wbo misplaced last week's newspaper, tbe following was Swan's prediction of tbe results: Liberal 140 Reform 594 Bloc 45 PC 40 (ha!) NDP 10 (close one!) Independent 1 (But not Doug) I also wrote: "Okay, so it's a bit off the wall. If inm close enough . . . it's going te be the most interesting Parliament in Canadian bîstory.» Well, on tbe basis of tbat last comment I'm going te declare myseif a winner. On all otber counts - and I'm not alone bere, folks - I stand before\you in rent garments covered in ashi. Consider the problem of tbe columnist: wbat do o write after the election resuits make us ail look ke flaming idiots? (The truth hurts.) My original plan lay in doing a send-up of tbe whole election. Maybe te take, young, fresh-faced Dorotby (Kim Campbell) te tbe land of Election Oz. RESIDENCE 0F' DAVID BURNS, 110 BALDWIN ST., BROOKLIN, C. 1920 There she would meet up witb tbe Straw (Presto!) This freine house was built in 1892 for Mrs. Thomas Jackson Holhdcay. In 1910, it was Man, wbo bad no brain; and the Bloc Man, wbo purchased by David Burns, a local poet, who lived there until his death in 1922. It was later wanted te chop down trees but had no beart for owned by John MacDuif. Wib mic ht understanding ail of Oz; and the Bilan, the CowardlyWhtyAclopoo Lion, afraid te face sometbing or otber. Trouble is, of course, that none of the images fit now. Poor Kim is forever lost in tbe land of Oz. Sbe'Il neyer get back te Kansas, te Aunt Em, and Tote ain't 10 YEARS AGO gonna ever mip at that Lion again. from the Wednesday, October 26, 1983 edition of the (Speaking of whom, did any of tbe enterprising WITBY FREE PRSS journalists on any netwýork ever track down Bilan on* NDP cjandidate Geoif Rson will make his third try for a seat in the federal Parliarnent in election nigbt? In whatever country he's in?) the next election. So hre e ar inNevr-Neer and Theeletio Westminster United Church will hold its 25th anniversary service on Nov. 20. rso bee are inare t er-eyer.LAnd. Te lect Whitby Arts Inc. is selling a Iinited edition print of The Station Gallery. resultsaretoobizrrete mke un f. nd lmot *The Town council is advertising to designate the Shier-Willis house at Centre and Pitt every prediction missed so completely the Tory streets as a heritage building. colla pse. Any analyst wbo tries te pontificate will end with-banana cream pie on lus (ber) face. mêmes.* rokln residents want their streets lit by electric lights. 1 bd"