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Whitby Free Press, Wekiesday, Nevember 24,1993. Page 7 Bunker banter There is no truth to the rumour that Premier Bob Rae bas moved bis office to a fortified bunker four storey s below street level at Queen's Park. As proof, wofer this unedited transcript of a recent meeting in that very bunker. Premier Bob: (Or vocal facsimiie): First 1 want you ail to know that this non-bunker has also been declared a non-smoking area. Ilar, bar, that's a joke, laugh you guys, we need laugbs. Floyd Laugbren: Speaking of laughs, 1 spoke to Audrey McLauýghlin todiay. Notice how both ber and me, we bave laugh ini our name, only nobody pronounces it tbat way? Well, Audrey, sbe was lau#bing a lot il teliyou, laughing ba ba ba ba ba ba in that funny sort ofway. It was kind of sad. Premier Bob: Stepben Langdon dees tbe same thing. Did you see tbat piece be did in tbe Star tbis week? Asking me to run on my own sword for the good of tbe party. How gaucbe. Ruth Grier: This morning 1 got an unsigned letter from Cornwall, thanking me for the no-smoking Bou~ Rae: From tbe mayor of Cornwall, or some other- group figbting the tobacco smuggling going on down there? Ruth: No. Prom smugglers claiming that my bylaw would make smggtliat mucb more pro- fitable. Bob Rae: Ha, ha. That's od one. Don't those people know that smoking is bad for their bealth, that itIll stunt their growtb. Bulldog Drummond: Since this isn't a cabinet sketch,' just a littie bunker chat, I thought I could boru iii on this. And tbank Bob for bis visit to Whlitby last week at the Durbam College chocolate factory opening, ask if be bas another $20 million we could spread around the area, you know, a littie political largesse. Bob: Shbbb! Don't talk too loud or Gord Mils will want a slice of the cake. PiIkey: I don't mean to blow my false teetb mnto yow! birthday cake, Mr. Premier, but there is a serious matter I would like to discss . . Rae: Oh, here's Silkey Pilkey worrying again. Let me guess. You're going to say that the unions are going to eat us alive at the next election, that we'll get blown away. Another voice: Hey! You can't light up in bere. In fact, you can't light up in the whole province. Mr. Ed: Well, is this an informai coff'ee chat and officiai. opening of tbe Furore Bunker? I've just come in to congratulate you people for what you've done to the cause of social democracy and blow a little smoke ~nRuth Griez>s face. Pilkey: Who is that guy? Gosb, be looks familiar. Bob Rae: Furore Bunker? I like that. Pilkey: We could likely have the next NDP convention in bere. Ites big enougb. Rae: That's a good one, tbat's a joke, ha, ha, ha, ha. Why this is like a phone bootb. IJnknown voice: (Whispers): Doesn't he have any idea? Mr. Ed: Once, wben I was head of a Social Democratic Party we didn't bave any of these silly no-smoking rules. Doesn't Ruth know that tobacco is a drug, almost as bad as caffeine? And a drug store is the place to seli drugs. Not ban tbem. Rae: You didn't bave te deai with power, either. Now did we ban the sale of coffee, too? Or just Floyd:~ Caffeine la a drug of choice. Perhaps there are revenue potentials we haven't used yet. Ruth:' Right. We jack the tax way up, way, way up, and... Floyd:' I can see it now. Wake up, Ontario. So there you bave iL. Proof positive that there la no Ok M l - - AUTOMOBIL AND PONy CART ON BROCK STREET, C. 1912 This piture, taken on Brock Street north of Dundas Street, is a good pictorial example of how t e automobile took over from the horse and buggy in the early years of this century. Whltby Archivea photo 10 YEARS AGO from the Wednesday, Nevember 23, 1983 edition of the WEmTBY FREE PRESS " A committee has been formned te, establish a 911 emergency number service in Whitby. " The Fa'd was turned on Nov. 15 for the Regency Place senior citizens' apartments on Hlickofry Street. " The Marigeld Dinner Playhouse is celebrating its first year of operation. " Whitby Iroquois Swim Club was the best of eight clubs in a swim meet at Trenton. 35 YEARS AGO from the Thursday, November 20, 1958 edition of the WH1TBY WEEIKLY NEWS " Hareld Mace ef VWhitby was elected vice-president of the Ontarie Civil Service Association. " Whitby Dunlops are undefeated in the first 12 gaines of the 1958-59 hockey season. " McIntyre Hardware is geing eut of business after 78 years, fellowing the death of the " reritor, Francis J. McIntyre. * aayoffers for new jail guards range from $2,520 te $3,000. 80 YEARS AGO from the T1hursday, November 20, 1913 edi tion ef the WH1TBY GAZETTE AND CIIRNICLE *The Whitby Board of Education has granted funds te, estahlish a cadet corps at the high school. *Robert A. Hutehison has been appointed public school inspecter for South Ontario County and will meve te Whitby. *Town council has granted $100 te a fund for familles of men who were killed in a recent storm on the Great Lakes. *A new, expanded arena will replace the old ' cigar boue which has served the Town for 24 yearm