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Posted By: davidcycleback

And after 18 years on the job without ever receiving a paycheck, he finally inquired and found out he was never hired.

My mother was born in a fishing town of 26 in the far north, and both she and my dad (who visited) say there are remarkable similarities between the show and where she grew up. Which may explain why she moved down south to Ann Arbor when she turned 18.

One of my favorites was when Red Green showed how to use a lawn mower as a coffee maker: "Put the beans on the ground. Then grind the beans into the bag..." He also made a computer disc drive out of an old toaster. It worked, except it shot the disc across the room when you were done. And the all time classic, where he made one big car out of two smaller cars (using saw and duct tape), and had enough left over to make an extra compact.



When stars of a tv show look like this, you know it's a Canadian production.