An alert reader [points out] claims that although musician Denis Ryan is one of Nova Scotia's most successful investors, he is not now and has never been a restaurateur. Perhaps that's why he is such a successful investor. [Update: Several readers report that Ryan once held an interest in the Antigonish bar now called Piper's Pub. I think that makes this a correction within a correction to a correction.] Darn. All those Irish folksingers look alike. I've corrected the original post, which, ironically, was prompted by another news organization's similar flub. In strict blog etiquette, I should leave the original mistake in place, but...

13 December, 2010

[Updated below] Our friends at AllNovaScotia (subscription required) appear to have been punk'd by [restaurateur] singing investor Denis Ryan and Halifax folksinger-comedian Tony Quinn in a YouTube spoof of a profane Irish expat turning the air blue-green with outrage over the Emerald Isle's financial travails. The NSFW clip identifies Quinn as a reporter for "the Financial News," which morphs to "the Financial Times" in the AllNS piece. As alert Contrarian reader DR points out, however, the clip does not turn up on any site calling itself  'Financial News,' and the reporter definitely doesn’t say, 'Financial Times.' Also, the 'reporter' looks and sounds remarkably like...

10 December, 2010