LFCCMCCUJ Volume 13

Sometimes you will accidentally comes across a blog that shows insight and makes you want to recommend it to all your followers... this is not one... sorry. For the rest we are using skills handout # 1 and are bored...

The Riddle is skill # 8 in your handout and has lost the power it had in earlier campaigns. Looking back in the ancient past... pre 2000... a candidate would often use riddles to inflate their promise, deflate an opponent or draw comparisons to their platform and the dung that is all others.

For a comic a riddle is disguised as a question with the answer having a comic twist. A good comic riddle is usually only understood by a select few because the answer refers to a position, policy or plank from the candidate... and who has time to read now a days?

Here are some examples of riddles that would fit the current Calgary Mayoral Crop...

"What is purple and purple and... oh screw it... the answer is Nenshi4Mayor"


"How does Mciver4Mayor get the opinions of aldermen? A pocket poll"


"Why did Barb4Mayor decide to run? She heard it was all lights, in-camera but no action"

"Why did the Oscar4Mayor get kicked out of Council? I don't know... can you believe it?"

"Why did Bob4Mayor fall into the mud puddle? He had tunnel vision"

In a campaign a riddle can be used by a comic to ask questions and address issues as well... but it makes you think and really... who wants that?

"Knock knock...
Who's there?
The auditor...
The auditor who?
The auditor who was fired for asking where the money went..."

"If a group of developers from Northwest Calgary and a group of Developers from Southwest Calgary meet in the East Village to fight over who can build there 1st... where would the survivors be buried? It's a trick question... no one is going to build in the East Village..."

"If an LRT headed south from the Crowfoot station and went 50 km. per hour... how long would it take to pave over the Weaselhead wildlife preserve to build a ring road?"

"If MRU has thousands of students who would take the LRT each day and you don't own any land near MRU... how many times can the mayor say the youth is our future without laughing?"