Email Woes Update
If you were going to write a horror movie to scare the bejesus out people who are dependent on email, what’s happening to me would make a terrific plotline. …
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General
This and Tats
I got into my car yesterday just in time to hear a caller on Jeff McArthur’s talk show (am 980) explain to Jeff how distrusting a person with tattoos “on sight” wasn’t discriminatory. …
One in a Few Million
I always knew I was an original, unique, special, a rare bird. But now Rogers has confirmed it! I am apparently their only customer who can’t get into her Rogers email.  …
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Occupying Our Minds
About a hundred Londoners travelled east on the 401 for the Occupy Toronto protest on the weekend. Â …
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Putting the Message in a Pretty Package
October is Breast Cancer awareness month. Some very smart people have created this short video to convince women that they should check themselves regularly. The video says it all. …
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Only in America
A Michigan woman is suing the distributer of a new movie and the theatre where she saw it because she says the trailer was misleading. …
When the Grass Isn’t Greener
I understand that not everybody wants a lawn of grass. So there are options. You can plant hostas and spread mulch. You can put interlocking stone down. Or you can take the route these folks in Port Stanley took. …
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Diluting Language
Sesame Street is adding a new Muppet. Lily is described as having “food insecurity”. In other words her family is poor and she is hungry. …
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Astounding Behaviors
Two days after Saudi Arabia granted women the right to vote in municipal elections, a woman was sentenced to 10 lashes for driving a car. …
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Bikers For Brains II
What a day we had! Excellent weather, a lovely, trouble-free ride for a couple of hours through the country and small towns, and things went off without a hitch. Not to mention raising about $5,000. for the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada. …
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I’ve Been Had
For a month and a half or so, every Friday at noon, a text message has been coming to my iPhone. …
Wingham’s First Murder
Having lived in Wingham for four years, and now living just about an hour away, I’m watching with interest the reports from the first ever murder trial of a Winghamite. …
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Bikers for Brains II
Sunday, we’re riding in support of the Brain Tumour Foundation once again. …
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From the “People Sure Can Be Stupid” File
Thank you to The Toronto Star for this list. A recent survey from Thomas Cook and the Association of British Travel Agents revealed 20 of the most ridiculous complaints by “holiday-makers” made to their travel agent. (Comments in brackets are mine; things I wish I could say to these fools!) …
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Contextually Speaking
So many times a story will cross the newswire without any context. If you only read or know the bare facts, you don’t get the whole story. …
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