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Archive for July, 2015

TOP 10 Ways to Cope with HOT Weather

Time to call out the strategy reserves

  • Open a lemonade stand, and be your own best customer
  • Set up a nudist beach in your back yard
  • Listen exclusively to cool music (more…)

TOP 10 Toronto Pan Am Games Thrills – Update

With day one under way (spot the changes from yesterday’s post)…

  • Bask in the glow of a more diverse range of sponsors
  • Partake in jingoistic television coverage with gushing announcers
  • Enjoy the non-violent excitement of sports like archery, shooting, and boxing
  • Gape at the sorry-looking, illogical Games mascot (i.e. a multi-colour porcupine in Toronto?) (more…)

Top 10 Thrills of Having the Pan Am Games in Toronto

With the official opening today…

  • Bask in the glow of a more diverse range of sponsors
  • Partake in live jingoistic television coverage with gushing announcers
  • Enjoy the non-violent excitement of sports like archery, shooting, and boxing (more…)

Clichés Upgraded – Part XXXV

The heat is on, so here’s a dose of more enlivened clichés (with the original in italics):

  • That concoction is really smelling up the place so please put a lid on it
  • As we read the riot act our troupe will be rehearing the most action-packed part of the play
  • We’d better put it on ice if we want the skating exhibition to attract fans
  • We need a red herring to complement the rainbow trout and yellow fin tuna (more…)

Memorable Quotes #24

On activity:

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Make rest a necessity, not an objective.  Only rest long enough to gather strength. (more…)

Memorable Quotes: Tales of Screenwriters – Part Sixteen

The ‘Players’ – the big execs:

(a) “I have had a number of unbelievably painful moments with Hollywood executives, and the truth is that their reasons for rejecting projects were beyond ludicrous – they were willful and capricious, and in several cases meant that the scripts involved, which I had worked hard on and which…were wonderful, were never made. (more…)

TOP 10 Questionable Driving Behaviours

It’s the time of year to truly enjoy driving in the great outdoors – as long as you don’t get caught in compromising situations…

  • Juggling three cell phones to carry on a conference call
  • Hanging out an uncorked genie-in-a-bottle air freshener (more…)