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Archive for October, 2015

TOP 10 All-Purpose Sports Cheers & Jeers

With pro sports seasons overlapping this time of year, it can be useful for aficionados to keep handy some creative, all-purpose plaudits and critiques…

  • You’re so slow, my mother could bake a turkey quicker!
  • I hope you fill out applications as well as you fill out your uniform!
  • Please give me your autograph if you can spell!
  • Hey ref, your prescription glasses have come in! (more…)

TOP 10 Potential Collectible Coin Series from the Canadian Mint

The world famous, innovative Royal Canadian Mint has expanded its range of subjects for collectible coins in recent years, some issued in series.  However, there remain many less culturally or historically profiled subjects which might engage a larger arena of buyers: such as via these series (in pure silver, except as noted)…

  • Government office waiting areas
  • The many colours of city water-front water (illuminated with glow-in-the-dark technology)
  • Paint chip samples of autos of the late twentieth century (gold-plated)
  • Memories of Y2K challenges and fears (accented with hologram technology) (more…)

Memorable Quotes: Tales of Screenwriters – Part Twenty-Two

The Rules – reputation:

(a) “If you do things that get you a certain reputation, when you come up in a meeting or discussion, you can get shut off very quickly.  If you have a reputation for being difficult, if you have a reputation for threatening to sue people, if you have a reputation for not being able to deliver, then where there’s a discussion around a table, someone will say, ‘I heard this’, or ‘I heard that’, and they’ll go on to the next choice.” (more…)

Clichés Upgraded – Part XLII

Autumn is definitely in vogue, so time to fall into more enriched clichés (with the originals in italics):

  • If you sit tight you might just barely make it into your airline seat these days
  • Well, you threw it there in a fit of pique, so it’s up to you to retrieve that skate on thin ice
  • Playing bridge in hot weather, if you win a slam dunk yourself in the pool as a reward
  • They should use more clothes to cover up those unsightly skeletons in the closet (more…)

Goodbye, Little Friend

Last night we lost our little pet budgie, Goldwing, who passed away suddenly and unexpectedly.  This has naturally been a jarring, very sad experience.

While losing a pet is upsetting (at least for those of us who really care), if we’ve been able to make a connection with him or her, it is harder.  When it happens without warning, the impact is more sever. The bird was only about six years old, about half of its expected life cycle. (more…)