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1. about 1 month ago on Baby Blues

   “…Ooh ee ooh ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang…”

2. about 1 month ago on Baby Blues

   In Junior High I was (and still am) a diehard Sci-Fi fan, so Isaac Asimov was one of my favourite authors…I did my best to buy all of his books, most of which I still have, five decades on.

   In 1975 he took a diversion from robots and space and published “Lecherous Limmericks”….it included, along with other classics of the era, the reference to that little island in New England.

   Clearly, while I have grown older, I have somehow, very happily, managed not to mature…that book is still one of my favourites.

3. about 1 month ago on Dogs of C-Kennel

   Growing up in very rural, very Redneck northern British Columbia, there were two inalienable rites of passage for pre-teen boys….in the winter, when it was -20, it was sticking your tongue on a metal post or handrail….in the summer, it was peeing on the electric fence around the pig sty….

   I confess to getting caught by the frozen handrail, spent three days not able to taste anything…..BUT…it was clear to me that the pigs didn’t like the electric fence one little bit, so there was no way I was testing that….but I got my little brother to do it. I was good with experiencing it vicariously….

4. about 1 month ago on The Born Loser

   hmmmm…..pretty sure, in retrospect, after his night in the doghouse, Brutus may look back on this moment and say to himself: “Self, you probably have handled that just a little bit differently….”

5. about 1 month ago on Monty

   Thank you so much for that image….I am pretty sure that I will not be able to look at a wool sweater now without getting the hebbie-jeebies…. LOL

6. about 2 months ago on Sherman's Lagoon

   And it is pouring rain in Vancouver today, so it will take even longer…because every time it rains, everyone is shocked and surprised and completely unprepared, like it has never happend before….sigh….

7. about 2 months ago on B.C.

   Yup, and that rain starts in October and does. Not. Freakin. Stop. Ever. Until April…except when we do get snow…that inch or so that completely cripples the entire region….says the sanctimonious bloke who grew up in Prince George…

   But I am with B.C. on this one….summer is never long enough

8. about 2 months ago on Off the Mark

   Larry, Darryl and Darryl….

9. about 2 months ago on Baby Blues

   Ah, that ain’t toxic….that is the frustration of any parent who has been locked away with a little ’un for days on end…you love your child, but the work gets awfully tough after a while…

   And if my aging memory serves me correctly, the early 90s was the Genesis of the Paid-To-Stay-Home parent movement…I reckons this could be a bit of a timely (for the era) political statement…

10. about 2 months ago on Pluggers

    I’m with ya on the grits n eggs…grits ain’ t a Canuck thing (I have yet to find a restaurant north of the 49th Parallel that servest them, alas) but I got introduced to them in New Orleans and decided that shrimp grits was gonna be my new favourite…

    And ealier in this string folks were talking about greens for breakfast and I just recalled that along with those grits, we usually had collard greens, cooked with chunks of smoked ham….

    Sigh

    Beats the All Bran that age seems to have relegated me to….