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Periodic Jordans St. John update. Webster, NY: Yankee Jordan has used my email to sign up for an automotive collision repair service. I have unsubscribed immediately. If I get an email about where to pick up my car, I'm still not going to America.

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Today's "why in God's name did I create an assignment that takes a half hour per student to mark?" album is Dire Straits' Communique.

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It's marking season, so I'm just going to put any student observations in this thread. Sometimes, blinding insight and dazzling brilliance. Sometimes they misspell 'Palate.'

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The ttc info board says some Seasonale birth control pills have been recalled. Yeah. You want them to work year round, guys.

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Potentially unpopular opinion: Gryfe's is better than the Montreal Bagel. St. Urbain is good only directly out of the oven.

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Look, I know we all have feelings about Galen Weston, but the President's Choice World of Flavours Korma Potato Chips are excellent. Pair with anything. Just house the entire bag and give up your caloric deficit. Your future is Korma.

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Nobody: Absolutely Nobody: One Guy From Toronto Every Twenty Years: BUT WHAT IF WE HAD A HOVERCRAFT FERRY!

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Wow. The Toronto Public Library is on top of things. They announced the trailer for the Richard Osman Thursday Murder Club just yesterday and they upped the number of ebook licenses this morning.

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Just checking the AGCO listings. After a year of nearly no new licenses, suddenly two contract breweries with the same name. Nomad and N0mXd. If one of them names a beer dirty blonde, I'm going to have a conniption.

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You know what's wild? When the provincial budget came out, the media were like "He's lowering excise despite the LCBO profits being down." I didn't see a single source mention the once in history LCBO strike or the removal of American products. Might have had an impact, yeah?

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You know, mama, I got dem Gentrification Dive Bar Blues. The folks want to buy my house and raise up all them kids But me and the other bar flies gonna have to hit the skids They liked the block two years ago when they hadn't tied the know but Scottie only took a knee after four too many shots.

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So Fuller's ESB isn't an ESB because the style shifted over time, but Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is the exemplar ESB because the American versions aren't bitter enough. Personally, I think whoever decides these things should be sent to Burton and turned into marmite.

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The combination of the terrible weather and the inclusion of a maple beer in the copy I was writing have resulted in the decision to have a late breakfast of pancakes. I regret nothing, although syrup is expensive.

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All four cheeks and a couple of chins, Woody. RIP.

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Got the royalty reporting for the Ontario Craft Beer Guide. Owed $49.98. Payout threshold? $50.00. We're going to finally do better than break even on that sucker next year.

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Sitting here researching the difference in aroma of different blossoming trees and how that might pertain to hop aromatics and beer sensory, and I've got to say it feels pretty good. Although, why an English major is doing that is anyone's guess.

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wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey? guard: [looking away] fine wife: did something happen? guard: [tearing up] no wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?

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I honestly don't know whether to try to find a place to watch Game 7 or just wait until the dive bar across Davisville either explodes in cheering or sets the parking lot Wendy's ghost kitchen on fire.

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If the leafs lose on Sunday, the fireworks are going to seem really sarcastic.

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Hey goddamn man, weight a minute. We got a 50% tax cut for small breweries in Ontario yesterday and I'm so burned out I wrote an entire blog post and didn't celebrate a win I've been intrinsic in? Goddamn it WE WON

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@brianstack153.bsky.social The Interrupter broke me, man. I laughed until I couldn't breathe. Thanks so much.

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OK, Let's try that again! If you're interested in what the changes in the Provincial Budget look like for Craft Beer, I've got an explainer for you. Just the thing to cruise into the long weekend with: saintjohnswort.ca/fun-with-num...

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Yes, but will he eat all the remaining shredded cheese in the bag in the time it takes for the chili to cook?

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Tonight's Late Great Movie is McCabe and Mrs. Miller, which seems to have a Leonard Cohen title track. You know: a Canadian poet. Like classic westerns.

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I looked up from my vom fass and lukr challenge and found the difference between faith and trust. It is the difference between free and trussed. That cross could fall on some parishioners. But it won't. Not cause God won't allow it, but because of wire reinforcement. Trussed, but verify.

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The new pope would like yo remind you that you can't spell Mortal Sin without Malort's in.

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So distracted by thoughts of the new pope that I looked up from the phone at the TV and misread the ad for Little Caesar's new Pretzel Crust. For a moment I thought they were for a saltier saviour, hot and ready to go. If you launched in a small number of markets it would be a Pilate project.

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