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I say "ai-dee" instead of "ai-tee" so that makes getting this joke that much more difficult. haha
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the only good mastodon post:
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Another Lewis coincidence: my wife has gone down east, so it gives me a chance to go see a Lewis showing at the McMichael (which my wife doesn't know I'm at) and while I'm looking at Lewis's work, my wife sends me a picture of her standing beside the Lewis replica house in Digby!
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We went down east a few summers ago, partly to go see her work, and one day while waiting in line for some take out fish and chips at a place near-ish Bridgetown I recall, I got to talking with another customer who happened to be Lewis's grand niece! haha (A truly down east experience.)
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Before we bought our house for $160 in 2003 we were renting a four bedroom house for............wait for it........$1000 a month. Now, not only is that almost not possible in Barrie, but if you could find it, it would be easily $3000.
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Bought our place in 2003 for $160 (having talked the seller down from $180 haha) and it is now easily $750. (And, we have a 26 year old, and his partner, and a 30 year old living here as well.....against their will because renting in Barrie is like wading into the world of organized crime.)
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I was researching death records in Nova Scotia in the early 1940's, and even though I knew the history, I was blown away by the number of deaths of air force personnel in Nova Scotia.....3000 miles from the "real danger".
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As this seems to have involved training, it just really reinforces how dangerous training (from anything from helicopter pilot to a carpenter to a sales clerk, and I'm not joking about this last one) can be. Information overload in even the safest of spaces is just so perilous.
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haha, yup. You could write it all in 16th's and 32's:
Eeth ee ope ee ah.
It ain't no dis tope ee ah.
I've got like a Motorhead thing going on in my head. haha
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100%. I enjoy song analysis conversations, but dissecting lyrics gets a bit silly. It's a SONG. Almost every writer, when asked "why did you put that in there?", responds with "well, it rhymed first off." haha
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Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer tells the story of an ungulate that probably would have been destroyed for his meat if he hadn't had some sort of utility to the leadership. haha
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I get the point, but I've decided, consciously, to still love the song. It takes me back to that period, it takes me back to all those family Christmas parties....etc.... Besides, it's a CHRISTMAS song: if it ain't corny and wrong-headed it ain't a Christmas song.
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I've always wondered that too. Dampening the string? Returning to a "home position" kinda thing? In my own case, it's a relaxation exercise, kinda "shake it out" but I'm a newbie. (Don't pianists do a sort same "shake it, return to home" thing as well?
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Wild how this keeps happening. See: case of Canadian pathologist Charles Smith.
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True, but 5 for 32 is just insane, and I hate analytics. haha
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Didn't know, or couldn't remember "Duck Ball" or whatever it was called. haha
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Sorry : ) Canada doesn't have an "administration". We say "government".
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Aren't Americans way past "advocating"? "Advocate" to whom? There is a time for political violence. The U.S. just may be at that time?
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18. In the 1980s, policymakers dismissed small, independent retailers as unimportant. The lesson of food deserts is that these small businesses are, in fact, pivotal — a keystone species. When they thrive, it changes the whole ecosystem for the better. Please read and share the piece!
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Nice....if intentional haha.
Did you double out?
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Congratulations! You are my very first "Like" and "Comment" on BlueSky. You must feel very proud. haha
(BTW, I came across you years ago in the chat of Jan's banter blitz.)