impudent strumpet

Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines

Thursday, February 28, 2008

I think the assholes have a new technique for trying to get laid

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I was reading the comments for the Globe & Mail article I linked to below, and some guy started going on quite adamently about how he ho...
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Open Letter to the person who wrote in to today's Globe and Mail Group Therapy column

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The reader is having sex drive issues, and her partner thinks the Pill might be the problem. Various responses and comments either tell he...
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Cake AND death!

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Poor, poor Adam Deely of Birmingham. Not only does he die in a terribly embarrassing way, by choking on a cupcake, but Eddie Izzard fans ev...
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Another stroke of luck

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Let's pretend I live on a corner. It's more complicated than that, but the arrangement doesn't actually matter so we'll jus...

Linguistic research needed

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Dear Abby readers complain about being addressed as "You guys". Based on the letters, it seems to be a regional dialect thing. I ...
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Monday, February 25, 2008

The problem with interesting work

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Right now (yes, literally right now, blah overtime) I'm working on a terribly interesting text. It's the kind of thing I want to hav...
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Saturday, February 23, 2008

Comedy bunny, free for the taking

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The Mac guy and the PC guy do the Nudge Nudge sketch.
Friday, February 22, 2008

Chitchat poll

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My shyness and introversion incline me to talk too little. My attempts to compensate for my shyness and introversion to put others at ease ...
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Icy Hot patches

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Icy Hot patches are my new best friend! I love them! You know how in like Grade 2 if you say you love something, the other kids will say ...
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Earth Hour

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Why not kill two birds with one stone and have Earth Hour during the eclipse?

Some good luck for a change

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I woke up this morning with my annual bout of strep throat. Which is weird in itself - it usually comes on over the course of a couple days...
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Sunday, February 17, 2008

Open Letter to the car who splashed me on purpose

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Dear Silver Car: It's a long block with narrow sidewalks and big puddles in all the gutters. There were about a dozen pedestrians walki...
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Saturday, February 16, 2008

Things They Should Study: how do childless elders feel about their social lives or lack thereof?

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You often hear or hear of elders complaining of social isolation because they don't get enough attention from their descendents. And pe...
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Friday, February 15, 2008

Things Google Should Invent: click on a building and see its Yellow Pages entry

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I was searching to see where a specific address was located. Google Maps found it for me, of course, and let me see a nice satellite pictur...

School shootings

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I wonder if there are any numbers on whether a person is more likely to be shot up by a crazed gunman in a school vs. in other places.

Why women don't vote Conservative

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Jeffrey Simpson in the Globe and Mail speculates on why fewer women vote Conservative than men. Now I rarely make bold black-and-white decla...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Does anyone get anything out of rote recitation of a prayer?

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Apparently they say the Lord's Prayer in the Ontario Legislature? and they're only just now thinking "Hey, maybe this isn...

A better name for Family Day

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Monday is Family Day. Which is a bad name for a holiday - it imposes obligation on people who don't want to spend time with their famil...
Tuesday, February 12, 2008

A Toronto moment

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The cashier goes to give the customer his change, then realizes that one of the coins is foreign. Cashier: Wait, this isn't right, let m...
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