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Last April, when gasoline prices were sky high, Premier Rodney MacDonald said this to reporters outside the provincial legislature.
“I think the most important thing we as a government can do, and all Nova Scotians can do, is to purchase more fuel-efficient vehicles, to take up the opportunity for transit.”
The premier later objected to this headline [...]
Cartoon by the award-winning Steve Breen, San Diego Union-Tribune
I, for one, would like to hear more about the LaytonAway Program!
Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, Hamilton Spectator
This is said to be the “the second feat of hanky-panky”. I don’t know what the first is, and I don’ t think I want to know.
‘The second feat of hanky-panky consists of knocking your head against the edge of a door with such apparent force as to break your skull, provided it be [...]
Cartoon: Bruce MacKinnon, Halifax Chronicle-Herald
Traditional Animal Symbolism
ostrich……………..stupidity; timidity
ox…………………patience; strength
parrot…………….verbosity; insolence
peacock……………..pomposity; pride
pelican……………….sacrifice; Christ
pig………………..obstinacy; dirtiness
pigeon……………………cowardice
rabbit……………………..fecundity
raven………………..ill-luck; violence
serpent………………….wisdom; sin
sheep………………timidity; stupidity
sparrow………………..lasciviousness
spider………………………cunning
stag………………………cuckoldry
swallow………..fair-weather friendship
swan………………………….grace
swine………………..filthiness; greed
tiger……………………….ferocity
toad………………..work; death; lust
tortoise……………………..chastity
unicorn……………spirituality; Christ
vulture……………………….rapine
wolf………………….cruelty; ferocity
worm……………..cringing; lowliness
Source: Page-A-Day Online Calendar
It’s the end of an era as the vehicle voted worst car of the millennium has gone out of production.
The Yugo, the car everyone — or almost everyone — loved to hate, is no more.
The last one has rolled of the production line at the Zastava factory in the Serbian town of Kragujevac.
Since it first [...]
A fascinating conversation appeared earlier this week at Apple’s online discussion board. A poster claimed to be a woman who had discovered troubling and suspicious items on her husband’s iPhone. When she asked about them, he claimed to be the victim of an iPhone “glitch”.
I took my husband’s i-phone and found a raunchy [...]
Many Motorists Don’t See Need To Heed Speed Limits — Science Daily, 8 November
Don’t shoot strange-looking escaped deer — CBC Ottawa, 7 November
A British Columbia judge has refused to rule frivolous a lawsuit by one Jerry Rose, who claims that his mind has been controlled by, among others, Microsoft, Telus, the RCMP, Wal-Mart, the University of BC, and the BC College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Mr. Rose’s claim says “he has been subject to invasive brain computer interface [...]
If our Lord spoke like a post-modern Anglican, his encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well might have gone something like this.
Exhausted from global warming in oppressed Palestine, Jesus chilled at Jacob’s Well in the realm of “the other” called Samaria.
Jesus’ cohort left him to buy organic at the nearest kiosk.
A Samaritan woman-”the other [...]
Halloween is tomorrow and the US election is Tuesday, so this movie clip fits right in.
The clip is from the 1940 Bob Hope comedy, The Ghost Breakers
h/t: What’s Wrong With The World
According to Tominthebox News Network, the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations (UUA) has proclaimed Halloween a church holiday. UUA affirms the dignity of every person, and they have decided that should include demons, zombies, and Satan worshippers.
Because of this philosophy, the UUA has decided to embrace Halloween in the hopes of attracting those from [...]
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