The Elgin Street Video Store is my favourite video store in the city. It's filled with rather high-end choices of movies and TV series, and the store itself is one large tribute to Hollywood, complete with artifacts and momentos from movies over the past 50 years. The place is part museum, part video store, and one is always in good hands there when seeking advice on movie rental pics. Today there is a sign on the door explaining that the store is closed until further notice due to the sudden death of the owner, Bill Kinsman, age 60.
My condolences to his family and friends. Elgin Street will miss him.
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Friday
Breaking News!
Woodsy said...Would Woodsy posting a bosom picture (à la Nursemyra) showing off the special pirate top she wore today in honour of Talk Like a Pirate Day be considered "breaking news"?
Harmony said...
Probably not, Woods. But it would be a rum jury rig to distract the mangy cur Coyote from dominating that niche so much!
Unnatural (S)election '08: I got nuthin'
Yeah, yeah, I know. You've come to rely on me for the kind of incisive and perspicacious insider political analysis that you can't find anywhere else. And this is my day to post. But dizzy and reeling from all of the hurricane-force spin doctoring happening north and south of the border this week, I am in exactly the same boat as everybody else. I began this election feeling disengaged and pissed about having to go through with it. Now, I just wanna hide in my burrow, clamp my eyes shut, and wrap my paws over my ears until it's over...Yet I persist. I don't know why. We coyotes are not generally known for our masochism. But be warned. I have no incisive and perspicacious insider political analysis this week - only dumbass questions.
To whit: "When did the strain of watching two elections at the same time finally sink my finely honed, impartially cynical loathing of all politicians into abysmally deep new submarine trenches a la The Vendetta?"
And: "Why does Sarah Palin remind me so much of Tracy Flick, and why doesn't anybody else seem to have noticed?"
And this one, after rereading posts in which my pierced, pottymouthed, and also perspicacious counterpart from the BC interior, Other Coyote, called the current government The Cons: "Does this make Stephen Harper a Con Troll Freak...?"
There is no fifth thing. And no fourth, for that matter. I'm not interested enough.
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Thursday
Talk Like a Pirate, Y'Scurvy Dog!
Being the nineteenth day of September tis Talk Like a Pirate Day and I, yer faithful Fourth Dwarf, be here to help ye master the lingo.
As ye'll likely not be sailin' off fer adventure and treasure, but sitting in yer government or corporate meeting chamber, here be the proper piratical way of expressin' yer lubberly thoughts.
Landlubber Talk | Shipshape Pirate Talk |
We have achieved a positive outcome | We’re bung up and bilge free |
We have gained a market advantage over the competition | We’ve sailed to windward and taken their weather guage |
Perform a post-project evaluation | Tally up the butcher's bill |
Dialogue with a stakeholder | Chew the fat with chummy |
We will meet this afternoon | Ye’ll see me when the sun be over the yardarm |
A good candidate for senior management | A right smart upper yardman |
Recruit new human resources | Pressgang a new crew |
We must increase our efforts | We’d best put some wind behind our sails |
Acting contrary to the direction of the chief executive | Crossing the bow of the old man |
Insufficiently prepared for an unforeseen contingency | There’s the devil to pay and no pitch hot |
We shall now adjourn | Hoist the Blue Peter and weigh anchor |
Several staff members are asking policy questions | We’ve a few sea lawyers among the hands |
Intervene in a consultation without an invitation | Shove an oar in |
Reduce quality to increase quantity | Water the grog |
An effective temporary measure | A rum jury rig |
Cost recovery | Flogging the booty |
Reduce overhead to enhance efficiency | Jettison the supercargo |
Our initiative failed to meet its planned targets | We were right scuppered |
Assert our brand identity | Hoist the Jolly Roger! |
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