The Many Rants of Larry Russwurm- Has Liz II Been Cheated Out of an Era?
- Boy is My Face Red
- Liz: ‘No Fascinators at My Diamond Jubilee’
- New Improved Birth Order Theory
- The Ligh-yer Based Professions and the Unending Copyright Wars
- The Ultimate in Anti Intellectuals – Cats
- Stories that are Setting Driven
- Poor Harper – He’s Jonesing Right Now
- An Offbeat Strategy for an Offbeat Party
- The Leap Week Calendar
Category Archives: Language
Fashionable Spin
Did you hear about the latest tooth fashion from Japan? Fashion consumers are paying to make their teeth crooked. You read correctly all you poor parents going into hock to make your children’s teeth straight. And you teenagers and teenyboppers … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Humour, Language, Politics
Tagged a heavy man is a bear of a man, Arlene Dickinson, blonde streaks, crooked teeth can be fashionable, double tooth cap for canines, fashion spin, fashion spin just might be good for teens, grey hair, heavy as full figured, Japan fashion
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4k
Now that I’ve found this ubercool spelling for the kitchen utensil, I’m afraid I’m going to have to insist that 4k (pronounced fork) only refers to the four tined variety of implement. Can we all agree that 5 tines and … Continue reading
Why Can’t the Seat of Emotions be in Another Organ
It’s oh so poetical to say our emotions are in our heart. This leads to sometimes stupid symbolism like “Show me the shape of your heart.” But probably the most famous metaphor is to say you are heartbroken when somebody … Continue reading
Waterloo Region Citizens
I’ve had a handful of searches land on my site looking up “geographical humour”. I’m a bit surprised because I thought that those who were into geography were, as a rule, humourless. Since this might not be the case, I … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, Humour, Language
Tagged Cambridge, can't corrupt Saint, Dorks in case you're wondering, extreme pun alert, Kitchener, Waterloo, Waterloo Region
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Musicians are Tone Deaf
Right off the top it might not be all musicians. I am going by all the songs I know in the English speaking world. Why the English language? That, as it turns out, is important. The English language itself has … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Language, Music
Tagged Bee Gees, Bon Jovi, English language music is tone deaf, falsetto words as questions, guitar tabs are good, last word rise in pitch denotes yes/no question, old notation songbooks are wrong, Questionable Music as new genre, rise in pitch for a sentence means it's a question, Roger Dean, Roundabout, Supertramp, the urban Ontario dialect, Yes
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One Possible Reparation for a Genocide
The Armenian genocide doesn’t quite get the respect it deserves. Firstly, almost all Turks are Armenian genocide deniers. Secondly, after the bigger (and more obvious to the west) Jewish holocaust, not much is spoken about the Armenian trials. The newer … Continue reading
Liberal Vagueness Might Still Exist for Alternating PMs
It begins with a simple fact. Federal Liberal leaders since 1887 have alternated between French and English Canadians. That’s 124 years of history. That has changed this year. With the drubbing the federal Liberals took in the last federal election … Continue reading
Anchored in Past Tense
The first thing I thought as I perused my sister Laurie’s draft of her novel Inconstant Moon was that it was unfortunately in present tense. ‘Why is this unfortunate?’ you might ask, and I would tell you that I immediately … Continue reading
Approaches by the Other
Here’s what I have written on a scrap of paper as an idea for this post: Since the weaker members of society are being given more respect, what will we use for insults? Maybe sacrifice the F word and totally … Continue reading
Policing the Word Police
I’ve been surfing the net to find what phrase or word has superseded the older and now frowned upon term ‘mentally retarded’. I did it for pure self interest, at first, until I found that the phrase I thought might … Continue reading