Monthly Archives: December 2009

Creative Advertising – from The Messenger of Silliness

Occasionally something beautiful arrives in the inbox. Here’s an example! httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwGRIG5GKNM or click the link below Creative Advertising Sent to me by:

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Why men should not give advice!

Every now and again, something serious (read funny) shows up in my email box. Here’s a good example of why men should not be asked for advice! Dear Walter, I hope you can help me here. The other day I … Continue reading

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The Mounties – We Get Our Man!

I probably should have called this post “Those infernal revenooers!” We flew south for a holiday in the spring of 1971 which was our second spring in Goose Bay. Upon our return, we took a taxi from the airport to … Continue reading

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A Heart Warming Story!

Today I received an email from a friend. I want to share it with the world. In 1986, Peter Davies was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern University. On a hike through the bush, he came across a … Continue reading

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Introducing “The Goose”

A month after our elopement, I quit the DEW Line and found a job nearly as remote in Goose Bay, Labrador. We began our married life. I was to remain an electronics technician working for Canadian Marconi maintaining military and … Continue reading

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The Elopement of Chris and Cheryl

The year was 1969. I had just spent the better part of a year on Baffin Island near a village called Cape Dyer. I had quit my job with the phone company in Montreal the previous fall and started work … Continue reading

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How do you like your coffee?

There’s a deli restaurant in Toronto called The Pickle Barrel. When we lived in the area we loved to go there for pastrami, corned beef and other deli favorites. One of the waiters at the Pickle Barrel in Willowdale was … Continue reading

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The Gas Tank

I was nineteen, the year was 1966, and three friends, Roger Pelletier, Dennis Albisser, Steve Hand and I rented a cottage for the summer. The cottage was on Fitch Bay in the Eastern Townships near Montreal. The cottage came with … Continue reading

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Female Sexual Behavior

It’s 1960 and I was in Grade Eight. In Canada where I grew up we called it Grade Eight. In the USA where we now live, one says Eighth Grade. Let me set the scene. My mother is the school … Continue reading

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The Blind Date or How I met your Mother?

Most of our friends know that Cheryl, my first wife, my only wife and now my wife of forty years, and I met on a blind date. Very few know the details of that first evening. We were nineteen; it was … Continue reading

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