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Coppering the Fleet

April 25th, 2008 · Comments Off on Coppering the Fleet · Economics, Entertainment, General Interest, History, Lifestyle, Technology Advances

Faced with the rapid changes brought about by computers and the Internet, one can easily be fooled into thinking that leaps in technology are something new in the course of human events. In actual fact, there have been similar seismic shifts throughout history. These have often come in the area of military advances, to gain […]

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Bathroom Humour

April 14th, 2008 · Comments Off on Bathroom Humour · Allegory or Fairy Tale, Children and Pets, Construction Humor, Entertainment, Family Humor, General Humor, Jokes, Lifestyle, Public Speaking

There is bathroom humour and then there is “in the bathroom” humour, which may be a form of advertising.   I have been accused, on occasion, of using bathroom humour in my speeches and written material. This mystified me until I realized that there had been a misunderstanding.  

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Celine Dion, Jack Bauer and NAFTA

March 6th, 2008 · Comments Off on Celine Dion, Jack Bauer and NAFTA · Canada Humor, Celebrities, Economic Humor, Entertainment, General Humor, Lifestyle

In the course of the current primary and caucus season in the United States, the Democratic contenders, both Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama, say they want to re-open NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement) to deal with some perceived hardships faced by U.S. business.

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