The other day I encountered a woman that took the phrase “come by anytime” almost too literally.
She won this contest and was to come by anytime to pick up her prize by our receptionist “anytime”.
I work In a downtown office building so for starters you’d think that they’d get the picture, right?
I enter the building [...]
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People that take things too literally
December 28th, 2009 · Comments
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U.S. Congress has passed a bill thats just life changing.
December 23rd, 2009 · Comments
The U.S. Congress has just passed through a bill that’s life altering.
It is waiting passage in the Senate but soon it will be federal law that all commercials on television must not be louder than the program it airs in.
Yes, readers from America that’s what your tax dollars are going towards. They shoulda tacked [...]
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Would You Have Gone?
December 23rd, 2009 · Comments
Tonight, an old Calgary institution re-opened. They put out a Facebook event listing and I was planning on going. I even confirmed that I was “attending”.
But the weather didn’t really seem right, after all it was like -20 C with windchill. Also, looking at the event on Facebook, it seemed like 500 [...]
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Avatar is now the new target of the right. Seriously!
December 20th, 2009 · Comments
Well, this weekend a movie opened up called Avatar.
I don’t know about many of you but I keep seeing many of my friends on Facebook talking about how mindblowing this film is. Indeed, I might suck it up and sit down for 2 and a half hours this upcoming week and check it out.
However [...]
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What if there was a riot in Calgary?
December 1st, 2009 · Comments
After my “Grey Cup Aftermath” posting yesterday, I wrote a line towards the end that said essentially “Calgary could use a riot”. Well, that got me to thinking, what if Calgary did have a riot? What could cause it first of all?
Flames losing the Stanley Cup? No, fans remained peaceful when they lost in 2004.
Okay, [...]
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