Monthly Archives: November 2023

Hamlet’s Speech, published 1623, as in the Norton First Folio Facsimile

  Pages, in actuality, are lighter and somewhat more readable than above.

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“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle”

Memorable feminist slogan by Irina Dunn.

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Long Overdue: Canadian Icon Gets Stamped

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Hard CNN News, Today Headline

Snoop Dog has given up smoking weed.

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Two Lost Basic Skills for Men and Boys

snapping fingers whistling, especially of melodies. Often boys and men would whistle while doing nothing in particular and to make music. Whistling was one way to entertain oneself when walking or working alone.

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The ‘No Stone Left Alone’ Initiative

whereby school children go to cemeteries to leave poppies on deceased soldiers’ graves is an excellent way to honour the dead who fought in wars to safeguard our country, other countries, and the world. For me, this is a significant, … Continue reading

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An Untried Remembrance Day Project

One of those many ‘leftovers’ from a poetry presentation to senior high teachers I, ironically, never got to try myself. Remembrance Day: War Poetry Read John McCrae’s “In Flanders Fields”, then discuss how war has provoked much writing on the … Continue reading

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Remembrance Day: Some Things Remain the Same Annually Here

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Heard My First Xmas Song Today,

used in a tv commercial as usual. The commercialization of Christmas has long been bemoaned going back to a Lawrence Ferlinghetti poem from his 1958 classic A Coney Island of the Mind: Christ climbed down from His bare Tree this … Continue reading

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As I’ve said before, anything not bolted down

is liable to get stolen and sometimes even bolted things get stolen, too. Like the 6 million 18-carat gold toilet that’s been stolen from an English palace, as reported today.

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