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Showing posts with label Misc. Show all posts

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Airport Announcement

I'm just in the airport in Las Vegas. Over the intercom comes a booming voice "Attention, to the passenger who left their hearing aid and false teeth in the men's washroom... (Pause)... If you can hear me.... Please come to gate D54".

Everyone in the terminal broke out laughing.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

No new sales tax on fast food

McDonald's, Tim Hortons et al continue to be a powerful lobby... disappointing:

No new sales tax on fast food - thestar.com

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Painting at its Best!

After working for a small student painting business one summer in High School, a friend and I decided to launch our own company, "Precision Student Painters". At some point (maybe the second summer), we were faced with a "huge" (at the time, it seemed momentous) decision on whether to spend all of our cash on an expensive, front page add in the shopping news (a whopping $1,000). We battled back and forth on the risk-reward factor, and I think I won :-). The ad was a huge success and the rest of the summer was very busy. Here it is:

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

My wife cut my oranges up

I spied Frank at work eating a curiously cut and packaged orange. I asked him who did that (knowing the answer) and he said Donna, his wife. Then he said "don't ever say I don't have any pull with my wife.

(UPDATE: He was trying to move it out of the way when I started to snap the picture... guilty conscious?)


Friday, May 15, 2009

Dim Sum

Once a month we go to Dim Sum on Dundas in Mississauga. Awesome recovery meal :-)

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

McDonald's 911

This is from my buddy Gilles... unbelievable: McNuggets gone? Call 911