Murderer: "Please let me know if there are any new developments in the case! I'd like to be of assistance to you."
Columbo: "Don't worry. When I catch the killer, you'll be the first to know."
I used to resist the Canadian curling stereotype, but now I'm married to a high school curling coach, and I cried during the 2010 gold medal men's game, when everyone started singing "Oh Canada."
It's like the person who complained that the Two Medieval Monks were historically inaccurate! Somehow, it makes these posts all the sweeter when dudes don't get them.
I don't know how I missed that strange detail! That story keeps giving and giving.
Every update about the Tim Hortons goat story brings me such joy: his owners suspect he was kidnapped! (Side note: if he was kidnapped, how did he escape his kidnappers?) He went missing from a student rodeo cabaret, at a nearby bar! He has a goat friend named Sparkles! There may be plenty wrong with this province, but we have A++ animals in Timmy's stories.
(My favourite detail from the snake-throwing incident was when the owner/thrower of Tim Hortons snake tried to get his snake back from the authorities.)
Sacred Grounds! Every in-church coffee shop I've ever seen has been either "Sacred Grounds" or "Holy Grounds."
Fantastic article. I live in Regina, and I believe all of our public schools named after women are elementary schools. I only know the story behind a handful of the school names, and they're all either beloved former principals, or people who held major roles in the board of education. To me, that also highlights several gender inequalities here: women being less frequently hired as high school principals, and particularly less likely to become known as beloved high school principals in the community, as well as the tendency (when naming a school after a member of the general public or the Board of Education, previously unconnected to the namesake school) to associate women only with elementary schools.
Possibly? It also sounds like the plot to Nicolas Baker's "Subsoil." (A while ago, I admitted in the Toast comments to finding potatoes to be creepy, and people responded with the scariest potato stories!)
It's not like they sprout tentacles from their eyes or anything! Ha ha ha. Totally not scary.
I just checked my recommendations, and it's all cordless phones and children's picture books. Is Amazon Canada boring, or am I? (I fear I know the answer.)
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