The Gifted Typist

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Members of PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) staged a demonstration today in front of Canada House in Trafalgar Square in...

Yes, the Delusional Calgaria campaign to get Nova Scotians back home is cute and funny. Yes, Nova Scotians have a good sense of humour, a ...

Here is TagBagger's Pythonesque take on IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices) which we banned in the previous post. Cynical? Or just cal...

Why can't we just call a bomb a bomb? Sure, there are different types of bombs. There are big bombs, little bombs, fertilizer bombs, sma...

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Most transvestites are just regular guys , who occasionally like to eat, drink and be Mary - Joe Joseph (Couldn't find anything on JJ. A...

Slacker answers her FAQs this week. Read here for answers to these and other questions: 1. Where do you stand on the organization Slobs wit...

Due to a combination of circumstances, this typist went AWOL yesterday. This blog and its readers were completely ignored for the entire day...

SWF* is a standard lingo in the world of personal ads IMglish, but personal ads are swimming in IMglishisms, some of which you may know, oth...

Not from the gymnasium, from the fiddle or from the step-dancing floor, but Rodney MacDonald should be banned from the playground of provinc...

Spring 2007 officially arrives 21 March 00:07 GMT. That means it arrives 20 March at 9:07 pm in this part of the world. By the looks of thin...

These two roses* appear to be overlooking the scene of one of the worst marine disasters in Canadian history. They were found attached to a ...

Here was the lobster feast that produced the odd crustacean Pushmepullyou . It was lobster on an Asian theme and it was every bit as mouth w...

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police. - Keith Richards, British musician

For a brief moment last year, we thought there might be hope for the Back-to-Clutter Movement. Articles appeared in the newspaper talking ab...

The typist has left the stenopool for a few days to attend a typing convention. Back on Sunday with a favourite quote. ttfn (look it up in y...

A lobster feast resulted in this curious arrangement of crustacean carcasses. What would Dr. Dolittle think?

Here are more bad trannies. Perhaps "trannies" is an ambiguous choice of word implying a man dressed as a woman. Maybe it is a bad...

Sometimes you have have to tell your txt partner how you're feeling about things. This Imglishisms might help to convey happiness or som...

Because enough is enough! Yes, Nova Scotia has a black eye after the Commonwealth bid failure. Yes, the political leadership here is spectac...

There is no question that a public performance of music is one of life's great pleasures, unless you happen to find yourself in vicinity...

I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about someone else's happine...

"It is tragically ironic." This is how Andrew Pipe, president of Commonwealth Games Canada responded to news that Halifax had drop...

Up to her eyebrows in ice-crusted sludge after a March lion snow storm last weekend, Slacker's spirit was almost broken by the prospect ...

This typist will be guinea pigging (is this correct typing?) in a typing experiment this Saturday at Dalhousie University. The idea is to ma...

More cold weather; more frost. It's curious how similar these fractals are to ferns or evergreen trees. Perhaps our Chief Forestry Corre...

Tempted though I am, I won't re-name this series Bad Trannies as it might not go down so well in translation. So, here is your second cr...