Author archive

LGBT2SQQQBLMORMORSS&S and sometimes Y    (2006.09.17)

Why settle for just L or G when you could be LGBT2SQQQBLMORMORSS&SY?

Newspaperman scooters    (2006.09.14)

But your typical newspaperman wouldn’t be caught dead on something as girly as a scooter.

Treaded paving behemoth    (2006.09.13)

Two tracks o’ text    (2006.09.13)

When to caption a subtitled movie (on CBC, always)

Memory Lane Rolls    (2006.09.12)

It may well appear that a Silver Spirit is parked outside the truck-parts shop on a back alley.

The only way in which looks deceive is that the “alley” is a full-fledged street improbably called Memory Lane. It is now demonstrably possible to go down Memory Lane in one’s Rolls.

(“Do you drive it in the winter?” “My wife does,” said the old man in the hat with the too-broad brim. “Got to use them,” I said. “They can’t be just ornamental.”)

Knox Swindon    (2006.09.11)

For a while there, the easiest path to a British car was to buy a Honda.

They aren’t bringing them into the country anymore (first it was due to exchange rates, then because they stopped making them). That was to my chagrin, as I adore these brutalist slabs.

‘The Hobgoblin of Canadian English Spelling’    (2006.09.11)

130 words that are spelled differently in the U.S., the U.K., and of course Canada

Sprinkler in rock    (2006.09.10)

Heavy lift    (2006.09.09)

Try to determine on which plane each of these visible objects is located.