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The rare Merkur XR4Ti (“Marecoor Eksratty”) was a rear-wheel-drive sports coupé whose European design (also manufacture) was ahead of its time. I adored these goddamned quarter windows and double spoilers from the moment I saw them.

Blue car has an angled-forward rear quarter window and two stacked spoilers attached to the rear window

Besides, Armin Tamzarian drives one.

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.11.20 17:04. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
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Deep-blue van has sky-blue airbrushed script letters reading Van Winkle (and SIGNAGE below in sky-blue Eras)

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.11.20 17:04. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
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Do you want your kids spending time in a playground with a blackletter sign?

Green sign with undulating edges reads McCleary Playground in blackletter and CITY OF TORONTO DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION in Helvetica Condensed

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.11.20 17:03. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
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Vintage studio television camera is rectangular with a protruding round lens and CHANNEL 9 TORONTO COLOR written on coloured bands on the side

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.11.19 19:00. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
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Another in a series of postings on CBC captioning (also see the separate page on the topic)

After they essentially lost a human-rights complaint, CBC Television and Newsworld have been required to caption every single thing on their networks, including bumpers, intros, extros, and promos for their own shows, since 2002. They’re the only broadcasters I know of with true 100%-captioning requirements.

How are they doing?

Poorly. Unbeknownst to CBC, I spent three years taking notes on missing and defective captioning, and now I have released the results.

The best part? While I was E-mailing out the press release, I spotted a promo for Politics with Don Newman on Newsworld that was, in fact, uncaptioned.

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.11.15 12:53. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
https://blog.fawny.org/2005/11/15/cbc/

From an advertisement for a two-bit horror movie of some kind:

© 2005 Cinelamda Internationale Filmproduktionsgesellschaft mbH & Co. 1 Beteiligungs-KG. All rights reserved.

You tell me what language code to apply to that.

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.11.11 13:43. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
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Slate front of building has metal TORONTO HYDRO ELECTRIC SYSTEM letters standing out from the stone on stalks

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.11.10 16:10. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
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Bit of a clash of eras and sensibilities here.

Side-by-side doors are labeled 1510 in Didot and 1512 in Arial Italic

“Mavis? Can I pop over and borrow a cup of Arial?”

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.11.10 16:10. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
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Pumpkin has carved round holes across its entire surface and lights within

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.11.10 16:09. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
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