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January 6th, 2012 at 07:38 pm

It's a religious observation, sure, but meditating on its secular connotation here are some:
1. my food bill is high because the meat I buy is growth-hormone free. Sure that sounds smug until you know that my dying mom asked me to eat organic and whole foods. If your parents died from degenerative and cardiac disease you'd be making different choices too.

2. Inertia is the only thing stopping us from cancelling our landline. The only calls are from offshore autodialers, and they're not worth running out of the shower to answer.

3. You know what would be funny? A 2000s-era home-building publicly traded company specializing in Nevada/Arizona/California properties called "Icarus." Seattle can have "Fungi Bull Properties."

4. Come to think of it "Seattle Spores" would be a funny NHL hockey name.

5. The Canucks is not a nice team name: "A Canadian, esp. a French Canadian (chiefly used by Canadians themselves and often derogatory in the US)", but it's used. What's sad is that "Canadiens" is a team name used in a city in a separatist province. "Canadian" is also a code term

Text is white American racists use to label African-Americans and Link is http://theframeproblem.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/is-the-term-canadian-the-new-code-word-for-racist-references-to-black-people/
white American racists use to label African-Americans.

6. Insurance companies somehow know when our insurance becomes due: three solicitations in two days for our business. Two of them give teaser quotes higher than what we currently pay, and one of them has the Hugh Dennis catchphrase
Text is "Are you paying too much for... insurance?" and Link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IyCJSO-S80
"Are you paying too much for... insurance?"

7. Ease is the Disease.

8. For your decluttering/weight-loss/woo-trippy pleasure,
Text is It's All Too Much and Link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXjOf7kdHpA
It's All Too Much - Beatles YouTube (safe for all)

3 Responses to “Epiphanies”

  1. mjrube94 Says:
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    Love #4, never knew #5.

  2. PauletteGoddard Says:
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    About #5, plus it's inappropriate for Vancouver as it has a scant number of French Canadians. Cantonese is the second most spoken language, followed by maybe Mandarin and then Hindi. Easier to find French speakers in Toronto or London, England than in Vancouver!

  3. frugaltexan75 Says:
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    Interesting - that must be why I've gotten umpteen dozen phone calls, emails and texts the past few days ... my auto insurance is up for renewal.

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