No, not me: just everybody in Montreal, apparently. So I attach this article for your entertainment.
When I was in Montreal a few years ago (staying in residential neighborhood), one of my first thoughts was “How do these people get large items such as refrigerators in and out of their homes with no elevators or even internal non-spiral stairways?”
The answer apparently is “With a lot of difficulty.”
When did this trend of pluralizing words by adding a gratuitous apostrophe before the s begin? I don’t remember seeing this before a few years ago, and now it’s all over the place. Certainly nobody ever learned this in school.
English is a very tough language to learn. Just about THE ONLY THING THAT’S EASY is being able to pluralize most words by adding an s.
Even though I KNEW I’d still be in Manhattan at midnight, I forgot to queue up Sunday’s post.
I’m just lucky I don’t fire me.
Apparently, comments containing really long URLs go into Moderation: it’s as if the program’s just too lazy to read it all and figures “Yeah, there must be something bad in there somewhere.”
Today, in a bit of synchronicity, I heard two totally unrelated references to the proverbial “slacker who lives in his mother’s basement” (in one, he spends every waking hour playing WoW; in the other, tweeting insane conspuracy theories).
Is this something that actually happens? It seems to me that if a child never leaves home, or returns home after graduation or whatever, he’d be in his old bedroom. Kinda rude to banish him into the basement, innit?
Maybe somebody knows the answer to this one.
Since there’s no way this isn’t going to turn political (though I’m asking the question in general terms), I moved it over to the Crimeweek Page.
Twenty years ago, when I was visiting my brother’s family in California, we were in a park and he used his cell phone (I didn’t even have a cell phone at the time) to call a local pizza place to have them deliver it to us there. It was an odd request, because they delivered to homes, but they agreed to do it and my brother gave the guy a nice tip.
And now welcome to 2019, when even having speaking to a human being to place your park food order seems retro.
Assault or not? You are the Jury.
Yesterday morning I got an Instant Message from an unknown number saying simply “Please text me.”
Um… no. “The scammers aren’t even making an effort anymore,” I thought.
Then an hour later I read…
Comics I Don't Understand 