Category Archives: Leger-de-Mind

Backwards

“Well, see you later. I’m off to buy sheets.” “You’re going to carry out unnecessary commerce on a Sunday?” “Oh, no, it’s necessary. I gave up shopping for Lent.”

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Public Health Paranoia

Ontario hasn’t recovered from SARS. Witness the girl who rubbed with alcohol and put on gloves before weighing me a kilo of fusilli. I should have asked: “If I promise to sterilize the pasta in boiling water before eating it, … Continue reading

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Positive Feedback Collapse

You know you’re pretty close to a manual restart when the last line under Program Manager’s applications tab is ‘Program Manager – (Not Responding)’.

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Malpractice

From a study investigating risk factors for retained foreign bodies after surgery: “The increased risk associated with increased body-mass index probably reflects the amount of room there is in a patient in which to lose a sponge or instrument.”

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Coffee Experiment

If you start working at a froofy coffee joint that offers such far-fetched, not really coffeelike abominations as the half-caf-skim-milk-almond-roca-mocha,-oh-and-could-you-put-it-over-ice-with-one-of-those-non-sugar-sweeteners-please, you might start wondering how you can modify your own morning joe at home. As they say in the north, fly … Continue reading

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Don’t leave those kids alone

Here’s a sign from the nearby office supplies store: “Unattended children will be given an espresso and a free puppy.”

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Thank you…

…Nail in Coffin, for the picture. But did you have to use the one from my weaker years?

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Irony is also:

Although you can shoot heroin and cocaine at Vancouver’s “Safe injection site,” there’s a sign on the wall banning smoking. After all, cigarettes are bad for you.

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Irony is:

A firefighter taking a break from fighting a blazing fire, taking off his face mask, and lighting up a smoke.

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Shock media

As more evidence that King 5 News of Seattle only reports bad news, here are the main stories this evening: An avalanche, bomb sniffing dogs, a terrible winter storm, a tree into a building, and puppies. That smuggle drugs.

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