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Tuesday night, parents with children at urban schools threatened with closure had their turn to speak as PEI’s Eastern School District continued consultations on a plan to close 11 schools.
Next week, it will be the deceased parents of long-dead students who will get a chance to speak their minds regarding the debate over closing smaller schools across the island.
“I’m going to go right up to the magic voice-amplification stick,” says Sarah McGuigan, dead, who went to the Heatherdale school from 1888-1892, “and I’m going to tell them how important it is to keep Heatherdale school open. What do you expect us to do, go to the big two-room school-house in Kinross?”
When told that Heatherdale school has been closed for decades, McGuigan replied, “I’m sorry, I don’t hear so good.  My ears are dead too.  Could you repeat that?”

Here’s a new meme (new to me, anyway) that’s kinda fun:  Wikipedia Names Your Band
Go to the Wikipedia main page and click Random article.  That first random page’s title is the name of your band.
Next, go to this random quotes page. The last few words of the last quote on the page is the title of your album.
Finally, go to Flickr’s Interesting photos of the past 7 days page.  The third photo on that page is your album cover.

Here’s my results (I tweaked the photo using Piknik:
Band name:  Burlington GO Station
Album name: When Thy Power Can But Whisper
(I think my band is an acoustic politico-folk trio.  I don’t like my band.)

Hey everyone (maybe the “every” is superfluous since there’s, like, probably only one person who still reads this), how’s about doing Sketch22 a solid and going to SuperU and voting for Peter Peter as your favourite video in the “Broken Hearted” contest.

This sentence is the link to where you can see, and vote for, our video.

and this sentence is the link to the contest page in general.

I think number of views and/or ratings has a bearing on a video’s chances of winning.  Prize is $2500, so that’s sweet.

Much appreciated.  I haven’t looked at any of the competition yet, but Peter Peter is the best.  Yes it is.  Look deep into my eyes and listen to my font.  Peter Peter is the best.  Go and vote for it now.

If you have to register or some nonsense, in order to vote, then I understand you not doing that.  But if voting is as easy as clicking on a button, then, you know:  Sketch22 solid.

Hey, want to enter The Annekenstein Monster Oscar Pool?

It’s easy!  Just click anywhere in this sentence.

Whomever gets the most picks right will win silent applause and one (1) public notice on this blog.  Gotta admit, that’s a pretty sweet prize!

This:

Plus This:

Equals this:

Kittens Inspired by David After Dentist.

This makes me laugh too hard.  I’m not sure why, but it seems to improve so much on both originals.

A couple of years ago, Dave S and I came upon the brilliant idea of publishing a book we’d call “Kitticisms”.  It would contain photos of kittens in various situations, with intentionally not-funny thought-balloons showing what they’re thinking.  You know:  Kitticisms!
A fantastic idea, we thought, easy to do and sure to make us millionaires.  This was maybe six months before “I can has a cheeseburger?” and LOLCats exploded onto the world.
Like all our ideas, though, we did nothing with it, and then it was too late, because we couldn’t/didn’t want to compete with LOLcats.

And now, this video has trumped all of us all, because it is the best kitten themed thing ever.

kittens inspired by kittens

as an added bonus, i will post a photo that some web-program named Zemanta has deemed relevant to the words I’ve typed in this post.  That’s it up there, the picture of the cheeseburger.  That’s a good looking cheeseburger.

Dear Penthouse Letters,
I never thought I’d ever be writing to you, but after what happened to me recently, I just had to share the experience.
I am a young, attractive, male premier of a small Canadian province.  At a recent premier’s conference, I became attracted to the demeanor of a brash, outspoken fellow-premier.  After seeing his passion in action, I knew he was a “have” that this “have-not” politician just had to get to know better.
Anyway, without getting into too much detail, I ended up in bed with this person and he got on top and gave me the shaft.
I was not surprised, because my uncle always used to tell me when “two men get into bed together, one is going to get the shaft”. You may think it’s a grotesque scene, as my uncle does, but that is your hangup.  I saw it as a mutual exploration; two grown men stroking each other’s caucus.

I just hope he calls me for a second date.

Sincerely,
Red In The Tie, But Not In The Face

Dear Penthouse Letters,
I never thought I’d ever be writing to you, but after what happened to me recently, I just had to share the experience.
I am a young, attractive, male premier of a small Canadian province.  At a recent premier’s conference, I became attracted to the demeanor of a brash, outspoken fellow-premier.  After seeing his passion in action, I knew he was a “have” that this “have-not” politician just had to get to know better.
Anyway, without getting into too much detail, I ended up in bed with this person and he got on top and gave me the shaft.
I was not surprised, because my uncle always used to tell me when “two men get into bed together, one is going to get the shaft”. You may think it’s a grotesque scene, as my uncle does, but that is your hangup.  I saw it as a mutual exploration; two grown men stroking each other’s caucus.

I just hope he calls me for a second date.

Sincerely,
Red In The Tie, But Not In The Face

Some work pretty well. Others, not so much.
And, no, I’m not tagging any one else.

INSTRUCTIONS:

– Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle.

– For each question, press the next button to get your answer.

– YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS. DON’T LIE.

– Tag 10 friends (make me #11 so I can see your results). or however many you want…

– Everyone tagged has to do the same thing.

– Have Fun!

1. IF SOMEONE SAYS ‘ARE YOU OKAY’ YOU SAY?

Keep Loving Me (The Draytones)

2. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?

Comfortably Numb (Dar Williams cover of Pink Floyd)

3. WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?

String of Pearls  (Glen Miller)

4. HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?

Dream a Little Dream of Me (Mamas & Papas)

5. WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE?

Hurt (Johnny Cash)

6. WHAT’S YOUR MOTTO?

Bennie & the Jets (Elton John)

7. WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?

Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley)

8. WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?

Sucks To Be You (Prozzack)

9. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?

Nothing’s Gonna Change My Clothes (They Might Be Giants)

10. WHAT IS 2 + 2?

Pebble Beach (Vince Guaraldi Trio)

11. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?

The Call It Love (Bettye LaVette)

12. WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?

Tryin’ My Best (Jenny Lewis)

13. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?

Littlest Thing (Lily Allen)

14. WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?

P.S. I Love You (The Beatles)

15. WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?

Not Big (Lily Allen)

16. WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?

Miner’s Refrain (Gillian Welch)

17. WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?

Mr. Grieves (The Pixies)

18. WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?

Buddy Holly (Little Pictures – Weezer Cover)

19. WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?

Letter To Mom – Iris Dement

20. WHAT DO YOU WANT RIGHT NOW?

Silver – The Pixies

21. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?

Big Girls Don’t Cry – Edith Massey

22. WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?

Daisies of the Galaxy – Eels

I didn’t read the CBC New Story, but my guess would be it’s because most men don’t like the taste of warm milk.