Archive for January, 2007


Letting Girlfriends Go

29 January 2007

Most of us know how to deliver breakup news to a bloke: be honest yet tactful and avoid gauche text messages along lines of “IDIVORCEU.”

But what are the rules for breaking up with a girlfriend?
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Phatic Gesturing

22 January 2007

I think people working in the service industries in this country have microchips voluntarily imbedded in their brains. 

I mean how else do you account for their pervasive use of the phatic gesture, “And how are you today?”  Or that other beaut and cheery one: “Have a nice day!”
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Kids & Passion

15 January 2007

Have you listened to a child lately, taken note as they’ve talked about their dreams and passions?

I didn’t think kids had passions, I knew they had hobbies.  I’ve always associated passion with grown ups, more specifically, two grown-ups in hot pursuit of skin-on-skin activity.
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New Year Boobs

8 January 2007

I had a mammogram last week. 

Yep, started out the New Year waiting anxiously in “Radiography” browsing out-of-date mags and watching a woman next to me knit.  She must have been nervous too. 
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