Gifted Typist

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What would you rather do: “throw a party” or do “some entertaining?”
Would you rather see your host relaxing and having fun, or shuffling around attending to people’s needs?
Would you rather herd into the kitchen and drink beer from the bottle? Or be seated in the living room and be served [...]

Brand hype is nothing new. Think Apple, Halo3, Sex in the City.
Yoga wear is nothing new, either. It’s great for kicking around the house and things like, well, yoga. But the lululemon phenomenon is curious.
Sure, the iconic brand appeals to young girls and young women still in the process of forming their identities and making [...]

But there was no Emergency.
Joel Plaskett was on stage Monday night at a new restaurant in town, and I was lucky enough to get a great seat. It was less a concert and more like being invited into his living room for a performance for friends and family. Joel is a hometown boy.
We ate a [...]

At the cottage this weekend, the grey day broke on Saturday afternoon and the landscape came to life with rich sunlit colour which was reflected in the still chance. On the other side is white-sand beach and the ocean.
Sunday was lovely, even warm enough for the black flies to come out.

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Flax seed and multigrain. Spinach, tomato and potato. Trans fat free.
Big bold cheese flavour. Chips of a less hurried time.
Huh?
Walk down the chip aisle of a grocery store these days and you’d think you were in a health food store.
People, they’re chips. Chips are a tasty, salty, unhealthy vice. [...]

Randy would have said he could sing the phonebook.
Paula would have said she loved him for who he is.
Simon would have said he had bad song choices.
All I can say is thank god there was no American Idol back in ‘63 when Dylan started out.
I was late after attending the Grade Six Band concert, which [...]

Tonight the music planets have lined up and choices must be made.
What should I do*:
- attend the Grade Six First Year Band concert featuring one of the little typists on clarinet
- attend Bob Dylan concert
- watch the America Idol final
*With some fast footwork and the use of technology, I should manage all three.

On a cold foggy morning, I happened to be on a wharf as the lobster boats were arriving with their catch.
This prized shellfish is destined for fine fish markets the world over and it was exciting to witness it landing right before my eyes.
Later that night, after the sun burned through the fog, there was [...]

Gaaaane for the  use of the medical dictionary words in the following sentence. This entry caused me to snort out loud (SOL)and it incorporated 8 terms which impresses me to no end.
Pelvis got labour pain when an impotent boss rectum by beating him with a medical staff in the recovery room while yelling, “I node, you told [...]

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How I long for the day when you’d get spam from the Nigerian guy. Remember him?
When you compare his spam to some of the junk that lands in your inbox these days, you begin to appreciate  the Nigerian guy’s spams and scams. The Nigerian guy understood the meaning of the [...]

IT’s contest time at GT.
Your challenge is to create a sentence using three words listed in the medical dictionary below. The meanings have to be taken from the new definition. You get extra points for including more than three words.
Enter as many times as you like.
Here is an example
“My biggest enema told a fibula about [...]

Last night this typist gasped. At math.
No kidding. I laughed too. And clapped. And marveled. And jumped to my feet. At math. MATH!And you would have gasped, laughed, clapped and marveled too, if you’d witnessed someone work this out in their head:
57,682 x 57,682 =
It took him about 20 seconds to come up with the [...]

The Latvian hockey fans lived up to the legend they have become in this town.
This place hasn’t been the same since fifteen hundred Latvians arrived last weekend for the International Ice Hockey Federation Championship.
Lucky me managed to snag seats for the Latvian – Norway match.
The hockey was good but the fans were the main attraction. [...]

I found the following note on my typist’s desk the other evening.
My mommy is looking at blogs too much. In other words she is rotting her eyes out. Someday she will die from the computer. (nah, na, na, nah nah!) She also writes her columns on the computer. Blogs + columns = 23 hours a [...]

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Think about this: In the first quarter of this year, ExxonMobil made a $10.8 billion profit. And investors were disappointed. It wasn’t enough. $10.8billion in three months wasn’t enough profit.
Now think about this: skyrocketing gas prices, spiraling grocery costs, food panics all over the world.
Do you see what [...]