You Got That Right!
By: D.C. Butterfield I once knew a feller who wore “stamper boots” and kept a street-fighters “scrapbook” whose favorite saying was, “You got that happy right big guy!” One time up at camp he sagely remarked that, “The bear sausage was barely grizzled and grizzly!” ‘Pon my soul!...
“Everything’s groovy, man!”
the old man in the hat Fiscal responsibility. Living within our means. Right sizing. Building for the next generation. All good sentiments. Catch phrases of our Torrid Government. I am not sure what the department of highways has done. I do not know whether they are in...
Keep Your Shirt On!
By: D.C. Butterfield A common expression when you want someone to calm down and rationalize is, “Keep your shirt on!”. Often used by me back in the days of dances at Riley Brook, Arthurette, Silver Slipper, Johnville and/or Glassville after an invitation to “C’mon outside!” over some local lassie....
“It’s in the mail!”
the old man in the hat Ok, I admit it. I have just celebrated or to put it more succinctly, mourned, another birthday. Now, not to share too much personal info, let us just say that I am of the age and era that just does not get Twitter....
Resolutions to live by
By Trevor Bowmaster This is the resolution time of year – and we make all kinds of them, from resolving to lose weight to taking up a new hobby. And even though we have the best of intentions, most of our resolutions eventually fall by the wayside. But here...
The Real Deal!
Really, I’m sometimes kidded about going into Coffee-Coffee with my decrepit work clothes on. [Better on than off …!] Well, they’re the proverbial “real deal”! So’s ‘She’ who proclaimed that it would be much easier to peel pulp with a “spud” if’n the tree was limbed and topped while...
“Show me the money”
the old man in the hat The government of New Brunswick has recently announced an ambitious new social program, the “New Brunswick Drug Program”, aimed at those individuals who do not have a private drug plan. Originally envisioned as a “Catastrophic Drug” coverage for those with high drug cost...
Beware Of Imitations!
Keep in mind, that we must always beware of imitations. Kind of like comparing the Ricardian theory of rent (David Ricardo 1772-1823), also called the “economic rent” model, to agriculture’s modern “ecofallow system”. Never mind if’n you don’t “get it”! Like, there are some 800,000 “apps” one can download,...
“Let them eat cake”**
the old man in the hat Our past always come back to haunt us. Some modern theories of our current penchant for consuming too many calories claim that this need to overeat is based on our genetic, hunter gatherer past, prior to the establishment of farming communities. Feast or...
You Fail Only If …
Rogue Row It is true – you fail only if …! Well, I didn’t really realize that! Like everyone, I have moments (Hours! Days! Weeks!) when I feel – low, blue, ragged-edged, tread worn down to the wear-bars, whatever! Such was such once! However, there on the front page...