April 13, 2010
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Call Me Fowl Mouthed

Apparently, dahrlings, Travel 3.0 (or, as I like to say, Three Point, Oh!) has arrived. Nobody’s coined the term yet, but, trust me, it’s coming. Forrester Research says – you can pretty much say anything if you call yourself that…

April 09, 2010
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I'd Like To Buy The World A Coke

I studied in a convent, dahrlings, where I acquired some of my most useful skills. The nuns did their best to teach a bunch of horny hormonal school girls about Jesus, but I must have missed the part where he…

April 06, 2010
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Zee Planes! Zee Planes!

There! Hear it? The sound of the other stiletto falling. Here I was, worried all weekend about how Sunquest was going to lift itself up next winter – and bingo! My inbox tinkled with the jazzy news at 8:45 am…

April 01, 2010
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Nobody's Fool

Did your clients think they were leaving on a jet plane called Skyservice today? Ha! Ha! Not so funny, eh, Pumpkins. For the Titans running this business, there’s no such thing as playing nice. And yesterday, someone released the Kraken.…

March 30, 2010
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Time To Get Crackin'

All indicators are pointing to “goâ€, Pumpkins. Stores are busy, interest rates and heels are rising, Gregg Saretsky’s talkin’ Delta partnership — all signs the economy is picking up speed. And so should you. I know there are plenty…

March 26, 2010
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Is Gregg Saretsky Overexposed?

Durfy hasn’t even left the building, Pumpkins, and Gregg is stampeding the media like a hungry bull at a flapjack breakfast. Show a little restraint, there fella. At least wait till the job is yours. For the last two…

March 24, 2010
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Has Someone Found A Better Business Model?

People! People! Consumers aren’t totally stupid. They can figure out that they clicked to book a $659 package, which inexplicably changed to $1,100.  That’s the kind of thing people notice. And now they’re talking about it to the media. …

March 19, 2010
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Musings On Virginal Vestiges

I am so utterly appalled with our government, Pumpkins, I could spit. Phtew. There. How exactly does a program to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of women in developing countries NOT include birth control? Ever heard of AIDS,…

March 16, 2010
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Flip, Flop & Fly Boy

So Durfy’s out, eh, Pumpkins. Everyone’s asking: What does it mean? Was he pushed? Does he really just want to stay home and play with the kids? I’ll tell you what, he’s not a flyboy, that’s…

March 12, 2010
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There's No Order To Anything Anymore

The mighty Transat is being portrayed in a limp light (a CBC business reporter asked last night if a 10% drop in profits meant danger for consumers being stranded. Where do these people get their training?  The Journalism Institute of…