November 12, 2012
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Sometimes I Forget I'm Supposed To Remember

I know I should have spent yesterday in a more solemn way, dahrlings. But my entire extraction into dysfamily function is a war casualty. So I prefer to forget. Nonetheless, we must celebrate the brave and the selfless among us.…

November 07, 2012
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Too Bad, So Sad, You Lose

Nice try though. I do love a good battle, Pumpkins. The mudslinging. The rhetoric. It’s exhilarating to watch them dig into each other’s past affiliations – reputations flying like panties at a sorority sleep over. (They don’t really do…

November 02, 2012
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Natural Forces Are With Us

I think of myself as a unique force of nature, Pumpkins, and I don’t take kindly to anyone muscling in on my turf. Not funny Hodge. There’s only room for one Ivanna in this town. In other aberrations, since…

October 30, 2012
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I Smell The Blood Of An Englishman

  It’s that time of year, pumpkins. For ghouls, goblins and all manner of undead to rise up from whence they were banished and take up new positions in travel. I’ve been sussing out a rumour, dahrlings, that…

October 26, 2012
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Taking Voyeurism To A Whole New Percentage

Well I have heard of high grade perversion, dahrlings, but this next item puts Christian Grey to shame. Tripcentral.ca President Richard Vanderlubbe commissioned an Ipsos Reid poll to get full disclosure on the sex acts of 1,013 Canadian women…

October 24, 2012
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I've Got A Raging Case Of Debate

To GDS, or not to GDS. That is the question. To borrow from Romney’s colourful debating, when it comes to the GDS, Pumpkins, the airlines are like a bunch of bindered women. They are tied up in legacies -…

October 19, 2012
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These Boys Can Hunt!

Those Hunter boys sure aren’t gun-shy, are they Pumpkins? The men who brought the packaged vacation to Bagotville (departures dahrlings, not arrivals) are fast becoming a tour de force in the resort biz. To use a golf analogy, these…

October 16, 2012
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If It's Tuesday This Must Be Vegas

Spare a thought for the suppliers dahrlings, for they have many miles to travel before they sleep. The ragged road warriors who promote their products to Pumpkins are in overdrive this time of year, launching, training, conferencing, presenting, awarding and…

October 12, 2012
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I Didn't See That One Coming

I will admit I did not see Encore coming. WesJet’s naming of the regional by employees could have been a disaster. (It’s a wonder it didn’t end up being called Tweetums or Captain Underpants.) Encore is a sensible, if slightly…

October 10, 2012
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Birds Of A Feather Flock Together

“It takes all kinds,” Mama Gabbalot always said. A good thing too Pumpkins, because her daughter (aka moi) has never been what most people would call normal. In fact, my French teacher frequently referred to me as “bébête.” I thought…