Dear Pumpkins, I have been peering up the WestJet baggage carousel for 2 days now waiting for my teal wrapped gift box to descend. Last night the Pearson attendants kindly pulled me back down from the conveyor opening when…
Dear Pumpkins, To date, over 200 of you have voted in this week’s Open Jaw Voting Booth – and of that, almost 60% admit to selling whichever supplier pays the most. I understand. I do. Back in the…
Well, dahrlings, another illustration of the male drive to dominate the skies is in play. This time out of the west with “aviation vets” Jim Scott (VP Nexus), Dix Lawson (consultant) and David Solloway (formerly Oasis Hong Kong Airlines) announcing…
Sometimes, dahrlings, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a scheming gaggle of company directors. Sometimes it’s a duck. The itravel2000 saga, as it will be referred to until the next millennium, has all the…
Where will it end dear Pumpkins… ? The IBM super-computer that won Jeopardy – sexily named Watson – is now being touted as the next competitor to living, breathing travel agents. According to the computer maker, all you need…
Because dynamic packaging propelled it there, dahrlings. How very clever of Sunquest to release themselves from the shackles of Canadian gateways and offer cheap packages from U.S. border towns. Without all that aircraft baggage to worry about, I bet…
I’m fundamentally a pacifist, Pumpkins. Shootings, killings and maimings are not rosy matters, and I would prefer everyone simply avoided them. (God knows, had I ever been drafted, I would have run off the battlefield, pink feathers flying, screeching about…
That charming do-gooder Bruce Poon Tip seems very concerned with our G spots, dahrlings. I discovered mine some time ago on a Puerto Plata FAM (a couple of agreeable tour guides knew the way). Well, apparently women are so…
Did it not cross any one’s mind way back in 1999 that by 2001 a reference to the millennium will be as passé as canned spider webs on November 1st? Done. Over. Last millennium’s news, dahrlings. If Vision 2000…
I love expense reports, don’t you, dahrlings? Who amongst us has not been tempted to slip that extra Timmies onto one? Perhaps even an extra house? It’s really no wonder highly paid feds are squabbling over hundreds of thousands…
