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Saturday Snap – @officialRPL Movember Display

Staff at my branch had a lot of fun creating this display…

¶ Posted 09 November 2019 § Humour § Library § News § PopCulture § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health

Friday Fun Link – Is It Okay to Say “OK Boomer”?

Continuing my theme of the week…

¶ Posted 08 November 2019 § Humour § Meme § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: parents

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Moving Home (December 2006)

When I was accepted for grad school, we were pretty lucky to find an apartment that a young woman was giving up (I think she’d done a semester and became a “Christmas grad”) so when I started my program in January, we were not only able to assume her lease but buy out a lot […]

¶ Posted 07 November 2019 § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, ontario, travel

Did Dusty Rhodes’ Son Just Equal His Dad’s Best Promo?

In wrestling, Ric Flair had a character as a rich, arrogant, entitled asshole and one of his main rivals was Dusty Rhodes, a schlubby working man who was the “son of a plumber.” During one of their many feuds, Dusty delivered what is widely regarded as one of, if not the greatest, wrestling promos of […]

¶ Posted 06 November 2019 § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Sports § Wrestling ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, wrestling

“OK Boomer” Meets Public Enemy

“Ok boomer” has become Generation Z’s endlessly repeated retort to the problem of older people who just don’t get it, a rallying cry for millions of fed up kids. Teenagers use it to reply to cringey YouTube videos, Donald Trump tweets, and basically any person over 30 who says something condescending about young people — […]

¶ Posted 05 November 2019 § Humour § Meme § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, parents

Music Monday – “Our house, was our castle and our keep/Our house, in the middle of our street/Our house, that was where we used to sleep”

“Our House” – Madness

¶ Posted 04 November 2019 § Family § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music

Secular Sunday – How To Raise An Atheist Family

¶ Posted 03 November 2019 § Censorship § Family § Pace § Sasha § SecularSunday § Shea § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, education, parents

Saturday Snap – A Strange (and Strangely Exciting?) Raffle Prize at @officialRPL Staff Day

I was a bit surprised to see what I thought was some sort of sex lotion in one of the raffle baskets I ended up winning at the RPL Staff Development Day yesterday. Fortunately (?), my reading comprehension isn’t so great for a librarian and my wife seemed a bit too relieved to inform me […]

¶ Posted 02 November 2019 § Humour § Library § Sad § SaturdaySnap § Shea § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language

Friday Fun Link – Flames Cap Comeback Victory in OT

So I don’t mean to turn this blog into “all Flames all the time” but after that unfortunate OT loss in the Heritage Classic last Saturday, it was amazing to see the Flames come back from a 3-goal deficit to tie it with three unanswered goals in the third period last night. The Predators went […]