Back to the sticks...

[c9]

1. Why is it called "the sticks" ? nihilicious and alliensis I'm looking in your far-too-studied directions.
   
2. Why has Canada Post failed to deliver my new toy? Fellow ebayers, save me from my imaginings of financially painful fraud!
   
3. Tomorrow morning I drive back to Greenwood to teach for three days. I will be so bored. Please please please (oh and also please) email me so I have something to do other than go on gay.com and pretend I'm in another city from whomever wants to pick me up.
   
4. It's bedtime. Good night!
   

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[tarpond.livejournal.com]

1. Its called "the sticks" because when you are that far out of town, your only friends are sticks, your closed neighbors are sticks, and the list goes on.

2. Canada Post hasn't delivered your new toy because they can't find your house. Maybe if you put your name and address on your house then Canada Post would have an easier time finding it. (Canada Post employees aren't the brightest, that why its called Canada "POST".)

3. By tomorrow do you mean today?

4. 'Night.

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[c9.livejournal.com]

1. Having sticks for friends sounds fun. Seriously.
2. I have discovered that Customs was holding it, but it should arrive tomorrow. Now I have to decide whether I should drive home for the night to get it, just to drive back again the next morning.
3. I did, yes.

[nihilicious.livejournal.com]

It's called the sticks because that's what they beat gays with there.

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[c9.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to decide between these two options. Please vote.

i. Saint John qualifies as the sticks?

ii. So that explains why you avoid trees.

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[nihilicious.livejournal.com]

I'm going with option ii. In Saint John, we don't limit ourselves to sticks in our beating of people. It's our ingenuity and resourcefulness that makes us the Greatest Little City in the East.

[alliensis.livejournal.com]

a. You've reminded me that I've displaced my Oxford Dictionary of Slang. Never heard of the term before. Miscellaneous Google-searches have yielded no etymological data whatsoever, although definitions are available everywhere.
b. It depends on the sort of toy, doesn't it? If it's that little Tungsten Palm you bidded on, you may be able to cry 'fraud' (if you used a credit card) and get your inadvertently-spent monet back. Otherwise, you may be screwed.
c. *wags clerical finger*
d. Not anymore it isn't.

[(Anonymous)]

Stuff to do while you're bored in Greenwood:

1. Read the archives of

dooce.com
themorningnews.org
sourbob.com

2. Rent a DVD player and the first season of the original version of Coupling. Wonder how the Americans could have made such crap out of something that is so good.

3. Find some travel books on London and Paris and make a list of things I should do while I'm there.

S.

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[c9.livejournal.com]

You have fantastic beliefs about the speed of dialup in rural Nova Scotia. Also about my willingness to be your personal researcher. :)

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[(Anonymous)]

To get around the dial-up issue, install an RSS reader and download content while you're on a fast connection for offline reading later on.

To get around the unwilliness to be my personal researcher think of the fab wedding presents I'll bring back for you if you direct me to the right shops in London and Paris.

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[c9.livejournal.com]

a) you're getting closer to convincing me. I shall consult with my London staff.
b) you should get a livejournal so that you can provide witty commentary in a more centralized fashion. Join the cult!

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[(Anonymous)]

I started a blog. But it turns out that I only have witty things to say when responding to other people.

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[c9.livejournal.com]

Oh well. If you join livejournal, at least you'll get emails when somebody replies.