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Thursday, September 16, 2021

🚗🚙🚔VINTAGE BEAUTIES! PORT COQUITLAM CAR SHOW 2021🚔🚙🚗

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One of the highlights of our year has been the annual Port Coquitlam car show, which  (to our  chagrin) was cancelled for the second year in...
Monday, September 13, 2021

For Mercy has a human heart, pity, a human face

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  The Divine Image William Blake - 1757-1827 To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love, All pray in their distress: And to these virtues of delight R...
Saturday, September 11, 2021

What NOT to say to a depressed person (encore!)

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What Not to Say to a Depressed Person “It’s all in your mind.” “You just need to give yourself a good swift kick in the rear.” “No one ever ...
Friday, September 10, 2021

Most Godawful Cookbook of All Time?

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  I apologize in advance for the quality of the mages in this post - but this was the only form I could find these horrendous recipes in (li...
Tuesday, September 7, 2021

💲💰ELIZABETH HOLMES: Shop NOW for cool Liz MERCH!💰💲

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She may need the money. 
Thursday, September 2, 2021

🍒RED JELL-O JIGGLE-JIGGLE!🍒

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Something totally silly, for a totally silly day.
Wednesday, September 1, 2021

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK! A Major Victory for Piers Morgan

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  (I may be stretching copyright a bit here, but I wanted to copy and paste this piece from the Mail because it delighted me so! Chalk one u...
Tuesday, August 31, 2021

🚗🚙🚔VROOM-VROOM! PORT COQUITLAM CAR SHOW 2021!🚔🚙🚗

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UNSTOPPABLE! The Port Coqutlam Car Show 2021 would not be stopped by a little thing like being CANCELLED for the second year in a row. This ...
Sunday, August 29, 2021

It's the SAM DICKER SHOW!

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The things I find online, late late at night! I confess I "borrow" footage from some other channels, who in turn have "borrow...
Saturday, August 28, 2021

🐷A Pig at the Opera (Pre-Code cartoon)

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  This slightly naughty pre-Code cartoon features a character jumping up and down on an operatic pig`s huge bosom, I wonder if this sort of ...
Thursday, August 26, 2021

Tillie the Toiler Fashion Parade!

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Though most people have never heard of her, Tillie the Toiler must have been the best-dressed comic strip character of all time. Created in...
Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Harold Lloyd: Facebook profile pics

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  Back in the day, I used to really work at Facebook covers/profile pics (please do not ask me why), and I came out with a new one every wee...
Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Crazy Camay Soap Lady

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  The lady in this Camay soap commercial seems a little too ecstatic, somehow. . . 
Sunday, August 22, 2021

😍"I'm in the Mood" (for WHAT??)🤩

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Nothing like those old K-Tel ads to transport you to another level of reality. Then you can't wait to get back.
Friday, August 20, 2021

😳1938: A VERY GOOD YEAR FOR TELEVISION!😲

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1938 WOULD have been a very good year for television, if it had existed. But in a sense, it did - if in a nearly-exclusively-one-sided way. ...
Wednesday, August 18, 2021

💥FEROCIOUSGUMBY UPDATE! Saying swears, Meghan Markle hair, keep cool, ge...

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I don't appear in too many of my videos, but I literally wanted to see what my hair looks like now, and can't ever get a good view i...
Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Why I HATE "mental health"

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I hate buzzwords and fads, and they exist in every single area of human endeavour. The one I hear repeatedly now is "mental health...
Monday, August 16, 2021

The Troll Doll Channel: GRIM REAPER and COOL SKATER!

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These two represent the alpha and omega of trollhood. As Bob Dylan puts it: "I sleep with life and death in the same bed." 
Sunday, August 15, 2021

🤡CARNIVAL FROM HELL😲 (badly-damaged film)

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This was one of the worst-damaged pieces of film I've ever seen. How I love the sparkling surrealism, the sense of bombs going off every...
Friday, August 13, 2021

🌞GOOSE ON THE LOOSE: Canada Geese TRAMPLE Goose Barrier!🌞

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Geese don't read signs very well. Or maybe they read them TOO well, and just ignore what they say.

Take a gander (or take a goose!)

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I don't know why I've had this rather inane nursery rhyme repeating in my head lately. I don't know how it got started. I'm ...
Tuesday, August 10, 2021

Tell Tale Tit (your tongue shall be slit)

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This was one of those accidental finds. For some reason a line from a nursery rhyme popped into my head - no, wait, it was something I read ...
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Margaret Gunning
Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
Welcome to Margaret Gunning's blog: a tribute to the strangeness of the ordinary. Ms.Gunning is the author of The Glass Character (Thistledown Press), her paean/tribute to the brilliant silent screen comic Harold Lloyd. Researching and writing this novel celebrating Harold's legacy and legend was by far the most compelling (and fun!) experience in her long and varied writer's life. The novel is available on Amazon and Kindle, Thistledown Press, and other major book sites. Her previous novels, Better than Life (NeWestPress) and Mallory (Turnstone Press) explore her lifelong fascination with family secrets, alienation, and the surprising joys of the ordinary. She has also written hundreds of book reviews (Montreal Gazette, Vancouver Sun, Toronto Globe and Mail) and newspaper columns for small-town papers across the country. Her philosophy: "Everything that happens is happening for the first time."
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