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dle thoughts while eating the mailbox is full a postal worker driest peanut butter sandwich will ring your doorbell and hand you can imagine. it to you. He or she won’t be • I like calling Ken Noskye. happy. I know this to be true. At most times of the year he will • I enjoy my 15 minutes of answer his phone and sing some fame each week with Mayor Johnny Cash. Ken Atchison. I ask him sounds more like June questions — many Carter. At this time of which come from of year Ken sings readers — for his Christmas carols. He column. When you put has a delightful little tax increases, snow 12 Days of Christmas removal, garbage rendition he has been pickup, bridges, singing for the past overpasses, red-light couple of weeks. cameras, recycling, He never gets past sidewalks, the landfill, three though. I am Christmas greetings okay with that since on buses, art galleries, Editor long-distance charges police stations, railways apply. and potholes aside, he • Since moving over here from is a great guy to shoot the breeze The StarPhoenix, my motto has with. been “There’s no stress at the • What has happened to Express.” Ned Powers takes that feature writing? I see more and to a different level. Look at the more stories in publications photograph. He is taking over being presented in a questionformer premier Lorne Calvert’s and-answer format. I see pages office. Ned is not going to be with pretty pictures and a couple happy when he sees the photo. I of nuggets of info. They call like surprising him. them alternative writing styles. • For those that will embark Where’s the writing? I call them on having community mailboxes, lazy. fear not. There is a way for you • When you see a witty to get home delivery. I have tried headline in our paper, chances this, so I know it to be true. Don’t are it was written by RJ Currie. pick up your mail. When your When you see one that is boring
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Ned chills in former premier Lorne Calvert’s office and has a spelling mistake — and we have had some beauties — it was written by me. Earlier today I wrote that there was a “cowboy shooting seminar.” People sign up to shoot cowboys? • I was on Twitter the other evening when a columnist retweeted a typo — the old its or it’s — from somebody else’s work. Glass house, Dude. I went back and read his latest column and found a number of grammatical mistakes, including ye old was/were. My house is wrapped in cellophane. • People have different styles for pointing out our mistakes. There is the I-am-a-formerEnglish-teacher approach. I go stand in the corner after these. There are emailers that are rude and indignant. And there is a guy who has been pointing out my shortcomings from Day 1. (My shortcomings have also been pointed out in locker rooms, but that’s another story.) Anyway, the last time I heard from him there was an error in his email. I pounced. “My name isn’t spelled Hutcheson.” Or maybe it is, and I’ve been spelling it incorrectly for all these years.
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