Tag: University of Calgary

• I have a kind of alacrity in sinking

  ‘I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed.’ I have always loved that quote. There was a time when I was fond of saying it; I softened its blow by explaining that it was actually an example of clever Shakespearean sarcasm. Unfortunately, I was once challenged by a…

  gozzter

  August 2, 2023

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  Covid, lying, Penny Pexman, public transit, sarcasm, social distancing, the Conversation.com, University of Calgary

• Dress Coda

  I suppose it’s time for a confession, but I have to be covert about it; devious -labyrinthine, to the extent that my disclosure may fly in the face of current trends. I may be incorrectly accused of retrograde thinking -or, horrors, of prejudice. Discrimination. Well, perhaps there is a soupçon of babbling admixed in my…

  gozzter

  May 1, 2019

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  Dianne Gereluk, dress codes, Evanston Township High School in Illinois, fashion, Freedom, LGBTQ community, license, New Zealand, school uniforms, Shakespeare’s Henry VIII, The Conversation, University of Calgary