For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for May 14, 2013

All in favour? (Elly’ll be the only “nay” for sure.)

O.K…..now let’s see how this goes. Wonder how Johnwill figure into this..

I thought Canadians spelled like Britishers (favor/favour). It took @Temple SUD (whatever his /hernationality is) to get me to notice this.

I think it came up for a referendum and was voted down, years ago.

I was there, too. Was it the drugs or did I really see a display in the British pavilion of a town layout peopled by taxidermied kittens?

How about your place, brown-haired lady? If you volunteer someone else, then that usually means that you should do it.I think howtheduck is right and Elly is just low woman on the totem pole.

When it’s at your place, you get a veto vote. ;)

Nobody should ever volunteer someone else like that! But Elly is weak so she won’t object. She’ll go home and bellyache about it to her family but she’ll go along with it and hate every minute of it. And yes it should’ve been favour instead of favor. I think they may have spelled it favor because so many Americans read this.

One advantage to holding a sale at your place is that you get first chance at the junk.

I was president of our small town library board for a few years, and we had a yard sale in front of the library as a fund raiser. It wasn’t the least bit demeaning. At the library was best because of the nature of the fund raiser (FOR the library) and because the library users were going in and out all day and would pass by our efforts to entice them to take a little something home with them for a good cause.

where would tha be in the dewey decimal system for yard sales?

The other issue here is… how is promoting the reuse of items instead of dumping them in a landfill demeaning?

Better speak up with your “NAY!!!!!!!!!!” right now, Elly, before the motion to have the yard sale at YOUR house gets carried!!!!! :-(

OUCH!

Gawd! I was there for that too! lol! Didn’t see you, though … probably because I didn’t go to see James Bond in French ;-)

They are – or used to be (haven’t been there since ‘76) invariably rude to English speakers, though they used to be very cool with American tourists. Don’t know why you got the treatment, but they don’t like ‘Les Anglais’, and aren’t shy about showing it.

If you look at a map, I think you can probably figure out what the outcome to the Separatist movement – which is still alive – must be. It’s about as viable as Texas’ separation from the US though.

The reason the Quebecois speak French is very simple. When the country was established (by the English), the French were still hostile. Many moved south of the border, many as far as Louisiana. Many stayed, though. They wanted to keep their language. The Founders agreed. That’s why they are speaking French. They wanted to keep their culture and legal structure. Until the late sixties, Quebec ran on a form of the Napoleonic Code, nearly intact from the original. The Founders agreed to that, too. They wanted to keep their religion and education system, and the Founders gave them that, too. So the French in Quebec lived like their sixteenth century French ancestors in the New World, at least until the late sixties. There were changes made then, the school systems were merged, for instance, but I have no idea how far the reforms went.

American kids in ‘social studies’ classes are learning that the Quebecois want to separate from Canada because they are ‘oppressed by the English’. The credibility of American Historians takes a steep fall on this one.

I think the assumption is sound. No loose ends there, and it struck me on first read as USN 1977’s interpreted it.

YMMV, of course..

I don’t see why a yard sale in front of the library is a problem, either. It keeps the goals clear, and will put the library front and center in peoples’ minds, if only briefly.

I certainly hope that someone will call this snotty power freak on her imposition of Elly, not to mention the left handed insult. I suspect Elly is too shocked to respond appropriately, and tell the woman to have it at HER house.

Someone will surely insist on the library for the yard sale venue. That’s clearly the right way to go.

When this was originally written “recycling” wasn’t nearly as fashionable as it is today. There was a much greater percentage of the population that would be appalled to be associated with “second-hand-junk”

Many Canadians take pride in being bilingual (British English and American English.) As a rough rule of thumb, those of us descended from UK forebears are more likely to use the British spelling. Those from other nationalities are more likely to use the American.

Why not have a Used Book Sale? Our library does 2 a year, selling books, dvds, etc. for 25 cents and bags of books for 5 dollars. They raise a lot of money, and it is pretty neat.

Walk away Ellie! No insult is worth it!