Some really embarrassing bloopers
We often open our mouths and say the wrong thing. That is, we say things the wrong way. There are terms such as “spoonerism” and “blooper” to describe this problem.
Blooper originated in ...
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Archive : October 2012
Try this sports trivia quiz
Let’s start with an easy question: Name three activities in which you have to move backwards to win (answer at end of column).
Do you know how baseball’s seventh-inning stretch started?
Wonderful world of whimsy
People often say, “Fall is my favourite time of the year.” Well, they probably mean it, but I always think that line is merely sad acceptance that summer has flown the coop and we may as well resign ourselv...
A disappearing grammatical term
Over the years of Twisty Tongue’s existence, I have often heard from a reader identified only by the initial “M.” There’s no indication in M’s messages as to whether or not the correspondent is ...
Canadian Museum for Human Rights — exterior is finished, next step is to complete interior
For the longest time, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights seemed to exist as only a conceptual drawing.
On September 20, when the last piece of glass was installed on the museum’s Tower of Hope, the museu...
Is our food safe?
What is the difference between Maple Leaf Food’s listeria bacteria outbreak four years ago and XL Foods Ltd.’s present E. coli outbreak?
The short answer is that Maple Leaf Foods voluntarily closed i...
Shootout in St. Boniface — Manitoba government offered a $2,500 reward for the capture of James Buller
by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
The greatest unsolved mystery of the shootings of the three Manitoba Provincial Police (MPP) morality officers at the Stockyards Hotel in St. Boniface on November 11, 1920, was the iden...
September decline reflects decade of a strong sellers’ housing market
The slowdown in September sales figures has been skewed by record sales in past years, according to WinnipegREALTORS® president Shirley Przybyl, rather than indicating that the local market is following what’s occu...
Giving thanks at Thanksgiving
Being thankful for our many blessings is sometimes a little difficult, isn’t it? After all, we have so much to gripe about all the time. Or do we?
The truth is that we lose our perspective ver...
Open house to discuss housing policy
The city is seeking feedback on its updates to the Winnipeg Housing Policy.
It will be holding a public open house on Wednesday, October 17, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the University of Winnipeg, room 2M70 in the...