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- October 28th, 2009
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Decision Made... and One Old Green Bus makes the last stop... sort of...
Well, after some thought and a good healthy dose of reality, I think it's time... yup... time to call it a blog... for real this time. No, this isn't some weird sudden departure based on some odd int…
- October 16th, 2009
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doubledeckerbusguy has posted a new entry on: One Old Green Bus
Hmmm... Am I being *GULP!* Stereotyped!?!
Before viewing the screen shot below... this was about this sad event (click here). ...which actually, a better journalist did a little homework and found out that although tragic, the media were bar…
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Horrible and revolting comments by Jan Moir...
I am was not a fan of his band... nor did I even know the chap as a "media personality"... in fact, I wouldn't have recognised the fellow if he'd leapt up and bit me in the shin... I am not gay... no…
- October 6th, 2009
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A Martyr for The Cause...
Shorter Bad Science Forum (what an accurate name in this case!)... IN THE NAME OF MY BELIEF SYSTEM! HALLELUJAH!!! I did foresake normal societal realms and did forth become a vandal to a poster! Be…
- September 27th, 2009
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BLOG POSTS HERE TO RESUME ON...
NOVEMBER 10TH, 2009 Yup, things seem to be evening out... but Halloween is right around the corner which, FOR SOME ODD REASON, tends to be rather busy for us... but at least NOW I can give a "retur…
- August 31st, 2009
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To blog or not to blog... not really a big question...
I could have also titled this post, The best laid plans...... FIRST OFF... If you're a "commercial" or "corporate" commenter or poster, PLEASE scroll down this message to the note about "spammers".…
- August 24th, 2009
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Gimme a wee bit more time...
WHOOPS! NEED ANOTHER WEEK! NO NEW POSTS HERE UNTIL WED. SEPT. 2nd, 2009 Sorry 'bout this folks... but in order to look after everything, I'm gonna need an extra week where my focus will not be on the…
- August 16th, 2009
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...and yet more time away from the blog...
NO NEW POSTS HERE UNTIL AUGUST 26TH... Sorry folks, I have to take a leave of blogging again... After a short but fierce battle with pancreatic cancer, Sue's mother passed away this weekend... I'm t…
- August 15th, 2009
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Blog Your Blessing Sunday: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words...
Me and Sue... Sometimes, a blessing doesn't need words... I think the smiles convey it all. ____________________________________________ Blog Your Blessing Sundays is a creation of NeoBluePanther…
- August 12th, 2009
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Thursday Thirteen: Randomly Selected Meme from FaceBook...
In my never ending stupour quest to find entertaining Thursday Thirteen lists, I find myself back at the trough once again finding a lame way out inspiration from a meme I found via FaceBook... so…
- August 11th, 2009
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Wordless Wednesday: Sue and Meself...
Just a simple picture today... Sue and myself... taken a couple of weeks back in High Park in Toronto. Thank to Chris L. for the photo... For a list of other Wordless Wednesday participants, pl…
- August 8th, 2009
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Blog Your Blessing Sunday: So many things... but happy something has a new home.
This was my now seemingly annual weekend of being Obama's Elf... er, sorry... all by myself with the "Girls Only" camping trip which takes Sue and the kidollo away from home. It's a nice break, but…
- August 5th, 2009
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doubledeckerbusguy has posted a new entry on: One Old Green Bus
Thursday Thirteen: Thirteen Epic Fails...
I'm not a youngster really, but I do keep up with modern lingo... and one of my favourites that's even used to describe things that just don't work too well... It can be ANYTHING that doesn't "work"…
- August 4th, 2009
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doubledeckerbusguy has posted a new entry on: One Old Green Bus
Pretty Much Wordless Wednesday: RLH Buses!
First of all, yes, I'm back... but things may be "spotty" around here for a time with posting... basically, although 90% of the things I wanted to accomplish got accomplished, we're kinda of the midst…
- July 24th, 2009
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Gee Whillikers, Stupid Offblog Life Getting in the Way of Things!
NO NEW POSTS BETWEEN NOW AND AUGUST 5TH I hate letting everyone down again... but duty calls. Basically, I have to take a week and change away from The Blogsphere to put out a LOT of fires... meani…
- July 22nd, 2009
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Thursday Thir...Nope...
Sorry, no Thursday Thirteen today... Basically, "real life" has HORRIBLY intervened and work is... well... "work plus". Let's just say I'm in I.T. and yet, for the past two days, I've worked up a le…
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Lies. Lies. Lies. and more Lies...
UPDATED!!!!!!!! (See below...) Okay, aside from hearing Glen Beck lose his marbles (an unusual thing, no?) I absolutely CANNOT STAND the LIES that are being spread... No. There is no lottery. Sorr…
- July 21st, 2009
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Wordless Wednesday: Another Strolling Adventure...
Forgive the verbiage, but a wee set-up is needed... Sue and I are now working at getting into shape which means plenty of strolling about on weekends. This past weekend, I told her of a church I'd oft…
- July 18th, 2009
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Blog Your Blessing Sunday: Gettin' Healthay!
I know I promised a bang-up blessing today... and... well... I was thinking about what I did feel was a blessing and one thing kept pounding through my mind... and it's not going to be a very long…
- July 16th, 2009
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Lies. Lies. Lies. and more Lies...
Thursday Thirteen Below... Okay, aside from hearing Glen Beck lose his marbles (an unusual thing, no?) I absolutely CANNOT STAND the LIES that are being spread... No. There is no lottery. Sorry. T…
- July 15th, 2009
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doubledeckerbusguy has posted a new entry on: One Old Green Bus
Thursday Thirteen: Wha??? It's not here AGAIN!?!
Oh sure, I could claim writer's block... or a sudden bankruptcy in the ideas dept. of my cranium... but instead, I'll do what I always do and let you pick which one you feel is best. THIRTEEN…
- July 14th, 2009
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Wordless Wednesday: Believably Unbelievable...
Bit of words with this image, ripped from the BBC... The text that went with this image was... A dog is unmoved as the USS Stout, a guided missile destroyer, enters the Georgian port of Batumi ahe…
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Because it's great...
All the opening titles/themes mixed... Just 'cuz it's brilliant. Serious hat-tip to "Reverse The Polarity Films". Can you tell I'm "Jonesing" just a little bit... November seems TOO FAR away... b…
- July 12th, 2009
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Time for some more health-care schooling...
To my American readers... Oh, and please read this... Moving on... ...and if you read this or saw commercials from anti-health care reform group, "Patients United" with the above poor, poor wom…
- July 11th, 2009
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doubledeckerbusguy has posted a new entry on: One Old Green Bus
*Pant* *Pant* *Pant* Too hot for a proper blessing today...
Sorry gang... I'm taking a Blog Your Blessing Vacation this week... just one Sunday off... because, quite frankly, it's stinky, dripping, humid, and genuinely hot in here today... and I'm leaving th…
- July 9th, 2009
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Thursday Thirteen Below This Post - RLH 41 For Sale!
See? I still cover the busly stuff! Regent Low Height #41 (we're not sure about which one, but this is the most likely,) is up for sale via eBay... http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&it…
- July 8th, 2009
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Thursday Thirteen: Lynde-isms...
I admit, I "ripped" this list... Basically, I was a touch blocked in the creative department and for reasons that are too ponderous to go into right now, I discovered the Classic Squares site whic…
- July 7th, 2009
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Wordless Wednesday: My Great, Great, Great, Great Uncle...
I don't really see a resemblance... For a list of other Wordless Wednesday participants, please click here.
- July 3rd, 2009
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Blog Your Blessing... Saturday?
I had to bump the post today... because, as it's The Glorious Fourth of July, I wanted to do a simple blessing for a neighbour... Not too long ago, the world's view on Canada's neighbour was not…
- July 1st, 2009
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Thursday Thirteen: For Friends Not In The Americas...
It was Canada's one-hundred and forty-second birthday yesterday... and it will be America's two-hundred and thirty-third birthday this Saturday... so I wanted to do a post to celebrate both of the…
- June 30th, 2009
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Wordless Wednesday: HAPPY ONE-HUNDRED AND FORTY-SECOND BIRTHDAY!
Tell 'em Tom! For a list of other Wordless Wednesday participants, please click here. This blog is a not run for profit of any sort... The song above is used assuming "Fair Use"/"Fair Deal…
- June 28th, 2009
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doubledeckerbusguy has posted a new entry on: One Old Green Bus
Blog Your Blessing Sunday: Too busy to create a blessing... or...?
Boatload of lemons? After they're squeezed, track-load of lemonade! Well, I can't even claim the lemons right now... my reason for being a touch late on my blessing... and what WAS going to be my…
- June 26th, 2009
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Rare Friday Blog Post: Four Public Passings in So Short a Time...
David Carradine... Ed McMahon... Farrah Fawcett... and Michael Jackson. Isn't it odd... if I was only to work from current news, I'd only SEEM to know that... David Carradine MIGHT have died in a…
- June 24th, 2009
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Thursday Thirteen: Cancelled due to extreme heat...
To all those incurably stupid people that post blog entries during the Winter that said, "It's cold outside! See! Global warming? MYTH!" - May I please say... BITE ME. Other than being incurably b…
- June 23rd, 2009
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Wordless Wednesday: Five more months...
Five more months... Me? Obsessed? NEVER! ...it's just only THREE more "David Tennant/Tenth Doctor" shows on schedule and it's time for the regeneration into "Matt Smith/Eleventh Doctor"... F…
- June 20th, 2009
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Blog Your Blessing Sunday: Too Many Things!
There's much to be thankful for this week... and in my eyes, anything you're thankful for is a blessing. Lessee... Kid won her class spelling bee. Our wee dog (Kipling) hurt his leg and was teete…
- June 17th, 2009
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Thursday Thirteen: Thirteen Fictional Women Who RUINED Me For Other Women...
I'm gonna be a bit... well... a bit of a pig today. Mind you, it's more a "re-living past piggishness" moment... because even though I was really raised in a fairly up-front matriarchal family, I st…
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Wordless Wednesday: BSOD Kiteh
Sorry for the late entry from me, and using an ICanHazCheezburger image, but the image should give you a clue as to what I spent most of last night dealing with... and this morning as well... It wa…
- June 13th, 2009
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Blog your Blessing Sunday: Brilliance, thy name is Banksy...
I am a HARSH critic of various arts... and in many ways, I admit to being a prime candidate for the concept of "Those Who Can't Do, Criticise." ...but when someone asks for an honest opinion, I ten…
- June 10th, 2009
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doubledeckerbusguy has posted a new entry on: One Old Green Bus
Thursday Thirteen: Thirteen things that bring me joy that I hope I share with some of you...
Believe it or not, I'm doing a FAIRLY serious Thursday Thirteen list... so all you fans of my comedic stylings, I apologise in advance... but there's been a dirth of bad news lately... luckily for m…
- June 9th, 2009
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doubledeckerbusguy has posted a new entry on: One Old Green Bus
Wordless Wednesday: Number 9 in London!
The eldest stepling's friend is living in London for a few months... she actually is a temp from Chiswick at the moment... Being a friendly sort, she snapped this photo of a Routemaster (a Number 9) r…
- June 6th, 2009
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Blog Your Blessing Sunday: No, it's not dead yet...
Way, way, way back when... when dinosaurs walked the Earth... when the cosmos was new... when the first sparks of life started glittering on this small round-ish rock in space... and I started blo…
- June 3rd, 2009
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Thursday Thirteen - You may want to kill me later...
You're welcome... in advance... I've suffered, now it's your turn. This is a list of... THIRTEEN SONGS THAT RECENTLY HAVE GOTTEN STUCK IN MY HEAD Listed with those who are to blame for their…
- June 2nd, 2009
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Wordless Wednesday: My View - Every Morning...
The alarm sounds, my eyes creak open to greet the day... and then... ...save, in this image, a lolling tongue is not out with a determined insistence of licking my face. Oddly enough, it's a good…
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Helping Hands Shopping For Clothing Online
It has been a very long time since we at the ye olde green bus blog did a "helping hands" blog entry. Usually helping hands entries were done on Thursdays, but because that is the day for the TT meme…
- May 30th, 2009
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Blog Your Blessing Sunday: Just Bein' Lazy...
Today, I celebrate my forty-second year wandering aimlessly around on this rock in space... and although I'm certain I could write up a decent blessing about birthdays or how Sue is spoiling me to…
- May 14th, 2009
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Taking a wee break... Back on May 31st!
IMPORTANT(?) NOTICE: I'm gearing up (after Thursday, May 14th, 2009,) to be away from teh blog o' tubes for a great big seventeen days while I concentrate on a few other online (and offline) matters…
- May 13th, 2009
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Thursday Thirteen: I'm doin' it AGAIN!!!!
Don't hate me... but I have to take a powder from blogging again for a couple of weeks... That is to say, I won't be posting until May 31st... Basically, again, things IRL and to do with other ve…
- May 12th, 2009
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Wordless Wednesday: Red...
Sue went from blonde to red last week... I think it looks smashing! Of course, this is the look I'm pretty sure she really wanted... ...but she's quite pleased with what she got anyway! ...and…
- May 9th, 2009
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Blog Your Blessing Sunday: No blessing right now... sorry...
No blessing today... it's been a rough weekend with TONNES of work and issues to deal with. Suffice to say "HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY" to everyone (especially the moms out there,) and I'll do better next we…
