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Tom Thumb
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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That I was in Philadelphia at a flea market, there's an antique dealer there who has a couple of small dancing wood figures on sticks, they're well carved, with that heavy aged patina and magnets on their feet...he tells me that they're part of a "Tom Thumb" game and shows me the rest, there are some magnets they would play with, and an old metal tractor seat that's been beaten into a game board, and he's searching around for the box.
I'm intrigued. I've never seen anything quite like this, and I ask him how much..
He sucks in his breath and goes to tell me...I'm waiting, he's humming and hawing, telling me how rare it is and I'm expecting, 50, maybe a hundred bucks.
$280 dollars with many assurances of it's rarity and value.
Now I could buy it, but it's a bit too expensive and there's other things that I want and he assures me that he comes this way every week, he's from Boston but he does "The Tour" so I can think upon it and I'm wondering how in this part of the world distances are so small....
of Camping in the back yard
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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And I dreamed that it was late summer and the ex had told me I should take the kids (? my daughter, the owner of the restaurant's daughter) camping in the back yard....and so I wandered and found that the back yard extended for acres until finally it reached a fence before a lane. Late summer, leaves heavy on huge trees, golden grasses, sun setting. A beautiful place for a campsite. And I went to find my way back but no longer was this my yard, it was someone else's yard and I had to cut through many lanes and alleys to find my way home...
White Day
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Ideas & Questions
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Usually March 14, one month after Valentines. In certain Asian countries Valentines Day is observed by the women, who buy men chocolates, the quality of the chocolate indicative of the mans relationship to her. March 14 is the day the favour is returned, with the gift from the man 2 to 3 times that of the woman's. Read more here. Which could be interpreted as proof that the price of love is high, or simply that they acknowledge that men (generally) make far more than women. Or in any number of other ways, stretch your imagination a bit...
The Fluoride Debate
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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And so Calgary has decided - finally - to remove the fluoride - the added, additional fluoride - from the water supply. Which is a good thing, although I'm not such an expert that I can pretend to know what all the adverse effects of it are. But there's plenty of fluoride in my toothpaste, which is enough..
The curious thing about fluoride, though, and the people who argue vehemently against it's use - is that it seems to be something of a "Gateway" conspiracy theory. The government is fluoridating our water supply to control our minds/make us dumb/keep us sick, and from here the conversation inevitably leads to contrails and chemtrails, the Illuminati, One World Government, and the Alien Hybridization program. Which shouldn't discredit the fact that anything added to ones water without clear and tangible proof of it's benefit shouldn't be done, but somehow it does...
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