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   From: tsm@fastmail.ca   
      
   David Dalton  wrote:   
   > Two nights ago while over at my sister Mary’s I popped   
   > around the corner to Halliday’s Meat Market (and   
   > corner store) and got a 500 ml bottle of milk and   
   > a can of ginger ale. The total came to $4.44,   
   > which could mean For:DD, and I paid with a $5   
   > bill and due to the (no more Canadian penny)   
   > rounding my change was the auspicious 55 cents   
   > (LV in Roman numerals, which I take to mean LOVE).   
   >   
   > Of course I probably shouldn’t be buying milk at   
   > a butcher's, though.   
   >   
   > Tonight I woke up and glanced at my clock radio   
   > and it was on 2:55 a.m.   
   >   
   > And my web page counter is currently 13,353   
   > so will soon be on 13,355.   
   >   
   > I plan to begin a new mystic attempt at sunset on   
   > Tibb’s Eve (a folk expression for a day that never   
   > comes, but which has come to mean a December 23   
   > drinking celebration with friends before the family   
   > time of Christmas, here in Newfoundland).   
   >   
      
   Merry Christmas fellow Canuck   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)