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   From: tsm@fastmail.ca   
      
   On Dec 23, 2025 at 10:34:47 AM EST, "Tara"  wrote:   
      
   > 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   
      
   The Twelve Apostles   
   -Great Big Sea.   
      
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbRsJ5riZgY   
      
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