Apparently not everyone is fed up with telephone-answering machines. At the newspaper office where I work, we have several of them for different departments.
However, while on the evening shift I answer the newsroom phone. I took one call and heard a woman exclaim: "Oh! I thought I was going to get a machine. I'll call back in the morning." And she hung up.
"Last man standing" is the winner in most contests, but the runner up in musical chairs.
Teacher Debbie Moon's first graders were discussing a picture of a family. One little boy in the picture had a different hair color than the other members. One of her students suggested that he was adopted.
A little girl said, "I know all about adoption. I was adopted."
"What does it mean to be adopted?" asked another child
"It means," said the girl, "that you grew in your mommy's heart instead of her tummy!"
"Nobody beats Vitas Gerulaitis 17 times in a row."
- Vitas Gerulaitis (having finally triumphed after losing 16 times in a row to Jimmy Connors)
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A discussion about Truth and Reconciliation with two members of the Wiikwemkoong First Nation, and a member and Chief of the Aundeck Omni Kaning First Nation.
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"There is a thin line between a long church service and a hostage situation."