Over the weekend, I was introduced to a new flavour of gum: Dentyne FIRE.
It was suitably hot, but no more so than Dentyne CINNAMON or ICE (the latter being a bit of a contradiction, but oh well...). Mind you, I'm beginning to wonder if Dentyne is going to try and top itself in the future with even more evocative brand names.
For example...how about Dentyne NAPALM! "Obliterate those mouth germs as efficiently as a Vietnamese village!"
Or Dentyne THERMONUCLEAR WAR! "It kills everything!"
This will inevitably lead to Dentyne ENTROPY, but you get the idea...
Smoke Spies
Ireland has become the first country to impose a nation-wide smoking ban in public places (that includes bars, pubs, restaurants, etc). That's no big news for people like me, who have lived quite comfortably in a smoke free Waterloo Region for years. But a sneering CNN weatherman seems to be unimpressed.
This morning, as I drank my coffee and watched the regular CNN feature where they examine morning newspaper headlines, an Irish Times story about "smoke spies" -- going in to enforce the ban -- was flashed on screen. The weather guy looked at it, made the type of face thousands of Ex-Lax users are familiar with, and said "Do you think this [smoking ban] will last? I don't think it will."
Well, apart from the very snobbish, proto-American, "no-one-takes-away-my-rights-to-destroy-myself-pleasurably" attitude, he should be reminded that Los Angeles has been publically smoke free for over a decade. In any event, his dismissiveness annoyed me...something CNN is very good at doing.
You have to admire such consistency.
Congratulations!!!
My friend Erin, a wonderful, award-winning poet, with a second book on the way for next spring, is the winner of a very large grant from the Ontario Arts council! Go visit her website, and discover how amazing she is!
