Ian's Messy Desk
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. -A.A. Milne
Sunday, April 13, 2003Weir makes history at Masters Mike Weir of Bright's Grove, Ont., edged American Len Mattiace in a sudden death playoff Sunday to become the first Canadian to win the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Georgia. [CBC.CA]
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Salvation Army plans in place for humanitarian relief in Iraq
April 1, 2003
The Salvation Army is mobilising resources in response to the humanitarian crisis in Iraq. Personnel have been placed on standby and a forward operations base is to be set up in the region, enabling preparations to be made for a significant humanitarian response.
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What do you get when you take roughly 20 Software Engineers, 225 meters of blue duct tape, 240 beer coasters, 4 America Online CDs and far too much free time? [???]
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Refrain:
All glory, laud and honor,
To Thee, Redeemer, King,
To Whom the lips of children
Made sweet hosannas ring.
Thou art the King of Israel,
Thou David’s royal Son,
Who in the Lord’s Name comest,
The King and Blessèd One.
The company of angels
Are praising Thee on High,
And mortal men and all things
Created make reply.
The people of the Hebrews
With palms before Thee went;
Our prayer and praise and anthems
Before Thee we present.
To Thee, before Thy passion,
They sang their hymns of praise;
To Thee, now high exalted,
Our melody we raise.
Thou didst accept their praises;
Accept the prayers we bring,
Who in all good delightest,
Thou good and gracious King. [Theodulph of Orleans]
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Canada lab's SARS gene to speed vaccine. Deutsche Welle Apr 13 2003 5:32PM ET [Moreover - Canada news]
SARS death toll keeps rising in Hong Kong [CBC.CA]
Canadian breakthrough in SARS research. ABC Online Apr 13 2003 2:32AM ET [Moreover - Canada news]
Eight more SARS deaths in Hong Kong, Singapore [CBC.CA]
China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Canada report new Sars deaths (8:05 am). Sun Star Network Apr 13 2003 9:57AM ET [Moreover - Canada news]
SARS claims more lives in Asia, Canada. Kaumudi Apr 13 2003 9:54AM ET [Moreover - Canada news]
Thin silver lining in SARS cloud [The Globe And Mail: National]9:01:37 AM # Speak Up []
Blaise Pascal. "One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]
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The Word of the Day for April 12 is:
taradiddle
• tair-uh-DIH-dul
• noun1 : fib
*2 : pretentious nonsense
Example sentence:
Business writer Don Larson didn’t mince words when he criticized a story as "the worst collection of falsehoods, fabrications, misrepresentations, deceptions and just plain old-fashioned taradiddle that I have ever read."
Did you know?
The true origin of "taradiddle" is unknown, but that doesn’t mean you won’t encounter a lot of balderdash about its history. Some folks try to relate it to the verb "diddle" (meaning "to cheat"), but that hasn’t been proven and may turn out to be poppycock. You may hear some tommyrot about it coming from the Old English verb "didrian," which meant "to deceive," but that couldn’t be true unless "didrian" was somehow suddenly revived after eight or nine centuries of disuse. No one even knows when "taradiddle" was first used. It must have been long before it showed up in a 1796 dictionary of colloquial speech (where it was defined as a synonym of "fib"), but if we claimed we knew who said it first, we’d be dishing out pure applesauce.
*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.
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