QOTD

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QOTD: What’s Your Best Wedding Horror Story?

Inspired by alluson’s the-tailor-lost-my-bridesmaid-dress story on Wednesday afternoon, I’m asking you to share your best wedding-related horror story.

I’ve personally accompanied a bride to the dry-cleaner who was supposed to clean and box up her dress in one of those lasts-forever preservation boxes. Only guess what, no dress anywhere. So she gives them the evil eye and walks into their workroom. Oh, there’s the dress – on the floor, kicked into the corner.

Then there was the wedding I was attending wherein the groom accidentally stood (both feet) on the bride’s gown’s train. She SHRIEKED at him, I mean really shrieked. Starting married life off on a sour note, so to speak. Continue reading →

QOTD: What is Your Favourite Food or Food Thing?

Food.  Cook books.  Recipes.  Appliances.  Restaurants.  Hairy celebrity chefs.  Dirty celebrity chefs who end up in the blind gossip pages a little too often.  All of these things end up in the pages of Crasstalk all the time.  But what single item, book, machine, cool cafe, classy bar, well-turned calf or succulent breast is your absolute favourite?

Saying “chocolate” is too easy, so say something else. Continue reading →

QOTD: What should get more funding?

Here’s a hypothetical from fantasyland:  the government of {your country} suddenly has a billion US dollars or local equivalent to spend, and it can only spend it on ONE giant program.  Pretend it’s a bequest from a rich billionaire who just died.  You can pretend the dead billionaire is Rupert Murdoch if you want to feel especially happy about it. Continue reading →

QOTD: What Is It With Visitors?

The ones who travel many miles, hours and hours on an airplane, even, and when they arrive they have no clue what they want to go see? Don’t get me wrong, I love to see friends and (pretty much) family show up to stay for a few days. Evenings are great, good food and booze and conversation.

But why do they sit there like bumps on lumps waiting for me to decide what we’re doing during the day? Continue reading →

QOTD: Save The Life Of One Person In History

You may save the life of one person, and one person only, from any point in history.  This person must have died by a means other than natural causes/old age.  As part of the deal, the person is guaranteed to live until they die of old age.

For the sake of argument, no matter what changes to history your actions make, you and your loved ones will still be born. Continue reading →