Oh yeah… and hoshq, this is shunk cabbage. Rupert is full of it. It creates a lovely backyard stench to go with the muskeg and creeks that flow through town.
yea you may have a big blue van, but it really shows who’s the biggest and bluest here… you’re officially not a rupertite if you call them “strange flowers”.
[quote=“Rudy Kelly”]
Those wacky characters of the newsroom
By Rudy Kelly
For those of you who may not know, I was actually a working reporter prior to becoming strictly a columnist. I worked, part-time, at a weekly in Alberta for a couple of years and put in nine years, full-time, at a daily.
About six years ago, I left the newspaper business to work at the aboriginal friendship centre I’m currently employed at; mostly because I didn’t think it was fair to drag my son around on assignments anymore and couldn’t afford to pay a babysitter every time I went out on one. As time has passed, I have mostly lost that reporter’s lust for a good story, for the chase of that crucial quote, for that perfectly timed photo . . . mostly. But, every now and then, a feeling rises inside of me, like so many Boxing Day snacks, and I know that I will never stop being a journalist completely.
Recently, I sat down with two reporter friends, one of them an editor, and we watched the Ron Howard movie, “The Paper,â€[/quote]
so is he acknowledging a legitimate dis or something? or is he being all sarcastic like hes got the buddha nature and what we say just goes ping and ricochets off his golden ass ?
Sure… now you suckup after Big Thumb clued you in.[/quote]
I didn’t need bigthumb to clue me in, I can read. Oh and trust me, it wasn’t ass kissing. It was a chance to let Rudy know that his native humour sucks.