tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278203679289373662.post4666099917166616464..comments2023-06-16T04:50:14.418-07:00Comments on David in North Burnaby: That Sound You Hear Is Thousands of ChiselsDavid in North Burnaby BChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04660731947857473298noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278203679289373662.post-78408887470706387002011-04-18T00:04:41.732-07:002011-04-18T00:04:41.732-07:00Thank you for your kind words, Larry. As for you &...Thank you for your kind words, Larry. As for you "know(ing) nothing about the Chinook language", allow me to recommend "A Voice Great Within Us" by Terry Glavin and the late Charles Lillard.<br />I think it should be required reading in BC schools.<br />It does my heart good when I see a thread on the Tyee (a Chinook word of course) where British Columbians demonstrate that "the wawa" is hardly "lost". Some of us learned it as kids (despite the efforts of teachers from Ontario) while some picked it up as adults when they went to work in the bush, like "cheechakos" (newcomers) used to.<br />http://www.amazon.com/Voice-Great-Within-Us/dp/0921586566David in North Burnaby BChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04660731947857473298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278203679289373662.post-10871488196544217152011-04-17T22:25:58.003-07:002011-04-17T22:25:58.003-07:00Sorry but I wouldn't be signing his petition e...Sorry but I wouldn't be signing his petition even if he wanted it, not when there is a woman who has been in a Canadian jail for 7 years for simply praying (silently) outside of an abortion clinic. Meanwhile a guy who murders his 3 children is let out of the nut house after what? 3 years. Somehow I don't think Pat Condell would sign a petition to get her out, he likely thinks she deserves it.Larbennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278203679289373662.post-84596869660496792672011-04-17T22:11:48.582-07:002011-04-17T22:11:48.582-07:00Must say I'm impressed even if I know nothing ...Must say I'm impressed even if I know nothing about the Chinook language! To take the time to do so, says a helluva lot about you. It is said that Dale Carnegie was an atheist too, yet I read somewhere that he paid for hundreds or thousands of organs to be installed in Churches that had none. Now that shows that he at least thought the Churches were necessary nonetheless.larbennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278203679289373662.post-38562268733802480862011-04-17T14:02:20.055-07:002011-04-17T14:02:20.055-07:00Yes, Pat has no use for any religion its true, how...Yes, Pat has no use for any religion its true, however, that's his right and, for context, as one who has run up his own Chinook translation of the Lord's Prayer (I thought the existing ones frankly mediocre), <br />http://davidinnorthburnablog.blogspot.com/2008/03/chinook-lords-prayer_22.html<br /><br />I would say the fact that neither you nor I would wish any harm on him for "dissing Christ" etc. makes rather a contrast with savages murdering people over eg. cartoons. <br /> <br />In the existential struggle in which we find ourselves with just such savages, I'm glad we have a Pat Condell, flaws and all, on our side.<br />As I'm glad we have yourself, Larry. I mean, "peekaboo", that's fantastic.David in North Burnaby BChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04660731947857473298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278203679289373662.post-2255787309545101052011-04-16T21:54:25.361-07:002011-04-16T21:54:25.361-07:00Have heard Pat in action, but he can be a very nas...Have heard Pat in action, but he can be a very nasty atheist at times, right up there with Hitchens and the rest. I'm afraid I'm just the old fashioned type who has no intention of dissing Christ and all the good, kind Christians and martyrs etc, that came after. Oh there were some nasty ones too, but I guess I'm just too old to change.<br />Sursum corda!Larbennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278203679289373662.post-28381967273209096842011-04-12T14:19:36.616-07:002011-04-12T14:19:36.616-07:00"Peekaboo!"? Larry, you're awesome.
..."Peekaboo!"? Larry, you're awesome.<br />Seen this? "Letterbox ladies".<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/user/patcondell#p/u/40/ox2-Wun2dIgDavid in North Burnaby BChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04660731947857473298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7278203679289373662.post-37882421652481172662011-04-11T22:04:15.393-07:002011-04-11T22:04:15.393-07:00I have seen them in YaleTown sitting at sidewalk c...I have seen them in YaleTown sitting at sidewalk cafes with their veils on, waiting for someone to say something or be impressed or whatever. I told one woman "peekaboo!" and her husband came over to her (he wasn't sitting with her) to ask her what I said, but she didn't seem to understand the ancient kiddie's game.larbennoreply@blogger.com