A Mr. Garner, late of this planet, noted, with his usual prescience, a tendency of speakers to lean on the first syllable of words beginning with "re" leading to "ree-sources, ree-peat, ree-inforcements, etc." He blamed this on Wynton Marsalis.
Congratulations also to Katie Malloch of CBC Radio 2's "Tonic," the best, if not only, jazz deejay in the country (if not the world, but who knows what they're spinning in Pago Pago?) Ms. Malloch tonight announced a new euphemism for someone having departed this world. It is: "crossed the rainbow bridge." Which, of course, we all hope some day to do.
Finally, federal Agriculture Minister Rob Zitz (sounds like a call for Clearasil) said that junking the Canadian Wheat Board and allowing farmers to bargain on their own would be better for them. And who can argue? Remember what clever Jack got by trading his cow for a sack of beans.
Marketing boards are one of the several Stalinisms Canada should have jettisoned decades ago. They date from an era when farmers knew little about the markets. Nowadays Alberta grain growers do as well as their American colleagues by selling directly and hedging their crops into the futures market - simple tricks that one learns in Ag 101.
ReplyDeleteMarketing boards are the reason so many Canadians cross the 49th parallel to buy cheese.