Don't be ashamed as a Canadian. It's Calgary. Calgary is as Calgary does.

It was really one of the greatest things.

We visited a Parmesan cheese factory in Parma a few years ago, and were given a Parmagiano-Reggiano reflective slap bracelet. I wear it biking. It's amazing.

I came here to basically say the same thing that SueiNM said - I tip very well because I know what the right thing to do is, and how to behave in a restaurant. So don't assume that all customers are the enemy. You told good customers to fuck off in your

Since I'm a guy, I've only been seriously hit on once (that I'm aware of - I can be oblivious). A few years a (female) co-worker said: "You're looking stressed. I know you're living with your girlfriend, but are you getting laid enough? If not, I can help." I politely declined. "Well, I figured I'd try," she says.…

Stephen Jay Gould wrote a tremendous book called Full House, using an extended baseball metaphor to talk about evolution. It's really an excellent read. Part of his point (apologies for any misrepresentation) is that as batters improve, pitchers improve, and we have a higher professional standard of play now, allowing…

Magpie, not a mockingbird. Closely related to crows, which do this kind of thing all the time. Mockingbird would have been a snack for the hawk.

It's a damn shame that you didn't take that Cherry joke further.

Well, I should have known better than to google "incomplete wipe".

thanks!

Question for you please. When I tried this (and I know I did it wrong because I used olive oil and scalded it a little), I sterilized my bottle in a pot of boiling water, as one does, but after a few days in the fridge my oil grew mould. A thick layer of green mould. Any idea what causes / how to prevent this, beyond…

Congratulations: this is my favourite comment ever on deadspin.

Harrison Mooney calls this the Platonic Ideal of the hockey hug, and I concur.

Sigh.

Sure thing, Lima. I'm from Ontario too; I just understand what racism is.

Thanks for showing up, Mr Cherry. Hadn't rolled my eyes yet this morning.

Um, no. Vancouver requested a huge haul from Toronto, which the Leafs to their credit rejected.

Nothing wrong with this sentence. Great sentence!

That's a fantastic screen name!

There's a great description of this in Spook Country by William Gibson.