SENSE AND NONSENSE

  • MADAME REAUGHXYZ – KNOWS ALL, TELLS ALL!

    Jan 1981  Sense and Nonsense A brand new year stretches before us. Many of us are gazing at our calendars with a touch of trepidation. What lies in store for Canadians in the year 1981? It is time for a certain dull, everyday housewife to crawl into her broom closet and undergo a mind-dazzling metamorphous!…

  • OLD YELLOW

    1980-02-21 Sense and Nonsense There is an oid saying, “You don’t own a cat – it owns you.” I am sure that is true and it is also true that our feline friends vary as much in character and personality traits as most other animals do. A few years ago an itinerant tom adopted us…

  • FIGURE SKATING

    November 22/79  Sense and Nonsense A year ago I took our four-year-old to the arena for her first figure skating lesson. She was already supremely confident about her skating abilities. After all, she had practiced for hours in slippered feet on the living room rug! She trudged proudly along the rubber mat wearing her new…

  • KIDS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS

    May 3, 1979 Sense and Nonsense Art Linkletter once wrote a book entitled “‘Kids Say The Darndest Things”. I am sure most parents and other observers of small children will agree with the title – kids do say the darndest things! The other day our four-year-old daughter asked me to help catch flies for her…

  • POGO-ISMS

    May 31st/79 Sense and Nonsense The 1979 federal election is finally over. The battles have all been fought, the dust has settled and soon a new Prime Minister will be crowned in Ottawa. Walt Kelly, who drew the comic strip “POGO” in the nineteen fifties and sixties, was quite a satirist. The creatures he created…

  • AN EMPTY NYLON FOOT

    OCTOBER 25, 1979. Sense and Nonsense The panty-hose has to be one of the greatest inventions in recent history. It replaced the stocking, (both of them) and all the contrivances formerly used to hold them in place. Many of us remember the garter belt (shudder!) Their lumpy fasteners ruined our comfort and our silhouettes. They…

  • PHONOPHOBIA

    March 1, 79  Sense and Nonsense Physiatrists are acquainted with, and have labeled, many kinds of neuroses. I wonder if I have recently become afflicted with one that has not yet been added to their lists? I call it phonophobia – the morbid fear of music! For 15 years I have endured my childrens’ mania…

  • ACCIDENTAL HUMOUR

    Mar. 9,1978  Sense and Nonsense I love to collect accidental humour, whether it be from radio. T.V. or everyday life. However it sometimes happens that the humour is only in the eye or the ear of the beholder. The other day I found myself chuckling merrily over a statement made by a newscaster on the…

  • WEIRD KINGDOM (spoof on a TV show called “Wild Kingdom”)

    Feb.2, 1978  Sense and Nonsense Mutual of Andromeda presents “Weird Kingdom” with Merlin Ferkins! (An Inter-Galactic Television Production) “To-day we are about to explore a little known region in the galaxy. The planet Earth is covered mostly by water, but few people realize that many strange animals abound amid the vegetation of the seemingly small…

  • HOSPITALS INTIMIDATE ME

    February 16, 1978  Sense and Nonsense Hospitals intimidate me. I have a superstitious fear of doctors, (especially surgeons) nurses carrying enemas or needles, and cold bedpans. A few years ago I was scheduled to undergo minor surgery. My old irrational fears (and a few new ones) came back to haunt me. I had never had…