Some people hopelessly overestimate their skills. Even worse, if you were to point out their shortcomings, they’d be all insulted and reject any criticism.
On a site for freelancers, GetAFreelancer.com, I came across a (cheap) job posting for “article writers”, listing among the scarce requirements:
Writers must also be very good in English and its grammar.
One of [...]
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As far as the Eurovision Song Contest is concerned, there has been no better year, in my view, than 1993. Back then, most countries that participated came up with really good tunes, making it really hard to pick a winner.
Personally, I would have opted for Croatia’s entry:
A quick search on YouTube [...]
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With all the financial trouble in Iceland at this time, let’s remember better times — such as 1993 when Iceland sent Inga to the Eurovision Song Contest:
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Wanda Jackson, like so many other American singers in the post-war years, recorded a number of songs in German: Santa Domingo (she never had a clue what the lyrics actually meant).
Here’s Tina Rainford singing Silverbird — in English:
And in German:
Another version of Silverbird, [...]
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I have experimented with it a lot, thought long and hard about it, and finally decided to stick with the new Typepad Connect comments feature. Recently, there have been some problems with the basic comments feature of Typepad (e.g., comments are lost somewhere and have gone to Heaven 2.0, including some of my own, never [...]
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This is so sad:
Majel Barrett Roddenberry, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s widow and a fixture of nearly every incarnation of the space travel franchise, died on Thursday. She was 76. Roddenberry, who suffered from leukemia, died at home in Bel Air, Calif., according to a spokesperson.
I was fortunate enough to meet her and her family [...]
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… if you have been following my Web Columns at www.ideas-issues.com, please update your bookmarks. The site, which served backup purposes really, will be discontinued in January.
Some of you may have bookmarked the site under “torythoughts.blogs.com”. If so, you will also have to change your bookmarks to the new URLs shown below.
You can read my [...]
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If you read this story, you’ll understand why I am so sorry and utterly ashamed for having been a member of that party once — heck, I even served as a member of my local constituency association for a while, towards the end, briefly, as a VP!
I promise that will never happen again. I cut [...]
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I have made it official and posted it to the National Post website:
I hereby officially announce my intention to demand my own appointment to the Senate. After all, if not me, then who else, right folks?
Now, it’s up to Prime Minister Stephen Harper to do the right thing …
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Canadians have finally found the silver lining of the dark and gloomy cloud of the recession: No more Canadian Idol — well, for a year, that is:
“Canadian Idol” is being put on the shelf in 2009, CTV announced Tuesday.
The program hosted by Ben Mulroney finished its sixth season this fall and remained a Canadian TV [...]
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