The trouble with Dion, Morrissette, McLachlan is that none of them is really that kind that you look at them and say, "Oh, [country]."
Michael J. Fox, Kiefer Sutherland, you can forget they're Canadian until the politics jokes get started. Wayne Gretzky, you don't forget he's Canadian. When he got married, both of the major Canadian brewing companies had to be represented at the reception.
Julia Roberts is like flashing the Coca-Cola sign -- instant branding, instant identification as American.
Salma Hayek was the best I could do for Mexico, although from the Mexican point of view it should probably be somebody like Andres Galarraga, or the woman who played
Betty la fea.
Country 'Y' was not Mexico.
... and the end-of-year bonus just arrived. $5k, before taxes. $2.8k, after.
t reminds self she is a lifelong progressive and the taxes go to things like schools and highways and protecting endangered species and feeding the poor
What should I do with my windfall?
(Amusing side note: the company won't give bonuses to anyone who's been here less than a year, so my VP wrote a personal check to my employee, whom I have to explain this all to when I give her the envelope...)
CLOCKS are being removed from NatWest banks — to stop customers moaning.
ha! this is my London bank. Autopay and cashpoint is the way to go (direct deposit and ATM to us in the colonies)
The trouble with Dion, Morrissette, McLachlan is that none of them is really that kind that you look at them and say, "Oh, [country]."
So Shania Twain isn't going to work either?
Ah, but what are the chances of someone skimming that and then going somewhere else?
I do it cause I get frequent flyer miles at B&N, but not Amazon.
But I am a freak about frequent flyer miles.
That's a mattress, Tom? Really?
Country 'Y' was not Mexico.
Damn. It was France, wasn't it? In which case, Catherine Deneuve.
