8 - Sunday, October. 27, 1985 -'North Shore News

HEY, HAS anyone
had any heydays
recently? And if you
have, are you really
sure you knew what
you were doing?

You may think that
heydays are unimportant.
If so, you are wrong.
Heydays matter. For one
thing, not everyone
qualifies for a heyday; for
another, people care about
them, especially on the
North Shore.

I know this is so becaus?
I wrote a column in which.
the word came out in a dif-
ferent way from the way it
was put in. I wrote ‘‘hey-

day,’”? but it came ‘out

hey-dey.
The sentence containing

the. word appeared this -

way: ‘‘No need to tell you

_ that the whining woman is
having a hey“dey.’’

Things like that happen

to me all the time, Only the

other day, for instance, I

wrote ‘Nyerere,: meaning

J that Tanzanian bloke, and
“J. it came out Byerere. ;
Catastrophes of that sort
rarely happen to Bob
Hunter. He’s a nice guy.
So the print Gremlins leave

Doug Collins

e get this straight ¢

him = alone. —— Rotten
favoritism, I call it,

Anyway, a lot of mail.
came in about ‘‘hey-day’’,
there being multitudes who
get their jollies by sticking
little pins into a doll called
Doug.

“Learn how to spell,
Collins,’’ was one of the

~ kinder injunctions. On the

testier side, another person
wrote that being dumb, |
should spell my name:
D-O-G.

Elizabeth Butler wrote a
letter to the editor over
which appeared the
headline ‘‘Collins tnac-
curate’. I tried to ward off
these blows, but it was
useless. It was, one might
say inaccurately, a heyday
for DOG haters.

That leads me to the
most interesting (but un-
published) letter of all,
written by Mr. Greg
Dayton of West Van-
couver. Mr. Dayton said
my critics should have
checked the meaning of
‘heyday’. Had they done soa
they would have had real
ammunition, he declared,
because Collins. had used
the word wrongly. .

What I should have writ-

_ ten, he stated, was not

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“heyday” at all, but “field
day”', which the dictionary
defines as ‘‘a time of
unusual pleasure or unex-
pected success’', as in:
“The newspaper had a
field day with the scan-
dal’’, Heyday, he con-
tinued, is defined as ‘‘the
period of one’s greatest
strength, Vigor or prosper-
ity.”

It is difficult to read the
minds of newspaper col-
umnists, especially when so
many of us have no minds
at ali. So I could have
meant that whining women
are in their period of
greatest strength, couldn't

“Tcould, but 1 didn’t. Mr.
Dayton is right. What I”
meant was.that whining '
women are having a field
day, and my recruitment of
‘heyday’ for my war on |
fems of a certain sort was
a loose use of English.

Go to the bottom of the
class, DOG,

It follows that while
DOG may have his day,
DOG haters should not
have a heyday either. We
will, however, proclaim a
field day for them and
hope that business remains
good, :

required to pay business and
property taxes, but makes

annual grants: equal . to the
“amounts which | ‘would be

levied. if - it were
business. .
The grants are: e:payable on

“claim centres, administrative

offices, storage. and _ salvage
yards." They vary according
to, the ‘size “and location of
the premises and differences

vin | municipal mill Fates and

There are further in-
tricacies, Wielding a club in
defence of Doug (not
DOG) nice Helen Johnson
of North Van quoted a dic-
tionary to show that ‘hey-
day’ can be hyphenated,
which is how it appeared.
Perhaps. But I didn’t use a
hyphen, It was the print
Gremlins again. To con-
fuse things further,
“heydey”’ with an “‘e’’ is
given in my dictionary as
an alternative spelling, But
that's not what I wrote,

The column ran on
August 2. Mail, pro and
con, was still coming in
during the first week of Oc-
tober, which shows that
North Shore people care
not only about beating
DOGS but also about the
tongue that Shakespeare
spake. Wonderful!

kk *

One of the greatest feats
of the print Gremlins ap-
peared in The Times of
London report on Queen
Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee ~
procession. The sentence
should have read: ‘The
Queen passed over West-
minster Bridge to the
cheers of the multitude.”
But ‘‘passed’’ came out as
“‘pissed’’. Soon after that,
the old girl died.

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