6 > Wednesday, April 20, 19RR ~ North Shore News

InsiIcuts.

Why can’t flutes leave
Will to rest Th) peace?

BENT ENGLISH DEPT. Fora real sonar the desecra-
tion of our language by the jik of Svend Robinson, |

_ Laurier Lapierre and their/sexual soulmate’, turn to Donald
: Currie of: North Van. ! ;

/

: the words they use © when describing
their vatigus body parts and some
of their activities were added,”"
says Donald, ‘the fist would be

Following his column’ $s protest
a couple of months ago against the +
hijacking by the gays of o fcc. plea-
saut English words: Dovid tp dipped!
into his-dictionary of slang and /
came up with a preliminary
‘homosexual lexicon’ “of over 120
: such words that now have to be
no-nos in straight sacicty. I 's L00
long, alas, to print in full — but
among the many things Mother
never taught me is that “jam’"-re-
ally means hetcroseaual, a homo —.and we're not talking
“tearoom” is a public toilet and about unskimmed milki) |
“fairy godmother’’ describes an oot
initiator and tutor of male homos. . rs Lote
And that's only for starters. “If GOING NATIONAL as publishers

“Poor Wil Shakespeare, no prude /
himself in his own day, must be /
_ Spinning in his grave.

Thanks, Donald, for the update.
(“Bent and ‘‘flute’!, by the way,
are among some 30 other once in-
nocent words which now mean

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ye provincial government deni ‘
¥ further cons eration of pects Per parts of’ ‘the ©

iled coun of: certain gore
abulance’ transfer calls,

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twice as, long and totally obscene."

ative volunteer programs for the
/ elderly.

: WRAP- UP Oops! Your scribe has + is for long-distance pic hurlers,

are the North Shore Volunteers for
Residents in Care Facilities. Some

- time back they compiled a Volun-

teer Manual which has proved

highly successful in motivating

other B.C. communities {especially :

in isolated areas) to organize cre- jLibrary, starting at 7 p.m. First
‘off, it will honor the United Na-

,? dans which has just reached the

u ripe old age.of 43. Sccondly, it will 7

) launch the new North Shore

branch of the U.N. ‘Association in

, Canada with a video and talk. by

} North Van U.N.-hooster Patrick

: Bruskiewich. Drop by —or for
morc information call- Patrick at
987-6621 32. And’ ‘congrats to Cap
College (university transfer) stu-
dents Sandra Seckins, Susan ;

_ Tomkins and Shelley Hambrook:

» = awariled bursaries by the Cana-
dian Federation of University
Organizer Dorothy Nichols says Women,
dhe closer: you stand to the targets, ve oe

; the more, you'll have to-pay for
‘your plate of goo ... A double’. *
“birthday bash'' with cake,’

‘and coffce will be held tomorrow
(Thursday, April 21) in uid
‘meeting room of Lynn Valley,

after messing up the date in last
Friday’ S item about the pie-sting-
“ing spectacular at North Van .
Legien Branch 118. The fund
raiser for the Cancer Society actu-
ally takes place this coming Satur- #
day, April 23, and celebrities
parading with president Tom
Donnelly and his execs to bite the!
Redi-Whip will include North
Van-Capilano MLA: Angus Ree.: |

Even Ottawa was impressed. So
much so that Capilano-Howe = |
Sound MP Mary Collins recently
presented a New Horizons cheque
for almost $10,000 to project
coordinator Lorna Lioyd-Jones
and the NSVRCF distribution,
commitice to revise and updaic the
manual for usc: ‘by volunteers North Shore Cancer Society d
Canada- wide.” é chairman June Mowat and Miss /

wy North Shore Pageant queen Gertie .
/ , ‘Todd aes Incidentally, the $54 shot

ream dripping all over his face

‘\
WRIGHT oR WRONG: The one
thing | you finally learn from histo-
_ Ty is that pedple never learn from
~ history. e

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WINNING WAYS Cap.C lege students Sandra Seekin
JW. bursaries by

Hamt}fook and Susan Tomkins (right) awarded thelr CE
West an CFUW president Jo Richards (2nd fro left

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