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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. ! ;

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: 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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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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