Entries Tagged as 'montreal'

My condolences on your birthday

September 16th, 2009 · 116 Comments

Daniel is Montreal says his dear grandmother sent him this card in the mail for his birthday. The front of the card (which didn’t scan very well) says: It is not what is visible on the surface but what is deep inside that sustains us.
Well, says Daniel, “that and guilt.”

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Tags: birthday · guilt trip · montreal · old folks · signed with love

Bun — er, pizza — in the oven

February 29th, 2008 · 126 Comments

Zakir in Montreal came home one night to find his roommate, Tristan ferociously scribbling this note for his other roommate, Vincent.  Apparently, Tristan was baking cookies on Saturday night (aww) and when he turned on the stove, the entire apartment filled with smoke from the charred cardboard from Vince’s frozen pizza.
Says Zakir: “Vincent’s reply to [...]

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Tags: double-entendre alert · heart · montreal · oven · pizza · preggers · smiley · south carolina · spelling and grammar police

vaguely hostile hostel

September 6th, 2007 · 138 Comments

frequent troublemaker team cassandra sends us a dispatch from her trip to old montreal. the charmant hostel she stayed in had 32 hostelers, two bathrooms, one kitchen, lots of awkward signage, and an overall vibe of, “i’ve said this 10, 000 times and i’m not saying it again.”

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Tags: bathroom · bathtub · beer · canada · excessive underlining · francais · montreal · opening/closing · smiley · strangers · transliteration