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what to buy for the kid who has everything
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By me
from the for-geeks-only department, Section Social
Posted on Wed May 14, 2008 at 05:35:08 PM PST
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The perfect toy for the kid who has everything - stuffed microbes.
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what to do with your busted front loader
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By me, Section Social
Posted on Sat Apr 26, 2008 at 09:40:49 AM PST
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Our front loader is goners. So we're buying a new one. We might turn the old one into a lampshade.
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I'm an auntie!!!
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By sarah
from the my brother might have done something right department, Section Social
Posted on Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 10:49:17 AM PST
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Emma-Lee Aisling Patricia was born at 2:57am this morning, March 27 2008. No other details yet. Stacy went into labour at midnight on Monday, so she and my brother are a bit tired.
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Gung Hey Fat Choy!!
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By sarah
from the anyone going to the parade on Sunday? department, Section Social
Posted on Thu Feb 07, 2008 at 10:55:02 AM PST
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A very happy, healthy and prosperous Year of the Rat to one and all!
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The latest baby is here!
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By sarah
from the naturally, he waited for snow department, Section Social
Posted on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 03:55:19 PM PST
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I'm sure everyone probably knows this, but I just got the email. C&P from Eric:
Baby boy was delivered at 11:30-ish am today, 7lbs 11oz. Mom and baby
are doing fine - no we haven't finalized a name yet.
WOOOHOOO! Congratulations Grace, Eric and Megan on the new addition to the family!
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Tis the season for Christmas tree cats
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By me
from the meowing-firs department, Section Social
Posted on Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 10:30:36 AM PST
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This is the first year that we've allowed our cats free access to the Christmas tree. In years past, we've blocked off access to the living room when we're not home. The tree's been up for 4 days and it's still standing. Out of curiosity, I thought I'd look around and see what kind of damage cats can do to Christmas trees - the horror!
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One way to beat the high cost of housing
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By sarah
from the watch my mother freak department, Section BtVS
Posted on Fri Nov 02, 2007 at 10:37:34 AM PST
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Came home last night after going to the gym and my entire block was roped off with that nice bright yellow tape that says "Police line Do Not Cross".
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Tales from transit ch1
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By sarah
from the ooh baby. every girl on that bus was watching department, Section Social
Posted on Fri Aug 03, 2007 at 12:18:57 PM PST
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Hint for the guy wearing the "Chicks think I'm totally hot" Tshirt on the #17 bus this morning:
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Put those devices on a diet
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By Xander
from the simmons-for-circuits! department, Section Tech
Posted on Tue Jun 19, 2007 at 09:16:13 AM PST
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According to the NYT tech section, them electric devices need to be turned off!
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Quality of Living Indices for 2007
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By Spike
from the CALGARY? department, Section Social
Posted on Mon Jun 18, 2007 at 09:10:00 AM PST
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The 2007 Quality of Living Indices are out. There's three, one for Cost of Living, one for Quality of Living, and a third for Quality of Living in Health and Sanitation.
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If you are interested in seeing some live jazz for cheap, read on...
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By Graham
from the Thelonius Cannonball Coltraine department, Section Social
Posted on Tue May 22, 2007 at 03:40:47 PM PST
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Gonna try this again under the Social category...
Our Jazz combo is playing a gig!
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Gnooks -- author recs
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By gladys
from the reading department, Section Social
Posted on Wed May 16, 2007 at 10:39:32 PM PST
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This is a pretty cool site: gnooks.
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interesting quilts
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By me
from the science-meets-art department, Section Science
Posted on Tue Apr 24, 2007 at 08:47:06 AM PST
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A neat way to translate science into quilts.
I do like the hep C one.
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Not that we're a competitive lot...
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By Spike
from the oh no not again department, Section Social
Posted on Sat Apr 14, 2007 at 10:47:53 PM PST
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Not that we're a competitive lot here, but here's another Flash Game that's pretty innocuous, and yet strangely addictive.
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Yet another joke only cat owners will understand
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By Spike
from the so true, so true department, Section Social
Posted on Fri Mar 23, 2007 at 10:25:35 AM PST
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Despite being a pretty crudely drawn comic, xkcd is probably one of the better ones available on the 'net. Here's a cat-related comic that almost had me cleaning tea off my keyboard. Mental note... No drinking tea while reading comics.
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Math geeks unite
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By Spike
from the math-challenged department, Section Social
Posted on Tue Feb 27, 2007 at 06:42:11 PM PST
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So i've now seen this same "skill testing mathematical question" on three different contest entry forms. Each time, the person administering the contest told me what the "correct" answer was before I got to the point where I would write it in.
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It's a big one
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By sarah
from the rolling over to one that ends in a zero department, Section Social
Posted on Wed Feb 21, 2007 at 10:29:06 AM PST
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A very Happy Birthday to Gladys, who is hopefully at home ordering up a storm on some knitting website rather than braving the drizzle to go in to work. Have a wonderful day!
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Let the February birthdays begin
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By sarah
from the four and heading for forty department, Section Social
Posted on Fri Feb 16, 2007 at 02:37:50 PM PST
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Happy birthday wishes to Don (it's tomorrow I know but I doubt I'll be near a computer) and Megan (what a busy Sunday for you!). And Gung Hey Fa Choi to everyone! May the Year of the Boar/Pig bring health, happiness and wealth to us all.
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Quantum computing developments
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By Xander
from the neat-stuff-if-true department, Section Science
Posted on Thu Feb 15, 2007 at 03:15:11 PM PST
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Well, there have been a couple interesting developments in quantum computing yesterday - one of which is from a BC company.
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Upgraded Scoop code
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By Xander
from the if-ain't--broken,-upgrade-it department, Section Site News
Posted on Thu Feb 15, 2007 at 03:03:57 PM PST
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You may notice some changes to unnamedsite's look - I recently had my provider upgrade the code version to 1.1.8.
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Finally visiting
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By Xander
from the Prodigal-Son-...-of-a-%$#@&! department, Section Social
Posted on Thu Feb 15, 2007 at 03:01:25 PM PST
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Hey guys - I'm finally coming to visit again. I've got the tix booked, the books and magazines planned, and the games narrowed down to about 300 ...
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Calling dibs
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By sarah
from the and they didn't use the name once department, Section Social
Posted on Mon Feb 12, 2007 at 03:49:26 PM PST
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Official dibs call (as in they are already purchased) on copies of "The Chocolatiers' Apprentice" for Megan and Andrew for their birthdays. The book is a fundraiser for the Raise a Reader fund, and is in honour of the 100th year for Purdy's Chocolates. It's a cute little book and a great cause. Although going in to Purdys and only buying books was hard ;-)
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Our knitting blog
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By gladys
from the Obsessed? Nah. department, Section Social
Posted on Fri Jan 26, 2007 at 12:45:43 PM PST
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I keep forgetting to mention it ...
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A bunch of links
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By gladys
from the killing time department, Section Social
Posted on Fri Jan 26, 2007 at 10:26:03 AM PST
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Because I'm now hooked on google reader ... and some neat stuff comes across regularly ...
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Russian car crashes
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By gladys, Section Social
Posted on Thu Jan 25, 2007 at 09:12:16 AM PST
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More crash videos, this time in Russia.
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A brush (or a Kiss?) with fame
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By Spike
from the what happens in Vegas department, Section Fandom
Posted on Mon Jan 15, 2007 at 03:33:45 PM PST
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I know, I know. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, right? Well, this story leaked out. Written up just for Catherine.
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Some Monday mornings are just better than others
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By sarah
from the I didn't have to bake department, Section Social
Posted on Mon Jan 15, 2007 at 11:35:13 AM PST
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Canucks beat the Leafs 6-1 (five power play goals!) and the pregnant grad student is in labour (6 cm dilated at 9am) so we should have the first offical lab baby in short order . And the snow isn't due until after rush hour. Can't ask for much more than that. :-)
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Happy New Year!
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By sarah
from the what will 2007 bring? department, Section Social
Posted on Mon Jan 01, 2007 at 03:05:53 PM PST
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A very happy, healthy and prosperous 2007 to all of the unnamedsiters! Everyone must have had a good New Years' if I'm the first one posting ;-)
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Now THAT's a swiss army knife!
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By gladys
from the handy department, Section Social
Posted on Sun Dec 17, 2006 at 03:44:06 PM PST
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Here's a collector's item for you ... 2 lbs of swiss army knife.
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People we know in the paper
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By sarah
from the we knew him when... department, Section Social
Posted on Wed Dec 13, 2006 at 05:27:52 PM PST
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There is an article on pgs B2-3 of the Vancouver Sun today about the CNIB, the aging population and how common vision problems are. Included in the article is a nice photo of Steve Barclay and some quotes about devices/technology to help those with vision problem. Nice free publicity for Aroga :-)
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The LSC Tower of Babel
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By sarah
from the everyone knows the tower of babel story, right? department, Section Social
Posted on Tue Dec 12, 2006 at 11:01:02 AM PST
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And the Lord made them all speak in different tongues, and one could not understand the other and chaos resulted...or at least it did in my glass washer training session yesterday.
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Vegas anyone?
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By Spike
from the come-get-your-schwag department, Section Tech
Posted on Fri Dec 01, 2006 at 09:07:25 AM PST
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Time for a pilgrimage to Mecca for geeks like me. Fancy new electronic gadgets, as far as the eye can see! Tickets are booked, Hotel is booked. Now if Phillipine Airlines can just keep it's planes operational long enough to get me there safely...
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Rob's "published"
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By gladys
from the pretty pictures department, Section Social
Posted on Wed Nov 29, 2006 at 02:50:14 PM PST
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Rob sent me a couple of photos yesterday, and I got his okay to send them on to SFU's Media & PR folks.
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Line Rider
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By Markus
from the still-there-when-the-snow-melts-tomorrow department, Section Social
Posted on Wed Nov 29, 2006 at 01:37:34 PM PST
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apparently this was all the rage a couple months ago, but at my age I'm allowed to lag behind the trendy curve. There's this toy, not really a game, since you cannot really win, called Line Rider. Its a toboggan simulator written in Flash. You draw the slope, click go and watch the guy ride the hill. Drawing hills can get old quick, for some at least, but watching the super involved tracks people have posted at You Tube can provide hours of entertainment, for some. Just search with "line rider".
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It's a winter wonderland of snow
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By sarah
from the and to think I was worried about Edmonton... department, Section Social
Posted on Tue Nov 28, 2006 at 11:33:42 AM PST
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So how is everyone surviving our little bit of winter in November? Everyone have power? Enjoying the white stuff or can't wait for it to go away?
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Are you tone deaf?
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By Spike
from the who knew? department, Section Tech
Posted on Thu Nov 23, 2006 at 10:52:05 AM PST
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Here's a maybe scientifically inaccurate way to test whether or not you are tone deaf.
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good tool here.
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By Graham
from the shortcut to the bad news department, Section Site News
Posted on Tue Nov 07, 2006 at 08:59:26 AM PST
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Here's a website where you can key in a user's e-bay handle, and get a short list of all of the bad feedback they've ever received (or sent). Wish I'd known about this a while ago...
http://www.toolhaus.org/
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soup recipe
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By me
from the yummy-goodness department, Section Social
Posted on Mon Nov 06, 2006 at 10:06:17 AM PST
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aka don't-go-food-shopping-with-Markus-otherwise-you'll-end-up-with-too-much-squash Curried Squash Soup recipe
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Tour Scandal and Floyd
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By Tony
from the Tony department, Section News
Posted on Thu Nov 02, 2006 at 09:52:57 PM PST
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A few of you may be interested in this. There's a cycling forum at wwww.dailypeloton.com - click on "new DP forums" and you can navigate yourself from there. Basically, there's been much discussion about Floyd Landis and his positive drugtest; basically his testostrone/estrogen (T/E) ratio was out of the allowable bracket. What's of note about this forum is that Floyd is participating; yes that FLOYD. His username is, well, it's "floyd" not that cryptic, I know. Of note, and I heard this on a podcast Gladys has downloaded for me and not the fourm is that Floyd's ride on stage 17 of the TdF was not remarkable under statistical analysis. What I mean by that is that Floyd didn't make up any time on the peloton during the climbs; he gained his advantage during the descents. Also, he was the only rider on that stage that had a team car next to him for the duration of his breakaway, and dumped an incredible amount of water over himself to keep his core temperature low during a day when temperatures were 38-42°C. Floyd is not only defending himself against critics, but he's trying to mount what his team calls the "Wikipedia defense" - they're looking for participation from the forum members (many of whom have the professional credentials to follow critically the procedures and protocols of a drug test) in mounting a defense.
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Happy Halloween
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By me
from the crazed-cat department, Section Social
Posted on Tue Oct 31, 2006 at 01:09:09 PM PST
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Ricky wishes everyone a safe and happy Halloween. Enjoy the picture.
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Happy Birthday Markus!
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By sarah
from the we haven't saluted a birthday in over a month department, Section Social
Posted on Tue Oct 24, 2006 at 10:52:41 AM PST
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Hopefully my daybook is correct on the date, failing that I'm pretty sure I'm close.
Happy birthday Markus!
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Westjet Ooops
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By Tony
from the Tony department, Section News
Posted on Thu Oct 05, 2006 at 11:36:30 AM PST
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Anyone accidentally dialled 1-800-WESTJET rather than 1-888-WESTJET? You might be surprised, I'm certain WestJet was. Our Sales Manager pointed this one out to me. Tony.
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