“Barry,” my cousin Mike said, “I think it’s time.” It was clear that my brother didn’t feel the same way, but he only shrugged, which Mike took as agreement. “Dave,” he said, giving the words as much gravity as he could muster, “Go get the dictionary.” I was nine years old, and a tag-along. I’d walked in on my brother telling a story about how—during school that morning—a girl he knew got her period in the middle of French class. And I laughed like the dickens. And then they called me on it. After I’d lugged the dictionary down from the spare room, Mike told me to look up the word period and read out the definition. “The end of a cycle, a series of events, or a single action?” “Keep going,” he said. “The full pause with which a sentence closes?” “Not that.” “An interval of geologic—“ “Gimme that!” He yanked the book towards him, read down the page, and pointed me towards the definition he’d found. Menstruation: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from pu...
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The greatest Haligonian? Probably the Dawgfather (a former boxer who converted to Islam and sells beef, veggie, halal and kosher dogs from a cart.)
The greatest Miltonian? Well, what's great about Milton is it's sad anonymity...if pressed I'd say whoever thought of the making the movie theatre a testament to the zebra.
However, the greatest Ottawan is none other than Dave McLean, 79-year-old escort/researcher/CEO from Ottawa, Ontario. Originally hailing from Georgetown.
His tireless work to become the first transexual nazi eskimo to cross the Ottawa River on a pogo stick will not be forgotten.
Well popular responses to greatest Cornwallian would have to be either be Lori Dupuis the hockey player (big deal) or that young guy from The Notebook (puke), but I think that time will tell that it's actually me. You'll be glad you got in on the ground floor.
And I agree with BRNQ that whoever thought to put the zebra in the movie theatre is the greatest Miltonian...