And so the mystery of this advice will live on. I prefer the joke version, my dad refutes the serious version

And at some point we will pass this along to the next generation, to whom I plan on keeping it an enigma, open to interpretation

For decades we’ve carried vastly different interpretations of this advice

Two weeks after my wedding my grandfather passed

When I visited with him prior to his passing I shared this with him. He kind of chuckled and by way of an answer said,

“Don’t get old, I don’t recommend it”

At my wedding my father opened his speech with it, and followed with, “is horrible advice”

I was a little shocked as I’ve used it as a joke many times

It turns out:
1. I knew my grandfather as a curmudgeonly jokester who liked gadgets

2. My father knew him as a logical Bay St lawyer…

Interesting that the conclusion of the last frame is that there is no spoon.

CBC could crush it with a Jack Goodman / Jacques Bonhomme , Secret CSIS Agent # 613

It would be a nice change of pace from all the Rosedale houses being stuffed full of Royal Dalton figurines.

“My next door neighbour can turn their house into a variety store”

Oh no? Like Kensington Market? Everyone’s favourite place?

Or like allowing there to be any fine grain retail in Regent Park at all?

The pearl clutchers assume this will be Rosedale lmao

Because more than he hates being in a city he hates EVERYONE ELSE being in HIS city.

I always assumed the name James Bond was a moniker given to whichever Agent held number 007. You don’t need any other explanation ahaha.

That’s why you double check the calculations, duh.

I was taught to write like this in architecture school because profs like that I could write at all.

In Planning school I started using Hemingway to ensure my writing was high school level or lower.

In professional practice I set my writing to Gr.4.

Much better results.

Yupppppp.. which really begs the question about why we don’t have residency requirements

What other laws do we adopt as a city that they “don’t believe in”

I once asked a TPS why he parked in the bike lane instead of the empty layby 1 meter ahead. Because he was causing the exact situation pictured.

“I don’t believe in bike lanes”

Oh ok.