South Marysburgh Mirror (Milford, On), 1 Jan 1999, p. 19

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=_--=M FE Oe TT the O.P.P. AR 2 ne Hs O.P.P. Constable Jennifer Tompkins Local Community Service Officer of will be available regularly in the former Township Hall in Milford. Please call 476-2151 for the dates and times. If you have any problems or concerns regarding police protection in the community Constable Tompkins will be pleased to discuss them with you. Snake - Continued from page 5 in the affirmative. I've always wondered though. did he then think that all IBM people wore their titles on their neckties? S.M. for sales manager when the person was actually into sado-masochism. and so on? I sort of hope SO. On another occasion, staying at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, I rose to attend an important session, concentrated on tying a neat knot in the accursed tie, and forgot how to do it. Concentrating on a thing that 1s automatic can cause you to fail. Try thinking about whether you breathe in. breathe out, or hold your breath when you swing a golf club. You'll add thirty strokes to your score. Think real hard about how you comb your hair, and what side the part is on, and sure as shootin' you'll leave the house looking like you just passed through a tornado. Well, I must have tried ten times to tie that damned necktie, and each time on the final knot pull. it came apart in my hands. I was in a panic thinking I would have to ask one of the chambermaids to tie the thing. Worrying so much about the humiliation of this, my hands were working on a last attempt. and because I wasn't thinking about it some form of a knot appeared. It was a large bulky knot, looking like some sort of sailors knot, but I gratefully kept it. [ had a friend who was staying in the Queen Elizabeth, opened his door to fetch the moming paper. and it whooshed shut behind him. Reaching PA ately for the doorknob he realized he was too late. Locked out. No SINCE 1925 MINAKER'S AUTO PARTS (MILFORD) LTD. Phone (613) 476-4547 Fax (613) 476-1565 Milford, Ont. KOK 2P0 Specializing in Hard-to-Get Parts New and used, for cars and trucks 1920 models and up Paul Minaker Randy York Closed Thursday Afternoons and All Day Sunday choice. Sprint to the desk to get a room key in his underpants. The desk clerk alertly suggested he clothe himself. Their are times when a person deserves a punch in the nose, and this was one of them. but my friend had the presence of mind to picture headlines in the Montreal Gazette, so whisked the key from the clerk's hand and sprinted back up the stairwell. But I digress. 1 was carrying on about neckties. These darned things sell for forty or fifty dollars. though I never paid that much for one. Can you imagine? Fifty bucks for a scrap of cloth to hang about your neck? Join with me in a thunderous round of applause for Prince Claus. I believe he should be called Santa Claus. for he's given the male of the species a great gift. - George Underhill DotCom Computer Services E-Mail: gary. pearson l@svmpatico.ca WEB: www3.sympatico.ca/gary.pearsonl Sales: & Service--Training--iUpsrades'&iRepair. Gary Pearson 22 Rogers Street. P. O. Box 991 Picton, Ont. KOK 2T0 613-476-1097 Phone 613-476-1380 FAX