Some uses of the word 'Crow' in Nova Scotia.


"You old Crow." ***Less than dignified chumminess.***

"Crowfooted." *** Bowlegged?***

"Crowing about sumpin." ***Braggin.***

"Eating Crow!" *** Taking back sumpin said to wife.

Now more about this crow motif...

Rudest thing said at a poetry reading in the East End of London (but you weren`t there so maybe you would have said worse).

"I`m not sure whether to help you out or nail you to the cross and let crows pluck your eyes out!" **True**

Comments on the performing style of a potentially not-yet-out-of-the-closet, bossy boots, bed head, who hogs the mike stand when he`s not roaming about the audience.

"Watching you perform is like giving your Uncle Bill two hits of ecxtasy and saying: get in an amongst the children." **True**

***True Fact*** My brother Mark once said to a girl in the parking lot of Saga foods at Acadia University:

"Your arse is so big twenty guys lined up side-by-side couldn`t see all of it!"

Which just goes to prove my sister's teenage high school friend was friend was right:
"Youse guys are so crows! (um, ok, gross)

You Nicked Sam Slick?
Re: Letter to The Times re: 'Dickens Rival...'
The following is an unpublished-by-The-Times-response to an article about Sam Slick which appeared in the Feb 06/2006 edition of The Times.

While I was delighted to see that Thomas Chandler Haliburton`s nineteenth century character, Sam Slick, is due to be republished in England in the form of The Clockmaker, I was shocked to see that Canada`s first literary lion is celebrated as a British Tory who may have cast an ancient figure in the British House Lords. As an international rival to Charles Dickens, the article is a curious take on a born-and-raised bluenoser who left Canada at sixty years-old - well after he had established his law and writing career in Canada and abroad via the political broadside The Nova Scotian and the popular literary masterpiece The Clockmaker: The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville. As a rival to not only Dickens but Mark Twain, Haliburton leaves an enduring legacy of Canadian popular sayings: "it's raining cats and dogs," "the early bird gets the worm" and "facts are stranger than fiction". The fact that Canada gets nary a mention in the article suggests a paucity of research. They have a saying in the Annapolis Valley, near Windsor, where Haliburton was born and raised. "Oh My Lamb?" What will they think of next?
John Stiles

Corb Lund in Leytonstone? w/ tour notes

Some notes on the English solo Tour of Corb Lund. Leytonstone-Buckingham.

Bristol, St. Stephen or James(?) Church w/ Scott.Can these two negotiate with a phone/computer? How many Texaco`s on the A38, M4, M5? At the Church Hall, Canadian acts on the wall. Pictures of Sadies, Chuck Prophet, F. Eaglesmith. The hardest venues to find, with the keenest fans. Bristol - we liked Bristol. Full English Breakfast. Bubble and Squeak. Bangers and Mash. Served up by a lady from Africa. Come again!

Chorley, Lancs. A Working Men`s Club? First beers on Steve, well, Corb. Then the pig`s ears, 2 bags. Pub lady says, I`ll ship them to you in Leytonstone. Scott says wait till I finish my beer. The dart player, is he still playing snooker at 11:00 pm?

Stealing into the Member`s Club just to write this. Tomorrow Buckingham. Do I still think Tom is posh? All these people from Alberta. Did we not book a hotel?

Buckingham, The Granary. Red wine and another Travelodge. Decent meal and a promise of a CD. "I come from a long line of...attention seekers" Ye--ooow. Corby says, "Aging thrill seekers," somewhere on the drive. Poker for the boys in Stoke-on-Trent. But I`m going home to Leytonstone.