Showing posts with label Edmonton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edmonton. Show all posts

Friday, 27 January 2023

Edmonton en un calembour

J'ai écrit récemment un billet sur Calgary qui a fait réagir mes lecteurs... d'Edmonton. Alors j'ai comme eu une inspiration pour un calembour vraiment atroce, que je ne peux pas m'empêcher de commettre ici: "Edmonton est monotone." Okay, bon, c'est une allitération, mais ça fait dur. Non, non, ne partez pas, lecteurs d'Edmonton! Je ne suis jamais allé dans votre ville, je suis certain qu'elle est très bien, ceci n'est qu'un calembour atroce. C'est une tradition sur ce blogue de partager les calembours absolument épouvantables. Et lui bien il est atroce comme albatros.

Tuesday, 28 May 2013

Of mini-bars in our day and age

My brother PJ is (was?) in Edmonton. On his first morning, he woke up in the very early hours, 4:40AM, unable to sleep. Of course, he mentioned it on his Facebook wall. My suggestion: "Check the mini-bar and choose your poison". I think it is good enough to be a great unknown line. A great unknown line, but a poor advice: there was no mini-bar. I mean what? No mini-bar? I first blamed Edmonton, (sorry Debra!), thinking that a hotel without mini-bars was barbaric, then I remember that I didn't see one in my room during my last trip in Manchester. Okay, so it was not a very fancy place, but still. I wonder if mini-bars are not a thing of the past. They were everywhere back in the 80s-90s when we used to travel, filled with overpriced bottles and snacks. Now in our day and age, you have internet access, while the mini-bars are maybe becoming a rarity.