{"id":226,"date":"2001-08-13T01:03:06","date_gmt":"2001-08-13T06:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=226"},"modified":"2001-08-13T01:03:06","modified_gmt":"2001-08-13T06:03:06","slug":"canadiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2001\/08\/13\/canadiana\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiana"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blackholebrain<\/a> personifies his currency. <\/p>\n

…just cost me about 3 Ben Franklins…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I take it Ben’s on the US $100 bill. It reminds me of cinema noir scenes, bribing stool pigeons with images of Andrew Jackson.<\/p>\n

I’d like to see a this in a Canadian movie:<\/p>\n

Flatfoot:<\/b> So ya won’t talk to me, willya, wise guy? Say, maybe you’ll talk to my friend William Lyon Mackenzie King…?<\/i><\/p>\n

Stoolie:<\/b> Listen copper, I don’t know no Mackenzie King, see. Mebbe’s you got another friend called Borden – Robert L. Borden? Yeah, sure, I could see myself singin’ like a boidy to Mister Borden, and his twin sisters Liz and Elizabeth…<\/i><\/p>\n

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From the Canada Post site<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Note:<\/b> Canadian postal codes are always formatted in the same sequence: alphabetic character \/ numeral \/ alpha \/numeral \/ alpha \/ numeral (e.g. K1A0B1).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Would it really have been less precise to say:<\/p>\n

Note:<\/b> Canadian postal codes always use the following format: letter \/ number \/ letter \/ number \/ letter \/ number (e.g. K1A0B1).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Humans never say in conversation “alphabetic character” and “numeral” when they mean “letter” and “number”. Corporations shouldn’t either<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Funny how they get it exactly right on the French page:<\/p>\n

Remarque:<\/b> Au Canada, le code postal se pr\u00e9sente toujours de la fa\u00e7on suivante :lettre-chiffre-lettre-chiffre-lettre-chiffre (p. ex. K1A0B1)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Newcomers to the country have a hard enough time learning new languages in which to do business without us further burdening them with understanding the vocabulary, intentional vagueness and semantic nuances of business-speak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blackholebrain personifies his currency. …just cost me about 3 Ben Franklins… I take it Ben’s on the US $100 bill. It reminds me of cinema noir scenes, bribing stool pigeons with images of Andrew Jackson. I’d like to see a this in a Canadian movie: Flatfoot: So ya won’t talk to me, willya, wise guy? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}