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p4 tribune november 10 1993 st stouffville p skwmkscsshsgss remembrance remember now the dead but think as well of them that came back from the terrifying brink the men of nameless fame unlike the dead they do at last grow old those comrades of a halfforgotten fold do not go down dismayed old men do not go down dismayed for you possessed the strength of ten against the hordes arrayed 7b seize your island fortress and enslave a nation that no longer ruled the wave though bearded boys who never knew may now presume to mock it was yourselves the aging few who then withstood the shock and held it high and cast it back again as once your fathers cast back france and spain therefore do not go down old men dismayed for in your day you dared the devil in his den and slew him where he lay and nothing that these feckless times may do shall smirch the honour which belongs to you jhb peel girl guide sales pitch earns family snicker i remember those girlhood days of cookieselling like they were yesterday and well it was just yester day when a box of the girl guides new chocolate mint cookies arrived for some sam pling i would have eaten the entire box myself had the office ladies not scolded me into saving a few of the delectable chocolatebathed delights for my vacationing editor sheesh it doesnt seem so long ago that i was standing on the front steps of my neighbors homes taking my own orders for girl guide cookies like most of my fellow pef- ferlaw brownie and girl guide sisters of the longago 1970s id race home from the bus grab my girl guide cookie order sheet and hit the bricks i remember approaching that very first house rather nervously all the while silently rehearsing the sales pitch it turned out to be an experi ence that wont ever be forgot ten around the kibble house hold and still gets mentioned around the family dinner table at mom and dads you know those fun reminis centtype dinners brother dearest mentions how silly little sister was when she racked dads snowmobile into a fence or how she turned his cherished 1950 ford pick up back fender into an accor- kibbles bits t racy kibble dion with the family car ha ha ha pass the peas well i remember my first girl guide cookie sales pitch and i cant help snicker just thinking about it i knocked on the very first door loudly and with confi dence i was ready hello sir i said when the big tall meanlooking man with the glasses glared down at me through the screen door he bore that impatient look older people get when dealing with all children who are not their own yes miss he asked in a hurry-up-youre-wasting-my- time voice im uh from the local cook ie pack sir would you like to buy a brownie i stammered it wasnt until he removed his glasses and rolled his head back in raucous laughter that i realized my faux pas i mean well want some cookies we have to sell them i offered honestly ill take six boxes he smiled wow local cookie pack now thats clever he said with a grin and closed the door i was happy he was happy brown owl was happy oh yes thank you to mr cochrane for reminding me that norm cravens large corn cob was 14 inches not 14 feet as i reported tsk tsk that little slipup got past yours truly and two proof readers mr cochrane remind ed me quite correctly that i also spelled regis philbins name wrong oops again thanks to mr cochrane and to all our ontheball readers stouffville tribune publisher general manager editorinchief advertising director business manager operations manager patricia pappas andrew mair jo ann stevenson debra weller vivian oneil pamela nichols staff reporters tracy kibble julie casparsen roger belgrave photographers sjoerd witteveen steve somerville real estate joan marshman classified ooreen deacon debbie amundson uxbridge retail sales joan marshman doreen deacon heather hill gibson uxbridge distribu tion arlene maddock canadian publications mail sales product agreement 439010 published every wednesday by metrotand printing publishing and 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aroma courtesy of calvin klein who appears to be hellbent on dis suading anyone with a reasonably well developed sense of smell from purchasing his products some people read a magazine from cover to cover others consult the index i spend the first five minutes pulling out all those annoying inserts and consigning them to the waste bin shake a copy of chatelaine and 14 fantastic subscription offers fall out bound between the pages youll find a plethora of deals for terminally cute china dolls uni corns with 18 k gold trim and real diamonds for eyes and gushily romantic collector plates with cherubic victorian children on them kates corner then there are the book and record clubs i once joined the book of the month club and it was a great deal if you returned the cards rejecting this months selection as soon as they arrived in my case i ended up owing the equivalent of the national debt for several years worth of the monthly selection none of which were of the remotest interest to me when i eventually got around to cancelling my subscription you could have papered the walls with letters all in posh creamy envelopes adorned with fake callig raphy trying to lure me back into the fold in between the special offers and regular ads of the womans maga zine there is the occasional bit of editorial some of which by order of judy rebick must be meaningful and not pander to the hidden bimbo in all of us so the guide to great skin has to be counterbalanced by tips on how to buy a car and an indepth look at a woman who has achieved immor tality in a previously male pre serve the back pages are filled with let ters from indignant feminists protesting the fact that womens magazines are often well a bit lacking in intellectual depth i have a revolutionary idea for those trailblazers for womens rights dont buy them and you wont have to be offended anyway if todays woman doesnt want to know about achieving great skin how come there so many advertisers in chatelaine