80s Music

Dammit, my eye won't stop twitching. It's really distracting.

Not much time today but with all the 80s music memes floating around I thought I would post this:

Top Ten Whatevers from www.popculturemadness.com (from 1982 as that was the year I turned 18)

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Q-ing in Q-bec

Quebec moves to ease lineups at grocery stores

Last Updated: Friday, December 1, 2006 | 3:23 PM ET
CBC News

The weekend lineups at your local supermarket will likely shrink, now that Quebec has introduced new rules to allow more staff on the floor Saturdays and Sundays.

Quebec Economic Development Minister Raymond Bachand tabled the legislation Friday, which will clear the way for grocery stores to schedule more than four employees until 8 p.m. ET on weekend nights.

Currently the law limits weekend staff to four, after 5 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays, restrictions that have created interminable lines at the checkout counter.

Consumer groups have lobbied the province to loosen the laws, by arguing that Quebecers' grocery shopping habits have changed, with an increasing number of people choosing to run their errands on weekend nights.

As many as 300,000 people across the province pick up their groceries on weekend evenings, Bachand said.

The National Assembly will vote on the legislation before the end of the year.


It beats me why this law was there in the first place, unless it was some typically French kind of compromise between no Sunday shopping at all and treating Sunday as another business day.

Last night I started reading a not particularly good novel from 1979 called The Under Dogs, placed in a Quebec 20 years after its separation from the rest of Canada.

Alphabet meme

Yoinked from thistlelurid

God, I have no time for this....

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