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Sid Barron fonds [graphic material, textual record] R5572-0-8-E [1357 notice(s)]

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Photographic records [graphic material] R5572-24-0-E

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...this is the little room where the people and their machines make Canada go... the numbers nerve-centre... you'll notice there are no windows so that nothing from the outside world distracts them from their calculations..." ))}$

"...this is the little room where the people and their machines make Canada go... the numbers nerve-centre... you'll notice there are no windows so that nothing from the outside world distracts them from their calculations..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's a seventeen part Canadian super-saga, 'Riders of the Purple Tundra'...Pierre Berton is Major Preston and Ben Wicks is the Renegade mad trapper hunted in four provinces...wanna watch that...?" ))}$

"...it's a seventeen part Canadian super-saga, 'Riders of the Purple Tundra'...Pierre Berton is Major Preston and Ben Wicks is the Renegade mad trapper hunted in four provinces...wanna watch that...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...we're investigating the phenomenon of smoke always blowing from the smoker to the non-smoker sitting adjacent, regardless of which side the smoker sits..." ))}$

"...we're investigating the phenomenon of smoke always blowing from the smoker to the non-smoker sitting adjacent, regardless of which side the smoker sits..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...alright, this is it...you've taken 27,779 steps so far and you're allowed only 28,000 on this route...look here, Haroldson, do you think you could HOP the rest of the way...?" ))}$

"...alright, this is it...you've taken 27,779 steps so far and you're allowed only 28,000 on this route...look here, Haroldson, do you think you could HOP the rest of the way...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode(UNTITLED: Christmas Chaos ))}$

UNTITLED: Christmas Chaos

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...there's some young people at the door who are taking part in a $17,000 Federal Opportunities for Youth program which is to find out how people have re-acted to the Federal Opportunities for Youth program..." ))}$

"...there's some young people at the door who are taking part in a $17,000 Federal Opportunities for Youth program which is to find out how people have re-acted to the Federal Opportunities for Youth program..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...what's happening to the world anyhow? Nobody seems to like wars anymore..." ))}$

"...what's happening to the world anyhow? Nobody seems to like wars anymore..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I know it's difficult, Martha...but you've got to keep telling yourself, 'out of this rubble and confusion is rising a NEW and LOVELIER TORONTO..." ))}$

"...I know it's difficult, Martha...but you've got to keep telling yourself, 'out of this rubble and confusion is rising a NEW and LOVELIER TORONTO..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, you really should see a doctor about those cramps you've been getting everytime we're near a supermarket...maybe it's not just psychosomatic..." ))}$

"...Harold, you really should see a doctor about those cramps you've been getting everytime we're near a supermarket...maybe it's not just psychosomatic..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...a new course Miss Haroldson is experimenting with... she figures if we get them early enough we can teach them to protest in a courteous and tolerant manner..." ))}$

"...a new course Miss Haroldson is experimenting with... she figures if we get them early enough we can teach them to protest in a courteous and tolerant manner..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...they don't believe in marriage but they love receptions and honeymoons...third this year..." ))}$

"...they don't believe in marriage but they love receptions and honeymoons...third this year..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...every year it's the same...that Haroldson chap in Toronto sends in his crazy return and the whole operation breaks down..." ))}$

"...every year it's the same...that Haroldson chap in Toronto sends in his crazy return and the whole operation breaks down..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I know, lady, we're all in favor of rapid transit...but you must understand this is not a permissable area for personal initiative..." ))}$

"...I know, lady, we're all in favor of rapid transit...but you must understand this is not a permissable area for personal initiative..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no, I'm sorry, Haroldson...and with all due respect to your Mother's teachings...'to err is human, to forgive divine' has no real meaning in Police work..." ))}$

"...no, I'm sorry, Haroldson...and with all due respect to your Mother's teachings...'to err is human, to forgive divine' has no real meaning in Police work..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...another attraction you'll find in our 'Indy 505 Super Sports' is total absence of 'Crosswalk-Confusion'...no one, believe me, no one will attempt to cross when they see you coming..." ))}$

"...another attraction you'll find in our 'Indy 505 Super Sports' is total absence of 'Crosswalk-Confusion'...no one, believe me, no one will attempt to cross when they see you coming..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...a visiting Russian pee-wee team? I wonder if Clarence Campbell has heard about this...?" ))}$

"...a visiting Russian pee-wee team? I wonder if Clarence Campbell has heard about this...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I don't quite know how to say this...it's only three days since we left Toronto but already I think I'm missing the pollution.." ))}$

"...I don't quite know how to say this...it's only three days since we left Toronto but already I think I'm missing the pollution.."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...we keep getting a slight beep in our huddle...I think they've got it bugged..." ))}$

"...we keep getting a slight beep in our huddle...I think they've got it bugged..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...well, I'm sorry...there just aren't any season's tickets available for next season, or the next...of course I could take your name..." ))}$

"...well, I'm sorry...there just aren't any season's tickets available for next season, or the next...of course I could take your name..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...dash it all, Sergeant...one would expect all that beastly nonsense in Quebec would have brought out at least a few eager chaps...!" ))}$

"...dash it all, Sergeant...one would expect all that beastly nonsense in Quebec would have brought out at least a few eager chaps...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode(SQUEEZE LEFT AHEAD 400 FT ))}$

SQUEEZE LEFT AHEAD 400 FT

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, they've roped off the meat section and they're only letting RICH people in...what'll we do...?" ))}$

"...Harold, they've roped off the meat section and they're only letting RICH people in...what'll we do...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...imagine...all this right in the heart of downtown Toronto...only ten minutes from the city hall by expressway..." ))}$

"...imagine...all this right in the heart of downtown Toronto...only ten minutes from the city hall by expressway..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...but, just think, Boris...a Christmas card already from Aunt Sophie in Toronto...she must have mailed it at least two months before the August deadline..." ))}$

"...but, just think, Boris...a Christmas card already from Aunt Sophie in Toronto...she must have mailed it at least two months before the August deadline..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...a shiver of frost / rustles through my urban numbness. / dry leaves crackle against the curb / stronger, darker bloods / boil up: a primeval brew - / and the first soft break / of a wolf's foot through snow / whispers in my ear..." ))}$

"...a shiver of frost / rustles through my urban numbness. / dry leaves crackle against the curb / stronger, darker bloods / boil up: a primeval brew - / and the first soft break / of a wolf's foot through snow / whispers in my ear..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, what's a four letter word for 'Denizen of the Deep'...Harold...?" ))}$

"...Harold, what's a four letter word for 'Denizen of the Deep'...Harold...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I figure my big year will be 1978...I'll be sixty, exhausted, tax-ridden and penniless.. but I'll make a quick recovery as I enter the Golden Age of Pensions and Security..." ))}$

"...I figure my big year will be 1978...I'll be sixty, exhausted, tax-ridden and penniless.. but I'll make a quick recovery as I enter the Golden Age of Pensions and Security..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...there's a taxpayer who has multiple writer's cramp...wonders if he could dictate a letter to the editor..." ))}$

"...there's a taxpayer who has multiple writer's cramp...wonders if he could dictate a letter to the editor..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...that's why I came in...to tell you I'm buying nothing from you ever again, unless you bring Billy Harris back up from Rochester..." ))}$

"...that's why I came in...to tell you I'm buying nothing from you ever again, unless you bring Billy Harris back up from Rochester..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode(NO PARKING AFTER 10 P.M. WHEN DECENT FOLK ARE IN THEIR BEDS ))}$

NO PARKING AFTER 10 P.M. WHEN DECENT FOLK ARE IN THEIR BEDS

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...NO, HAROLD...PLEASE...YOU PROMISED...NO MORE FERTILIZER...JUST WATER...!" ))}$

"...NO, HAROLD...PLEASE...YOU PROMISED...NO MORE FERTILIZER...JUST WATER...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...alright, who's been fooling around with the new 2-10? No matter what election problem I feed it... it just prints out 'have a nice day' or 'God bless you all'..." ))}$

"...alright, who's been fooling around with the new 2-10? No matter what election problem I feed it... it just prints out 'have a nice day' or 'God bless you all'..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I ask you...what's happening to Toronto, anyhow...? Culture here, Culture there...can't we think of ANYTHING but CULTURE...? I tell you, we've got to get back to the bread and butt..." ))}$

"...I ask you...what's happening to Toronto, anyhow...? Culture here, Culture there...can't we think of ANYTHING but CULTURE...? I tell you, we've got to get back to the bread and butt..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("..oh, Harold, it's such a lovely roast and I know we can't afford it...but couldn't we just leave it on top of our groceries and wheel it around for a while just to see the glances...?" ))}$

"..oh, Harold, it's such a lovely roast and I know we can't afford it...but couldn't we just leave it on top of our groceries and wheel it around for a while just to see the glances...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I realize we must all try to keep our feet on the ground in troubled, tortuous times like these, Harold...but would you just lift yours for a MINUTE..." ))}$

"...I realize we must all try to keep our feet on the ground in troubled, tortuous times like these, Harold...but would you just lift yours for a MINUTE..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...yes, yes, Haroldson...we're always interested in the Canadian viewpoint...now if you'll sit down we'll get on with our review of the list of suggestions sent from home office, Omaha, on how we should celebrate the Centennial year..." ))}$

"...yes, yes, Haroldson...we're always interested in the Canadian viewpoint...now if you'll sit down we'll get on with our review of the list of suggestions sent from home office, Omaha, on how we should celebrate the Centennial year..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Post Office workin' to rule again, I see...second load I seen today...both headin' in from the west... Winnipeg, I bet...first one was lighter...only one horse..." ))}$

"...Post Office workin' to rule again, I see...second load I seen today...both headin' in from the west... Winnipeg, I bet...first one was lighter...only one horse..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Martha, come and see this...it's a current history news special from Western Canada...THEY'RE PULLING OUT THE LAST SPIKE...!" ))}$

"...Martha, come and see this...it's a current history news special from Western Canada...THEY'RE PULLING OUT THE LAST SPIKE...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...delegation of very nice people from Manitoba...say they represent the majority in their province and claim they're not like those other westerners...they've come humbly to reassure the Premier of their continuing something or other...I didn't quite catch it all..." ))}$

"...delegation of very nice people from Manitoba...say they represent the majority in their province and claim they're not like those other westerners...they've come humbly to reassure the Premier of their continuing something or other...I didn't quite catch it all..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold gets so masculine and assertive in the spring...You know what he's doing now? Bringing the TV back up from the Rec. Room to the FRONT Room..." ))}$

"...Harold gets so masculine and assertive in the spring...You know what he's doing now? Bringing the TV back up from the Rec. Room to the FRONT Room..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...fifteen minutes since it started and this guy is still riding towards us...when are they going to show the titles...?" ))}$

"...fifteen minutes since it started and this guy is still riding towards us...when are they going to show the titles...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...they're selling like hot cakes, only two left...this unit has your basic 30 cm. reinforced concrete outer shell ...chrome-steel periscope, indestructible radiation gauge and a larger than usual temperature-controlled area for your survival food stores..." ))}$

"...they're selling like hot cakes, only two left...this unit has your basic 30 cm. reinforced concrete outer shell ...chrome-steel periscope, indestructible radiation gauge and a larger than usual temperature-controlled area for your survival food stores..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Hi, there...we're taking over your resources..know of any in this area which have been overlooked...?" ))}$

"...Hi, there...we're taking over your resources..know of any in this area which have been overlooked...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold's taking a crash course in Iroquois...he thinks it may be more valuable than French and sooner than we think..." ))}$

"...Harold's taking a crash course in Iroquois...he thinks it may be more valuable than French and sooner than we think..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...yeah?... well, we're neo-peace marchers... and anyway, who are you for peace against..?" ))}$

"...yeah?... well, we're neo-peace marchers... and anyway, who are you for peace against..?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's too simplistic.. I think he merely soaks the paper in the lake and lets the acid nibble away at it..." ))}$

"...it's too simplistic.. I think he merely soaks the paper in the lake and lets the acid nibble away at it..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, why do they have so many of them when the Liberals practically always win anyway...?" ))}$

"...Harold, why do they have so many of them when the Liberals practically always win anyway...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I've been doing pretty good on my New Year's resolution so far... I've only intimidated three men this week..." ))}$

"...I've been doing pretty good on my New Year's resolution so far... I've only intimidated three men this week..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's not only that they're so huge...I just never thought I'd see wheels on them..." ))}$

"...it's not only that they're so huge...I just never thought I'd see wheels on them..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Ralph, make him put me DOWN...a topy is a toy but this is going too far..." ))}$

"...Ralph, make him put me DOWN...a topy is a toy but this is going too far..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Ralph...Ralph...RALPH. I'm back. I've GOT it..." ))}$

"...Ralph...Ralph...RALPH. I'm back. I've GOT it..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...don"t you see, Martha, we've got everything in common...your parents and mine were both married three times and we're both from their second marriages and we've both got two half-sisters and one half-brother and both our mothers are now living alone and on welfare...we should be very happy with so much in common..." ))}$

"...don"t you see, Martha, we've got everything in common...your parents and mine were both married three times and we're both from their second marriages and we've both got two half-sisters and one half-brother and both our mothers are now living alone and on welfare...we should be very happy with so much in common..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's good for him... every artist hould get back to nature from time to time...restores their sense of reality... their feeling for the sublime...their nearness to the great Creators..." ))}$

"...it's good for him... every artist hould get back to nature from time to time...restores their sense of reality... their feeling for the sublime...their nearness to the great Creators..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...President Reagan has decided to opt out of the arms race and instead build a pyramid one mile high in Washington which will cost 7.2 trillion dollars and be a permanent solution to the unemployment problem...it will be used as a memorial for himself and all future presidents..." ))}$

"...President Reagan has decided to opt out of the arms race and instead build a pyramid one mile high in Washington which will cost 7.2 trillion dollars and be a permanent solution to the unemployment problem...it will be used as a memorial for himself and all future presidents..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...the Fifty Golden Years of Liberal Government Memorial for the main rotunda? Coming along fine...we're about a week away from starting the gold plating with the emerald and lapis-lazuli inserts. Hold the gold plating with the emerald and lapis-lazuli inserts? That bad, eh...?" ))}$

"...the Fifty Golden Years of Liberal Government Memorial for the main rotunda? Coming along fine...we're about a week away from starting the gold plating with the emerald and lapis-lazuli inserts. Hold the gold plating with the emerald and lapis-lazuli inserts? That bad, eh...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...where are you on the future of mankind...total thermo-nuclear holocaust or a slow but accelerating breakdown of all human socio-economic systems as we know them...?" ))}$

"...where are you on the future of mankind...total thermo-nuclear holocaust or a slow but accelerating breakdown of all human socio-economic systems as we know them...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I hope to get my B.A. in Sociology this year...I'm majoring in Unemployment... I want to be good at it when I graduate.." ))}$

"...I hope to get my B.A. in Sociology this year...I'm majoring in Unemployment... I want to be good at it when I graduate.."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...yes, this department is the first to wear the new Civil Service uniforms...and we're finding that somehow it compensates for our not getting the customary increases in remuneration..." ))}$

"...yes, this department is the first to wear the new Civil Service uniforms...and we're finding that somehow it compensates for our not getting the customary increases in remuneration..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...nothing...I was just wondering why our problem-solving equipment is getting smaller and smaller while our problems are getting bigger and bigger..." ))}$

"...nothing...I was just wondering why our problem-solving equipment is getting smaller and smaller while our problems are getting bigger and bigger..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I"ve programmed all our meals for next year on the kitchen computer...Harold has such a good appetite he loves looking through the menus...says he can't wait for March 17, May 2 and November 23..." ))}$

"...I"ve programmed all our meals for next year on the kitchen computer...Harold has such a good appetite he loves looking through the menus...says he can't wait for March 17, May 2 and November 23..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...to the millions of Canadian smokers, who with their selfless devotion and determination to continue a life of simple joys, saved a faltering economy, kept us all afloat throughout a stormy second Great Depression, unmindful of the increasingly cruel and crushing tobacco tax...we dedicate this..." ))}$

"...to the millions of Canadian smokers, who with their selfless devotion and determination to continue a life of simple joys, saved a faltering economy, kept us all afloat throughout a stormy second Great Depression, unmindful of the increasingly cruel and crushing tobacco tax...we dedicate this..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold Treacleson, this year's winner of the Jean-Guy Lentement Award for strict adherence to the leisurely pace... six months to the day for a partial reply to a simple hand-written letter from the West Coast... we're proud of you, Treac..." ))}$

"...Harold Treacleson, this year's winner of the Jean-Guy Lentement Award for strict adherence to the leisurely pace... six months to the day for a partial reply to a simple hand-written letter from the West Coast... we're proud of you, Treac..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...figures if he can learn to love all nine candidates in the Conservative Leadership Race he may come close to the eternally sublime..." ))}$

"...figures if he can learn to love all nine candidates in the Conservative Leadership Race he may come close to the eternally sublime..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...my fortune cookie says...'who needs recognition by imperialist, warmongering Canada and capitalist instrument, so-called United Nations? Inspired and directed by the glorious thought of Chairman Mao, democratic people of China will succeed in honorable task of making whole world free by imposing true unity, Peace is Red'...!" ))}$

"...my fortune cookie says...'who needs recognition by imperialist, warmongering Canada and capitalist instrument, so-called United Nations? Inspired and directed by the glorious thought of Chairman Mao, democratic people of China will succeed in honorable task of making whole world free by imposing true unity, Peace is Red'...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode(I know you just got a raise last week, Ralph...but you'll have to go in again on Monday and ask for another..." ))}$

I know you just got a raise last week, Ralph...but you'll have to go in again on Monday and ask for another..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...this time of year always makes me so nervous...there's so many wonderful things to buy... and I haven't even STARTED my Christmas shopping yet..." ))}$

"...this time of year always makes me so nervous...there's so many wonderful things to buy... and I haven't even STARTED my Christmas shopping yet..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...honest, all I said was...'thank, Miss Haroldson, for providing me access to the great world of knowledge...you are the key with which I may unlock the awakening resources of my mind'..." ))}$

"...honest, all I said was...'thank, Miss Haroldson, for providing me access to the great world of knowledge...you are the key with which I may unlock the awakening resources of my mind'..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no wonder we can't get up this hill... someone's added a couple of cars on the back..." ))}$

"...no wonder we can't get up this hill... someone's added a couple of cars on the back..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Ralph, it's snowing... look in the glove compartment.. my big emergency tube of white... QUICK...!" ))}$

"...Ralph, it's snowing... look in the glove compartment.. my big emergency tube of white... QUICK...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...sure is great getting back to living in the city where you can be yourself...away from the conformity and monotony of the suburbs..." ))}$

"...sure is great getting back to living in the city where you can be yourself...away from the conformity and monotony of the suburbs..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("..I know... my father dresses the same way... I think they're called TRANSVESTITES or something..." ))}$

"..I know... my father dresses the same way... I think they're called TRANSVESTITES or something..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("..I'm looking for a few books which are cheerful, romantic, daring and exciting... to read when I can't stand my husband and children anymore...but not so exciting I'd want to leave home..." ))}$

"..I'm looking for a few books which are cheerful, romantic, daring and exciting... to read when I can't stand my husband and children anymore...but not so exciting I'd want to leave home..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...but how CAN I... how can I design more masculine clothes for women when the men's clothes we copy are becoming so feminine...it's self-defeating, can't you see...?" ))}$

"...but how CAN I... how can I design more masculine clothes for women when the men's clothes we copy are becoming so feminine...it's self-defeating, can't you see...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I got 92 in that basic sex exam and I've never even been out on a date yet..." ))}$

"...I got 92 in that basic sex exam and I've never even been out on a date yet..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...you want to know what Canada is all about...I'll tell you what it's all about...it's YOU reading and listening to all these media people in Toronto telling you what Canada is all about...THAT'S what it's all about...!" ))}$

"...you want to know what Canada is all about...I'll tell you what it's all about...it's YOU reading and listening to all these media people in Toronto telling you what Canada is all about...THAT'S what it's all about...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold's determined not to use pesticides this year...but he's doing everything he can to encourage the vegetables to be strong and fight back against the bugs..." ))}$

"...Harold's determined not to use pesticides this year...but he's doing everything he can to encourage the vegetables to be strong and fight back against the bugs..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Dad, I've decided what I'm going to be... a sub-oceanic, aqua-structural geodynamicist specializing in Northern latitudes... not even one of those is unemployed in Canada this year..." ))}$

"...Dad, I've decided what I'm going to be... a sub-oceanic, aqua-structural geodynamicist specializing in Northern latitudes... not even one of those is unemployed in Canada this year..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...But, Sarge, we can't just drive by and IGNORE a five-car pile-up...even if they ARE all women drivers..." ))}$

"...But, Sarge, we can't just drive by and IGNORE a five-car pile-up...even if they ARE all women drivers..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...they should separate, they should stay together, they should separate, they should stay together, they should..." ))}$

"...they should separate, they should stay together, they should separate, they should stay together, they should..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold finally found a premium in his favorite cigarets... it entitles him to a complete physical examination by the doctor of his choice..." ))}$

"...Harold finally found a premium in his favorite cigarets... it entitles him to a complete physical examination by the doctor of his choice..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I can't get them to go home... they say this is the only place they can tolerate each other..." ))}$

"...I can't get them to go home... they say this is the only place they can tolerate each other..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...just fine dear... I've got the lawnmower and the outboards and the ten-speeds almost ready to put away... and I'm just about to start reassembling the snowmobile and snowblower..." ))}$

"...just fine dear... I've got the lawnmower and the outboards and the ten-speeds almost ready to put away... and I'm just about to start reassembling the snowmobile and snowblower..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("..I dropped my Chargex card into a tuna and rice casserole last night by mistake and it all shrivelled up... may I get a new one, or would that be inflationary...?" ))}$

"..I dropped my Chargex card into a tuna and rice casserole last night by mistake and it all shrivelled up... may I get a new one, or would that be inflationary...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...trees...trees... (gasp)...I need trees... take me to where... the trees and birds... are..." ))}$

"...trees...trees... (gasp)...I need trees... take me to where... the trees and birds... are..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, it's a trap... it's one of those new mini-churches they're experimenting with..." ))}$

"...Harold, it's a trap... it's one of those new mini-churches they're experimenting with..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...my legs are so strong now I'm afraid to drive the car anymore..." ))}$

"...my legs are so strong now I'm afraid to drive the car anymore..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I just had a wonderful dream...every fifth income tax return received in Ottawa was put into a great National Lottery for the amount of taxable income shown and mine was one of them and I WON it...!" ))}$

"...I just had a wonderful dream...every fifth income tax return received in Ottawa was put into a great National Lottery for the amount of taxable income shown and mine was one of them and I WON it...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, don't use that Newfoundland sea-air inhalent in front of the children...first thing you know THEY'LL be wanting to escape reality too..." ))}$

"...Harold, don't use that Newfoundland sea-air inhalent in front of the children...first thing you know THEY'LL be wanting to escape reality too..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I don't even know WHO they are... I believe he's in advertising or something..." ))}$

"...I don't even know WHO they are... I believe he's in advertising or something..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...beat it...tell me about your cavities when the game's over...!" ))}$

"...beat it...tell me about your cavities when the game's over...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, these edible roots you guys found on your hike...are you going to take some of them over to your Mother or are they all for me...?" ))}$

"...Harold, these edible roots you guys found on your hike...are you going to take some of them over to your Mother or are they all for me...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Mommy, these are my new girl friends... they want to hear what it was like back in 1968 when you kissed Mr. Trudeau..." ))}$

"...Mommy, these are my new girl friends... they want to hear what it was like back in 1968 when you kissed Mr. Trudeau..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no sir, I'm sorry...we don't carry clothes for men over 40... I don't think they're making them anymore..." ))}$

"...no sir, I'm sorry...we don't carry clothes for men over 40... I don't think they're making them anymore..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold's in his new stereo capsule...I'll tell him you're here..." ))}$

"...Harold's in his new stereo capsule...I'll tell him you're here..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, will you talk to your daughter... this is the first time she's gone to a dance in a dress and she insists on wearing her blue jeans underneath..." ))}$

"...Harold, will you talk to your daughter... this is the first time she's gone to a dance in a dress and she insists on wearing her blue jeans underneath..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...that's our new Magnetic Radiation Machine... with its powerful Bi-unison Rays we can meld you into a permanently loving and inseparable couple...but we only use that as a last resort...now let's get on with your problem..." ))}$

"...that's our new Magnetic Radiation Machine... with its powerful Bi-unison Rays we can meld you into a permanently loving and inseparable couple...but we only use that as a last resort...now let's get on with your problem..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...trust me, Mrs. Haroldson...nothing gets you back to straight basic feeling faster than this new primal stretch therapy from California...already there are literally thousands practicing it out there...especially in the orange groves around Los Angeles..." ))}$

"...trust me, Mrs. Haroldson...nothing gets you back to straight basic feeling faster than this new primal stretch therapy from California...already there are literally thousands practicing it out there...especially in the orange groves around Los Angeles..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, I think there's something wrong with the kitchen computer...I've just made a hundred and twenty-two date-nut loaves..." ))}$

"...Harold, I think there's something wrong with the kitchen computer...I've just made a hundred and twenty-two date-nut loaves..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Sam...Sam, do you remember how much of the new tweed we ordered? Yeah, I remember the 450...but Sam, what I'm asking is, did you put metres or kilometres? Sam, I think you'd better get down here..." ))}$

"...Sam...Sam, do you remember how much of the new tweed we ordered? Yeah, I remember the 450...but Sam, what I'm asking is, did you put metres or kilometres? Sam, I think you'd better get down here..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold's convinced the news media is trying to turn him into a nervous person...but he's determined to remain calm..." ))}$

"...Harold's convinced the news media is trying to turn him into a nervous person...but he's determined to remain calm..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no, Mrs. Haroldson, not you... I was singing to the new girl who just moved into the apartment above you..." ))}$

"...no, Mrs. Haroldson, not you... I was singing to the new girl who just moved into the apartment above you..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...they're taking over, I tell you...we're losing the battle...I haven't pressed a pair of men's pants all morning...!" ))}$

"...they're taking over, I tell you...we're losing the battle...I haven't pressed a pair of men's pants all morning...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Miss Haroldson, won't you please move over just a little so the men can bring in the computer?...it's just a little one and nobody's going to lose their job...please, Miss Haroldson...?" ))}$

"...Miss Haroldson, won't you please move over just a little so the men can bring in the computer?...it's just a little one and nobody's going to lose their job...please, Miss Haroldson...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...do you ever get the feeling, they aren't kidding...they are going to tear down the city centre and start all over again...?" ))}$

"...do you ever get the feeling, they aren't kidding...they are going to tear down the city centre and start all over again...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it says here the American TV networks are going to decrease their Canadian programming if we decrease our American programming..." ))}$

"...it says here the American TV networks are going to decrease their Canadian programming if we decrease our American programming..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it know it's illegal, Officer...but I was just going to rest for a few minutes and then get back OUT there again..." ))}$

"...it know it's illegal, Officer...but I was just going to rest for a few minutes and then get back OUT there again..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("..Miss Haroldson...Miss Haroldson, not too friendly...remember Item 19, Paragraph 6 in the Revised Customer Relations Manual..." ))}$

"..Miss Haroldson...Miss Haroldson, not too friendly...remember Item 19, Paragraph 6 in the Revised Customer Relations Manual..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...well, so much for the spacious, heated multi-car accommodation...now for your added convenience we've attached easily-accessible living-quarters, three bedrooms, four..." ))}$

"...well, so much for the spacious, heated multi-car accommodation...now for your added convenience we've attached easily-accessible living-quarters, three bedrooms, four..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I don't know, Sarge, he doesn't look very Salvation Army to me ..." ))}$

"...I don't know, Sarge, he doesn't look very Salvation Army to me ..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it MUST be spring, Harold...that's the TENTH beer bottle I've seen popping through the snow..." ))}$

"...it MUST be spring, Harold...that's the TENTH beer bottle I've seen popping through the snow..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...we were just standing beside this unit and we heard a rattle and clunk and we found all this had fallen out underneath..." ))}$

"...we were just standing beside this unit and we heard a rattle and clunk and we found all this had fallen out underneath..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I think it's time we had a breakthrough here... there's a new therapy they're having some success with in California...started in Detroit...look, Haroldson, I want you to get out there and buy a new car..." ))}$

"...I think it's time we had a breakthrough here... there's a new therapy they're having some success with in California...started in Detroit...look, Haroldson, I want you to get out there and buy a new car..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...we saw your interview last night on TV and we're both interested in the work you're doing and we wondered if you've ever considered forming a Men's Auxiliary...or something like that..." ))}$

"...we saw your interview last night on TV and we're both interested in the work you're doing and we wondered if you've ever considered forming a Men's Auxiliary...or something like that..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, look at the picture of the Titanic he drew at school today, only he put a different name on it...his teacher didn't like it, but I think it's cute...look, Harold..." ))}$

"...Harold, look at the picture of the Titanic he drew at school today, only he put a different name on it...his teacher didn't like it, but I think it's cute...look, Harold..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold writes about fifteen letters a week, whether he gets replies or not...he never even thinks about the post office being open or closed...he just likes doing it..." ))}$

"...Harold writes about fifteen letters a week, whether he gets replies or not...he never even thinks about the post office being open or closed...he just likes doing it..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("Begin, Carter, Sedat (sic), Vance, Trudeau, Chretien... we need some new blood on the 11 o'clock news ...Broadbent, Clarke (sic), Samoza, Levesque, Amin, Smith, Danson...I'm even tired of the Shah of Iran and he's only been on for five weeks..." ))}$

"Begin, Carter, Sedat (sic), Vance, Trudeau, Chretien... we need some new blood on the 11 o'clock news ...Broadbent, Clarke (sic), Samoza, Levesque, Amin, Smith, Danson...I'm even tired of the Shah of Iran and he's only been on for five weeks..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...saving energy is saving energy, sure...it's a great idea... but this is ridiculous...somebody's got to drive, too, you know..." ))}$

"...saving energy is saving energy, sure...it's a great idea... but this is ridiculous...somebody's got to drive, too, you know..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold has no confidence in gold or silver anymore... he's getting ready for the time when we all go back to using wooden tokens..." ))}$

"...Harold has no confidence in gold or silver anymore... he's getting ready for the time when we all go back to using wooden tokens..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, it's Cousin Ralph and Martha and the kids from Calgary... and they've brought us some oil..." ))}$

"...Harold, it's Cousin Ralph and Martha and the kids from Calgary... and they've brought us some oil..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...our estimate is seventeen fifty-six, eighty nine...that's nine seventy-nine, ninety six to repair road salt rust damage to lower body panels...and seven seventy-six, ninety three to repair acid rain damage to upper body panels..." ))}$

"...our estimate is seventeen fifty-six, eighty nine...that's nine seventy-nine, ninety six to repair road salt rust damage to lower body panels...and seven seventy-six, ninety three to repair acid rain damage to upper body panels..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...our latest educational current history kit... the Ayatollah levitates using the hovercraft principle...there are fifteen hostages, three tankers and a number of miniature oil drums included...no, the eagle is suspended and stationary..." ))}$

"...our latest educational current history kit... the Ayatollah levitates using the hovercraft principle...there are fifteen hostages, three tankers and a number of miniature oil drums included...no, the eagle is suspended and stationary..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...yeah, I know it looks kind of funny, but it was a really big bird and we've never done one in our microwave oven before ..." ))}$

"...yeah, I know it looks kind of funny, but it was a really big bird and we've never done one in our microwave oven before ..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no, I don't mean NOW...but let's have it ready...a national competition for a new flag design keeps their minds off all the other problems...it worked very well before...and if things get really horrible we could include a new anthem..." ))}$

"...no, I don't mean NOW...but let's have it ready...a national competition for a new flag design keeps their minds off all the other problems...it worked very well before...and if things get really horrible we could include a new anthem..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...just once, at Christmas, you'd imagine they could stop talking about Canada and the Constitution and Western Alienation and all that stuff...so help me, sometimes I wish we lived in Bechuanaland or Mesopotania or Awstralia...anywhere..." ))}$

"...just once, at Christmas, you'd imagine they could stop talking about Canada and the Constitution and Western Alienation and all that stuff...so help me, sometimes I wish we lived in Bechuanaland or Mesopotania or Awstralia...anywhere..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no, I'm sorry, we're not putting out garbage any more... we're saving everything for the depression ..." ))}$

"...no, I'm sorry, we're not putting out garbage any more... we're saving everything for the depression ..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Gentlemen, put simply, we're falling behind monetarily...what I"M advocating is study sessions to begin with, then a couple of weeks working to rule...then, if there's still no agreement, WE'RE GONE...!" ))}$

"...Gentlemen, put simply, we're falling behind monetarily...what I"M advocating is study sessions to begin with, then a couple of weeks working to rule...then, if there's still no agreement, WE'RE GONE...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Paeonia Suffruticosa? Can you eat it? well, remember what I said ...1982 is a non-nonsense year...if you can't eat it we're not planting it...!" ))}$

"...Paeonia Suffruticosa? Can you eat it? well, remember what I said ...1982 is a non-nonsense year...if you can't eat it we're not planting it...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode(Harold! Trudeau's flying to Madagascar, Mozambiique and Mauritius... Harold...!" ))}$

Harold! Trudeau's flying to Madagascar, Mozambiique and Mauritius... Harold...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold's taking this two-year total immersion metric course...he goes around seeing how long everything is in centimetres...things like that..." ))}$

"...Harold's taking this two-year total immersion metric course...he goes around seeing how long everything is in centimetres...things like that..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...honest, Harold...if you marry me I promise not to threaten your ego or act in any way which might cause you to lose confidence in yourself and fold up...honest..." ))}$

"...honest, Harold...if you marry me I promise not to threaten your ego or act in any way which might cause you to lose confidence in yourself and fold up...honest..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...you're right, Martha, these Tory back-benchers don't look quite so lost or lonely as they did ... I think we opened up our little canteen just in time..." ))}$

"...you're right, Martha, these Tory back-benchers don't look quite so lost or lonely as they did ... I think we opened up our little canteen just in time..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...there goes another jogger given himself over to the cause of producing cheap environment-safe energy for the province ..." ))}$

"...there goes another jogger given himself over to the cause of producing cheap environment-safe energy for the province ..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's no good, I tell you...there's no way we can legitimately capture past glories..." ))}$

"...it's no good, I tell you...there's no way we can legitimately capture past glories..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...he can't decide which unit would be best for his needs...I suggested we could compute an answer to his problem, but he...LOOK ...HE'S TOSSING A COIN...!" ))}$

"...he can't decide which unit would be best for his needs...I suggested we could compute an answer to his problem, but he...LOOK ...HE'S TOSSING A COIN...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...but, Harold, there must be SOMETHING we can do here... it's such a lovely spot ..." ))}$

"...but, Harold, there must be SOMETHING we can do here... it's such a lovely spot ..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I'm looking up the grandchildren's birthdays... Harold, who is Jeffrey... is he one of yours... or mine ...?" ))}$

"...I'm looking up the grandchildren's birthdays... Harold, who is Jeffrey... is he one of yours... or mine ...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...two tons medium rocks... Student Action Protest Society ordered them... would you sign...?" ))}$

"...two tons medium rocks... Student Action Protest Society ordered them... would you sign...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...well, what do you think of the Seventies, so far...?" ))}$

"...well, what do you think of the Seventies, so far...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("..do you ever get the idea that we've finally caught up with ourselves...like everything about our lives today is already 'camp'...?" ))}$

"..do you ever get the idea that we've finally caught up with ourselves...like everything about our lives today is already 'camp'...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode(LAKE WANOTTAMISINAUGUAMISHINOKAWASSNMASHENE ))}$

LAKE WANOTTAMISINAUGUAMISHINOKAWASSNMASHENE

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...you know, Ralph, I think you're right... maybe I HAVE started a little too close to it ..." ))}$

"...you know, Ralph, I think you're right... maybe I HAVE started a little too close to it ..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...well, golly, you've got to have SOMETHING to do in the evenings when you've stopped smoking ..." ))}$

"...well, golly, you've got to have SOMETHING to do in the evenings when you've stopped smoking ..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...alright then ...you have the 'Goo Fang Meuniere, avec Jeune Bamboo'... and I'l have the 'Petites Ribs sucre et acide, Trudeau'...okay...?" ))}$

"...alright then ...you have the 'Goo Fang Meuniere, avec Jeune Bamboo'... and I'l have the 'Petites Ribs sucre et acide, Trudeau'...okay...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...each little snowflake is a tiny wee speck of pollution covered in a beautiful little six-sided ice crystal...everyone a different design..." ))}$

"...each little snowflake is a tiny wee speck of pollution covered in a beautiful little six-sided ice crystal...everyone a different design..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I don't understand them...FIVE BICYCLES... it must be some new kind of status symbol...!" ))}$

"...I don't understand them...FIVE BICYCLES... it must be some new kind of status symbol...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...says here she graduated Cum Laude from Bonaventure Driving School in 1963 and has done considerable post-graduate work..." ))}$

"...says here she graduated Cum Laude from Bonaventure Driving School in 1963 and has done considerable post-graduate work..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I said, 'hav yuu noe tst, Eds frn isn grn nny mor?' I don't know what it means... I just like making up things from license plate letters, that's all..." ))}$

"...I said, 'hav yuu noe tst, Eds frn isn grn nny mor?' I don't know what it means... I just like making up things from license plate letters, that's all..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I'm sorry, Officer... I'm from out of town... I didn't realize the sidewalks were one-way, too..." ))}$

"...I'm sorry, Officer... I'm from out of town... I didn't realize the sidewalks were one-way, too..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold got a five dollar raise last week so we went right out and spent over five hundred dollars...just think what would happen to the old economy if everyone got a five dollar raise...!" ))}$

"...Harold got a five dollar raise last week so we went right out and spent over five hundred dollars...just think what would happen to the old economy if everyone got a five dollar raise...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, I've been looking at this map...we're closer to Owen Sound than Toronto...that's why it's taking you so long to drive in..." ))}$

"...Harold, I've been looking at this map...we're closer to Owen Sound than Toronto...that's why it's taking you so long to drive in..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...you've forgotten what it's like to be a boy...how would you feel if all the other boys had motorbikes and called you 'pedal-pusher' because you only had a bicycle..." ))}$

"...you've forgotten what it's like to be a boy...how would you feel if all the other boys had motorbikes and called you 'pedal-pusher' because you only had a bicycle..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...now if there was just something the Mothers could do to make the 12 year old boys look five years older...!" ))}$

"...now if there was just something the Mothers could do to make the 12 year old boys look five years older...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...ramp 13-B? How would I know? I've been looking for Lane 4, North-West Exit Access Loop for two days now...!" ))}$

"...ramp 13-B? How would I know? I've been looking for Lane 4, North-West Exit Access Loop for two days now...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...frankly, the beauty of this Pop Art is that if, someday you tire of it as art, you still have at least eighteen dollars worth of usable merchandise...the clock alone retails for $7.98..." ))}$

"...frankly, the beauty of this Pop Art is that if, someday you tire of it as art, you still have at least eighteen dollars worth of usable merchandise...the clock alone retails for $7.98..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...yes, right out to Vancouver...Harold drove all the way...I hate to say it but we were very disappointed in the rest of Canada...nothing we haven't got right here in Mimico..." ))}$

"...yes, right out to Vancouver...Harold drove all the way...I hate to say it but we were very disappointed in the rest of Canada...nothing we haven't got right here in Mimico..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold...our tree...our tree is changing colour! It's autumn already..." ))}$

"...Harold...our tree...our tree is changing colour! It's autumn already..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...nevertheless, sir...I believe you'll find most non-astigmatic city-planners in complete agreement...the Motor Car, as such, is not and never will be the logical solution for fast, efficient urban transit...despite all your fancy-phrased pronouncements..." ))}$

"...nevertheless, sir...I believe you'll find most non-astigmatic city-planners in complete agreement...the Motor Car, as such, is not and never will be the logical solution for fast, efficient urban transit...despite all your fancy-phrased pronouncements..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...'the world is too much with us; late and soon..'..why how lovely, Harold...that's sheer poetry..." ))}$

"...'the world is too much with us; late and soon..'..why how lovely, Harold...that's sheer poetry..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it says we can park here after 11 P.M. on the second Tuesday of any month beginning with 'J' and ending in 'Y'..." ))}$

"...it says we can park here after 11 P.M. on the second Tuesday of any month beginning with 'J' and ending in 'Y'..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...so, okay...you feel for all the world like a distraught spider frantically repairing a rent in your gossamer dew-decked web...hand me those bull-nose pliers, will yuh...?" ))}$

"...so, okay...you feel for all the world like a distraught spider frantically repairing a rent in your gossamer dew-decked web...hand me those bull-nose pliers, will yuh...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...palpitation? Heart flutter?...ever feel a pounding in the chest?...heart ever skip a beat? Erratic pulse...?" ))}$

"...palpitation? Heart flutter?...ever feel a pounding in the chest?...heart ever skip a beat? Erratic pulse...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...but we don't have to be depressed...for instance we could, right now, put on our gym shorts and have a nice brisk run around the block...clear those old cobwebs away...then we could..." ))}$

"...but we don't have to be depressed...for instance we could, right now, put on our gym shorts and have a nice brisk run around the block...clear those old cobwebs away...then we could..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...by George, Haroldson, I think you've done it again...gleaming Arctic white on a rich noir black for '65...crazy...!" ))}$

"...by George, Haroldson, I think you've done it again...gleaming Arctic white on a rich noir black for '65...crazy...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no kidding, I really love Christmas...it's the only time of the year I can get right in there and buy without that awful guilty feeling..." ))}$

"...no kidding, I really love Christmas...it's the only time of the year I can get right in there and buy without that awful guilty feeling..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...well, I can't think of any other way to decide about the Haroldsons...it's tails...so send them one of the really good cards..." ))}$

"...well, I can't think of any other way to decide about the Haroldsons...it's tails...so send them one of the really good cards..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...but we had turkey last Christmas...!" ))}$

"...but we had turkey last Christmas...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...alright then, you have the Goo Fang, meuniere, avec jeune bamboo...and I'll have the petite sweet and sour ribs, Favreau..." ))}$

"...alright then, you have the Goo Fang, meuniere, avec jeune bamboo...and I'll have the petite sweet and sour ribs, Favreau..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...well, either you or Bruce will have to clean his room...I'm afraid to go in there any more..." ))}$

"...well, either you or Bruce will have to clean his room...I'm afraid to go in there any more..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...that's the FIFTH T.D. Vice-President come up here this week. Why do they just stand there gazing down at the Bank of Commerce building...?" ))}$

"...that's the FIFTH T.D. Vice-President come up here this week. Why do they just stand there gazing down at the Bank of Commerce building...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold's getting ready for another season watching the Argos..." ))}$

"...Harold's getting ready for another season watching the Argos..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...but don't you see...if Detroit wins and Montreal loses, Leafs could climb back into second spot tonight and if Montreal wins and Rangers beat Boston, Detroit could move into first, which would put Toronto back into a tie with Rangers, Canadiens and Chicago...it's crucial...!" ))}$

"...but don't you see...if Detroit wins and Montreal loses, Leafs could climb back into second spot tonight and if Montreal wins and Rangers beat Boston, Detroit could move into first, which would put Toronto back into a tie with Rangers, Canadiens and Chicago...it's crucial...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I'm old enough to watch the C.B.C. but I'm not old enough to ask intellegent questions, is that it...? Well, I still want to know... Where are we heading? Will the world ever know stability? Is doom and oblivion our ultimate goal? Wht of the United Nations...and lastly... whither Canada...?" ))}$

"...I'm old enough to watch the C.B.C. but I'm not old enough to ask intellegent questions, is that it...? Well, I still want to know... Where are we heading? Will the world ever know stability? Is doom and oblivion our ultimate goal? Wht of the United Nations...and lastly... whither Canada...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...well, why aren't we having one? Everyone was wishing everybody a Happy New Year..." ))}$

"...well, why aren't we having one? Everyone was wishing everybody a Happy New Year..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold...they're taking my car...the garbage men... What should I do...?" ))}$

"...Harold...they're taking my car...the garbage men... What should I do...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I've never heard of a dance called the shrug...you mean you just stand there with you arms out, raising your shoulders and eyebrows? That's not a dance' Harold and you know it..." ))}$

"...I've never heard of a dance called the shrug...you mean you just stand there with you arms out, raising your shoulders and eyebrows? That's not a dance' Harold and you know it..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...but can't you understand? Every time I think of our budget I get so nervous I have to buy more to relax...that's how it is when you're compulsive...!" ))}$

"...but can't you understand? Every time I think of our budget I get so nervous I have to buy more to relax...that's how it is when you're compulsive...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...but look...there isn't another car in sight... it's fantastic...not another car...and we're only two hundred miles from Toronto...!" ))}$

"...but look...there isn't another car in sight... it's fantastic...not another car...and we're only two hundred miles from Toronto...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode(Untitled: Cyprus ))}$

Untitled: Cyprus

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...there's a meeting with the sanitation department at eleven...I've got to get your signature on those letters to the centennial committee and there's a long-distance call from Ottawa, the Minister of the Interior...he's holding..." ))}$

"...there's a meeting with the sanitation department at eleven...I've got to get your signature on those letters to the centennial committee and there's a long-distance call from Ottawa, the Minister of the Interior...he's holding..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold's busy inventing a machine to take his place...he's determined not to be left out of the new age of leisure..." ))}$

"...Harold's busy inventing a machine to take his place...he's determined not to be left out of the new age of leisure..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...nothing, just pasting white patches over the Ottawa news...Harold won't read the paper unless I do..." ))}$

"...nothing, just pasting white patches over the Ottawa news...Harold won't read the paper unless I do..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode(Untitled: Church announcements ))}$

Untitled: Church announcements

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...funny...I wonder how THAT happened...we must have walked right past the office and just kept walking west...oh well, it's a lovely day..." ))}$

"...funny...I wonder how THAT happened...we must have walked right past the office and just kept walking west...oh well, it's a lovely day..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...we've got to go, Harold...if you think of anything we'll be either up at Queen's Park or down at the Americal Consulate..." ))}$

"...we've got to go, Harold...if you think of anything we'll be either up at Queen's Park or down at the Americal Consulate..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...well, as far as I remember...it all started when we bought these few pieces of heavy, dark Spanish furniture.." ))}$

"...well, as far as I remember...it all started when we bought these few pieces of heavy, dark Spanish furniture.."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...from Mahovlich to Mantle in two minutes sixteen seconds flat...that's five seconds off last year's time..." ))}$

"...from Mahovlich to Mantle in two minutes sixteen seconds flat...that's five seconds off last year's time..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...that's right...we'll need one million, five hundred thousand new jobs by 1970... now we're asking it 'how?" and 'where?'..." ))}$

"...that's right...we'll need one million, five hundred thousand new jobs by 1970... now we're asking it 'how?" and 'where?'..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, you're peeking..!" ))}$

"...Harold, you're peeking..!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...this is a test case, Miss Haroldson...someone's got to make a breakthrough and it might as well be us...it'll take guts, mind you...now get on up to your class and teach sex...!" ))}$

"...this is a test case, Miss Haroldson...someone's got to make a breakthrough and it might as well be us...it'll take guts, mind you...now get on up to your class and teach sex...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I knew they'd come up with SOMETHING new for the boys this Spring so they would get out of working. Who ever heard of an electric SPADE...?" ))}$

"...I knew they'd come up with SOMETHING new for the boys this Spring so they would get out of working. Who ever heard of an electric SPADE...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I know it's not a nice thought, Harold, but I still keep wishing they'd all come down with Asian Flu..." ))}$

"...I know it's not a nice thought, Harold, but I still keep wishing they'd all come down with Asian Flu..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...well I don't care...I think there's something kind of ROMANTIC about driving to work every morning..." ))}$

"...well I don't care...I think there's something kind of ROMANTIC about driving to work every morning..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I can't help it, Dr. Haroldson... I keep asking myself does God really want us to join up with the Revival Fellowship Pentacost Apostleship Tabernacle...?" ))}$

"...I can't help it, Dr. Haroldson... I keep asking myself does God really want us to join up with the Revival Fellowship Pentacost Apostleship Tabernacle...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...the way it was before, Harold used to work in the garden for ten minutes, then wander off ...THIS way, you see, he...uh..." ))}$

"...the way it was before, Harold used to work in the garden for ten minutes, then wander off ...THIS way, you see, he...uh..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...so, okay, we're getting rid of the established morality and social structure of our parents... the trouble is, we'll have to have a substitute and THAT'S going to take an awful lot of work... frankly I wonder if we shouldn't forget the whole idea..." ))}$

"...so, okay, we're getting rid of the established morality and social structure of our parents... the trouble is, we'll have to have a substitute and THAT'S going to take an awful lot of work... frankly I wonder if we shouldn't forget the whole idea..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...for Heaven's sake, Haroldson, cut out all these dramatics...we've got plenty of time to plan our Centennial Project..." ))}$

"...for Heaven's sake, Haroldson, cut out all these dramatics...we've got plenty of time to plan our Centennial Project..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...this piece about Mr. Bennett going to start his own Church of B.C. ... 'that go on today's front page or do we save it for the Saturday Religion pages...?" ))}$

"...this piece about Mr. Bennett going to start his own Church of B.C. ... 'that go on today's front page or do we save it for the Saturday Religion pages...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Voice of Women meeting tomorrow night...this is the BIG one...we're TAKING OVER next week...!" ))}$

"...Voice of Women meeting tomorrow night...this is the BIG one...we're TAKING OVER next week...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's no use, Harold...if I have to sit here all day, I'm not taking ONE STEP closer to that Camping Supply Department...!" ))}$

"...it's no use, Harold...if I have to sit here all day, I'm not taking ONE STEP closer to that Camping Supply Department...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's a tremendous opportunity...frankly, I never expected the Council would commission any Pop Art for the new City Hall..." ))}$

"...it's a tremendous opportunity...frankly, I never expected the Council would commission any Pop Art for the new City Hall..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...before we begin, I'd just like to ask this question... do ANY of us REALLY believe that ANOTHER SEMINAR on ANY subject is going to make the slightest difference to ANYONE or ANYTHING...?" ))}$

"...before we begin, I'd just like to ask this question... do ANY of us REALLY believe that ANOTHER SEMINAR on ANY subject is going to make the slightest difference to ANYONE or ANYTHING...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode(".. of COURSE I feel guilty...but, as our pro. says, 'a little guilt sharpens up a person's game, especially the approach shots'..." ))}$

".. of COURSE I feel guilty...but, as our pro. says, 'a little guilt sharpens up a person's game, especially the approach shots'..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...she said her very first words yesterday...'I'm bored'...I thought it was so CUTE...!" ))}$

"...she said her very first words yesterday...'I'm bored'...I thought it was so CUTE...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...hello, is this the Seventh Day Adventist's Smokers Dial No, I... I...uh...haven't had a cigarette for seven hours and I feel I'm...uh..." ))}$

"...hello, is this the Seventh Day Adventist's Smokers Dial No, I... I...uh...haven't had a cigarette for seven hours and I feel I'm...uh..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Hi, Dad...we couldn't think of anything to do and Mummy couldn't think of anything so she said why don't we come down to see if YOU could think of anything..." ))}$

"...Hi, Dad...we couldn't think of anything to do and Mummy couldn't think of anything so she said why don't we come down to see if YOU could think of anything..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...money is everything, Harold...money is everything...you've got to keep repeating that until we get back to Toronto...Harold..." ))}$

"...money is everything, Harold...money is everything...you've got to keep repeating that until we get back to Toronto...Harold..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("Forsooth, I bid you look with wisdom's eye / A platform... a stage provide / Culture, I submit, doth need a practice ground, / a laid-out centre many metres wide... / full-fashioned for our native players' wit and grooming. / Look beyond Metro's near-blind shores / to our fair Dominion's greater need... / Our fat municipal coffers dent you, now...GO... / lest this now-dry blade should weep..." ))}$

"Forsooth, I bid you look with wisdom's eye / A platform... a stage provide / Culture, I submit, doth need a practice ground, / a laid-out centre many metres wide... / full-fashioned for our native players' wit and grooming. / Look beyond Metro's near-blind shores / to our fair Dominion's greater need... / Our fat municipal coffers dent you, now...GO... / lest this now-dry blade should weep..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...that's very interesting and informative, Dad...I've been hoping we'd have a nice intimate chat for some time... now let me tell you about the NEW morality..." ))}$

"...that's very interesting and informative, Dad...I've been hoping we'd have a nice intimate chat for some time... now let me tell you about the NEW morality..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I must admit I was expecting more from Global TV than this, Harold... 'This Hour Has Seven Days' in Swedish... and a re-run at that...!" ))}$

"...I must admit I was expecting more from Global TV than this, Harold... 'This Hour Has Seven Days' in Swedish... and a re-run at that...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...But, Harold, that's ridiculous...EVERYONE on the whole block couldn't have gone on vacation the SAME week..." ))}$

"...But, Harold, that's ridiculous...EVERYONE on the whole block couldn't have gone on vacation the SAME week..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Haroldson told me this morning...the're talking about holding up the official opening of the new city hall until 1967 and calling it our Centennial Project...that's what he said..." ))}$

"...Haroldson told me this morning...the're talking about holding up the official opening of the new city hall until 1967 and calling it our Centennial Project...that's what he said..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I said I just realized I haven't thought of the Vietnam situation ONCE in the past TWO hours..." ))}$

"...I said I just realized I haven't thought of the Vietnam situation ONCE in the past TWO hours..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...sure I'd like to see the Argo's win a few games...QUITE a few...but not TOO many, otherwise all the other teams would be mad at us..." ))}$

"...sure I'd like to see the Argo's win a few games...QUITE a few...but not TOO many, otherwise all the other teams would be mad at us..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...but if 'trying to be in' is 'out' and 'not wanting to be in' is 'in', how do you ever get 'in' for Heaven's sake...?" ))}$

"...but if 'trying to be in' is 'out' and 'not wanting to be in' is 'in', how do you ever get 'in' for Heaven's sake...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...well I don't care WHAT your department schedule is...you can't re-open this hole until we've finished RE-PAVING it...!" ))}$

"...well I don't care WHAT your department schedule is...you can't re-open this hole until we've finished RE-PAVING it...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("..vous �tes? You're kidding.. Vous really �tes..." ))}$

"..vous êtes? You're kidding.. Vous really êtes..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no, Ma'am, this is just a training project...we like to get the new men right out into the crowded downtown streets using actual LIVE equipment...they LEARN faster that way...no, the pipes are dummies... it's perfectly safe..." ))}$

"...no, Ma'am, this is just a training project...we like to get the new men right out into the crowded downtown streets using actual LIVE equipment...they LEARN faster that way...no, the pipes are dummies... it's perfectly safe..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("... I KNOW we can get along WITHOUT him...it's just I'd FEEL better if Pierre were here today, that's all..." ))}$

"... I KNOW we can get along WITHOUT him...it's just I'd FEEL better if Pierre were here today, that's all..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...those NATURE WALKS Miss Haroldson keeps taking her class on... aren't her pupils a little OLD for that sort of thing...?" ))}$

"...those NATURE WALKS Miss Haroldson keeps taking her class on... aren't her pupils a little OLD for that sort of thing...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...he plays for the Argos...I think we should ALL make a SPECIAL effort to make him feel welcome..." ))}$

"...he plays for the Argos...I think we should ALL make a SPECIAL effort to make him feel welcome..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...well I HAD thought of a career, but lately I've been thinking I'll just get married when I grow up and be a good husband like my Daddy..." ))}$

"...well I HAD thought of a career, but lately I've been thinking I'll just get married when I grow up and be a good husband like my Daddy..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I don't have to SELL you this car...I can see you've fallen hopelessly in love with this car...it's gone beyond simple emotional involvement...this is a tender moment I'll cherish forever, Mr. Haroldson...excuse me, I'm overwhelmed..." ))}$

"...I don't have to SELL you this car...I can see you've fallen hopelessly in love with this car...it's gone beyond simple emotional involvement...this is a tender moment I'll cherish forever, Mr. Haroldson...excuse me, I'm overwhelmed..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's something to do with the election...who is better qualified to UNIFY Canada, Dief or Lester..." ))}$

"...it's something to do with the election...who is better qualified to UNIFY Canada, Dief or Lester..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...when he asks, 'I ask you, the voters, just what ARE the basic issues in this election?'...he's not kidding...he REALLY wants to know..." ))}$

"...when he asks, 'I ask you, the voters, just what ARE the basic issues in this election?'...he's not kidding...he REALLY wants to know..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...my wife, Martha...Mr. & Mrs. Haroldson, Branch Manager for North York, dear...I was telling them we'd just come back from a delightful vacation in London..." ))}$

"...my wife, Martha...Mr. & Mrs. Haroldson, Branch Manager for North York, dear...I was telling them we'd just come back from a delightful vacation in London..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Hey...it's the old bootleg play...no, wait a minute...that's a case of beer he's carrying...this must be a commercial..." ))}$

"...Hey...it's the old bootleg play...no, wait a minute...that's a case of beer he's carrying...this must be a commercial..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...just think, dear...if you hadn't got that raise, we'd still be way down on that SEVENTH floor..." ))}$

"...just think, dear...if you hadn't got that raise, we'd still be way down on that SEVENTH floor..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no, I'm voting NDP...I ALWAYS vote NDP, my father always voted NDP and HIS Father always voted NDP..." ))}$

"...no, I'm voting NDP...I ALWAYS vote NDP, my father always voted NDP and HIS Father always voted NDP..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...585 million dollars worth of office buildings, complexes, plazas, apartments and malls; building, planned or projected...IMAGINE! Some of it is bound to rub off on us..." ))}$

"...585 million dollars worth of office buildings, complexes, plazas, apartments and malls; building, planned or projected...IMAGINE! Some of it is bound to rub off on us..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...that? Oh, that's MRS. Haroldson...every so often she gets tired of housework and kids and comes down to give Ralph a hand..." ))}$

"...that? Oh, that's MRS. Haroldson...every so often she gets tired of housework and kids and comes down to give Ralph a hand..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...come on, Haroldson, GROW UP! National Safe Driving Week is no worse than any other week...there's nothing to be afraid of..." ))}$

"...come on, Haroldson, GROW UP! National Safe Driving Week is no worse than any other week...there's nothing to be afraid of..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...he's one of those HEALTH nuts...imagine bringing your wife all the the way up here just to fill her lungs with nice CLEAN air..." ))}$

"...he's one of those HEALTH nuts...imagine bringing your wife all the the way up here just to fill her lungs with nice CLEAN air..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...CPR...CPR...oh, yes, the CPR...as a matter of fact I think they ARE running a train today...now just let me look that up...that would be a PASSENGER train...right...?" ))}$

"...CPR...CPR...oh, yes, the CPR...as a matter of fact I think they ARE running a train today...now just let me look that up...that would be a PASSENGER train...right...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...he's changed his mind...he says what's the use of buying a new car if he can't even get it out onto the street..." ))}$

"...he's changed his mind...he says what's the use of buying a new car if he can't even get it out onto the street..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...good thinking, Haroldson...devilish clever...we aim them all at the OLD City Hall..." ))}$

"...good thinking, Haroldson...devilish clever...we aim them all at the OLD City Hall..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold...HAROLD...can't you forget the world just for a minute...Harold...HAROLD... I LOVE YOU...HAR..." ))}$

"...Harold...HAROLD...can't you forget the world just for a minute...Harold...HAROLD... I LOVE YOU...HAR..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it all started with the recent election...Harold told me a lie about who he voted for..." ))}$

"...it all started with the recent election...Harold told me a lie about who he voted for..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...THERE...sixty-three leaves...that's seventeen more than last year...NOW do you believe it's growing...?" ))}$

"...THERE...sixty-three leaves...that's seventeen more than last year...NOW do you believe it's growing...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...well, I think the Haroldsons have gone too far with their Christmas lights this year...I'm going to complain to the City Hall in the morning..." ))}$

"...well, I think the Haroldsons have gone too far with their Christmas lights this year...I'm going to complain to the City Hall in the morning..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...same old thing...they're fighting over who's to blame because we didn't turn off the TV when they kept telling us to..." ))}$

"...same old thing...they're fighting over who's to blame because we didn't turn off the TV when they kept telling us to..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode(Untitled: Canada-US relations ))}$

Untitled: Canada-US relations

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...oh, cut out the dramatics...we'll be home in plenty of time for Christmas..." ))}$

"...oh, cut out the dramatics...we'll be home in plenty of time for Christmas..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...oh come on, Harold...nobody does that when they've only been as far as Hamilton..." ))}$

"...oh come on, Harold...nobody does that when they've only been as far as Hamilton..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...middle of January, I always say...days are getting longer and brighter...Spring'll be..." ))}$

"...middle of January, I always say...days are getting longer and brighter...Spring'll be..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...the trouble with these big TTC buses is that when you get behind one you can never look up ahead to see how far traffic is stalled..." ))}$

"...the trouble with these big TTC buses is that when you get behind one you can never look up ahead to see how far traffic is stalled..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...fellow here has sent in his pay cheque for last week...says he'll keep sending them and we should arrange to send him back a little pocket money to get by on..." ))}$

"...fellow here has sent in his pay cheque for last week...says he'll keep sending them and we should arrange to send him back a little pocket money to get by on..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...he says they'll take back Toronto if no one can agree what to do with it...but they don't want any part of Leaside or the old city hall...!" ))}$

"...he says they'll take back Toronto if no one can agree what to do with it...but they don't want any part of Leaside or the old city hall...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...the motion put forward by Martha Haroldson that we go home and make ourselves charming, unique, vivacious and irresistable for our husbands was carried by a vote of six to two, with four members abstaining..." ))}$

"...the motion put forward by Martha Haroldson that we go home and make ourselves charming, unique, vivacious and irresistable for our husbands was carried by a vote of six to two, with four members abstaining..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...glad to see they've finally worked out a sensible compromise in Viet Nam...each side can kill up to 50 men every day (except Sunday) between 8 am and 5 pm...daily bombing will be limited to a half hour, 3:30 to 4 pm ))}$

"...glad to see they've finally worked out a sensible compromise in Viet Nam...each side can kill up to 50 men every day (except Sunday) between 8 am and 5 pm...daily bombing will be limited to a half hour, 3:30 to 4 pm

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...got this idea in bed last night...the wife said why don't I sketch it up and bring it to show you fellows...might be the solution everyone's looking for..." ))}$

"...got this idea in bed last night...the wife said why don't I sketch it up and bring it to show you fellows...might be the solution everyone's looking for..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...funny, when you told me about this car pool that only cost a dollar a week my first thought was that it's INCREDIBLE...but now I..." ))}$

"...funny, when you told me about this car pool that only cost a dollar a week my first thought was that it's INCREDIBLE...but now I..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...morning...you didn't see a little red ball go whistling by here a minute ago, did you...?" ))}$

"...morning...you didn't see a little red ball go whistling by here a minute ago, did you...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...he's okay...he was telling us about that goal Shack scored Saturday night...really must have been something to see..." ))}$

"...he's okay...he was telling us about that goal Shack scored Saturday night...really must have been something to see..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold's determined to beat today's high grocery prices...we're having mushrooms, edible roots and snowberries for supper..." ))}$

"...Harold's determined to beat today's high grocery prices...we're having mushrooms, edible roots and snowberries for supper..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it was a brown woolly left-handed one...I wouldn't have bothered you but it's from his sixteenth pair this winter and my husband says he can't..." ))}$

"...it was a brown woolly left-handed one...I wouldn't have bothered you but it's from his sixteenth pair this winter and my husband says he can't..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...well, it's like how the poor people live...no, dear, not in Don Mills...Harold, why don't you take Paul downtown and show him some POVERTY..." ))}$

"...well, it's like how the poor people live...no, dear, not in Don Mills...Harold, why don't you take Paul downtown and show him some POVERTY..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...frankly I'm afraid to go around and see WHAT she's wearing, but there must be a reason for that SECOND modesty panel..." ))}$

"...frankly I'm afraid to go around and see WHAT she's wearing, but there must be a reason for that SECOND modesty panel..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...for the sixth time, Mother, it isn't a person...it's a pop art Harold bought yesterday, a figurative expression of the futility and bewilderment we all feel in this age of uncertainty..." ))}$

"...for the sixth time, Mother, it isn't a person...it's a pop art Harold bought yesterday, a figurative expression of the futility and bewilderment we all feel in this age of uncertainty..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no, Mrs. Haroldson...it says here DISTINCTLY, a driver shall not pass a vehicle while said vehicle is passing ANOTHER vehicle..." ))}$

"...no, Mrs. Haroldson...it says here DISTINCTLY, a driver shall not pass a vehicle while said vehicle is passing ANOTHER vehicle..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...oh, Harold, it's so romantic...it makes me think of far-away places...trade winds caressing coral beaches...the bright plumage of strange birds in the jungle green..." ))}$

"...oh, Harold, it's so romantic...it makes me think of far-away places...trade winds caressing coral beaches...the bright plumage of strange birds in the jungle green..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...oh come on, Martha...I don't see any of the other wives going MAD in Springtime..." ))}$

"...oh come on, Martha...I don't see any of the other wives going MAD in Springtime..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, if I was to spring up suddenly, run as fast as I could upstairs, along the hall into our bedroom, would you chase me..." ))}$

"...Harold, if I was to spring up suddenly, run as fast as I could upstairs, along the hall into our bedroom, would you chase me..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's like a miniature park...she asked me over to see it this morning...they've got a little lawn and flagstone path...even a tiny vegetable patch...it's beautiful..." ))}$

"...it's like a miniature park...she asked me over to see it this morning...they've got a little lawn and flagstone path...even a tiny vegetable patch...it's beautiful..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...open space, lane two, just west of Spadina, room for about six cars...if the blue chevvy and the rest of you would move up...we need the space two miles east of here..." ))}$

"...open space, lane two, just west of Spadina, room for about six cars...if the blue chevvy and the rest of you would move up...we need the space two miles east of here..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...she's the nicest woman on this block...except in spring & summer when she becomes a vicious beast..." ))}$

"...she's the nicest woman on this block...except in spring & summer when she becomes a vicious beast..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no not like that...I mean a CAMP stove...a little one...you know, for taking CAMPING...an oil one..." ))}$

"...no not like that...I mean a CAMP stove...a little one...you know, for taking CAMPING...an oil one..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...NO you don't, Harold...I'LL TAKE OUT THE GARBAGE...we're a new independent breed of women now, you know..." ))}$

"...NO you don't, Harold...I'LL TAKE OUT THE GARBAGE...we're a new independent breed of women now, you know..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's the milkman...says you owe him a hundred and seventy-nine dollars...MARTHA, it's the..." ))}$

"...it's the milkman...says you owe him a hundred and seventy-nine dollars...MARTHA, it's the..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's the short skirts...my wife is extremely self-conscious about showing her knees.." ))}$

"...it's the short skirts...my wife is extremely self-conscious about showing her knees.."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Ralph, you've got to stop this silly smiling all the way to the bank...you're supposed to be crying...it's spoiling our image..." ))}$

"...Ralph, you've got to stop this silly smiling all the way to the bank...you're supposed to be crying...it's spoiling our image..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...hey, Mom...it says here clothes are going to be FEMININE this fall...what's THAT like, Mom...?" ))}$

"...hey, Mom...it says here clothes are going to be FEMININE this fall...what's THAT like, Mom...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold was beaten out by two inches in last year's 'Largest carrot in North York contest'...but he thinks he has a winner this time..." ))}$

"...Harold was beaten out by two inches in last year's 'Largest carrot in North York contest'...but he thinks he has a winner this time..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I STILL don't know what happened to Harold...member of the carpool for five years, then BANG, overnight he has to go and buy this FUN car..." ))}$

"...I STILL don't know what happened to Harold...member of the carpool for five years, then BANG, overnight he has to go and buy this FUN car..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...well, so much for your idea of attaching a long, strong, lightweight chain to keep the shopping carts on the lot..." ))}$

"...well, so much for your idea of attaching a long, strong, lightweight chain to keep the shopping carts on the lot..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...what did Daddy say when I told him not to be too mad about running out of gas, he might WIN something at the service station...?" ))}$

"...what did Daddy say when I told him not to be too mad about running out of gas, he might WIN something at the service station...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...this Shack you're playing with...is he (gasp) any relation to the (oof) hockey player...?" ))}$

"...this Shack you're playing with...is he (gasp) any relation to the (oof) hockey player...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, we've GOT to stop at the next litter-barrel... we've got a FULL load...HAROLD..." ))}$

"...Harold, we've GOT to stop at the next litter-barrel... we've got a FULL load...HAROLD..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...well, no...it's not a strike in the usual sense...it's just that we haven't had a strike in this trade for weven years and we don't want to get out of practice altogether..." ))}$

"...well, no...it's not a strike in the usual sense...it's just that we haven't had a strike in this trade for weven years and we don't want to get out of practice altogether..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's the football...Harold is going through this horribly agonizing withdrawal period...it's worse than when he stopped smoking..." ))}$

"...it's the football...Harold is going through this horribly agonizing withdrawal period...it's worse than when he stopped smoking..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...offhand I'd say that's MUCH bigger than last year's 'Biggest Carrot grown in North York'...however the gardening editor will have to decide that of course..." ))}$

"...offhand I'd say that's MUCH bigger than last year's 'Biggest Carrot grown in North York'...however the gardening editor will have to decide that of course..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...well, gentlemen, so far so good...we've agreed on a basic summer and winter underwear design...now shall we get on with the...uh...uniform...?" ))}$

"...well, gentlemen, so far so good...we've agreed on a basic summer and winter underwear design...now shall we get on with the...uh...uniform...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...tell me the story again of how I was born in Toronto instead of Vancouver because the machine in Montreal made a mistake and Daddy was transferred here instead of there..." ))}$

"...tell me the story again of how I was born in Toronto instead of Vancouver because the machine in Montreal made a mistake and Daddy was transferred here instead of there..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...they've stormed the last bastion, I tell you...they've discovered men's toiletries..." ))}$

"...they've stormed the last bastion, I tell you...they've discovered men's toiletries..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...letter from Martha in Regina...says they're having a barbeque as she's writing this...Ralph's got a new 'sorry about that, Chef' apron...young Ricky's got a broken arm...Janet's writing another poem...roof blew off the home behind them...wants to know what's new with us..." ))}$

"...letter from Martha in Regina...says they're having a barbeque as she's writing this...Ralph's got a new 'sorry about that, Chef' apron...young Ricky's got a broken arm...Janet's writing another poem...roof blew off the home behind them...wants to know what's new with us..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I think I'm winning, Martha...Harold got mad at me at breakfast this morning for not listening to what he was saying while I was reading the paper..." ))}$

"...I think I'm winning, Martha...Harold got mad at me at breakfast this morning for not listening to what he was saying while I was reading the paper..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...that's the group who go home on 401...they're let out two hours early..." ))}$

"...that's the group who go home on 401...they're let out two hours early..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, for goodness sakes, you're HOME now...you can SPREAD OUT a bit...Harold.." ))}$

"...Harold, for goodness sakes, you're HOME now...you can SPREAD OUT a bit...Harold.."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...you know what he took me to? A FAMILY movie...I was never so embarrassed in my WHOLE life..." ))}$

"...you know what he took me to? A FAMILY movie...I was never so embarrassed in my WHOLE life..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...they've separated...SHE'S taken an apartment down on the 17th floor..." ))}$

"...they've separated...SHE'S taken an apartment down on the 17th floor..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Dad and I finally had our talk on the Facts of Life last night...but he never mentioned SEX at all...just went STRAIGHT into the importance of establishing a sound credit rating..." ))}$

"...Dad and I finally had our talk on the Facts of Life last night...but he never mentioned SEX at all...just went STRAIGHT into the importance of establishing a sound credit rating..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...lady here with her son who is the first on his block to collect all 12 Liberal buttons found in a breakfast cereal...do we want to run a picture...?" ))}$

"...lady here with her son who is the first on his block to collect all 12 Liberal buttons found in a breakfast cereal...do we want to run a picture...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...our teacher told us all about what a matriarchy is today and I pretended not to understand what it was..." ))}$

"...our teacher told us all about what a matriarchy is today and I pretended not to understand what it was..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I mean Premier Robarts is the LAST person I'd imagine spending two months meditating in India with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi...he just doesn't seem the kind...but I guess he knows best..." ))}$

"...I mean Premier Robarts is the LAST person I'd imagine spending two months meditating in India with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi...he just doesn't seem the kind...but I guess he knows best..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold's finding it difficult this year...says it's not like last year when the government kept telling you what to do and where to go..." ))}$

"...Harold's finding it difficult this year...says it's not like last year when the government kept telling you what to do and where to go..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Dad, when I grow up big and play for the Maple Leafs, would you cheer for them then ...?" ))}$

"...Dad, when I grow up big and play for the Maple Leafs, would you cheer for them then ...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...and I have the further pleasure to present you with THIS plaque...which commemorates the fact that you are the TWO-HUNDREDTH person to receive a plaque in Greater Toronto this winter..." ))}$

"...and I have the further pleasure to present you with THIS plaque...which commemorates the fact that you are the TWO-HUNDREDTH person to receive a plaque in Greater Toronto this winter..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I've brought back all these pills I didn't use...there's so many NEEDY people in the world, I thought you might..." ))}$

"...I've brought back all these pills I didn't use...there's so many NEEDY people in the world, I thought you might..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I don't know WHAT to do, Dorothy...Ralph's demanding a vote of confidence at supper tonight...thinks we don't appreciate him...and Debbie's going to be away at swimming and Ricky will be at his guitar lessons...Monday night's always bad..." ))}$

"...I don't know WHAT to do, Dorothy...Ralph's demanding a vote of confidence at supper tonight...thinks we don't appreciate him...and Debbie's going to be away at swimming and Ricky will be at his guitar lessons...Monday night's always bad..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...according to this report from Alberta, there is still running room for 97 cars in Calgary...Haroldson, get out there soon as you're able...see if we can't plug that gap..." ))}$

"...according to this report from Alberta, there is still running room for 97 cars in Calgary...Haroldson, get out there soon as you're able...see if we can't plug that gap..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...what will the public think with us having only THREE committees on the housing problem? In the past we've had as many as FIFTEEN committees working on an important thing like this..." ))}$

"...what will the public think with us having only THREE committees on the housing problem? In the past we've had as many as FIFTEEN committees working on an important thing like this..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, help me to communicate with my son...we've lost contact altogether...Harold, can't you stop watching TV just for a minute? Oh, where have I FAILED you all...?" ))}$

"...Harold, help me to communicate with my son...we've lost contact altogether...Harold, can't you stop watching TV just for a minute? Oh, where have I FAILED you all...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's the new telescoping, all-purpose staff imported from Britain...comes with three attachments, grass rake, snowplough and placard-holder...or by itself a handy weapon in rioting..." ))}$

"...it's the new telescoping, all-purpose staff imported from Britain...comes with three attachments, grass rake, snowplough and placard-holder...or by itself a handy weapon in rioting..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...all right now...these are for depression when you think of Viet Nam and the world in general...and these are to calm your elation over Trudeau and the swallows nest over your garage door...I've labelled them to avoid confusion...okay...?" ))}$

"...all right now...these are for depression when you think of Viet Nam and the world in general...and these are to calm your elation over Trudeau and the swallows nest over your garage door...I've labelled them to avoid confusion...okay...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...honest, Ralph...I just glanced at it for a moment...I just wanted to see who played the part of the man with the wild eyes and the sword...I still LOVE you Ralph...Ralph..." ))}$

"...honest, Ralph...I just glanced at it for a moment...I just wanted to see who played the part of the man with the wild eyes and the sword...I still LOVE you Ralph...Ralph..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...but what's the use of 140 miles an hour when the police won't let you go over 65...?" ))}$

"...but what's the use of 140 miles an hour when the police won't let you go over 65...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...pilot model...it's for the people who are protesting there aren't enough places to feed the pigeons in the downtown area..." ))}$

"...pilot model...it's for the people who are protesting there aren't enough places to feed the pigeons in the downtown area..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...well, I'm sorry, Haroldson, but we can't have our teachers wearing turtleneck shirts...we've had three complaints from parents already..." ))}$

"...well, I'm sorry, Haroldson, but we can't have our teachers wearing turtleneck shirts...we've had three complaints from parents already..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...ANSWER THE QUESTION. If Mr. Trudeau walked into this room right now, would you KISS him..?" ))}$

"...ANSWER THE QUESTION. If Mr. Trudeau walked into this room right now, would you KISS him..?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...hey, I just remembered...this is an OVERPASS...What are we making a hole here for...?" ))}$

"...hey, I just remembered...this is an OVERPASS...What are we making a hole here for...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...psst...Harold...the man just brought the LAWN..." ))}$

"...psst...Harold...the man just brought the LAWN..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, I'm worried about the children...they've all joined the Liberal party..." ))}$

"...Harold, I'm worried about the children...they've all joined the Liberal party..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...let's go down to the city hall...there's all those ALDERMEN...I'll bet nobody ever kisses THEM..." ))}$

"...let's go down to the city hall...there's all those ALDERMEN...I'll bet nobody ever kisses THEM..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...good morning, brothers...I've chosen a short text this morning...but I believe it may throw light on what lies ahead...the traps and hazards..we, all of us, at some time..." ))}$

"...good morning, brothers...I've chosen a short text this morning...but I believe it may throw light on what lies ahead...the traps and hazards..we, all of us, at some time..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...what I mean is, it's these LITTLE things which remind you what a big city Toronto is now..." ))}$

"...what I mean is, it's these LITTLE things which remind you what a big city Toronto is now..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's getting worse I tell you, Haroldson...Trudeau has let loose a monster and it's going to wreck our economy completely..." ))}$

"...it's getting worse I tell you, Haroldson...Trudeau has let loose a monster and it's going to wreck our economy completely..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...sorry, I'm not interested...my husband votes at the office..." ))}$

"...sorry, I'm not interested...my husband votes at the office..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...as convener of this meeting of the 'West Toronto Housewives for Trudeau', I say let's cut out all this nonsense and get down to business...girls...GIRLS...!" ))}$

"...as convener of this meeting of the 'West Toronto Housewives for Trudeau', I say let's cut out all this nonsense and get down to business...girls...GIRLS...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...but can't you see he doesn't CARE whether there's a free band-shell show OR a live stock exhibit...he wants to go to Son of EXPO ANYWAY...!" ))}$

"...but can't you see he doesn't CARE whether there's a free band-shell show OR a live stock exhibit...he wants to go to Son of EXPO ANYWAY...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I do...although I must, in all truth, admit to some misgivings concerning the institution of marriage itself, in an unstable, changing society such as we see today...many prominent psychologists and anthropologists are questioning the..." ))}$

"...I do...although I must, in all truth, admit to some misgivings concerning the institution of marriage itself, in an unstable, changing society such as we see today...many prominent psychologists and anthropologists are questioning the..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I don't know, offhand...Charlie, how deep would you say this lake is...?" ))}$

"...I don't know, offhand...Charlie, how deep would you say this lake is...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, please...listen to me...couldn't we, just this one year, not go camping ...Harold...?" ))}$

"...Harold, please...listen to me...couldn't we, just this one year, not go camping ...Harold...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold read this book...something about his historic role of hunter and warrior...now he buys the groceries and I just keep the fires going and like that..." ))}$

"...Harold read this book...something about his historic role of hunter and warrior...now he buys the groceries and I just keep the fires going and like that..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's a computor-controlled furnace, humidifier, air conditioner, emergency power centre, music capsule, water-softener, garbage-disposal, dehumidifier, smog-filter, meter-master, refrigeration package, trash burner, sprinkler system, pool filter, sump pump and root cellar...we just build the house around it..." ))}$

"...it's a computor-controlled furnace, humidifier, air conditioner, emergency power centre, music capsule, water-softener, garbage-disposal, dehumidifier, smog-filter, meter-master, refrigeration package, trash burner, sprinkler system, pool filter, sump pump and root cellar...we just build the house around it..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I AM swimming...I just use my feet..." ))}$

"...I AM swimming...I just use my feet..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no, I've never flown...I just come out here two or three times a week...I get lonely in my room..." ))}$

"...no, I've never flown...I just come out here two or three times a week...I get lonely in my room..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Jean-Harolde Lesmythe...new Minister of Tranquillity with special responsibility for Distaff Affairs and Domestic Relations...they say it's tougher than Privy Council President..." ))}$

"...Jean-Harolde Lesmythe...new Minister of Tranquillity with special responsibility for Distaff Affairs and Domestic Relations...they say it's tougher than Privy Council President..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I don't know exactly...all I know is that on Mr. Trudeau that get-up would look great..." ))}$

"...I don't know exactly...all I know is that on Mr. Trudeau that get-up would look great..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...but Harold, just because we've come to the end of the road on the edge of the map...I mean, it can't just..." ))}$

"...but Harold, just because we've come to the end of the road on the edge of the map...I mean, it can't just..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...but, father, can't you see, your concern with the possibility that the Argos will go all the way this year is just ANOTHER example of your COMPLETE abdication of responsibility in the ENTIRE world revolution..." ))}$

"...but, father, can't you see, your concern with the possibility that the Argos will go all the way this year is just ANOTHER example of your COMPLETE abdication of responsibility in the ENTIRE world revolution..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no, I really mean it, Harold...you're too modest...I would never have thought of connecting the dehumidifier to the pool..." ))}$

"...no, I really mean it, Harold...you're too modest...I would never have thought of connecting the dehumidifier to the pool..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I can't wait for school to start again...I've been thinking of all kinds of new demands..." ))}$

"...I can't wait for school to start again...I've been thinking of all kinds of new demands..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...but perhaps she has a LEGITIMATE protest...like, man, maybe she feels INSTINCTIVELY the irrelevance of our status-quo-oriented authoritarianism..." ))}$

"...but perhaps she has a LEGITIMATE protest...like, man, maybe she feels INSTINCTIVELY the irrelevance of our status-quo-oriented authoritarianism..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode(Untitled: Long Range Weather Forecast ))}$

Untitled: Long Range Weather Forecast

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...absolutely NON-automatic...in fact, involves considerable drudgery...but enables one to re-discover some of those wonderful old-fashioned values we've all been missing so much..." ))}$

"...absolutely NON-automatic...in fact, involves considerable drudgery...but enables one to re-discover some of those wonderful old-fashioned values we've all been missing so much..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...but I'm not getting PAID anymore...there's this new plan at the office...just these all-purpose credit cards...we can use them as much as we want...then there's a big final day of accounting at age 65..." ))}$

"...but I'm not getting PAID anymore...there's this new plan at the office...just these all-purpose credit cards...we can use them as much as we want...then there's a big final day of accounting at age 65..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...there's no use I tell you...it's this new rule...they're just not letting in anyone with sideburns ..." ))}$

"...there's no use I tell you...it's this new rule...they're just not letting in anyone with sideburns ..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...okay, let's run through it again...little more feeling this time...'sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me'..." ))}$

"...okay, let's run through it again...little more feeling this time...'sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me'..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...of COURSE it's crucial...if Ottawa wins tonight and Montreal loses to Saskatchewan that would put the Riders in a tie with Hamilton...then if Hamilton beats Edmonton and we lose to Montreal, Ottawa would move into third spot and another win would put them in a three-way tie for first with Hamilton and us, if Montreal takes the Lions and we beat the Ti-Cats...can't you see Montreal HAS to win t ))}$

"...of COURSE it's crucial...if Ottawa wins tonight and Montreal loses to Saskatchewan that would put the Riders in a tie with Hamilton...then if Hamilton beats Edmonton and we lose to Montreal, Ottawa would move into third spot and another win would put them in a three-way tie for first with Hamilton and us, if Montreal takes the Lions and we beat the Ti-Cats...can't you see Montreal HAS to win t

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I, Martha Haroldson, do solemnly swear to uphold the rules of this coffee club...to seek truth...to see beauty in my sister members and their children...to harbour no grudges, to forego spite and envy...to fight affluence...to love my neighbors, even all those on this block...to speak, see and hear no evil...to hold my tongue unless I have something of importance to say...oh, come on...you hav ))}$

"...I, Martha Haroldson, do solemnly swear to uphold the rules of this coffee club...to seek truth...to see beauty in my sister members and their children...to harbour no grudges, to forego spite and envy...to fight affluence...to love my neighbors, even all those on this block...to speak, see and hear no evil...to hold my tongue unless I have something of importance to say...oh, come on...you hav

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's the Post Office...they have a letter for us and would we please stop by and pick it up ..." ))}$

"...it's the Post Office...they have a letter for us and would we please stop by and pick it up ..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...NO KIDDING...my mother says they used to wear skirts all they way down to their KNEES when she went to school..." ))}$

"...NO KIDDING...my mother says they used to wear skirts all they way down to their KNEES when she went to school..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's a trap, I tell you...I've never yet been able to get through that clover-leaf ..." ))}$

"...it's a trap, I tell you...I've never yet been able to get through that clover-leaf ..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...oh, I don't know...I just got tired of all that crummy hair..." ))}$

"...oh, I don't know...I just got tired of all that crummy hair..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...we're pleased to see so many fathers turned out tonight who have obviously entered into the spirit of true companionship..." ))}$

"...we're pleased to see so many fathers turned out tonight who have obviously entered into the spirit of true companionship..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...but why, Harold...WHY...if this anti-gravity device you've stumbled upon is so incredibly wonderful...why aren't you giving it to ALL MANKIND...?" ))}$

"...but why, Harold...WHY...if this anti-gravity device you've stumbled upon is so incredibly wonderful...why aren't you giving it to ALL MANKIND...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...okay, now let me read that back to you...two hearts; four kidneys, medium; two corneas; one knee-cap and a dozen valves... yeah, okay, Doc...right away..." ))}$

"...okay, now let me read that back to you...two hearts; four kidneys, medium; two corneas; one knee-cap and a dozen valves... yeah, okay, Doc...right away..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...but...but, we always took it for granted you Scarboro people would amalgamate with US... not with Greater Oshawa..." ))}$

"...but...but, we always took it for granted you Scarboro people would amalgamate with US... not with Greater Oshawa..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...yes, we here in Plandiv. are always looking ahead...probing, groping into the future... constantly alert for new developments...ever ready for the fulfillment of tomorrow's dreams..." ))}$

"...yes, we here in Plandiv. are always looking ahead...probing, groping into the future... constantly alert for new developments...ever ready for the fulfillment of tomorrow's dreams..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...alright class, if you'll come to order and open to page 318, we'll go on from where we left off last week..." ))}$

"...alright class, if you'll come to order and open to page 318, we'll go on from where we left off last week..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...well, heaven's above, take ANY car, if it's such a problem...take mine, take Ralph's, take the wagon, take Susan's, take the half-ton...or take the company car...!" ))}$

"...well, heaven's above, take ANY car, if it's such a problem...take mine, take Ralph's, take the wagon, take Susan's, take the half-ton...or take the company car...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...here's a cute idea...a little TV right on your iron...so you don't have to keep lifting your eyes.." ))}$

"...here's a cute idea...a little TV right on your iron...so you don't have to keep lifting your eyes.."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...yes, eventually, I had thought to go beyond accountancy and into the world of corporation law..." ))}$

"...yes, eventually, I had thought to go beyond accountancy and into the world of corporation law..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...hold it, Harold...there are nuances here...you must offer the cigarette with the intention of pleasurable companionship, yet with a slight suggestion of guilt-ridden reluctance and dread...the viewing audience MUST see that reluctance..." ))}$

"...hold it, Harold...there are nuances here...you must offer the cigarette with the intention of pleasurable companionship, yet with a slight suggestion of guilt-ridden reluctance and dread...the viewing audience MUST see that reluctance..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...now here we have the top of the line...double, wide-track tracks, power steered skiis, stereo tape deck, padded instrument console, embossed contour handlebars..." ))}$

"...now here we have the top of the line...double, wide-track tracks, power steered skiis, stereo tape deck, padded instrument console, embossed contour handlebars..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I forgot to wear my skirt one day last week and no one noticed...so I haven't worn one since ...." ))}$

"...I forgot to wear my skirt one day last week and no one noticed...so I haven't worn one since ...."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no, I mean...okay...we're looking for the TRUTH here...okay...let's ask ourselves, is the QUESTION, 'is this question valid?' VALID? I mean the QUESTION ITSELF, perse..." ))}$

"...no, I mean...okay...we're looking for the TRUTH here...okay...let's ask ourselves, is the QUESTION, 'is this question valid?' VALID? I mean the QUESTION ITSELF, perse..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...his wife likes the upholstery and eager elan inherent in the longer hood and upswept trunk deck, but he still wants to know where we've hidden the spark plugs..." ))}$

"...his wife likes the upholstery and eager elan inherent in the longer hood and upswept trunk deck, but he still wants to know where we've hidden the spark plugs..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...nothing...I was just wondering what it's like in the OTHER bedrooms of the nation... I guess we'll never know now..." ))}$

"...nothing...I was just wondering what it's like in the OTHER bedrooms of the nation... I guess we'll never know now..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...hello, Dial-a-Poem? Would you repeat that stanza beginning, 'soft wind whispers along fern frond verge of sunblotched forenoon... yes, yes, that's it... ah, yes..." ))}$

"...hello, Dial-a-Poem? Would you repeat that stanza beginning, 'soft wind whispers along fern frond verge of sunblotched forenoon... yes, yes, that's it... ah, yes..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...yes, I've noticed that...it's the last hurdle for most of them..." ))}$

"...yes, I've noticed that...it's the last hurdle for most of them..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...there, see? Look at the condition and muscle-tone of that leg and look at your own...see what I mean about exercise...?" ))}$

"...there, see? Look at the condition and muscle-tone of that leg and look at your own...see what I mean about exercise...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...these are torturous times, gentlemen...and we'll never solve our as long as we keep on taking these...but then, actually, who cares...?" ))}$

"...these are torturous times, gentlemen...and we'll never solve our as long as we keep on taking these...but then, actually, who cares...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...a major breakthrough...first in Toronto, I think...it's false of course...I happen to know she's very feminine..." ))}$

"...a major breakthrough...first in Toronto, I think...it's false of course...I happen to know she's very feminine..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I don't care if it DOES sound provincial...if Hamilton becomes part of our megopolis I'm taking off for some OTHER city state..." ))}$

"...I don't care if it DOES sound provincial...if Hamilton becomes part of our megopolis I'm taking off for some OTHER city state..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I can't help it...suddenly our whole affluent, materialistic, hedonistic, war prone society is making a lot of sense...I think I'm cracking up, or...BECOMING AN ADULT..." ))}$

"...I can't help it...suddenly our whole affluent, materialistic, hedonistic, war prone society is making a lot of sense...I think I'm cracking up, or...BECOMING AN ADULT..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...here it is, Mr. Haroldson...a really BIG miscalculation...now let's see, instead of you owing us $57.92, we owe you $3,073.49...okay..." ))}$

"...here it is, Mr. Haroldson...a really BIG miscalculation...now let's see, instead of you owing us $57.92, we owe you $3,073.49...okay..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...but I do want you to have a little car for your very own...you know I do...but not until you find some place to put it..." ))}$

"...but I do want you to have a little car for your very own...you know I do...but not until you find some place to put it..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I saw this terrific movie last night...they filmed it on this posturamic 417-coil queen-size extra-firm with matching coil-on-coil box unit...antique Spanish headboard...wow...!" ))}$

"...I saw this terrific movie last night...they filmed it on this posturamic 417-coil queen-size extra-firm with matching coil-on-coil box unit...antique Spanish headboard...wow...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...funny...all they say is, 'kiss, kiss'...I thought space creatures were supposed to say, 'take me to your leader'..." ))}$

"...funny...all they say is, 'kiss, kiss'...I thought space creatures were supposed to say, 'take me to your leader'..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...imagine, a choice of TWO summer jobs...I don't know which to take...the wig factory or the seed farm..." ))}$

"...imagine, a choice of TWO summer jobs...I don't know which to take...the wig factory or the seed farm..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I said, 'I don't think this part of the interchange is completed yet'..." ))}$

"...I said, 'I don't think this part of the interchange is completed yet'..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no...as a matter of fact, this is a new locker design we're evaluating for the city hall superintendent's staff..." ))}$

"...no...as a matter of fact, this is a new locker design we're evaluating for the city hall superintendent's staff..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold's determined to win the 'Largest Carrot grown in North York' contest...this year he stared them indoors the end of February..." ))}$

"...Harold's determined to win the 'Largest Carrot grown in North York' contest...this year he stared them indoors the end of February..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's like a treasure hunt, see? We start from the Queen St. entrance with our credit cards...the one who spends two hundred dollars first and gets back with her purchases is winner and treats for tea...then we return the stuff...it'll be fun..." ))}$

"...it's like a treasure hunt, see? We start from the Queen St. entrance with our credit cards...the one who spends two hundred dollars first and gets back with her purchases is winner and treats for tea...then we return the stuff...it'll be fun..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...there, there, Haroldson...so you issued fifty-nine credit cards today...we must expect these upsetting waves of guilt and remorse...they're nature's little safety valves which enable us to carry on testing the strength and elasticity of this great competitive system of ours..." ))}$

"...there, there, Haroldson...so you issued fifty-nine credit cards today...we must expect these upsetting waves of guilt and remorse...they're nature's little safety valves which enable us to carry on testing the strength and elasticity of this great competitive system of ours..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...there's no use anymore, I tell you...NO ONE'S LISTENING...." ))}$

"...there's no use anymore, I tell you...NO ONE'S LISTENING...."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no, he's not militant...he's an honors student and his parents are protecting their investment..." ))}$

"...no, he's not militant...he's an honors student and his parents are protecting their investment..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...here I am, only fourteen and I've been in love with Pierre Trudeau for a whole year...my mother says I'd better slow down or I'll be just a hollow shell for his successor..." ))}$

"...here I am, only fourteen and I've been in love with Pierre Trudeau for a whole year...my mother says I'd better slow down or I'll be just a hollow shell for his successor..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...ssh..." ))}$

"...ssh..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...here it is on page 7...tenants must not hurl (or cause to be hurled) landlords from a balcony higher than thirty feet from the ground, or two storeys (whichever is lower)..." ))}$

"...here it is on page 7...tenants must not hurl (or cause to be hurled) landlords from a balcony higher than thirty feet from the ground, or two storeys (whichever is lower)..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold's becoming a lifeless lump...his union hasn't called a strike now for three years..." ))}$

"...Harold's becoming a lifeless lump...his union hasn't called a strike now for three years..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...here they come now...I think their baby is a boy...but I'm not really quite sure..." ))}$

"...here they come now...I think their baby is a boy...but I'm not really quite sure..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...yes, I've read about these...they're for people who like to be fully clothed at all times...springing up all over..." ))}$

"...yes, I've read about these...they're for people who like to be fully clothed at all times...springing up all over..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...in the VAN...the Haroldson stuff...remember? They'll be sitting in Toronto wondering what happened to us..." ))}$

"...in the VAN...the Haroldson stuff...remember? They'll be sitting in Toronto wondering what happened to us..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...why can't you kids take your OWN pictures...why does it always have to be something your mother and I are taking...?" ))}$

"...why can't you kids take your OWN pictures...why does it always have to be something your mother and I are taking...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...but, Mom, I LIKE watching Dad read the paper...it's his mood and expressions, the nuances are incredible...the amazement, the frank bewilderment, the felt horro, the brief flashes of insight, the rare relief of a slim hope realized...it's better than TV..." ))}$

"...but, Mom, I LIKE watching Dad read the paper...it's his mood and expressions, the nuances are incredible...the amazement, the frank bewilderment, the felt horro, the brief flashes of insight, the rare relief of a slim hope realized...it's better than TV..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...madame wishes to see something in a HARD hat...as the construction men wear...it is for the downtown shopping..." ))}$

"...madame wishes to see something in a HARD hat...as the construction men wear...it is for the downtown shopping..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold stopped smoking as an example to the kids...they follow him EVERYWHERE...!" ))}$

"...Harold stopped smoking as an example to the kids...they follow him EVERYWHERE...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...maybe it's nothing, Martha...but he's been in there for over two hours and I know they couldn't even afford ten minutes worth of plumbing at today's...well, okay, I'll call you back..." ))}$

"...maybe it's nothing, Martha...but he's been in there for over two hours and I know they couldn't even afford ten minutes worth of plumbing at today's...well, okay, I'll call you back..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I said that about water twenty years ago, BEFORE WE EVER HAD THE WORD 'POLLUTION'..." ))}$

"...I said that about water twenty years ago, BEFORE WE EVER HAD THE WORD 'POLLUTION'..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...that's his mother...she's been coaching him since he was a Little League star in Toronto or somewhere up in Canada..." ))}$

"...that's his mother...she's been coaching him since he was a Little League star in Toronto or somewhere up in Canada..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold will never get to first base as a girl-watcher...they don't want men to delve into their minds..." ))}$

"...Harold will never get to first base as a girl-watcher...they don't want men to delve into their minds..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I KNOW the human body is beautiful, Ricky...but I'm quite sure your father would rather you dressed for dinner...okay...?" ))}$

"...I KNOW the human body is beautiful, Ricky...but I'm quite sure your father would rather you dressed for dinner...okay...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's the Haroldsons...they're over on Centre Island...she says they're having a wonderful time and wish we were there..." ))}$

"...it's the Haroldsons...they're over on Centre Island...she says they're having a wonderful time and wish we were there..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...nerve gas I'm not worried about...what difference would it make to us, I mean as a family...?" ))}$

"...nerve gas I'm not worried about...what difference would it make to us, I mean as a family...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...we're planting TREES...ALL OVER THE CITY...Toronto NEEDS them...." ))}$

"...we're planting TREES...ALL OVER THE CITY...Toronto NEEDS them...."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...there's no use denying it, gentlemen, the public is aroused on this pollution issue...so I've asked Haroldson to fill us in on how our plant in Trilliumville is destroying the wild flowers in that area..." ))}$

"...there's no use denying it, gentlemen, the public is aroused on this pollution issue...so I've asked Haroldson to fill us in on how our plant in Trilliumville is destroying the wild flowers in that area..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...whaddaya mean? There's room for at least SIX more parking signs...put it up higher...nobody reads them anyhow..." ))}$

"...whaddaya mean? There's room for at least SIX more parking signs...put it up higher...nobody reads them anyhow..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode(Untitled: 'I resolve right from the start to not be constantly seeking valid, structured communication and real, meaningful, felt dialogue every single minute of political science 401 lecture on Thursdays ))}$

Untitled: 'I resolve right from the start to not be constantly seeking valid, structured communication and real, meaningful, felt dialogue every single minute of political science 401 lecture on Thursdays

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I'd like a card for my husband that says 'Congratulations on being married to me for a whole year'...I mean I've loved every minute of it, but it hasn't been easy...something just a little bit wistful..." ))}$

"...I'd like a card for my husband that says 'Congratulations on being married to me for a whole year'...I mean I've loved every minute of it, but it hasn't been easy...something just a little bit wistful..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...what a wonderful coincidence...I'm late for work, too...but I thought...you were jogging...like the rest...of them..." ))}$

"...what a wonderful coincidence...I'm late for work, too...but I thought...you were jogging...like the rest...of them..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, I found this on our balcony...can you think of anyone above us who has a broad-leaf maple...?" ))}$

"...Harold, I found this on our balcony...can you think of anyone above us who has a broad-leaf maple...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no, I've left all that silly blown-up plastic environmental stuff and gone back to SERIOUS painting..." ))}$

"...no, I've left all that silly blown-up plastic environmental stuff and gone back to SERIOUS painting..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...howdy...now y'all open yore books to chapter twenny and we'll figger what-all rightly DID happen in that little ole ever-lovin' Riel Rebellion...okay..." ))}$

"...howdy...now y'all open yore books to chapter twenny and we'll figger what-all rightly DID happen in that little ole ever-lovin' Riel Rebellion...okay..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode(They're from the Chamber of Commerce...they can't understand why we're not buying anything on credit.. ))}$

They're from the Chamber of Commerce...they can't understand why we're not buying anything on credit..

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...wants a new contract...wants us to pay him just a dollar a game...some thing about embarking on a search for the old joys of his amateur days...so help me I can't keep up with these..." ))}$

"...wants a new contract...wants us to pay him just a dollar a game...some thing about embarking on a search for the old joys of his amateur days...so help me I can't keep up with these..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, my watercolour has gone all funny and spotty...do you think it could be polluted...?" ))}$

"...Harold, my watercolour has gone all funny and spotty...do you think it could be polluted...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's a kind of political-morality play they're having at school...he's playing B.C.'s Mr. Bennett.." ))}$

"...it's a kind of political-morality play they're having at school...he's playing B.C.'s Mr. Bennett.."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Daddy, how old do I have to be before I can throw my life away...?" ))}$

"...Daddy, how old do I have to be before I can throw my life away...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...funny, just the other night I dreamed I was in a pile-up of five student drivers...but I never dreamed it would actually happen..." ))}$

"...funny, just the other night I dreamed I was in a pile-up of five student drivers...but I never dreamed it would actually happen..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I watched this program last week...it's this couple, they go to a different department store every time and just buy stuff and you go right along with them...it's FUN...!" ))}$

"...I watched this program last week...it's this couple, they go to a different department store every time and just buy stuff and you go right along with them...it's FUN...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...hey, this is cool...I didn't know they were making these big coats for MEN, too...!" ))}$

"...hey, this is cool...I didn't know they were making these big coats for MEN, too...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...yes, ma'am...washable plastic...decorated tree, profusion of lovely presents and three happy little ones in gay dancing positions...ALL for a low forty-nine, ninety-nine..." ))}$

"...yes, ma'am...washable plastic...decorated tree, profusion of lovely presents and three happy little ones in gay dancing positions...ALL for a low forty-nine, ninety-nine..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I gave Harold a lovely matched set of skiis and crutches for Christmas...he says it's the most thoughtful gift he's ever recieved (sic)..." ))}$

"...I gave Harold a lovely matched set of skiis and crutches for Christmas...he says it's the most thoughtful gift he's ever recieved (sic)..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...QUIET, EVERYONE...four cabinet ministers are going to tell us what we can look forward to in the new year...!" ))}$

"...QUIET, EVERYONE...four cabinet ministers are going to tell us what we can look forward to in the new year...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no, no, I didn't say I wanted to see a NEW war...I just said I'm TIRED of the ones in Vietnam, Israel and Biafra, that's all..." ))}$

"...no, no, I didn't say I wanted to see a NEW war...I just said I'm TIRED of the ones in Vietnam, Israel and Biafra, that's all..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, call the police...there's some hippies dancing around our outside tree ..." ))}$

"...Harold, call the police...there's some hippies dancing around our outside tree ..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...alright, now hear THIS...I'm the new woman of 1970...I'm not your loving, spoiling mother and chore lady anymore...new let's get this kitchen cleaned up QUICK...come on, MOVE...!" ))}$

"...alright, now hear THIS...I'm the new woman of 1970...I'm not your loving, spoiling mother and chore lady anymore...new let's get this kitchen cleaned up QUICK...come on, MOVE...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...we're working on a compromise transit solution...trying to get those cars downtown with greater speed and effeciency..." ))}$

"...we're working on a compromise transit solution...trying to get those cars downtown with greater speed and effeciency..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...you'll notice what a fine sculptured look the new smog-eliminator gives the over-all rapier-sweep sleek elegance of total design..." ))}$

"...you'll notice what a fine sculptured look the new smog-eliminator gives the over-all rapier-sweep sleek elegance of total design..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...the Haroldsons just called...they want us to go over and see the collection of shells and souvenirs and stuff they brought back from Jamaica..." ))}$

"...the Haroldsons just called...they want us to go over and see the collection of shells and souvenirs and stuff they brought back from Jamaica..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...there's a note in this bottle from a Mrs. Haroldson, upstream somewhere...says she's sorry about the detergent she's emptying into the river, but her husband likes a complete change of clothes daily and..." ))}$

"...there's a note in this bottle from a Mrs. Haroldson, upstream somewhere...says she's sorry about the detergent she's emptying into the river, but her husband likes a complete change of clothes daily and..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...a group of us letters-to-the-editor writers got together last year and have over forty full time writers...we have no political ambitions, but we're not ruling that out altogether..." ))}$

"...a group of us letters-to-the-editor writers got together last year and have over forty full time writers...we have no political ambitions, but we're not ruling that out altogether..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold's been so worried about the future since that awful white paper came out..." ))}$

"...Harold's been so worried about the future since that awful white paper came out..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...look, Harold...it's a bathing suit my mother wore in the old days...they're coming back in with the new longer skirts..." ))}$

"...look, Harold...it's a bathing suit my mother wore in the old days...they're coming back in with the new longer skirts..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold's not going to plant wheat this year...just let the yard go to fallow...hopes to get about $12.50 from Ottawa..." ))}$

"...Harold's not going to plant wheat this year...just let the yard go to fallow...hopes to get about $12.50 from Ottawa..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I can't STAND her...she's always at least TWO years ahead of anyone else...!" ))}$

"...I can't STAND her...she's always at least TWO years ahead of anyone else...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...now this machine is completely automatic...it will run continuously, FOREVER...you're just to sit here and be, well, like a companion...all it needs from you is warmth and encouragement..." ))}$

"...now this machine is completely automatic...it will run continuously, FOREVER...you're just to sit here and be, well, like a companion...all it needs from you is warmth and encouragement..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...we're protesting the arrest of the marchers who were demonstrating against the conviction of the five protestors who were..." ))}$

"...we're protesting the arrest of the marchers who were demonstrating against the conviction of the five protestors who were..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...but, Harold, if we go to Japan in July...what will we do for the rest of the summer...?" ))}$

"...but, Harold, if we go to Japan in July...what will we do for the rest of the summer...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...planting trees along the middle of the uncompleted section of the Spadina Expressway...bring here in...?" ))}$

"...planting trees along the middle of the uncompleted section of the Spadina Expressway...bring here in...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's that crowd of concerned people who have been talking about the environment all winter getting out INTO it...but why HERE...?" ))}$

"...it's that crowd of concerned people who have been talking about the environment all winter getting out INTO it...but why HERE...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...she said her very first word yesterday...'viable'...I thought it was cute and meaningful..." ))}$

"...she said her very first word yesterday...'viable'...I thought it was cute and meaningful..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...my mother does NOT wear army boots...so there...!" ))}$

"...my mother does NOT wear army boots...so there...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's my new car...made in Japan...deflatable...runs on compressed air..." ))}$

"...it's my new car...made in Japan...deflatable...runs on compressed air..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...but look at all this good stuff we got down there for our fort...gee, Mom, don't you ever think of anything but pollution...?" ))}$

"...but look at all this good stuff we got down there for our fort...gee, Mom, don't you ever think of anything but pollution...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...what does this mean under Teacher's Remarks...'Harold's lack of application amounts to a complete negation of his inherent bio-cranial capabilities...his near-stygian academic collapse has been barely thwarted by a phoenix-like, quasi-meaningful, desperate survival in the latter weeks, casting a pale tentacle of light on his scholastic horizon...?" ))}$

"...what does this mean under Teacher's Remarks...'Harold's lack of application amounts to a complete negation of his inherent bio-cranial capabilities...his near-stygian academic collapse has been barely thwarted by a phoenix-like, quasi-meaningful, desperate survival in the latter weeks, casting a pale tentacle of light on his scholastic horizon...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Haroldson has come up with a rather exciting tentative solution to the problem of when to celebrate Dominion Day which I think deserves serious consideration...JULY 4th..." ))}$

"...Haroldson has come up with a rather exciting tentative solution to the problem of when to celebrate Dominion Day which I think deserves serious consideration...JULY 4th..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...quick, Harold...there's a ship going by 'way out on the lake in the sunset...hurry...never mind, it's gone..." ))}$

"...quick, Harold...there's a ship going by 'way out on the lake in the sunset...hurry...never mind, it's gone..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...negotiations continue but postal employees may vote on last week's proposals tonight...here's a bulletin...some Ontario mail clerks walked out an hour ago but are slated to return this afternoon...however, others..." ))}$

"...negotiations continue but postal employees may vote on last week's proposals tonight...here's a bulletin...some Ontario mail clerks walked out an hour ago but are slated to return this afternoon...however, others..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...you're kidding...since when did the R.C.M.P. have bikini inspectors...show me your badge, sir..." ))}$

"...you're kidding...since when did the R.C.M.P. have bikini inspectors...show me your badge, sir..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I think they're waiting for us to drop some litter so they can pick it up..." ))}$

"...I think they're waiting for us to drop some litter so they can pick it up..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...my husband is one of a group of university professors from all over Ontario who are focussing their brainwaves on world problems tonight at 8:30...he's on the balcony warming up now..." ))}$

"...my husband is one of a group of university professors from all over Ontario who are focussing their brainwaves on world problems tonight at 8:30...he's on the balcony warming up now..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I'm pleased to be able to announce we've been successful, after a lot of trouble and expense, in arranging for the 1976 Southern Ontario provincial Olympic eleminations (sic) to be held right here in Toronto..." ))}$

"...I'm pleased to be able to announce we've been successful, after a lot of trouble and expense, in arranging for the 1976 Southern Ontario provincial Olympic eleminations (sic) to be held right here in Toronto..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...why don't we ask the men to join us...they look a little lonely..." ))}$

"...why don't we ask the men to join us...they look a little lonely..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold...Harold, I want to get BACK to it all...!" ))}$

"...Harold...Harold, I want to get BACK to it all...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I think we'd better discontinue them...nobody seems interested any more...it's all that pollution talk..." ))}$

"...I think we'd better discontinue them...nobody seems interested any more...it's all that pollution talk..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...they're dandelions...Harold decided to quit fighting them and be nice to them...pretty, aren't they...?" ))}$

"...they're dandelions...Harold decided to quit fighting them and be nice to them...pretty, aren't they...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I don't care how much mercury, sulphur-dioxide, DDT or Dieldrin there is in your vegetables ...EAT THEM OR GET UP TO YOUR ROOM...!" ))}$

"...I don't care how much mercury, sulphur-dioxide, DDT or Dieldrin there is in your vegetables ...EAT THEM OR GET UP TO YOUR ROOM...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, do you think anyone would dare spoil OUR environment...deliberately...?" ))}$

"...Harold, do you think anyone would dare spoil OUR environment...deliberately...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...oh, Harold, I'm glad you added this extra seat...you'll never be lonely again...I promise...!" ))}$

"...oh, Harold, I'm glad you added this extra seat...you'll never be lonely again...I promise...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no, you see they don't prepare food here at all...they list the top specialities of every great restaurant in Toronto...then when you order they rush out and..." ))}$

"...no, you see they don't prepare food here at all...they list the top specialities of every great restaurant in Toronto...then when you order they rush out and..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...very heavy priority...this is the really big jet port which will serve most of Ontario and Montreal..." ))}$

"...very heavy priority...this is the really big jet port which will serve most of Ontario and Montreal..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...we're Newfemstew...you go back and serve lunch and we'll take her into Winnipeg...move...!" ))}$

"...we're Newfemstew...you go back and serve lunch and we'll take her into Winnipeg...move...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...but we've got to turn it over...to put in the winter rye...how else can we replace the goodness we've...?" ))}$

"...but we've got to turn it over...to put in the winter rye...how else can we replace the goodness we've...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...he's out again...honestly, how anyone can go on thinking of that Russian Venus shot of last March in world like this is beyond me..." ))}$

"...he's out again...honestly, how anyone can go on thinking of that Russian Venus shot of last March in world like this is beyond me..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...we've got the happiest condominium in North York...we're encouraged to go ahead and do our own thing..." ))}$

"...we've got the happiest condominium in North York...we're encouraged to go ahead and do our own thing..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...before we begin I'd like to show you this plaque we're received from Ottawa...we're the 500th Ontario committee to investigate poverty since 1900...no other province is anywhere close..." ))}$

"...before we begin I'd like to show you this plaque we're received from Ottawa...we're the 500th Ontario committee to investigate poverty since 1900...no other province is anywhere close..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...look, a seed must have blown into that tiny crack and some dirt and it's grown there and now it's leaves are all going red and yellow and falling off..." ))}$

"...look, a seed must have blown into that tiny crack and some dirt and it's grown there and now it's leaves are all going red and yellow and falling off..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold doesn't think we can afford this Christmas...imagine...." ))}$

"...Harold doesn't think we can afford this Christmas...imagine...."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...says he's from Lower Ontario Tree Fruits Institute, Hamilton...they're designing a new apple box or something..." ))}$

"...says he's from Lower Ontario Tree Fruits Institute, Hamilton...they're designing a new apple box or something..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, how would you like to jog this out to the garbage...?" ))}$

"...Harold, how would you like to jog this out to the garbage...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...to present this medal of merit to our best customer in 1970...billed wrongly nine months in a row, yet paid cheerfully and unquestioningly every time...the computer is even now working on the accurate calculation of your refund..." ))}$

"...to present this medal of merit to our best customer in 1970...billed wrongly nine months in a row, yet paid cheerfully and unquestioningly every time...the computer is even now working on the accurate calculation of your refund..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...runner-up in the Miss Grey Cup Contest...now I hear she's trying to get herself chosen to represent the Leafs in the Miss Stanley Cup Contest...she'll never make it..." ))}$

"...runner-up in the Miss Grey Cup Contest...now I hear she's trying to get herself chosen to represent the Leafs in the Miss Stanley Cup Contest...she'll never make it..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...wake up, Harold...it's morning...time to go to work...boy, whoever invented these chairs...!" ))}$

"...wake up, Harold...it's morning...time to go to work...boy, whoever invented these chairs...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, would you like to try some of this Japanese health spread...contains imported llama milk solids from Peru and shark oil from Korea...it's on special..." ))}$

"...Harold, would you like to try some of this Japanese health spread...contains imported llama milk solids from Peru and shark oil from Korea...it's on special..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...something new we're trying out for the side streets...operates on the principle of a hundred giant hands...pats the snow down firmly...we think it will be quicker than plowing..." ))}$

"...something new we're trying out for the side streets...operates on the principle of a hundred giant hands...pats the snow down firmly...we think it will be quicker than plowing..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...they're logging in High Park...THEY'RE LOGGING IN HIGH PARK...." ))}$

"...they're logging in High Park...THEY'RE LOGGING IN HIGH PARK...."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, remember the part of my car which wasn't rusted which you said would hold the top part up through the winter...Harold...?" ))}$

"...Harold, remember the part of my car which wasn't rusted which you said would hold the top part up through the winter...Harold...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...this is where the cancellations are designed which completely obliterate the beautiful stamps you saw being designed in the department upstairs..." ))}$

"...this is where the cancellations are designed which completely obliterate the beautiful stamps you saw being designed in the department upstairs..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...you're new here, Haroldson...let me give you a word of advice...we don't refer to it as 'bread' in this building...okay...?" ))}$

"...you're new here, Haroldson...let me give you a word of advice...we don't refer to it as 'bread' in this building...okay...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...now in the last six bars where we call out to God, I want it solid and loud and clear...remember He's a long long way from here..." ))}$

"...now in the last six bars where we call out to God, I want it solid and loud and clear...remember He's a long long way from here..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...sometimes maybe I get a little worried, but I think most people will go on wearing clothes..." ))}$

"...sometimes maybe I get a little worried, but I think most people will go on wearing clothes..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no, you must keep on, Harold...soon it will be spring and the weather will be nicer and we can get out there again and use them...okay...?" ))}$

"...no, you must keep on, Harold...soon it will be spring and the weather will be nicer and we can get out there again and use them...okay...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...we figured if we lined up at different places all over Toronto we'd get more attention than just lining up at the unemployment commission..." ))}$

"...we figured if we lined up at different places all over Toronto we'd get more attention than just lining up at the unemployment commission..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...we see here in ...uh...you know...like...in this particular...you know...unique...right? ...media, a...you know big...really big...right? ...opportunity...right? ...for a major...you know...breakthrough...right? ...in this means of communication...right? ...now, I'm not saying...you know...that, you know...clarification is everything...right? ...but..." ))}$

"...we see here in ...uh...you know...like...in this particular...you know...unique...right? ...media, a...you know big...really big...right? ...opportunity...right? ...for a major...you know...breakthrough...right? ...in this means of communication...right? ...now, I'm not saying...you know...that, you know...clarification is everything...right? ...but..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I understand these 'Primitive Steak Compounds' are part of an American franchise operation...terrific atmosphere...I like being able to throw the bones on the floor..." ))}$

"...I understand these 'Primitive Steak Compounds' are part of an American franchise operation...terrific atmosphere...I like being able to throw the bones on the floor..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...gentlemen, I want you to meet Fernwood T. Haroldson...he's a consumer...and he's asked for this time to tell us off about our products...okay, Woody..." ))}$

"...gentlemen, I want you to meet Fernwood T. Haroldson...he's a consumer...and he's asked for this time to tell us off about our products...okay, Woody..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, it's snowing again...come and see...it's just beautiful...a lovely white mantle over everything...beautiful big white flakes drifting down soundlessly...Harold..." ))}$

"...Harold, it's snowing again...come and see...it's just beautiful...a lovely white mantle over everything...beautiful big white flakes drifting down soundlessly...Harold..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...lucky we were born seven years ago...I think we just got in under the wire..." ))}$

"...lucky we were born seven years ago...I think we just got in under the wire..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...would you untie me please...quick...my husband didn't want me to go to the opening of the new shopping centre...please hurry...!" ))}$

"...would you untie me please...quick...my husband didn't want me to go to the opening of the new shopping centre...please hurry...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...okay, just one more...you've got four teams each in the two divisions, right...in the first, the second and the fourth teams play off and the third and first...in the second they're doing the same...then the winners of the first and third play the winners of the second and fourth, then that winner plays the winner of the playoff between the winners of..." ))}$

"...okay, just one more...you've got four teams each in the two divisions, right...in the first, the second and the fourth teams play off and the third and first...in the second they're doing the same...then the winners of the first and third play the winners of the second and fourth, then that winner plays the winner of the playoff between the winners of..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no, I mean, besides the Volkswagens, they're probably unloading ivory and rhinestone and yellow ochre and lapis lazuli and gold moidores and peacocks and sandalwood and..." ))}$

"...no, I mean, besides the Volkswagens, they're probably unloading ivory and rhinestone and yellow ochre and lapis lazuli and gold moidores and peacocks and sandalwood and..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...don't spend too much time on detail in these potholes, Haroldson...they'll be filling them in a couple of months..." ))}$

"...don't spend too much time on detail in these potholes, Haroldson...they'll be filling them in a couple of months..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's a painting he's done of Washington crossing the St. Lawrence...they're taking about it in school now..." ))}$

"...it's a painting he's done of Washington crossing the St. Lawrence...they're taking about it in school now..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I just wish we could have gone up another thirty storeys...I hear it's nice up there..." ))}$

"...I just wish we could have gone up another thirty storeys...I hear it's nice up there..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold and the kids decided this year to get right down there and remove every single crabgrass root for once and all..." ))}$

"...Harold and the kids decided this year to get right down there and remove every single crabgrass root for once and all..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's our new compromise solution for a tract of land which people want kept for a park...we put the park on top of a multi-tower complex, bridged by walkways...see, here is a pond and here, trees around a tiny ecology shrine and here, a..." ))}$

"...it's our new compromise solution for a tract of land which people want kept for a park...we put the park on top of a multi-tower complex, bridged by walkways...see, here is a pond and here, trees around a tiny ecology shrine and here, a..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I can't help thinking something terribly fine and decent will come of all this..." ))}$

"...I can't help thinking something terribly fine and decent will come of all this..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's a young man wanting to know if we'd like to go on an exciting, personally escorted hitch-hiking package tour of the four western provinces...it sounds very reasonable...oh, Harold, COULD we...?" ))}$

"...it's a young man wanting to know if we'd like to go on an exciting, personally escorted hitch-hiking package tour of the four western provinces...it sounds very reasonable...oh, Harold, COULD we...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...hi...I'm looking for something in a six-cent stamp...light warmish blue with perhaps one stark historical figure in a simple design...no birds, maps scientists, flags or leaves...it's to go on a plain, small, darkish peach envelope..." ))}$

"...hi...I'm looking for something in a six-cent stamp...light warmish blue with perhaps one stark historical figure in a simple design...no birds, maps scientists, flags or leaves...it's to go on a plain, small, darkish peach envelope..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I don't know WHAT they are...the young people are making them and selling them downtown...I just thought you might like one..." ))}$

"...I don't know WHAT they are...the young people are making them and selling them downtown...I just thought you might like one..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no...this is my house...white man hitch-hiking kiosk down highway nine hundred flaps of crow's wing..." ))}$

"...no...this is my house...white man hitch-hiking kiosk down highway nine hundred flaps of crow's wing..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...nine years now he's been waiting for a big American organization to buy him out...I think he's just about given up hope..." ))}$

"...nine years now he's been waiting for a big American organization to buy him out...I think he's just about given up hope..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...HAROLD, DON'T WASTE A FILM. Wait until some of us get in the picture...!" ))}$

"...HAROLD, DON'T WASTE A FILM. Wait until some of us get in the picture...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...waiter, there's a caterpillar, a fly, three elm bark beetles, five red ants, a robin's egg and a maple leaf in my soup..." ))}$

"...waiter, there's a caterpillar, a fly, three elm bark beetles, five red ants, a robin's egg and a maple leaf in my soup..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...oh come on, Harold...they just want us to drop over for a couple of minutes to see some of the other souvenirs they brought back..." ))}$

"...oh come on, Harold...they just want us to drop over for a couple of minutes to see some of the other souvenirs they brought back..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...hey, Dad, come and see all these red ants...they're going in six lanes...three one way and three the other..." ))}$

"...hey, Dad, come and see all these red ants...they're going in six lanes...three one way and three the other..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...weighs 317 tons...Premier Manning out in Alberta ordered it a few years ago, then lost interest in it...now the Ontario NDP have bought it and want Harold to finish it in a hurry..." ))}$

"...weighs 317 tons...Premier Manning out in Alberta ordered it a few years ago, then lost interest in it...now the Ontario NDP have bought it and want Harold to finish it in a hurry..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...do you have anything for a mild recurrence of an absolute horror and dread of what lies ahead on the municipal, provincial, federal, hemisphere and world level...?" ))}$

"...do you have anything for a mild recurrence of an absolute horror and dread of what lies ahead on the municipal, provincial, federal, hemisphere and world level...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no, I'm sorry, I don't see any livestock building listed here...doesn't that come later in the fall over at the...?" ))}$

"...no, I'm sorry, I don't see any livestock building listed here...doesn't that come later in the fall over at the...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...there's a job here for a stripper, must have experience in cleavage...Donside Abbatoir...I wonder if that's male or female...?" ))}$

"...there's a job here for a stripper, must have experience in cleavage...Donside Abbatoir...I wonder if that's male or female...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("stop Harold, that's enough...we've gone way over our limit of 550 ounces..." ))}$

"stop Harold, that's enough...we've gone way over our limit of 550 ounces..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I just don't understand banks any more...I just went in for a new cheque book and they gave me all this money when I was coming out..." ))}$

"...I just don't understand banks any more...I just went in for a new cheque book and they gave me all this money when I was coming out..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Dr. Haroldson is giving you a reduced rate since you were fighting to uphold the sacred right of doctors to determine their own in come..." ))}$

"...Dr. Haroldson is giving you a reduced rate since you were fighting to uphold the sacred right of doctors to determine their own in come..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, the hockey games start soon and I want you to watch them all because I know you love it...but, Harold...would you please...please...not tell me EVERY game is crucial..okay, Harold...?" ))}$

"...Harold, the hockey games start soon and I want you to watch them all because I know you love it...but, Harold...would you please...please...not tell me EVERY game is crucial..okay, Harold...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...remember ten years ago when Toronto was full of nice, decent, ORDINARY people ...?" ))}$

"...remember ten years ago when Toronto was full of nice, decent, ORDINARY people ...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...okay, we'll take an informal poll...all those in favor of becoming involved in society to the extent of leading it graciously, and with dignity, up to a higher, brighter and more serene plateau raise their left hand..." ))}$

"...okay, we'll take an informal poll...all those in favor of becoming involved in society to the extent of leading it graciously, and with dignity, up to a higher, brighter and more serene plateau raise their left hand..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, what am I supposed to do with these organic carrots you grew...?" ))}$

"...Harold, what am I supposed to do with these organic carrots you grew...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Doctor, I'm so rushed today I haven't got a minute to spare...could you give me some pills and I'll tell you my symptoms next time I come in...okay...?" ))}$

"...Doctor, I'm so rushed today I haven't got a minute to spare...could you give me some pills and I'll tell you my symptoms next time I come in...okay...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no really, I mean it...Ralph Nader has done a lot for our industry...he's given us insight and wisdom and increased our integrity...we'll never be out of his debt, believe me..." ))}$

"...no really, I mean it...Ralph Nader has done a lot for our industry...he's given us insight and wisdom and increased our integrity...we'll never be out of his debt, believe me..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I'm lost, Officer...I just came out for a stroll before retiring and I got turned around and now I can't remember which building I live in...there's a fountain and six chandeliers in the lobby and a whole lot of antique chairs and..." ))}$

"...I'm lost, Officer...I just came out for a stroll before retiring and I got turned around and now I can't remember which building I live in...there's a fountain and six chandeliers in the lobby and a whole lot of antique chairs and..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I noticed the Chairman of your Board said we should be nice to the Americans and I was wondering if I might buy a U.S. Savings Bond this time to show them someone up here cares..." ))}$

"...I noticed the Chairman of your Board said we should be nice to the Americans and I was wondering if I might buy a U.S. Savings Bond this time to show them someone up here cares..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold and I have gone back to moderate polluting...we were getting on each other's nerves, environmentally..." ))}$

"...Harold and I have gone back to moderate polluting...we were getting on each other's nerves, environmentally..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...quite remarkable actually, structured from parts rusted off city automobiles...it's planned to completely disintigrate (sic) by 1973..." ))}$

"...quite remarkable actually, structured from parts rusted off city automobiles...it's planned to completely disintigrate (sic) by 1973..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...well, they said it had to happen sometime...everyone decided to leave their car home today..." ))}$

"...well, they said it had to happen sometime...everyone decided to leave their car home today..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Department of Manpower put it up for the winter...it's to tell the unemployed where to go..." ))}$

"...Department of Manpower put it up for the winter...it's to tell the unemployed where to go..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...buy an apple, sir...organically nurtured in love, picked with tender remorse and wrapped in re-cycled paper...a poem on each wrapper to help you through the day..." ))}$

"...buy an apple, sir...organically nurtured in love, picked with tender remorse and wrapped in re-cycled paper...a poem on each wrapper to help you through the day..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Madame, this doll is a pleasure to have around the house...she's kind, considerate and very loving...she's cooperative, witholds nothing and encourages a child to find meaningful answers to the very real problems we face today..." ))}$

"...Madame, this doll is a pleasure to have around the house...she's kind, considerate and very loving...she's cooperative, witholds nothing and encourages a child to find meaningful answers to the very real problems we face today..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, tell me I'm dreaming...tell me there aren't people going out back somewhere, digging their own vegetables and taking them into the chef..." ))}$

"...Harold, tell me I'm dreaming...tell me there aren't people going out back somewhere, digging their own vegetables and taking them into the chef..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...your little Harold is very tidy...he's my best little helper, collecting things after class, cleaning up, you know...I think he might become a wonderful janitor or something like that...garbageman...you know..." ))}$

"...your little Harold is very tidy...he's my best little helper, collecting things after class, cleaning up, you know...I think he might become a wonderful janitor or something like that...garbageman...you know..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, it's your mother...she says she hopes we're having a nice old-fashioned Christmas...che wants to speak to you..." ))}$

"...Harold, it's your mother...she says she hopes we're having a nice old-fashioned Christmas...che wants to speak to you..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...as a matter of fact my career started right here in Toronto...my boyfriend took me to a hockey game and one of the TV cameramen zoomed in on me for a thirty-second close-up during a lull in the game and an MGM producer happened to catch it...I left for Hollywood the following..." ))}$

"...as a matter of fact my career started right here in Toronto...my boyfriend took me to a hockey game and one of the TV cameramen zoomed in on me for a thirty-second close-up during a lull in the game and an MGM producer happened to catch it...I left for Hollywood the following..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...okay, Haroldson...that's the third lot of bumpers you've dropped this week...they're not made of IRON, you know...!" ))}$

"...okay, Haroldson...that's the third lot of bumpers you've dropped this week...they're not made of IRON, you know...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...to love, honor and provide a guaranteed annual income of not less than $9000.00 until death do us part..." ))}$

"...to love, honor and provide a guaranteed annual income of not less than $9000.00 until death do us part..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode(Untitled: Oxygen Station Fresh BC Pacific Air ))}$

Untitled: Oxygen Station Fresh BC Pacific Air

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I'd like to grow up and get out of blue jeans and wear nice clothes and have my hair styled, but my father says I can't right now...he can't afford it..." ))}$

"...I'd like to grow up and get out of blue jeans and wear nice clothes and have my hair styled, but my father says I can't right now...he can't afford it..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it won't be for long and we're just going to have to adjust...you see we must somehow cut down the community mountain of garbage...and these consumption inspectors are doing a valuable job, seeing that we all finish everything on our plate..." ))}$

"...it won't be for long and we're just going to have to adjust...you see we must somehow cut down the community mountain of garbage...and these consumption inspectors are doing a valuable job, seeing that we all finish everything on our plate..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode(Untitled: The queue at the bus stop ))}$

Untitled: The queue at the bus stop

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I'm taking him out of organized hockey until we see how that new W.H.A. league shapes up..." ))}$

"...I'm taking him out of organized hockey until we see how that new W.H.A. league shapes up..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I'm, worried, Harriet...last night he insisted on sitting in the big chair in front of the TV, said it was HIS...and he told me to stifle myself and I did...I think the good years are over..." ))}$

"...I'm, worried, Harriet...last night he insisted on sitting in the big chair in front of the TV, said it was HIS...and he told me to stifle myself and I did...I think the good years are over..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Haroldson, here, fixed it...a trick he learned from his wife...he made this giant bobby-pin and stuck it in between the sprocket gasket and the flange rocker..." ))}$

"...Haroldson, here, fixed it...a trick he learned from his wife...he made this giant bobby-pin and stuck it in between the sprocket gasket and the flange rocker..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...sixth largest corporation in the world...they're doing everything possible to overcome the popular concept of bigness being bad..." ))}$

"...sixth largest corporation in the world...they're doing everything possible to overcome the popular concept of bigness being bad..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's something I bought Harold for Christmas...over a thousand miscellaneous parts and deliberately misleading instructions...he thinks he's got it about half finished..." ))}$

"...it's something I bought Harold for Christmas...over a thousand miscellaneous parts and deliberately misleading instructions...he thinks he's got it about half finished..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...by George, I think we've got a winner here...that new bumper stands up well at 15 m.p.h. impact...now let's see what we can do with the..." ))}$

"...by George, I think we've got a winner here...that new bumper stands up well at 15 m.p.h. impact...now let's see what we can do with the..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...we were all just having coffee and Mrs. Haroldson claimed Mrs. Wilson's boy Clarence deliberately boarded and cross-checked her son Ricky in last night's Peewee game...and they started fighting in the corner and..." ))}$

"...we were all just having coffee and Mrs. Haroldson claimed Mrs. Wilson's boy Clarence deliberately boarded and cross-checked her son Ricky in last night's Peewee game...and they started fighting in the corner and..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...okay, now remember...when the final breakdown of society and life-support systems occurs and you get it all on tape, rush it downstairs...hopefully we'll get it on the National..." ))}$

"...okay, now remember...when the final breakdown of society and life-support systems occurs and you get it all on tape, rush it downstairs...hopefully we'll get it on the National..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode(HEY BUDDY...BUY A SET OF CHASTE POSTCARDS...FULLY CLOTHED MAIDENS IN SEDATE POSES...BE A LEADER IN THE COMING SWING BACK TO PURITANISM..." ))}$

HEY BUDDY...BUY A SET OF CHASTE POSTCARDS...FULLY CLOTHED MAIDENS IN SEDATE POSES...BE A LEADER IN THE COMING SWING BACK TO PURITANISM..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...but, Harold, you can't leave it out here on the path...the snowmobiles won't be able to get by..." ))}$

"...but, Harold, you can't leave it out here on the path...the snowmobiles won't be able to get by..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...you will notice, Gentlemen, that in parts of Ontario such as this, the environment has already almost completely disappeared..." ))}$

"...you will notice, Gentlemen, that in parts of Ontario such as this, the environment has already almost completely disappeared..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...devilish case, this...stopped smoking, became a vegetarian, got rid of his car, his TV and his snowmobile, started jogging and went back to his wife...all in the same week..." ))}$

"...devilish case, this...stopped smoking, became a vegetarian, got rid of his car, his TV and his snowmobile, started jogging and went back to his wife...all in the same week..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no kidding? They only offered me $125,000.00...but I haven't had a final offer from Baton Rouge yet ..." ))}$

"...no kidding? They only offered me $125,000.00...but I haven't had a final offer from Baton Rouge yet ..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...excuse me...I'm looking for an original European oil painting of Niagara Falls by moonlight in the late autumn...the CANADIAN Falls...?" ))}$

"...excuse me...I'm looking for an original European oil painting of Niagara Falls by moonlight in the late autumn...the CANADIAN Falls...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I think it's so marvellous how he makes everyone of his paintings look so incredibly real and lifelike..." ))}$

"...I think it's so marvellous how he makes everyone of his paintings look so incredibly real and lifelike..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...attention, shoppers...it has just been announced in Ottawa that citizens earning under $4000 annually can no longer afford to buy food at today's inflated prices...if there is anyone in that category in the store at the present time, would they kindly leave..." ))}$

"...attention, shoppers...it has just been announced in Ottawa that citizens earning under $4000 annually can no longer afford to buy food at today's inflated prices...if there is anyone in that category in the store at the present time, would they kindly leave..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...on a clear day last year Harold counted 179 high-rises from here...goodness knows how many it will be this year when he counts them again...when we get a clear day..." ))}$

"...on a clear day last year Harold counted 179 high-rises from here...goodness knows how many it will be this year when he counts them again...when we get a clear day..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...hey, Hon...all this stuff in the bathroom...which is the one I use for soothing my brow...?" ))}$

"...hey, Hon...all this stuff in the bathroom...which is the one I use for soothing my brow...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's the educational channel...there's this associate professor who's carrying on the seemingly endless search for the unstructured bi-lateral co-efficient of the modular lateral-growth progression of redundant polysyllables and his young assistant who's already made a name for herself in bifurcated romantic semantics...they're discussing their difficulty in communicating..." ))}$

"...it's the educational channel...there's this associate professor who's carrying on the seemingly endless search for the unstructured bi-lateral co-efficient of the modular lateral-growth progression of redundant polysyllables and his young assistant who's already made a name for herself in bifurcated romantic semantics...they're discussing their difficulty in communicating..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...sorry...the People's Urban Green Inviting Circular Median Planted-Place Area is full...next sitting at two-thirty...move on..." ))}$

"...sorry...the People's Urban Green Inviting Circular Median Planted-Place Area is full...next sitting at two-thirty...move on..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...except I'd like the Alfalfa Cakes instead of the Green Bean Meal...and I'll have the Kelp Chips rather than the Mashed Soybean Sprouts..." ))}$

"...except I'd like the Alfalfa Cakes instead of the Green Bean Meal...and I'll have the Kelp Chips rather than the Mashed Soybean Sprouts..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...sir, it's a consortium of the twelve largest American financial interests...they're here to make an offer on everything that hasn't already been taken over by the USA..." ))}$

"...sir, it's a consortium of the twelve largest American financial interests...they're here to make an offer on everything that hasn't already been taken over by the USA..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...excuse me, I'd like another packet of those tiny little jet-black seeds I bought here last year...I can't remember the name but they were slightly oval with a pale green lumpy spot on one end...they grew into giant crescent-shaped bushes absolutely smothered in tiny trumpet-like red flowers with funny black sticky things in the middle and a strange sweet oniony perfume, especially during thund ))}$

"...excuse me, I'd like another packet of those tiny little jet-black seeds I bought here last year...I can't remember the name but they were slightly oval with a pale green lumpy spot on one end...they grew into giant crescent-shaped bushes absolutely smothered in tiny trumpet-like red flowers with funny black sticky things in the middle and a strange sweet oniony perfume, especially during thund

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I don't know, it just doesn't seem right somehow that a movie about the early days of the RCMP should be filmed mainly in Finland and Yugoslavia...and yet it looks real enough..." ))}$

"...I don't know, it just doesn't seem right somehow that a movie about the early days of the RCMP should be filmed mainly in Finland and Yugoslavia...and yet it looks real enough..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's nothing...my new digital wrist watch tickles me when the minutes flip over, that's all..." ))}$

"...it's nothing...my new digital wrist watch tickles me when the minutes flip over, that's all..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's my students, Mr. Haroldson...I asked them to think of something to do which interests them in their free class and do it...and they're DOING it...!" ))}$

"...it's my students, Mr. Haroldson...I asked them to think of something to do which interests them in their free class and do it...and they're DOING it...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Mrs. Haroldson, please...I must ask you once again to confine your symptoms to the approved list on the wall..." ))}$

"...Mrs. Haroldson, please...I must ask you once again to confine your symptoms to the approved list on the wall..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...there's six people crying at the meat counter and they're using up all the facial tissue...shall I replace it...?" ))}$

"...there's six people crying at the meat counter and they're using up all the facial tissue...shall I replace it...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...this greening hollow / encloses all my dreams. / Spring-filled ravines of Metro / sing of viable delight / my thoughts grow and soar / when I look beyond you / and see the garbage bags / no longer in the fore.. ))}$

"...this greening hollow / encloses all my dreams. / Spring-filled ravines of Metro / sing of viable delight / my thoughts grow and soar / when I look beyond you / and see the garbage bags / no longer in the fore..

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's called 'Hockey Holiday'...it'll be running twice weekly until the start of the next season...interviews with the all-time greats...they'll be recapping their all-time greatest plays, shots and saves with video tapes and there'll be guest commentators picking their all-time greatest three-star selections and..." ))}$

"...it's called 'Hockey Holiday'...it'll be running twice weekly until the start of the next season...interviews with the all-time greats...they'll be recapping their all-time greatest plays, shots and saves with video tapes and there'll be guest commentators picking their all-time greatest three-star selections and..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...we were learning all about our American cousins to the south...I told the teacher I thought all my cousins lived in Brampton...they do, don't they...?" ))}$

"...we were learning all about our American cousins to the south...I told the teacher I thought all my cousins lived in Brampton...they do, don't they...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...in welcoming our first lady member into the Fraternal Order of Black Bears I'd like to take this opportunity of suggesting she wear a gown more in keeping with..." ))}$

"...in welcoming our first lady member into the Fraternal Order of Black Bears I'd like to take this opportunity of suggesting she wear a gown more in keeping with..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, hurry up...your bicycle pool is waiting..." ))}$

"...Harold, hurry up...your bicycle pool is waiting..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's the Minister of Recreation, Conservation and the Environment...'do we know of any good places around here for bicycle trails?'..." ))}$

"...it's the Minister of Recreation, Conservation and the Environment...'do we know of any good places around here for bicycle trails?'..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no, this is training camp...our first strike won't be until sometime in early July..." ))}$

"...no, this is training camp...our first strike won't be until sometime in early July..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...excuse me...ave dominae e pluribus flora? Hoc dominicus creepor rubicum quo Dwarvius Lilac...duo ora fenetrus patria primus et sic fauna...one of the smaller varieties...?" ))}$

"...excuse me...ave dominae e pluribus flora? Hoc dominicus creepor rubicum quo Dwarvius Lilac...duo ora fenetrus patria primus et sic fauna...one of the smaller varieties...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...not a human hand involved...first 100% automated production line in Canada...we're just waiting now to see what it will turn out..." ))}$

"...not a human hand involved...first 100% automated production line in Canada...we're just waiting now to see what it will turn out..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...those people in the corner house just don't seem to have been able to get back into stride since the strike.." ))}$

"...those people in the corner house just don't seem to have been able to get back into stride since the strike.."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...cool...intelligent...I think at last he's really very mature...this showing seems to sum up brilliantly his inner-most felt knowledge acquisitions...it's a lyric totality...very rare..." ))}$

"...cool...intelligent...I think at last he's really very mature...this showing seems to sum up brilliantly his inner-most felt knowledge acquisitions...it's a lyric totality...very rare..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I had this great idea for an Opportunities for Youth Program project but I blew it...on the application I accidentally put down South Pole instead of North Pole..." ))}$

"...I had this great idea for an Opportunities for Youth Program project but I blew it...on the application I accidentally put down South Pole instead of North Pole..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...interesting item about why the end of the world, which was scheduled for this May 17, has been postponed to September 23 of next year and the dramatic role played by our Prime Minister in the secret sessions with the U.S.A. which resulted in the delay and regrettable public disclosure..." ))}$

"...interesting item about why the end of the world, which was scheduled for this May 17, has been postponed to September 23 of next year and the dramatic role played by our Prime Minister in the secret sessions with the U.S.A. which resulted in the delay and regrettable public disclosure..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...yes, this ticket entitles you to full use of all areas including nature walks, the Ravine of Remebrance, featuring the new non-skid stepping stones and the toadstool picnic tables, and a free copy of the Super Dell Greenbelt Book of Indigenous Species..." ))}$

"...yes, this ticket entitles you to full use of all areas including nature walks, the Ravine of Remebrance, featuring the new non-skid stepping stones and the toadstool picnic tables, and a free copy of the Super Dell Greenbelt Book of Indigenous Species..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...so long, Mom...Susan and I are going over to Europe for a few weeks...I'll be back in time for school..'see yuh...I'll send you a postcard...okay...?" ))}$

"...so long, Mom...Susan and I are going over to Europe for a few weeks...I'll be back in time for school..'see yuh...I'll send you a postcard...okay...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...nothing, Sarge...a jogger failed to yield the right of way to two cyclists...some bruises, that's all..." ))}$

"...nothing, Sarge...a jogger failed to yield the right of way to two cyclists...some bruises, that's all..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...oh, excuse me...I'm doing a survey of edible flora in Southern Ontario on a Federal Opportunities for Youth program...sorry..." ))}$

"...oh, excuse me...I'm doing a survey of edible flora in Southern Ontario on a Federal Opportunities for Youth program...sorry..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("shh...I'm filming 'the Summer of an Etobicoke Housewife' on an Opportunities for Youth Program...and it's my mother...she'd kill me if she knew..." ))}$

"shh...I'm filming 'the Summer of an Etobicoke Housewife' on an Opportunities for Youth Program...and it's my mother...she'd kill me if she knew..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I was reading about long ago when kids didn't have to wait to swim until their mothers had checked out how pure the water was..." ))}$

"...I was reading about long ago when kids didn't have to wait to swim until their mothers had checked out how pure the water was..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...anyone want to watch the Olympics...?" ))}$

"...anyone want to watch the Olympics...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...tell me I'm dreaming...tell me I didn't see a mobile condominium pulling in here..." ))}$

"...tell me I'm dreaming...tell me I didn't see a mobile condominium pulling in here..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...that's all right, Miss Haroldson, I can understand your fits of giddiness...it's common with most girls when they start working above the forty-storey level...you'll adjust to the reduced air pressure in a few weeks..." ))}$

"...that's all right, Miss Haroldson, I can understand your fits of giddiness...it's common with most girls when they start working above the forty-storey level...you'll adjust to the reduced air pressure in a few weeks..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...the players are getting a brief introduction to Russian vernacular...we think it will help to avoid a lot of confusion on the ice..." ))}$

"...the players are getting a brief introduction to Russian vernacular...we think it will help to avoid a lot of confusion on the ice..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no way...we haven't got time...you know how 207 is between here and Mimico..." ))}$

"...no way...we haven't got time...you know how 207 is between here and Mimico..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Madam, would you continue with your question for our candidate...uh ...how many cavities? No cavities at all? Wonderful! How did she do it? Oh, yes...the fluorides...I see..." ))}$

"...Madam, would you continue with your question for our candidate...uh ...how many cavities? No cavities at all? Wonderful! How did she do it? Oh, yes...the fluorides...I see..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's a little bronze medallion Harold received last week from the Federal Government...in recognition of the fact that he's never, ever, in whole life, been unemployed..." ))}$

"...it's a little bronze medallion Harold received last week from the Federal Government...in recognition of the fact that he's never, ever, in whole life, been unemployed..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...that's right...a complete warrantee that this car will never have to be recalled...including a WRITTEN guarantee that none of the wheels will drop off...EVER...!" ))}$

"...that's right...a complete warrantee that this car will never have to be recalled...including a WRITTEN guarantee that none of the wheels will drop off...EVER...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...you know how Harold is, Mother...first it was the Christmas lights...now he says he's going to keep the sign up, too..." ))}$

"...you know how Harold is, Mother...first it was the Christmas lights...now he says he's going to keep the sign up, too..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...last night was our unstructured conversation time...Harold told me all about this darling little new engine a German has invented, the Wankel...it just goes around instead of up and down or something...and I told him about Gloria's mother running off with that social worker we all thought was so nice..." ))}$

"...last night was our unstructured conversation time...Harold told me all about this darling little new engine a German has invented, the Wankel...it just goes around instead of up and down or something...and I told him about Gloria's mother running off with that social worker we all thought was so nice..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...MISS HAROLDSON, YOU'RE NOT SMILING TODAY...AND I MUST CONFESS FOR THE FIRST TIME I SEE YOU NOW AS NOT JUST THE AVERAGE SIMPLE, HAPPY BANK EMPLOYEE..." ))}$

"...MISS HAROLDSON, YOU'RE NOT SMILING TODAY...AND I MUST CONFESS FOR THE FIRST TIME I SEE YOU NOW AS NOT JUST THE AVERAGE SIMPLE, HAPPY BANK EMPLOYEE..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...but, Mom, you know how Daddy always sighs and says one day he's going to head for the hills and find a hollowlog...we could buy him one of these for the back yard..." ))}$

"...but, Mom, you know how Daddy always sighs and says one day he's going to head for the hills and find a hollowlog...we could buy him one of these for the back yard..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...there's a group of Grade Four students here...they have a few questions for you about corporations and how they relate to our community..." ))}$

"...there's a group of Grade Four students here...they have a few questions for you about corporations and how they relate to our community..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold...I...I can't believe it! Tell me I'm not dreaming! You're not watching the hockey! You came over to talk to me! Incidentally, who's playing tonight...?" ))}$

"...Harold...I...I can't believe it! Tell me I'm not dreaming! You're not watching the hockey! You came over to talk to me! Incidentally, who's playing tonight...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Hi, there...I'm new in the building...this is my father who is taking me back with him to the island of Sagotonga to help him recover a treasure he's found worth over a million dollars...he's a retired deep-sea captain and licensed to perform marriage ceremonies...would you marry me...?" ))}$

"...Hi, there...I'm new in the building...this is my father who is taking me back with him to the island of Sagotonga to help him recover a treasure he's found worth over a million dollars...he's a retired deep-sea captain and licensed to perform marriage ceremonies...would you marry me...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...who do you think is going to win tonight in the NHL, NBA, OHA, CFL, WHA, ABA, WFL and NSL...?" ))}$

"...who do you think is going to win tonight in the NHL, NBA, OHA, CFL, WHA, ABA, WFL and NSL...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...absolutely stunning...somehow he's managed to capture the Metro scene as it really is...without a trace of overstatement..." ))}$

"...absolutely stunning...somehow he's managed to capture the Metro scene as it really is...without a trace of overstatement..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...voted Mr. Metro Ideal Transit Rider '73'...gives me great pleasure to present this plaque and the Golden-Token Tie Pin to..." ))}$

"...voted Mr. Metro Ideal Transit Rider '73'...gives me great pleasure to present this plaque and the Golden-Token Tie Pin to..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's a fond return visit to those confused but outwardly calm days of the first two years of the seventies...they say the sets and costumes are terribly authentic..." ))}$

"...it's a fond return visit to those confused but outwardly calm days of the first two years of the seventies...they say the sets and costumes are terribly authentic..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...okay, so it's a gas-burning monster...but look at it this way...it's an investment...ten years from now it might be worth double what you pay for it as a collector's item..." ))}$

"...okay, so it's a gas-burning monster...but look at it this way...it's an investment...ten years from now it might be worth double what you pay for it as a collector's item..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, come in for a while...there's a 'special' coming on about all the exciting things happening up in Ottawa... Harold... Harold..." ))}$

"...Harold, come in for a while...there's a 'special' coming on about all the exciting things happening up in Ottawa... Harold... Harold..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, would you go somewhere else to do that...you know I get nervous when someone is meditating right AT me...!" ))}$

"...Harold, would you go somewhere else to do that...you know I get nervous when someone is meditating right AT me...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I thought it might be a nice change from the kind of place we USUALLY go to lunch..." ))}$

"...I thought it might be a nice change from the kind of place we USUALLY go to lunch..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's a meatless meat-loaf, Harold...A MEATLESS MEAT-LOAF...AND I'M NOT TELLING YOU ONE SINGLE BLESSED THING THAT'S IN IT...JUST EAT IT, OKAY...?" ))}$

"...it's a meatless meat-loaf, Harold...A MEATLESS MEAT-LOAF...AND I'M NOT TELLING YOU ONE SINGLE BLESSED THING THAT'S IN IT...JUST EAT IT, OKAY...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...entering the block from Bay St. along the 'Trees of All Nations Walkway' one finds the central banking building...a graceful, two-storey neo-grecian understatement...adjoining the 'Pool of Many Fountains' and west of the Aviary and Botanical Gardens...the picnic gr..." ))}$

"...entering the block from Bay St. along the 'Trees of All Nations Walkway' one finds the central banking building...a graceful, two-storey neo-grecian understatement...adjoining the 'Pool of Many Fountains' and west of the Aviary and Botanical Gardens...the picnic gr..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Martha, the hockey game isn't on...THE HOCKEY GAME ISN'T ON...it's been pre-empted by a special on the near-extinction of eagles..." ))}$

"...Martha, the hockey game isn't on...THE HOCKEY GAME ISN'T ON...it's been pre-empted by a special on the near-extinction of eagles..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Dad...I thought I'd tell you first...I'm not far-out anymore..." ))}$

"...Dad...I thought I'd tell you first...I'm not far-out anymore..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's nothing, Stanley...someone hijacked a car pool last week and them drive to Mimico and your father's carpool isn't taking any chances, that's all..." ))}$

"...it's nothing, Stanley...someone hijacked a car pool last week and them drive to Mimico and your father's carpool isn't taking any chances, that's all..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's one of the Apollo 17 astronauts...they're trying to keep the idea of space travel alive... look, he's autographing little moonrock replicas for the kids..." ))}$

"...it's one of the Apollo 17 astronauts...they're trying to keep the idea of space travel alive... look, he's autographing little moonrock replicas for the kids..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no, I'm sorry...Mrs. Haroldson is no longer with us...they took her away last week, kicking and screaming..." ))}$

"...no, I'm sorry...Mrs. Haroldson is no longer with us...they took her away last week, kicking and screaming..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold's joined this new religion...it's free and very basic and simple...they just expect you to be yourself, take life as it comes, do the best you can and hope for a nice future..." ))}$

"...Harold's joined this new religion...it's free and very basic and simple...they just expect you to be yourself, take life as it comes, do the best you can and hope for a nice future..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...He's lucky...his wife walks down to the bus stop with every morning to say goodbye...no matter what the weather's like...!" ))}$

"...He's lucky...his wife walks down to the bus stop with every morning to say goodbye...no matter what the weather's like...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...something new...it's called 'Viewer's Digest'...an hour-long condensation of all the good stuff on TV tonight... for those who don't want to sit here all evening and maybe get something else done..." ))}$

"...something new...it's called 'Viewer's Digest'...an hour-long condensation of all the good stuff on TV tonight... for those who don't want to sit here all evening and maybe get something else done..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...excuse me, I'm taking a public opinion poll...are you in favor of capital punishment..?" ))}$

"...excuse me, I'm taking a public opinion poll...are you in favor of capital punishment..?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Dad, there's three Women's Libs at the front door...they've brought Mom's uniform, breast-plate and helmet..." ))}$

"...Dad, there's three Women's Libs at the front door...they've brought Mom's uniform, breast-plate and helmet..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...this group is working out a selection system for defining who will survive in an over-populated world... and this group is working on a project for upgrading and re-instatement of the borderline rejected ones..." ))}$

"...this group is working out a selection system for defining who will survive in an over-populated world... and this group is working on a project for upgrading and re-instatement of the borderline rejected ones..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Mother, Harold bought this wonderful cookbook for my birthday and I've been looking through it all morning and we can't afford any of the recipes...what should I do...?" ))}$

"...Mother, Harold bought this wonderful cookbook for my birthday and I've been looking through it all morning and we can't afford any of the recipes...what should I do...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...this certainly is better than the old one where you had to park and walk over to make a wish .." ))}$

"...this certainly is better than the old one where you had to park and walk over to make a wish .."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold really likes the book I bought him on body conditioning...I notice he twitches all over sometimes when he's reading it..." ))}$

"...Harold really likes the book I bought him on body conditioning...I notice he twitches all over sometimes when he's reading it..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it says here an American scientist believes a lack of meat in the diet may lead to some forms of cancer..." ))}$

"...it says here an American scientist believes a lack of meat in the diet may lead to some forms of cancer..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I just can't understand it, Harold...he won't build a tower over two blocks high...I wonder if there's anything wrong with him...?" ))}$

"...I just can't understand it, Harold...he won't build a tower over two blocks high...I wonder if there's anything wrong with him...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...good morning, M'a'm, I'm representing Canadian Packers and I have a little gift for you...a sample top tenderloin tip steak...you see, we're introducing a special Meat-of-the-Month Subscription Service...for just $4.98 a month we'll deliver to your door a big, juicy, succulent roast, or a..." ))}$

"...good morning, M'a'm, I'm representing Canadian Packers and I have a little gift for you...a sample top tenderloin tip steak...you see, we're introducing a special Meat-of-the-Month Subscription Service...for just $4.98 a month we'll deliver to your door a big, juicy, succulent roast, or a..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...honest, Martha, I never even thought of trying to trap you into playing a wooden supporting role in a scenario of meaningless menial chores and dull domestic servitude...I just want to marry you because I LOVE you...that's all..." ))}$

"...honest, Martha, I never even thought of trying to trap you into playing a wooden supporting role in a scenario of meaningless menial chores and dull domestic servitude...I just want to marry you because I LOVE you...that's all..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I was really mad at Harold last night so I sat right down beside him all through the hockey game without saying a word...I mean I really watched and listened to it all...boy, did he ever get mad...?" ))}$

"...I was really mad at Harold last night so I sat right down beside him all through the hockey game without saying a word...I mean I really watched and listened to it all...boy, did he ever get mad...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...excuse me...could you recommend something for a second floor window ledge, six inches by twenty-two and shaded by a thirty-two storey apartment complex...?" ))}$

"...excuse me...could you recommend something for a second floor window ledge, six inches by twenty-two and shaded by a thirty-two storey apartment complex...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it seems this area was used as a portage by the Iroquois in the old days and now, once a year, they re-enact it in order to keep valid their claim to the land..." ))}$

"...it seems this area was used as a portage by the Iroquois in the old days and now, once a year, they re-enact it in order to keep valid their claim to the land..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I always try to appear warm, loving, well-adjusted and happy when I walk past this section of Yonge St....gives them something to think about..." ))}$

"...I always try to appear warm, loving, well-adjusted and happy when I walk past this section of Yonge St....gives them something to think about..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Dad, what did you do in the strife-torn Sixties...?" ))}$

"...Dad, what did you do in the strife-torn Sixties...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I told Harold last night, loud and clear...he's not playing his part in this Inflation...he should be buying more things..." ))}$

"...I told Harold last night, loud and clear...he's not playing his part in this Inflation...he should be buying more things..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...sometimes, when the wind is right, the air freshener they're dropping on the freeway drifts over here and it smells really nice..." ))}$

"...sometimes, when the wind is right, the air freshener they're dropping on the freeway drifts over here and it smells really nice..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I'll bet there's not one single person in this whole entire city today giving one single thought to the poor, overworked people who are at this very moment slaving away designing their this year's chintzy Christmas cards...not one...!" ))}$

"...I'll bet there's not one single person in this whole entire city today giving one single thought to the poor, overworked people who are at this very moment slaving away designing their this year's chintzy Christmas cards...not one...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I see you as a simple, reasonable man...still unconvinced that the days of the automobile are numbered...still seeking the thrill, the pride inherent in the ownership of..." ))}$

"...I see you as a simple, reasonable man...still unconvinced that the days of the automobile are numbered...still seeking the thrill, the pride inherent in the ownership of..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...but, Harriet, you've never gone to bed before the eleven o'clock news...nobody in Canada goes to bed before the eleven o'clock news..." ))}$

"...but, Harriet, you've never gone to bed before the eleven o'clock news...nobody in Canada goes to bed before the eleven o'clock news..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...oh, Harold, has it finally sunk in, what I've been telling you for all these years... about living it one day at a time...?" ))}$

"...oh, Harold, has it finally sunk in, what I've been telling you for all these years... about living it one day at a time...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...excuse me...I wonder if you could take out this small dent in my front fender...I, uh, ran into something and you see it's my husband's bicycle and gets very..." ))}$

"...excuse me...I wonder if you could take out this small dent in my front fender...I, uh, ran into something and you see it's my husband's bicycle and gets very..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold's growing some really wonderful vegetables this year, but of course he's using an awful lot of compost...would you like to go up and see them...?" ))}$

"...Harold's growing some really wonderful vegetables this year, but of course he's using an awful lot of compost...would you like to go up and see them...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...our new line of mini-carts...for folks on fixed incomes...I think you'll find these will fill a real..." ))}$

"...our new line of mini-carts...for folks on fixed incomes...I think you'll find these will fill a real..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Hi there, having a nice time? Say, I wonder if you'd mind folding your blanket in half...or perhaps you could stand for a while...we're a little crowded today as you can see and..." ))}$

"...Hi there, having a nice time? Say, I wonder if you'd mind folding your blanket in half...or perhaps you could stand for a while...we're a little crowded today as you can see and..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I couldn't wait when you said you'd found a really terrific little place, but I didn't expect it would be quite so...uh..." ))}$

"...I couldn't wait when you said you'd found a really terrific little place, but I didn't expect it would be quite so...uh..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode(Untitled: REPENT NOW WHILE I CAN STILL MAKE IT DOWN HERE FROM THE DANFORTH IN THE MORNING RUSH HOUR ))}$

Untitled: REPENT NOW WHILE I CAN STILL MAKE IT DOWN HERE FROM THE DANFORTH IN THE MORNING RUSH HOUR

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it says here the Exxon Oil Corporation is thinking of changing their name again... sounds too much like 'Nixon'..." ))}$

"...it says here the Exxon Oil Corporation is thinking of changing their name again... sounds too much like 'Nixon'..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's just I feel my mind is going soft and spongey at the same time as the world seems to be getting harder and sharper..." ))}$

"...it's just I feel my mind is going soft and spongey at the same time as the world seems to be getting harder and sharper..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...that's our little place right up there...you can see Harriet working out in the garden..." ))}$

"...that's our little place right up there...you can see Harriet working out in the garden..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...he was showing promise as a left winger, but he skated so beautifully they sent him to referee school instead.." ))}$

"...he was showing promise as a left winger, but he skated so beautifully they sent him to referee school instead.."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...yes, we realize the Mall is over, Officer...it's just that it's such a beautiful day and we thought that no one would mind if we just..." ))}$

"...yes, we realize the Mall is over, Officer...it's just that it's such a beautiful day and we thought that no one would mind if we just..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...that idea of yours to flood North York with squirrels was just sheer inspiration, J.B....kept the people pre-occupied and not interfering with the orderly working out of our plans...absolute genius...!" ))}$

"...that idea of yours to flood North York with squirrels was just sheer inspiration, J.B....kept the people pre-occupied and not interfering with the orderly working out of our plans...absolute genius...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no, no, Harold...I don't mean that at all...it's a wonderful, unique decorating idea...it just makes me sick to my stomach sometimes, that's all..." ))}$

"...no, no, Harold...I don't mean that at all...it's a wonderful, unique decorating idea...it just makes me sick to my stomach sometimes, that's all..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...just wandering around aimlessly...not making the slightest effort to BUY anything... sixth this morning... think we should give her a few more minutes...?" ))}$

"...just wandering around aimlessly...not making the slightest effort to BUY anything... sixth this morning... think we should give her a few more minutes...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...there's your market-place, Haroldson...on a quiet day you can hear the rustle and click of half a million credit cards...in another few weeks it will rise to a sweet high-pitched clatter..." ))}$

"...there's your market-place, Haroldson...on a quiet day you can hear the rustle and click of half a million credit cards...in another few weeks it will rise to a sweet high-pitched clatter..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Daddy, when the inflation balloon bursts will you take me to see it...?" ))}$

"...Daddy, when the inflation balloon bursts will you take me to see it...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...do you realize this is the SEVENTH movie we've watched so far this week and it's only WEDNESDAY...?" ))}$

"...do you realize this is the SEVENTH movie we've watched so far this week and it's only WEDNESDAY...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I don't care...I still believe in Progress and the eventual perfectibility of our civilization through the ultimate use of our great Technology in a free society...!" ))}$

"...I don't care...I still believe in Progress and the eventual perfectibility of our civilization through the ultimate use of our great Technology in a free society...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no, I'm sorry...this year we're not allowed to sell you a set with enough pieces to build a tower over fourteen storeys..." ))}$

"...no, I'm sorry...this year we're not allowed to sell you a set with enough pieces to build a tower over fourteen storeys..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...do you ever read the newspapers? I've just started...it sure sounds like an exciting world we're growing up into..." ))}$

"...do you ever read the newspapers? I've just started...it sure sounds like an exciting world we're growing up into..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I liked the part where you told them to keep their guard up, there's no fuel shortage in Hell.." ))}$

"...I liked the part where you told them to keep their guard up, there's no fuel shortage in Hell.."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...another of the hold-outs against the new prices...they all come back sooner or later..." ))}$

"...another of the hold-outs against the new prices...they all come back sooner or later..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, tell us about our city, our place in the community...tell us about Canada, America, the World...tell us about new directions, where Mankind is heading, things like that...no just always about your trouble with the new foreman..." ))}$

"...Harold, tell us about our city, our place in the community...tell us about Canada, America, the World...tell us about new directions, where Mankind is heading, things like that...no just always about your trouble with the new foreman..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...says she's learning to drive...got this 12-record course and a portable phonograph for Christmas... says she's on side two of the first record..." ))}$

"...says she's learning to drive...got this 12-record course and a portable phonograph for Christmas... says she's on side two of the first record..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's my husband...he's just discovered an unknown but incredibly abundant source of cheap energy...!" ))}$

"...it's my husband...he's just discovered an unknown but incredibly abundant source of cheap energy...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...in the West Indies? You mean EVERYBODY...?" ))}$

"...in the West Indies? You mean EVERYBODY...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...uh...well it just smells so...uh...fresh...you know...like...uh..." ))}$

"...uh...well it just smells so...uh...fresh...you know...like...uh..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...inflation is when Daddy tells Mommy for gosh sakes to take it easy and she does, but he doesn't think she is and he yells at her all the time..." ))}$

"...inflation is when Daddy tells Mommy for gosh sakes to take it easy and she does, but he doesn't think she is and he yells at her all the time..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no thanks, I don't eat lunch anymore...say, do you like harp music...?" ))}$

"...no thanks, I don't eat lunch anymore...say, do you like harp music...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Come on, Harold, be nice to him...you know how he loves Show and Tell... and you know he has to take that other language next year...and I do want him to have a nice summer..." ))}$

"...Come on, Harold, be nice to him...you know how he loves Show and Tell... and you know he has to take that other language next year...and I do want him to have a nice summer..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...There's the signal...they're sending another letter through...I wonder who this one will be for...?" ))}$

"...There's the signal...they're sending another letter through...I wonder who this one will be for...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...we're going on vacation for a month and Harold's making an all-out effort to write enough letters to the editor for them to go on with while we're away..." ))}$

"...we're going on vacation for a month and Harold's making an all-out effort to write enough letters to the editor for them to go on with while we're away..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...mixture of powdered foam rubber, corn chips and detergent...we're readying the new men for the onslaught of winter... we don't get too much publicity..." ))}$

"...mixture of powdered foam rubber, corn chips and detergent...we're readying the new men for the onslaught of winter... we don't get too much publicity..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...that Haroldson! Still doesn't quite seem to have the hang of it..." ))}$

"...that Haroldson! Still doesn't quite seem to have the hang of it..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...slowly does it, Haroldson...nice and easy...that's it...not too fast...you don't have to rush... remember you're not working for the Post Office anymore..." ))}$

"...slowly does it, Haroldson...nice and easy...that's it...not too fast...you don't have to rush... remember you're not working for the Post Office anymore..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold really is serious about conserving energy...he really tries... he's worked out this neat solar generator to run his little TV and now it's all gone cloudy and there's a big game on..." ))}$

"...Harold really is serious about conserving energy...he really tries... he's worked out this neat solar generator to run his little TV and now it's all gone cloudy and there's a big game on..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold lost his canoe paddle yesterday and he thinks it's an omen and what with the election coming up and everything... well, you know how he worries so much anyway..." ))}$

"...Harold lost his canoe paddle yesterday and he thinks it's an omen and what with the election coming up and everything... well, you know how he worries so much anyway..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...oh, Harold...I'm so excited you could get season's tickets for the hockey games...tell me the name of the Toronto team again... I can never remember their name..." ))}$

"...oh, Harold...I'm so excited you could get season's tickets for the hockey games...tell me the name of the Toronto team again... I can never remember their name..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...of course we've got to go on teaching history...the world has progressed from lessons learned in the past... there are countless examples...for instance, there's, uh...and... well, how about, uh... and....uh..." ))}$

"...of course we've got to go on teaching history...the world has progressed from lessons learned in the past... there are countless examples...for instance, there's, uh...and... well, how about, uh... and....uh..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...what do you do with a retired street works foreman? I let him have a hole in the driveway and he looks in it an hour or so every day...helps to keep him occupied..." ))}$

"...what do you do with a retired street works foreman? I let him have a hole in the driveway and he looks in it an hour or so every day...helps to keep him occupied..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...but, Jessica, how could we have known they'd be recalling all '82 and '83 Kreisler Baby Grands for faulty damper bar pinions...?" ))}$

"...but, Jessica, how could we have known they'd be recalling all '82 and '83 Kreisler Baby Grands for faulty damper bar pinions...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Jessica, these are torturous times we're living in...we're all going to have to do our part to turn the old economy around and I know we can count on you... I'm going to give you five hundred dollars... I want you to get out there and spend it...okay...?" ))}$

"...Jessica, these are torturous times we're living in...we're all going to have to do our part to turn the old economy around and I know we can count on you... I'm going to give you five hundred dollars... I want you to get out there and spend it...okay...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...when I grow up? Let me say this...when I grow up I'm going to be a Politician...I'm going to do my part to start this great country of ours moving again... the path ahead is fraught with pitfalls, but we must be steadfast... we must put our shoulders, once more, to the..." ))}$

"...when I grow up? Let me say this...when I grow up I'm going to be a Politician...I'm going to do my part to start this great country of ours moving again... the path ahead is fraught with pitfalls, but we must be steadfast... we must put our shoulders, once more, to the..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...he's been doing it all morning...going around, turning the English part of the labels out...destroying all our efforts to help Canada become a truly bi-cultural community..." ))}$

"...he's been doing it all morning...going around, turning the English part of the labels out...destroying all our efforts to help Canada become a truly bi-cultural community..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...we're all getting personal computors this Christmas and a big one for the house which we can all plug into... Harold thinks it'll help us realize where we're at, what we're doing and why we're doing it..." ))}$

"...we're all getting personal computors this Christmas and a big one for the house which we can all plug into... Harold thinks it'll help us realize where we're at, what we're doing and why we're doing it..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...went on and on about the Argos going all the way this year...then started telling us what incredible things they would do next year... got so bad we finally had to slow him down a bit..." ))}$

"...went on and on about the Argos going all the way this year...then started telling us what incredible things they would do next year... got so bad we finally had to slow him down a bit..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...that's the third time today you've said 'this time they've gone too far'... I think it's a cute idea and very educational... Come on, Harold..." ))}$

"...that's the third time today you've said 'this time they've gone too far'... I think it's a cute idea and very educational... Come on, Harold..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...the new 1700 centimetre model...fills 25 hectolitres in 10 minutes... overall cubic capacity 7 decalitres... operates down to minus 40 degrees celsius and weighs only 200 kilograms... overall height 5 decimetres... free delivery within a radius of 20 kilometres..." ))}$

"...the new 1700 centimetre model...fills 25 hectolitres in 10 minutes... overall cubic capacity 7 decalitres... operates down to minus 40 degrees celsius and weighs only 200 kilograms... overall height 5 decimetres... free delivery within a radius of 20 kilometres..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...the most accurate forecast of the world's ending anyone's ever made... now he's mad because there wasn't time to get it in the Guinness Book of Records..." ))}$

"...the most accurate forecast of the world's ending anyone's ever made... now he's mad because there wasn't time to get it in the Guinness Book of Records..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...He's her first husband's brother-in-law's son by a former marriage and she's his estranged third wife's brother's daughter from his second marriage... the invitations list became absolute confusion so they've given up the idea of a huge formal wedding altogether..." ))}$

"...He's her first husband's brother-in-law's son by a former marriage and she's his estranged third wife's brother's daughter from his second marriage... the invitations list became absolute confusion so they've given up the idea of a huge formal wedding altogether..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, it's someone from the Post Office...says we sent five registered letters last year... makes us eligible for their registered special this week... two for three dollars... you interested...?" ))}$

"...Harold, it's someone from the Post Office...says we sent five registered letters last year... makes us eligible for their registered special this week... two for three dollars... you interested...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...stop, Harold, stop...I don't think this is even the right Mall...it's the other big one across the highway... remember we walked over to this one through the tunnel...?" ))}$

"...stop, Harold, stop...I don't think this is even the right Mall...it's the other big one across the highway... remember we walked over to this one through the tunnel...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...one of the new Javanese Climbing Cress plants...Harold grows it hydroponically downstairs... he's trained it up the wall to this counter and it's programmed to produce enough for a big salad every day... it's cheaper than buying lettuce..." ))}$

"...one of the new Javanese Climbing Cress plants...Harold grows it hydroponically downstairs... he's trained it up the wall to this counter and it's programmed to produce enough for a big salad every day... it's cheaper than buying lettuce..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...for sure, our union is very militant...but this office is certainly not relying on them completely to combat the mounting wave of public resistance to high government payrolls... no one's going to be fired around here..." ))}$

"...for sure, our union is very militant...but this office is certainly not relying on them completely to combat the mounting wave of public resistance to high government payrolls... no one's going to be fired around here..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...the Cyprus situation...the Cyprus situation...it's getting worse... Turkey's going to teach them a lesson... Carter's given them the green light... says he's too busy with other things right now...!" ))}$

"...the Cyprus situation...the Cyprus situation...it's getting worse... Turkey's going to teach them a lesson... Carter's given them the green light... says he's too busy with other things right now...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...yeah, right...but in spite of your opinion that they're all a bunch of phoney posturers, vain over-paid blithering idiots, misbegotten buffoons, trivial laughable numbskulls, imbicilic (sic) fatuous imprudent turkeys and cry-baby spoiled brats... who do you think you'll vote for in the upcoming election...?" ))}$

"...yeah, right...but in spite of your opinion that they're all a bunch of phoney posturers, vain over-paid blithering idiots, misbegotten buffoons, trivial laughable numbskulls, imbicilic (sic) fatuous imprudent turkeys and cry-baby spoiled brats... who do you think you'll vote for in the upcoming election...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Gentlemen, this is a memorable day for Cancor...the pieces are fitting together beautifully... our offers for C.P., Brascan and Abitibi have been accepted... the rest will follow... our new complex at Lake Skugog will be completed by 1984...at which time we should control the economy of Canada..." ))}$

"...Gentlemen, this is a memorable day for Cancor...the pieces are fitting together beautifully... our offers for C.P., Brascan and Abitibi have been accepted... the rest will follow... our new complex at Lake Skugog will be completed by 1984...at which time we should control the economy of Canada..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...the Post-election Lawn Sign ...a new form of down-to-earth, yard-to-yard communications which we seem to need these days... it may become bigger than Letters to the Editor..." ))}$

"...the Post-election Lawn Sign ...a new form of down-to-earth, yard-to-yard communications which we seem to need these days... it may become bigger than Letters to the Editor..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...but haven't you noticed, Harold, the birds are singing, everything's growing, it's beautiful... the environment we worried about all these years is still here... it's still here...!" ))}$

"...but haven't you noticed, Harold, the birds are singing, everything's growing, it's beautiful... the environment we worried about all these years is still here... it's still here...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...another of those groups from the west brought back to see what really decent people we are in Ontario... I can't understand their problem... they look happy enough to me..." ))}$

"...another of those groups from the west brought back to see what really decent people we are in Ontario... I can't understand their problem... they look happy enough to me..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...yeah, funny...it's not like we lived anywhere close to the airport...I don't understand it..." ))}$

"...yeah, funny...it's not like we lived anywhere close to the airport...I don't understand it..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...what I REALLY want is to be as happy and glowing and loving and secure as the people in the Coca Cola and light beer commercials... and I was wondering if there's a pill which..." ))}$

"...what I REALLY want is to be as happy and glowing and loving and secure as the people in the Coca Cola and light beer commercials... and I was wondering if there's a pill which..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...wow...look what arrived today...Sohrbach's...Mark IV...the best, from Switzerland... fibreglass laminate over spring steel... controlled contour-stress and the new swivel-release flexifold handgrip... you can feel the difference..." ))}$

"...wow...look what arrived today...Sohrbach's...Mark IV...the best, from Switzerland... fibreglass laminate over spring steel... controlled contour-stress and the new swivel-release flexifold handgrip... you can feel the difference..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold...the Prime Minister is going to implement one of his pre-election promises... Harold... the Prime Minister is going to implement one of his pre-election promises... Harold...!" ))}$

"...Harold...the Prime Minister is going to implement one of his pre-election promises... Harold... the Prime Minister is going to implement one of his pre-election promises... Harold...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I don't wish to know anything whatsoever about your wife, Mr. Haroldson... her name, age, height, anything at all... just her NUMBER... for example, 12008-437-491-799... fourteen digits... surely you must have your wife's number..." ))}$

"...I don't wish to know anything whatsoever about your wife, Mr. Haroldson... her name, age, height, anything at all... just her NUMBER... for example, 12008-437-491-799... fourteen digits... surely you must have your wife's number..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...so we're an hour late for the wedding already...how could I know the Westerly would drop so fast..?" ))}$

"...so we're an hour late for the wedding already...how could I know the Westerly would drop so fast..?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...this area of the city has been given over to parking altogether... it started as a normal shopping centre parking lot and somehow kept growing... then the planning dept. decided to remove the last few remaining buildings and..." ))}$

"...this area of the city has been given over to parking altogether... it started as a normal shopping centre parking lot and somehow kept growing... then the planning dept. decided to remove the last few remaining buildings and..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...well, I don't care, I've always wanted a house with lots of trees... you can move back into town if you want... or get another fifty feet of cord..." ))}$

"...well, I don't care, I've always wanted a house with lots of trees... you can move back into town if you want... or get another fifty feet of cord..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...okay...now this is the lead shield to protect your pacemaker from the occupational microwave radiation and here comes the little support trolley I've devised to prevent strain on the heart from the weight of the shield..." ))}$

"...okay...now this is the lead shield to protect your pacemaker from the occupational microwave radiation and here comes the little support trolley I've devised to prevent strain on the heart from the weight of the shield..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold wrote a very brief essay...'I stayed home all summer watching TV and bugging my mother, except for one week I went to Mimico and bugged my Auntie Daisy'...can't you think of anything else you did, Harold...?" ))}$

"...Harold wrote a very brief essay...'I stayed home all summer watching TV and bugging my mother, except for one week I went to Mimico and bugged my Auntie Daisy'...can't you think of anything else you did, Harold...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Haroldson...I have an appointment...minor tune-up...lube and grease job... and would you check the rear left wheel... makes a slight whining... may be a bearing..." ))}$

"...Haroldson...I have an appointment...minor tune-up...lube and grease job... and would you check the rear left wheel... makes a slight whining... may be a bearing..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...but that's ridiculous...physically impossible...I don't believe it... nobody could have grown out of three hundred dollars worth of back-to-school clothes already...!" ))}$

"...but that's ridiculous...physically impossible...I don't believe it... nobody could have grown out of three hundred dollars worth of back-to-school clothes already...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...but, Harold, there must have been at least one of the new season's TV shows you wanted to go on watching... I thought you liked the one about the three older lady, blonde private-eyes..." ))}$

"...but, Harold, there must have been at least one of the new season's TV shows you wanted to go on watching... I thought you liked the one about the three older lady, blonde private-eyes..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Barbie, I'd like you to meet Ken and Barbie, Ken and Barbie, Barbie and Ken and this is Ken and Barbie..." ))}$

"...Barbie, I'd like you to meet Ken and Barbie, Ken and Barbie, Barbie and Ken and this is Ken and Barbie..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, have you finished this book on Hibernation yet... Harold...Harold...?" ))}$

"...Harold, have you finished this book on Hibernation yet... Harold...Harold...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...funny how it takes something really frightening to draw all the people on the block together.." ))}$

"...funny how it takes something really frightening to draw all the people on the block together.."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...you got the complete set for Christmas? My goodness, they certainly are realistic... wish they'd had neat stuff like that when I was a kid..." ))}$

"...you got the complete set for Christmas? My goodness, they certainly are realistic... wish they'd had neat stuff like that when I was a kid..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...nice idea, putting the Prime Minister up there, J.B....help to re-enforce our sense of loyality to this country... sometimes we're inclined to be a little too global in our thinking..." ))}$

"...nice idea, putting the Prime Minister up there, J.B....help to re-enforce our sense of loyality to this country... sometimes we're inclined to be a little too global in our thinking..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...ah, there you are Haroldson...I want you to get out to the Middle East... find out what's really happening over there... we're recalling Smythe... he's not making much sense anymore..." ))}$

"...ah, there you are Haroldson...I want you to get out to the Middle East... find out what's really happening over there... we're recalling Smythe... he's not making much sense anymore..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's a new Suzuki with variable-clutch arms and vibrator...the only thing Harold wanted for Christmas... he says we're going to need it all through the nineteen-eighties..." ))}$

"...it's a new Suzuki with variable-clutch arms and vibrator...the only thing Harold wanted for Christmas... he says we're going to need it all through the nineteen-eighties..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold was uncommitted right up to voting day, last election... he seems even more confused than ever this time..." ))}$

"...Harold was uncommitted right up to voting day, last election... he seems even more confused than ever this time..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I've been reading a lot lately about the frequency of people splitting up... broken homes... whole families splintering... why couldn't we be so lucky...?" ))}$

"...I've been reading a lot lately about the frequency of people splitting up... broken homes... whole families splintering... why couldn't we be so lucky...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...yes, I've noticed that...the street musicians do seem to lose some of their exact phrasing, flashing virtuosity and irridescent qualities... their subtle accents, fine shadings and direct naturalness in the winter months... it must be the woolly gloves..." ))}$

"...yes, I've noticed that...the street musicians do seem to lose some of their exact phrasing, flashing virtuosity and irridescent qualities... their subtle accents, fine shadings and direct naturalness in the winter months... it must be the woolly gloves..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold's working on equipment which will speed up his information absorption capacity so that by this time next year he will have caught up to where he should be now, instead of bing two years behind..." ))}$

"...Harold's working on equipment which will speed up his information absorption capacity so that by this time next year he will have caught up to where he should be now, instead of bing two years behind..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's the Annual Canadian 'Joey Awards', honoring people in the political industry... they've done pollsters, jet pilots, bagmen and best female canvasser so far... now they're opening the envelope for 'Deputy National Campaign Chairman' of the year..." ))}$

"...it's the Annual Canadian 'Joey Awards', honoring people in the political industry... they've done pollsters, jet pilots, bagmen and best female canvasser so far... now they're opening the envelope for 'Deputy National Campaign Chairman' of the year..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...this session we're going to face up to a rather bewildering scenario... 'if Quebec becomes autonomous, leaving the Maritimes in a vacuum to be swallowed up by the Americans and Western Canada secedes, in which direction should Ontario move?'..." ))}$

"...this session we're going to face up to a rather bewildering scenario... 'if Quebec becomes autonomous, leaving the Maritimes in a vacuum to be swallowed up by the Americans and Western Canada secedes, in which direction should Ontario move?'..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...excuse me, I'm out here to take pictures of smiling people...do you know any part of the city where people smile a lot...?" ))}$

"...excuse me, I'm out here to take pictures of smiling people...do you know any part of the city where people smile a lot...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Turkish terrorists have taken over the Syrian embassy in Paris and are holding 17 Iraqui hostages... the Kurds are letting 3 hostages out of the Brazilian embassy in Manilla and a Somalian Guerrilla force has failed to rescue 30 Free Africa hostages from the Libyan embassy in Dublin and there's still no word on the 27 Liberians being held in..." ))}$

"...Turkish terrorists have taken over the Syrian embassy in Paris and are holding 17 Iraqui hostages... the Kurds are letting 3 hostages out of the Brazilian embassy in Manilla and a Somalian Guerrilla force has failed to rescue 30 Free Africa hostages from the Libyan embassy in Dublin and there's still no word on the 27 Liberians being held in..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I said...'Davidniregoinovertotheshoppincenner...Igottabysomglufor... myschoolworknsomepapernacoupla... feltpensnstuffersomeposters... weremakinforthevotenocompetitionokay' ...geedad... howcomihavtuhrepeatevrythingallthetime...?" ))}$

"...I said...'Davidniregoinovertotheshoppincenner...Igottabysomglufor... myschoolworknsomepapernacoupla... feltpensnstuffersomeposters... weremakinforthevotenocompetitionokay' ...geedad... howcomihavtuhrepeatevrythingallthetime...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...oh now, what have we here...a diploma from the Guelph School of Applied Psychology and Right Living... certifying that you have read the six hundred current books on Life and have attained a near-perfect state of spiritual, mental and emotional harmony with yourself and those around you... very impressive... you may be just the person we're looking for..." ))}$

"...oh now, what have we here...a diploma from the Guelph School of Applied Psychology and Right Living... certifying that you have read the six hundred current books on Life and have attained a near-perfect state of spiritual, mental and emotional harmony with yourself and those around you... very impressive... you may be just the person we're looking for..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...look, Harold...tiny little containers of Potassium Sorbate, Butylated Hydroxylite, Disodium Phosphate, Ammonium Bicarbonate and Monocalcium Metabisulphite you can add to your own foods... I didn't know you could buy them separately..." ))}$

"...look, Harold...tiny little containers of Potassium Sorbate, Butylated Hydroxylite, Disodium Phosphate, Ammonium Bicarbonate and Monocalcium Metabisulphite you can add to your own foods... I didn't know you could buy them separately..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I find theatrical people are the most difficult of all to pull together... I mean I never really know for sure whether I've succeeded or not..." ))}$

"...I find theatrical people are the most difficult of all to pull together... I mean I never really know for sure whether I've succeeded or not..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("Harold, come quickly and see the lovely Harvest Moon...it's all orangey and beautiful... Harold... hurry, it'll be gone in two seconds... Harold...!" ))}$

"Harold, come quickly and see the lovely Harvest Moon...it's all orangey and beautiful... Harold... hurry, it'll be gone in two seconds... Harold...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...okay, now...we got this letter from Premier Davis...wants us to win the Stanley Cup this season... he says it's going to be a long winter and the people of Ontario are going to need something to cheer about... so let's get out there and..." ))}$

"...okay, now...we got this letter from Premier Davis...wants us to win the Stanley Cup this season... he says it's going to be a long winter and the people of Ontario are going to need something to cheer about... so let's get out there and..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Haroldson...Marketing...his birthday today...secretary gave him this walk-in card and I've been waiting for two hours for him to come out and okay these vouchers..." ))}$

"...Haroldson...Marketing...his birthday today...secretary gave him this walk-in card and I've been waiting for two hours for him to come out and okay these vouchers..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold...Harold, they've just discovered nine more dangerous things which could be harmful or dangerous to our health... tooth powder, fluorescent lights, jockey shorts, shave cream, rubber cement, innersoles, dental floss, candied peel and ..." ))}$

"...Harold...Harold, they've just discovered nine more dangerous things which could be harmful or dangerous to our health... tooth powder, fluorescent lights, jockey shorts, shave cream, rubber cement, innersoles, dental floss, candied peel and ..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's something they've added to the Federal civil service exams for middle-to upper echelon postings... see if they can handle the incredible elegance of the big hotels and the gourmet dining they experience in their many conferences, negotiations, study-sessions, conventions and seminars..." ))}$

"...it's something they've added to the Federal civil service exams for middle-to upper echelon postings... see if they can handle the incredible elegance of the big hotels and the gourmet dining they experience in their many conferences, negotiations, study-sessions, conventions and seminars..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...don't they have any FURNITURE...?" ))}$

"...don't they have any FURNITURE...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, this is getting serious...there's a letter from Edna in Lethbridge... says Bert won't let her write to me, or anyone east of Manitoba, after this letter... and he'll burn any letters from me... Harold...!" ))}$

"...Harold, this is getting serious...there's a letter from Edna in Lethbridge... says Bert won't let her write to me, or anyone east of Manitoba, after this letter... and he'll burn any letters from me... Harold...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...funny guy...first person I've ever said, 'Have a nice day' to who came back later and said they had..." ))}$

"...funny guy...first person I've ever said, 'Have a nice day' to who came back later and said they had..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Dad, this is our new friend, Gazor...he can fix all our calculators and computer games... we think he's from outer space, but he thinks he may be just the first of a new breed of humanoids..." ))}$

"...Dad, this is our new friend, Gazor...he can fix all our calculators and computer games... we think he's from outer space, but he thinks he may be just the first of a new breed of humanoids..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no, come on, I want you to meet him...he's a true exception... a totally together, normal human being... and he's never read even one single book on 'How to Live'...!" ))}$

"...no, come on, I want you to meet him...he's a true exception... a totally together, normal human being... and he's never read even one single book on 'How to Live'...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...how about this little town of Tenisquort in New Brunswick...citizens voted 79% to leave Restigouche County, 87% to leave New Brunswick, 53% to leave the Maritimes, 91% to leave Eastern Canada and 72% to cecede (sic) from Canada altogether... you want to use it or should I file it...?" ))}$

"...how about this little town of Tenisquort in New Brunswick...citizens voted 79% to leave Restigouche County, 87% to leave New Brunswick, 53% to leave the Maritimes, 91% to leave Eastern Canada and 72% to cecede (sic) from Canada altogether... you want to use it or should I file it...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...DADDY, IT'S BATTERYMAN! DADDY, IT'S BATTERYMAN!..I need a whole bunch... I need a whole bunch... DADDY...!" ))}$

"...DADDY, IT'S BATTERYMAN! DADDY, IT'S BATTERYMAN!..I need a whole bunch... I need a whole bunch... DADDY...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it says here the Russians have just test-flown a giant nuclear helicopter designed to neutralize the huge American nuclear anti-sub destroyers which were the answer to the jumbo nuclear subs the Russian built to knock out all the U.S. nuclear aircraft carriers... the Pentagon says..." ))}$

"...it says here the Russians have just test-flown a giant nuclear helicopter designed to neutralize the huge American nuclear anti-sub destroyers which were the answer to the jumbo nuclear subs the Russian built to knock out all the U.S. nuclear aircraft carriers... the Pentagon says..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold invented this neat little anti-gravitation device but he won't tell any corporation or government about it because he's mad at them all... so we just use it around the house..." ))}$

"...Harold invented this neat little anti-gravitation device but he won't tell any corporation or government about it because he's mad at them all... so we just use it around the house..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...he's as loyal a Canadian as you'll find, but he's a realist too...says he likes to always be reminded of where it's really at..." ))}$

"...he's as loyal a Canadian as you'll find, but he's a realist too...says he likes to always be reminded of where it's really at..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...before we begin I should mention that our new member, Martha, has brought her husband along, as they're inseparable... but he's promised not to say anything... okay...?" ))}$

"...before we begin I should mention that our new member, Martha, has brought her husband along, as they're inseparable... but he's promised not to say anything... okay...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold and I find this new form of art marketing meets most of our needs... prices are competitive, it's convenient and altogether we get more for our art-shopping dollar..." ))}$

"...Harold and I find this new form of art marketing meets most of our needs... prices are competitive, it's convenient and altogether we get more for our art-shopping dollar..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...my parents have just joined a religious group which thinks we are close to the end of the world so I asked them if there was any point in me continuing my education and they said yes and they thought that was a stupid question... I don't know..." ))}$

"...my parents have just joined a religious group which thinks we are close to the end of the world so I asked them if there was any point in me continuing my education and they said yes and they thought that was a stupid question... I don't know..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...like to try a little of this? It's a very satisfying blend of Venezuelan and Libyan with just a touch of low-sulphur Saskatchewan medium grade and none of the harsh Alberta heavy crude..." ))}$

"...like to try a little of this? It's a very satisfying blend of Venezuelan and Libyan with just a touch of low-sulphur Saskatchewan medium grade and none of the harsh Alberta heavy crude..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold's convinced that man's cleverness in reaching the outer limits of technology to quick is making us all very nervous... so he's now spending most evenings sitting there doing what he can to reverse the trend..." ))}$

"...Harold's convinced that man's cleverness in reaching the outer limits of technology to quick is making us all very nervous... so he's now spending most evenings sitting there doing what he can to reverse the trend..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...look what I found...and old-fashioned pencil...people used to do simple mathematical equasions (sic) with them on little pieces of paper in the old days..." ))}$

"...look what I found...and old-fashioned pencil...people used to do simple mathematical equasions (sic) with them on little pieces of paper in the old days..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I feel very inadequate, Mrs. Haroldson...you've gone beyond Hypochondria into a vast, nebulous area as yet unexplored by medical science... all I can suggest is that you slowdown a bit and hope we catch up..." ))}$

"...I feel very inadequate, Mrs. Haroldson...you've gone beyond Hypochondria into a vast, nebulous area as yet unexplored by medical science... all I can suggest is that you slowdown a bit and hope we catch up..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Martha, I've just had a nightmare...two Mounties came to the door... said I'd subtracted line 17 from Allowable Deductions, line 23 instead of line 74 and put item 3 from Schedule 12 into column 36, Box 1-3 (net) and blown the computor... and they took me to Devil's Lake, Manitoba..." ))}$

"...Martha, I've just had a nightmare...two Mounties came to the door... said I'd subtracted line 17 from Allowable Deductions, line 23 instead of line 74 and put item 3 from Schedule 12 into column 36, Box 1-3 (net) and blown the computor... and they took me to Devil's Lake, Manitoba..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's like an extreme apathy...it started when I realized the Leafs weren't going to win the Stanley Cup... then I could only sustain my interest in the Polish Situation for two days... I've just gone all numb..." ))}$

"...it's like an extreme apathy...it started when I realized the Leafs weren't going to win the Stanley Cup... then I could only sustain my interest in the Polish Situation for two days... I've just gone all numb..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I said, 'I'm already looking forward to the really warm weather when it's too nice to work and we all go on strike again'..." ))}$

"...I said, 'I'm already looking forward to the really warm weather when it's too nice to work and we all go on strike again'..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I think I've come up with an attitude-altering pill which will turn any group of athletes into fired-up winners... now if we could think of some city which kept producing losers..." ))}$

"...I think I've come up with an attitude-altering pill which will turn any group of athletes into fired-up winners... now if we could think of some city which kept producing losers..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it took me years to get used to people leaving up their Christmas lights all year... now they're getting too lazy to take in their plastic snowmen..." ))}$

"...it took me years to get used to people leaving up their Christmas lights all year... now they're getting too lazy to take in their plastic snowmen..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...figure you're the oldest active jogger in Toronto...clean living...okay, would you jog a little for us... oh, you're jogging now... great... alright... see if you can catch a few frames of that, Rick... great...!" ))}$

"...figure you're the oldest active jogger in Toronto...clean living...okay, would you jog a little for us... oh, you're jogging now... great... alright... see if you can catch a few frames of that, Rick... great...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...funny...people know governments are run like this, but they may not realize big business operates the same way... spin it again, Sam..." ))}$

"...funny...people know governments are run like this, but they may not realize big business operates the same way... spin it again, Sam..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...yeah, Martha, I know...I've got it marked on the calendar too...26 days until they go back to school, including today... right..." ))}$

"...yeah, Martha, I know...I've got it marked on the calendar too...26 days until they go back to school, including today... right..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...he's from somewhere out west...been here three days...says Toronto doesn't meet his environmental, spiritual or aesthetic needs... says it's something quite intangible..." ))}$

"...he's from somewhere out west...been here three days...says Toronto doesn't meet his environmental, spiritual or aesthetic needs... says it's something quite intangible..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no, it only looks empty...I was reading about this ship...it has a full capacity cargo... seven hundred tons of ping-pong balls and badminton shuttlecocks from China..." ))}$

"...no, it only looks empty...I was reading about this ship...it has a full capacity cargo... seven hundred tons of ping-pong balls and badminton shuttlecocks from China..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...he's been writing letters to the editor for years but always afraid to submit them... kept them all... now his psychiatrist has told him to show a little courage and bring them in..." ))}$

"...he's been writing letters to the editor for years but always afraid to submit them... kept them all... now his psychiatrist has told him to show a little courage and bring them in..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...well, I don't care what you call me...I think your strike is the silliest think I've ever heard of and I'm going to keep on painting..." ))}$

"...well, I don't care what you call me...I think your strike is the silliest think I've ever heard of and I'm going to keep on painting..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold hates being dragged out into the country, but I insist...he needs to get away from it all for awhile..." ))}$

"...Harold hates being dragged out into the country, but I insist...he needs to get away from it all for awhile..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...hey, we've been away from it all for three weeks...just think, by now probably the postal strike will be over... Ottawa will have reached an agreement with Alberta and have inflation under control... Israel may be a peace with..." ))}$

"...hey, we've been away from it all for three weeks...just think, by now probably the postal strike will be over... Ottawa will have reached an agreement with Alberta and have inflation under control... Israel may be a peace with..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...we've had some discouraging news lately, but quite honestly I didn't think things were this bad..." ))}$

"...we've had some discouraging news lately, but quite honestly I didn't think things were this bad..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...note from your Mother...she's left...congratulates us on our back garden and says she'll be back when Harvest-time is over..." ))}$

"...note from your Mother...she's left...congratulates us on our back garden and says she'll be back when Harvest-time is over..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...hey, it's been great working on this hole with you guys...best vacation I ever had... maybe when university's over next summer I'll be back to help you re-open it..." ))}$

"...hey, it's been great working on this hole with you guys...best vacation I ever had... maybe when university's over next summer I'll be back to help you re-open it..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...somebody told me that highway accidents in the old days used to involve mostly cars... is that right, Sarge...?" ))}$

"...somebody told me that highway accidents in the old days used to involve mostly cars... is that right, Sarge...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...a British scientist has invented what he calls the Beautron Bomb...doesn't kill or destroy but makes an enemy go all soft and gentle and lovable... both the US and the USSR claim it would be unworkable..." ))}$

"...a British scientist has invented what he calls the Beautron Bomb...doesn't kill or destroy but makes an enemy go all soft and gentle and lovable... both the US and the USSR claim it would be unworkable..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...okay...now what I'm hoping to do here is give you alternatives...the English language provides many words for all temperatures... you don't have to rely entirely on 'freezing' and 'boiling'..." ))}$

"...okay...now what I'm hoping to do here is give you alternatives...the English language provides many words for all temperatures... you don't have to rely entirely on 'freezing' and 'boiling'..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...hurry up...the media's getting impatient...you must have some idea where he is..." ))}$

"...hurry up...the media's getting impatient...you must have some idea where he is..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...must be another Federal-Provincial conference up at the Lodge, Harold ...third convoy I seen going up the back road today..." ))}$

"...must be another Federal-Provincial conference up at the Lodge, Harold ...third convoy I seen going up the back road today..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...honestly...sometimes I really wish they'd hurry up and have their Third World War... and get it over with..." ))}$

"...honestly...sometimes I really wish they'd hurry up and have their Third World War... and get it over with..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...my mother bought me volume one of a new encyclopedia for nine cents at the Supermarket... I've now got volume one of five different encyclopedias... ask me something about alabaster, Afghanistan, alkaloids or Albania..." ))}$

"...my mother bought me volume one of a new encyclopedia for nine cents at the Supermarket... I've now got volume one of five different encyclopedias... ask me something about alabaster, Afghanistan, alkaloids or Albania..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...this is not what I need...I need to regain my sense of worth as a Canadian ...I need leaders who will lead me... I need clarification of my role in the community... I need to be loved and cherished for who I am... I need a woman who will be more important to me than a cigar... I need someone to comfort me and bring me nice things on a tray...!" ))}$

"...this is not what I need...I need to regain my sense of worth as a Canadian ...I need leaders who will lead me... I need clarification of my role in the community... I need to be loved and cherished for who I am... I need a woman who will be more important to me than a cigar... I need someone to comfort me and bring me nice things on a tray...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...not many people are aware of this fast-growing industry...orders pouring in from all over Canada... we're working three shifts daily, getting ready for a great spring and summer next year..." ))}$

"...not many people are aware of this fast-growing industry...orders pouring in from all over Canada... we're working three shifts daily, getting ready for a great spring and summer next year..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...'Irate Observer' is back...you remember, the one who's too mad to write letters any more ... still wants to know what the blazes is going on in this country... want to give him a few minutes...?" ))}$

"...'Irate Observer' is back...you remember, the one who's too mad to write letters any more ... still wants to know what the blazes is going on in this country... want to give him a few minutes...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...alright, they've turned all the labels French side out and they're leaving...now I want all of you to get in there and turn those labels back right side out...!" ))}$

"...alright, they've turned all the labels French side out and they're leaving...now I want all of you to get in there and turn those labels back right side out...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold gave me the big annual lecture last week about how we've got to take it easy this Christmas and I am... that's not like me... I don't understand it..." ))}$

"...Harold gave me the big annual lecture last week about how we've got to take it easy this Christmas and I am... that's not like me... I don't understand it..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...what did you do in the Great Depression, Dad...?" ))}$

"...what did you do in the Great Depression, Dad...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...and this is Bonnie and her stepdaughter, Holly from Barrie and Brent, Bonnie's stepfather from Brampton and Sue, Brad's stepdaughter from Bolton and Millie, Billy's stepmother from Orillia and Barry, Ricky's stepfather from Brantford... and now let's see..." ))}$

"...and this is Bonnie and her stepdaughter, Holly from Barrie and Brent, Bonnie's stepfather from Brampton and Sue, Brad's stepdaughter from Bolton and Millie, Billy's stepmother from Orillia and Barry, Ricky's stepfather from Brantford... and now let's see..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's the annual Dumonde Awards...world news events which got the most media coverage ...you know, like Ireland, Israel, Libya... assassinations, skyjackings, bombings, all that... looks like Canada will take it all in the 'Tempest in a Teapot' category again..." ))}$

"...it's the annual Dumonde Awards...world news events which got the most media coverage ...you know, like Ireland, Israel, Libya... assassinations, skyjackings, bombings, all that... looks like Canada will take it all in the 'Tempest in a Teapot' category again..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...two for dinner...will that be no smoking, no drinking; drinking, but not smoking: smoking, but not drinking or smoking and drinking...?" ))}$

"...two for dinner...will that be no smoking, no drinking; drinking, but not smoking: smoking, but not drinking or smoking and drinking...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I don't worry about it any more...my knuckles are always white now...even when I'm not driving.." ))}$

"...I don't worry about it any more...my knuckles are always white now...even when I'm not driving.."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...honestly, Harold, I've really been trying to be nice to this vacuum you bought me for Christmas ... but we've had a rotten relationship right from the start..." ))}$

"...honestly, Harold, I've really been trying to be nice to this vacuum you bought me for Christmas ... but we've had a rotten relationship right from the start..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...here's another example of why this depression won't be anything like the last one ... look at the modern technology... there was nothing like this in the old days..." ))}$

"...here's another example of why this depression won't be anything like the last one ... look at the modern technology... there was nothing like this in the old days..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Ricky, when we get engaged and married and then later get divorced...I want to be just separated, not divorced...okay...?" ))}$

"...Ricky, when we get engaged and married and then later get divorced...I want to be just separated, not divorced...okay...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold joined this Transpositional Hibernation Society in November...they do a lot of what he's doing right now, sometimes in groups but mostly at home... I'm thinking of joining myself next winter..." ))}$

"...Harold joined this Transpositional Hibernation Society in November...they do a lot of what he's doing right now, sometimes in groups but mostly at home... I'm thinking of joining myself next winter..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...good old Haroldson...spends hours just watching letters whiz through the machine... big overgrown kid... y'have to love the guy..." ))}$

"...good old Haroldson...spends hours just watching letters whiz through the machine... big overgrown kid... y'have to love the guy..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...he's written five books on how to beat the system and get rich...now he's writing a book on how to beat the system and enjoy living on very little..." ))}$

"...he's written five books on how to beat the system and get rich...now he's writing a book on how to beat the system and enjoy living on very little..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...what is this? What's happened to him? What's he saying? Where is he taking us ? Is this where we're heading? Is this all there is...?" ))}$

"...what is this? What's happened to him? What's he saying? Where is he taking us ? Is this where we're heading? Is this all there is...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no way. I don't care who he is or what he's done...if it's a boy there's no way we'll call him Wayne... I just don't like the name, that's all...okay...?" ))}$

"...no way. I don't care who he is or what he's done...if it's a boy there's no way we'll call him Wayne... I just don't like the name, that's all...okay...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...'Mississauga Saga, Harold Braithwaite, Acrylics and Spit, 1981'...good gracious, it must have taken him years to do that...!" ))}$

"...'Mississauga Saga, Harold Braithwaite, Acrylics and Spit, 1981'...good gracious, it must have taken him years to do that...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...sometimes I think Haroldson has been in electronics too long...it's something about the way he walks, y'know...?" ))}$

"...sometimes I think Haroldson has been in electronics too long...it's something about the way he walks, y'know...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...holy macinaw, look what's coming out of the Smoking Section vent today..." ))}$

"...holy macinaw, look what's coming out of the Smoking Section vent today..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...hey, it's finally come out...says here the CIA, since it's inception, has been used primarily to promote exciting and entertaining events worldwide for the use of ABC, NBC and CBS..." ))}$

"...hey, it's finally come out...says here the CIA, since it's inception, has been used primarily to promote exciting and entertaining events worldwide for the use of ABC, NBC and CBS..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I just had an incredible nightmare...I won this national lottery when my income tax number (HAROL 199817270) was picked... then I was flown to Ottawa and I was in this big building with roaring presses and Gerald Bouey presented me with the first trillion dollar bill ever printed in Canada... Gerald Bouey...!" ))}$

"...I just had an incredible nightmare...I won this national lottery when my income tax number (HAROL 199817270) was picked... then I was flown to Ottawa and I was in this big building with roaring presses and Gerald Bouey presented me with the first trillion dollar bill ever printed in Canada... Gerald Bouey...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...okay, now let's run through that again...keep it confident and bright... 'our high interest policy is slowing down the overall rate of inflation... the fact that inflation has risen this month is just a temporary aberration'... only this time don't give us the sick smile...okay...?" ))}$

"...okay, now let's run through that again...keep it confident and bright... 'our high interest policy is slowing down the overall rate of inflation... the fact that inflation has risen this month is just a temporary aberration'... only this time don't give us the sick smile...okay...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's alright, Harold...she got three love-letters in school today...it's hard to remember some things stay the same, even in today's wierd (sic) world..." ))}$

"...it's alright, Harold...she got three love-letters in school today...it's hard to remember some things stay the same, even in today's wierd (sic) world..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode(...it's a letter saying our World Tax forms should be mailed in by May 31st... Did we get any World Tax forms? Have you ever heard of World Tax? Who do you pay it to... the Receiver General for the Whole World...?" ))}$

...it's a letter saying our World Tax forms should be mailed in by May 31st... Did we get any World Tax forms? Have you ever heard of World Tax? Who do you pay it to... the Receiver General for the Whole World...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...how do you feel about us having our very own brand-new Constitution, however flawed, so far...?" ))}$

"...how do you feel about us having our very own brand-new Constitution, however flawed, so far...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it was clever of you to find this beautiful spot for our first Spring picnic, Harold... it's just lovely here... and we didn't even have to go out of the Mall..." ))}$

"...it was clever of you to find this beautiful spot for our first Spring picnic, Harold... it's just lovely here... and we didn't even have to go out of the Mall..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I don't believe it...doesn't anybody like anything about anything any more...?" ))}$

"...I don't believe it...doesn't anybody like anything about anything any more...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...alright now, easy does it...I know how it is in the Chamber of Commerce...I want you to sit there for five minutes, open your eyes and look at this word... don't fight it, just go right into it... I think in a couple more sessions we'll have you saying it... right out loud..." ))}$

"...alright now, easy does it...I know how it is in the Chamber of Commerce...I want you to sit there for five minutes, open your eyes and look at this word... don't fight it, just go right into it... I think in a couple more sessions we'll have you saying it... right out loud..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold got this incredible assignment from the Archives in Ottawa...he's making a permanent record of our money for historical purposes...in oils..." ))}$

"...Harold got this incredible assignment from the Archives in Ottawa...he's making a permanent record of our money for historical purposes...in oils..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold's memory is shot, so he writes messages for himself to read when he shaves in the morning.." ))}$

"...Harold's memory is shot, so he writes messages for himself to read when he shaves in the morning.."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...nothing...I just happened to think...this is the next year the Argos were waiting for last year and I wondered where they'll go with it this time, that's all..." ))}$

"...nothing...I just happened to think...this is the next year the Argos were waiting for last year and I wondered where they'll go with it this time, that's all..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...yeah, here it is...9 P.M....'MacEachen's Greatest Hits'...a special on recent Liberal budgets... like to watch that for a while...?" ))}$

"...yeah, here it is...9 P.M....'MacEachen's Greatest Hits'...a special on recent Liberal budgets... like to watch that for a while...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...look...I'm a Liberal...we're already a hundred and twenty seven kilometres into Manitoba... how much farther west do you want to go...?" ))}$

"...look...I'm a Liberal...we're already a hundred and twenty seven kilometres into Manitoba... how much farther west do you want to go...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...oh, I almost forgot to mention I found a little stash of money I'd put away in an old Wedgewood teapot... and I wondered if it would help at all if I brought it in and put it in my account..." ))}$

"...oh, I almost forgot to mention I found a little stash of money I'd put away in an old Wedgewood teapot... and I wondered if it would help at all if I brought it in and put it in my account..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...do you think we could round up a few really thin ones...?" ))}$

"...do you think we could round up a few really thin ones...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("no way...there's no way Harold would let any of those new electronic games come in this house..!" ))}$

"no way...there's no way Harold would let any of those new electronic games come in this house..!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, there's a gentleman here from the Department of Civil Aviation... wants to talk to you about your beans..." ))}$

"...Harold, there's a gentleman here from the Department of Civil Aviation... wants to talk to you about your beans..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no...yeah, like I know what you mean it's a bad year, but all I'm trying to say is there are times it's not all bad, y'know...?" ))}$

"...no...yeah, like I know what you mean it's a bad year, but all I'm trying to say is there are times it's not all bad, y'know...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...just once...just once I'd like to see some world figure walk out of a building and turn a handspring or do a little softshoe routine... anything... before getting into that black limo... just once...!" ))}$

"...just once...just once I'd like to see some world figure walk out of a building and turn a handspring or do a little softshoe routine... anything... before getting into that black limo... just once...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no, I think he'll be alright...someone just walked right into the department and bought a refrigerator from him... I'm giving him iced tea..." ))}$

"...no, I think he'll be alright...someone just walked right into the department and bought a refrigerator from him... I'm giving him iced tea..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...golly, sometimes I wonder if we're the only ones left who stroll anymore.." ))}$

"...golly, sometimes I wonder if we're the only ones left who stroll anymore.."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...they're related I think, cousins or something...he's a Western Separatist, come back east to see what he would be separating from..." ))}$

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I was an economic analyst for a major bank, but I was only 17% right in my forecasts and they demanded at least 23% accuracy...so, uh..." ))}$

"...I was an economic analyst for a major bank, but I was only 17% right in my forecasts and they demanded at least 23% accuracy...so, uh..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Trudeau just came on the TV again...he says we're not going to have 1983... just going straight into 1984, which should be a much better year..." ))}$

"...Trudeau just came on the TV again...he says we're not going to have 1983... just going straight into 1984, which should be a much better year..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...golly, Harold, I didn't know they made nightshirts too...I like it, I like it... it makes you look so, uh...!"" ))}$

"...golly, Harold, I didn't know they made nightshirts too...I like it, I like it... it makes you look so, uh...!""

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...we've not accomplished much more than to agree on the need to keep meeting informally like this at least once a month in the coming year... I think one might say it's primarily because we really do love all the great dinners and drinks..." ))}$

"...we've not accomplished much more than to agree on the need to keep meeting informally like this at least once a month in the coming year... I think one might say it's primarily because we really do love all the great dinners and drinks..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...some of our customers seem a tiny bit sluggish these days, so we're offering a little refresher course on how to get right in there and buy things..." ))}$

"...some of our customers seem a tiny bit sluggish these days, so we're offering a little refresher course on how to get right in there and buy things..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold's approaching the computer I got him for Christmas very gingerly... he says he's just going to sort of get used to it for a while..." ))}$

"...Harold's approaching the computer I got him for Christmas very gingerly... he says he's just going to sort of get used to it for a while..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...listen to this...the major powers have been secretly conferring on a plan whereby all future wars would be fought in outer space with incredibly sophisticated weapons... it may cost as much as seventeen trillion dollars a year but would be worth it for humanitarian reasons..." ))}$

"...listen to this...the major powers have been secretly conferring on a plan whereby all future wars would be fought in outer space with incredibly sophisticated weapons... it may cost as much as seventeen trillion dollars a year but would be worth it for humanitarian reasons..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Edge of Doom, Hanging in there, As the Establishment turns, Faltering Light, they're all soap operas... Ah Wilderness, that's a movie... or there's a CBC special recapping Canadian prime-minister's New Years messages over the years... how about some of that...?" ))}$

"...Edge of Doom, Hanging in there, As the Establishment turns, Faltering Light, they're all soap operas... Ah Wilderness, that's a movie... or there's a CBC special recapping Canadian prime-minister's New Years messages over the years... how about some of that...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...the Complete Home Video Cinema...luxurious reclining swivel bucket...fridge, popcorn, drink and snack dispenser... command control centre... portapotty with viewing scope in rear... not much bigger than a large pool table overall... the marquee lights are a nice touch, don't you think...?" ))}$

"...the Complete Home Video Cinema...luxurious reclining swivel bucket...fridge, popcorn, drink and snack dispenser... command control centre... portapotty with viewing scope in rear... not much bigger than a large pool table overall... the marquee lights are a nice touch, don't you think...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...the market for paintings has completely collapsed, but Harold is being propped up by a six figure bail-out from Ottawa... they don't want to see great talents wither, leading to a possible disastrous crumbling of the Canadian art economy..." ))}$

"...the market for paintings has completely collapsed, but Harold is being propped up by a six figure bail-out from Ottawa... they don't want to see great talents wither, leading to a possible disastrous crumbling of the Canadian art economy..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...goodnight, Mary Lou, goodnight...you're...you're always in my dreams...the sweet magical blue of your eyes, the soft caress of your voice... MaryLou, I... I LOVE YOU... and I wish...I wish..." ))}$

"...goodnight, Mary Lou, goodnight...you're...you're always in my dreams...the sweet magical blue of your eyes, the soft caress of your voice... MaryLou, I... I LOVE YOU... and I wish...I wish..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...sore inflamed eyes, left forearm tendonitis...tell me, do you wear and use this superwrist calendar radio TV calculator tape-deck bio-monitor video games watch everyday...?" ))}$

"...sore inflamed eyes, left forearm tendonitis...tell me, do you wear and use this superwrist calendar radio TV calculator tape-deck bio-monitor video games watch everyday...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I see the Government has announced a plan whereby parents, who have raised a child from birth to age 18 will be awarded a straight grant of sixty thousand dollars at the end of the term..." ))}$

"...I see the Government has announced a plan whereby parents, who have raised a child from birth to age 18 will be awarded a straight grant of sixty thousand dollars at the end of the term..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...you might think these are real spare ribs...the meat is pure pork and pork by-products pressed into uniform shape... now Haroldson has devised a machine to insert bone, made from pure bone and bone by-products, into the meat... and we have a very marketable item..." ))}$

"...you might think these are real spare ribs...the meat is pure pork and pork by-products pressed into uniform shape... now Haroldson has devised a machine to insert bone, made from pure bone and bone by-products, into the meat... and we have a very marketable item..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...you told me to organize my room and I have...I've got a print-out of a complete flow-chart simulation of every pile of stuff in the room...okay...?" ))}$

"...you told me to organize my room and I have...I've got a print-out of a complete flow-chart simulation of every pile of stuff in the room...okay...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...crazy city artist feller started that last summer...high as a barn those letters are... Canadian Council grant ran out 'round harvest time..." ))}$

"...crazy city artist feller started that last summer...high as a barn those letters are... Canadian Council grant ran out 'round harvest time..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...three more National Film Board crews down by the lake doin' the acid rain... funny, remember when they just used to do the beavers...?" ))}$

"...three more National Film Board crews down by the lake doin' the acid rain... funny, remember when they just used to do the beavers...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no, this is a singles bar for people who don't go to singles bars anymore... they don't want anything to do with anyone again, ever... try the 'Hope Springs' bar across the street..." ))}$

"...no, this is a singles bar for people who don't go to singles bars anymore... they don't want anything to do with anyone again, ever... try the 'Hope Springs' bar across the street..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...the UWC, sarge...UWC...they're marching past me right now...funny bunch, they're not protesting anything... they seem to be for something, but I can't quite figure what it is..." ))}$

"...the UWC, sarge...UWC...they're marching past me right now...funny bunch, they're not protesting anything... they seem to be for something, but I can't quite figure what it is..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold's caught up in this Blue Jay fever, but he's still loyal to the Argos... spends at least a few minutes every day wondering it they'll go all the way this year..." ))}$

"...Harold's caught up in this Blue Jay fever, but he's still loyal to the Argos... spends at least a few minutes every day wondering it they'll go all the way this year..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold's mad at the Canadian Publishing Industry...he's writing a book which will be so awful he expects it will be a big hit, but will put people off reading books for at least ten years..." ))}$

"...Harold's mad at the Canadian Publishing Industry...he's writing a book which will be so awful he expects it will be a big hit, but will put people off reading books for at least ten years..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...frankly I only function well when there's lots of people around and I thank God I'm not alone in that..." ))}$

"...frankly I only function well when there's lots of people around and I thank God I'm not alone in that..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I had my little abstract hanging in the bedroom, but now that Harold and I have broken up I think it's happier out here in the living room..." ))}$

"...I had my little abstract hanging in the bedroom, but now that Harold and I have broken up I think it's happier out here in the living room..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...quite frankly, economic recovery has placed us in a back-lash mode...our more discerning clients are moving up and away from their smaller vehicles and returning serenely to the splendid days of..." ))}$

"...quite frankly, economic recovery has placed us in a back-lash mode...our more discerning clients are moving up and away from their smaller vehicles and returning serenely to the splendid days of..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no, I mean APART from being glad I'd be away for a month... they wanted me to pick up some pointers in case the interest rates went up again..." ))}$

"...no, I mean APART from being glad I'd be away for a month... they wanted me to pick up some pointers in case the interest rates went up again..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...hey, I just felt a slight twinge of pride in being Canadian... second time this year... not as strong as that one back in February... that was a really big one..." ))}$

"...hey, I just felt a slight twinge of pride in being Canadian... second time this year... not as strong as that one back in February... that was a really big one..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...our doctor recommended it to help Harold overcome his inability to make any sense of today's world... there's about a hundred thousand interchangeable parts and no instructions..." ))}$

"...our doctor recommended it to help Harold overcome his inability to make any sense of today's world... there's about a hundred thousand interchangeable parts and no instructions..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it says here there's a risk of tornadoes coming through the area where the tanker-spill is expected to meet the radiation leak from the power plant..." ))}$

"...it says here there's a risk of tornadoes coming through the area where the tanker-spill is expected to meet the radiation leak from the power plant..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I am, Harold...I really am sorry I can't help with this year's harvest...I've canned and made jams for 10 years and it breaks my heart... I mean I love doing it and I..." ))}$

"...I am, Harold...I really am sorry I can't help with this year's harvest...I've canned and made jams for 10 years and it breaks my heart... I mean I love doing it and I..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I spent most of my summer at Computor Camp...we learned about Binary Random-Access Simulation and Flow-chart Diagram Probability and had a compulsory half-hour frolic on the grass every day..." ))}$

"...I spent most of my summer at Computor Camp...we learned about Binary Random-Access Simulation and Flow-chart Diagram Probability and had a compulsory half-hour frolic on the grass every day..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...that you, Martha? Hey, I've just been looking through your new Vogue...they've really gone too far this time... nobody will ever wear this stuff..." ))}$

"...that you, Martha? Hey, I've just been looking through your new Vogue...they've really gone too far this time... nobody will ever wear this stuff..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...but Mom, it's not only he's going to watch all the regular games...he's also going to rent tapes of all the Stanley Cup playoffs for the past twenty years to watch on the nights there aren't any games..." ))}$

"...but Mom, it's not only he's going to watch all the regular games...he's also going to rent tapes of all the Stanley Cup playoffs for the past twenty years to watch on the nights there aren't any games..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...he's 96...been going to life-class since he was 22...never learned to draw well... says he likes it..." ))}$

"...he's 96...been going to life-class since he was 22...never learned to draw well... says he likes it..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...another irate customer curious to find out why it is, with a cool two hundred million profit last quarter, we are still not able to provide pens which don't dry up after writing the first two words..." ))}$

"...another irate customer curious to find out why it is, with a cool two hundred million profit last quarter, we are still not able to provide pens which don't dry up after writing the first two words..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...his studio burned down six months ago and it seems he's done nothing but charcoal drawings since then.." ))}$

"...his studio burned down six months ago and it seems he's done nothing but charcoal drawings since then.."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...amazing, Haroldson...incredible...it's just I'm wondering if the world is really quite ready for a small plastic disposable computor..." ))}$

"...amazing, Haroldson...incredible...it's just I'm wondering if the world is really quite ready for a small plastic disposable computor..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no, I'm alright...I just had a weird thought...maybe Reagan and Thatcher are right... maybe the Russians ARE horrible and we should blast them off right off the face of the earth.." ))}$

"...no, I'm alright...I just had a weird thought...maybe Reagan and Thatcher are right... maybe the Russians ARE horrible and we should blast them off right off the face of the earth.."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Manpower sent them over...ten unemployed young people, new in the labour force ...just to look around and see how it is when you have a job... pick up a few pointers..." ))}$

"...Manpower sent them over...ten unemployed young people, new in the labour force ...just to look around and see how it is when you have a job... pick up a few pointers..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold gave me a half-hour lecture last night on how we're really, REALLY GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE IT EASY THIS CHRISTMAS... a really loud blast... I didn't say a work... boy, does that ever infuriate him...!" ))}$

"...Harold gave me a half-hour lecture last night on how we're really, REALLY GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE IT EASY THIS CHRISTMAS... a really loud blast... I didn't say a work... boy, does that ever infuriate him...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...poor guy...he's an emotional wreck...the only kid in our class living at home with both his parents... together...!" ))}$

"...poor guy...he's an emotional wreck...the only kid in our class living at home with both his parents... together...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Sir, my mother keeps asking me why I'm learning to be a scientist when we already have enough scientists to blow the world up two hundred times as it is..." ))}$

"...Sir, my mother keeps asking me why I'm learning to be a scientist when we already have enough scientists to blow the world up two hundred times as it is..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...my Aunt bought me Brian and Mila for Christmas...I never heard of them before but the Barbie clothes fit them pretty good..." ))}$

"...my Aunt bought me Brian and Mila for Christmas...I never heard of them before but the Barbie clothes fit them pretty good..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, you've got that funny look on your face again...a penny for your thoughts..." ))}$

"...Harold, you've got that funny look on your face again...a penny for your thoughts..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...alright, so far we've been holocausting the unthinkablization of a nuclear scenariolution in in a destabilized world. Despite the manifestering of peacemongeral ploughsharization in a grass-rootational inter-groupnics, consensuality is..." ))}$

"...alright, so far we've been holocausting the unthinkablization of a nuclear scenariolution in in a destabilized world. Despite the manifestering of peacemongeral ploughsharization in a grass-rootational inter-groupnics, consensuality is..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I just had this horrible nightmare...we won twenty-two billion in the lottery and I drove up to Ottawa in my old 1953 Pontiac and retired the national debt... all by myself...!" ))}$

"...I just had this horrible nightmare...we won twenty-two billion in the lottery and I drove up to Ottawa in my old 1953 Pontiac and retired the national debt... all by myself...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...we love it and we want to buy it...but our living room is a tiny bit too short... do you imagine the artist would be terribly upset if we trimmed about fourteen inches, just off the length...?" ))}$

"...we love it and we want to buy it...but our living room is a tiny bit too short... do you imagine the artist would be terribly upset if we trimmed about fourteen inches, just off the length...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Third World War souvenirs...get them now before it's too late...souvenirs..." ))}$

"...Third World War souvenirs...get them now before it's too late...souvenirs..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...hey, I did it...I did it...my first 'no comment'...wow...!" ))}$

"...hey, I did it...I did it...my first 'no comment'...wow...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I know our calendar looks exciting, Martha, but you want to know the honest truth...I fake a lot of it..." ))}$

"...I know our calendar looks exciting, Martha, but you want to know the honest truth...I fake a lot of it..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...these little pink ones are to cheer you up when you start wondering if we'll always have a Liberal government in Ottawa and these blue and yellow ones are to help you overcome your fits of total apathy towards politicians in general...okay...?" ))}$

"...these little pink ones are to cheer you up when you start wondering if we'll always have a Liberal government in Ottawa and these blue and yellow ones are to help you overcome your fits of total apathy towards politicians in general...okay...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...attention all employees...we have consulted ten major sports forecasters who have come up with this combined analysis... neither the Leafs nor the Blue Jays will go all the way this year... the Argos, however, will be there at Grey Cup time... we trust this information will facilitate complete concentration on your day-to-day work schedule... thank you..." ))}$

"...attention all employees...we have consulted ten major sports forecasters who have come up with this combined analysis... neither the Leafs nor the Blue Jays will go all the way this year... the Argos, however, will be there at Grey Cup time... we trust this information will facilitate complete concentration on your day-to-day work schedule... thank you..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Peter, you know those fascinating little collages I've got...you know, the ones you made by cutting up your income-tax forms... well, there's a Revenue Canada person here now and he's...uh..." ))}$

"...Peter, you know those fascinating little collages I've got...you know, the ones you made by cutting up your income-tax forms... well, there's a Revenue Canada person here now and he's...uh..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...but Harold, I promised the kids they could watch...they've never seen anyone write a letter before and put it in an envelope and put a stamp on it and take it down to the letter-box..." ))}$

"...but Harold, I promised the kids they could watch...they've never seen anyone write a letter before and put it in an envelope and put a stamp on it and take it down to the letter-box..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...the latest...each bat has three shock-proof sensors imbedded in the thick end combined with tiny homing devices similar to those found in the Exocet missile... takes a lot of guesswork out of trying to hit a ball..." ))}$

"...the latest...each bat has three shock-proof sensors imbedded in the thick end combined with tiny homing devices similar to those found in the Exocet missile... takes a lot of guesswork out of trying to hit a ball..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...ah yes, how quickly we forget the dark despair of Winter...Spring has a way of tempering the harsh realities, bringing a welcome tenderness... almost a forgiving..." ))}$

"...ah yes, how quickly we forget the dark despair of Winter...Spring has a way of tempering the harsh realities, bringing a welcome tenderness... almost a forgiving..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Good afternoon...Harold Smythe, auditor, Revenue Canada...I'd like to come in and ask you a few questions about your last year's...uh..." ))}$

"...Good afternoon...Harold Smythe, auditor, Revenue Canada...I'd like to come in and ask you a few questions about your last year's...uh..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I can't figure out who they are, Sarge...they may be terrorists...yeah, heading right over towards Queen's Park.." ))}$

"...I can't figure out who they are, Sarge...they may be terrorists...yeah, heading right over towards Queen's Park.."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...great little car, that 300SL...better than the X19 or the 250GT but no comparison to my XK120... then I drove a BAT5X, a turbo 528E, a XVR6 and a little 2.- litre 900APC... I always liked my XJ6-12 and my 308 GTB-S but the best cars I ever drove were the old X26 and my true love, a beat-up old SPL-310XVTR... ah, yes..." ))}$

"...great little car, that 300SL...better than the X19 or the 250GT but no comparison to my XK120... then I drove a BAT5X, a turbo 528E, a XVR6 and a little 2.- litre 900APC... I always liked my XJ6-12 and my 308 GTB-S but the best cars I ever drove were the old X26 and my true love, a beat-up old SPL-310XVTR... ah, yes..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...way deep down I think what would make me deliriously optimistic about Canada is, like if we could somehow clear out all the politicians and the entire civil service we are blessed with today and start all over again..." ))}$

"...way deep down I think what would make me deliriously optimistic about Canada is, like if we could somehow clear out all the politicians and the entire civil service we are blessed with today and start all over again..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...my husband has this great idea...he wants to spell out the name of the Liberal candidate he favors in plants in the front yard... would you know Eugene Whalen's favorite colours in petunias...?" ))}$

"...my husband has this great idea...he wants to spell out the name of the Liberal candidate he favors in plants in the front yard... would you know Eugene Whalen's favorite colours in petunias...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...another cartoonist being taken away...poor devils...it must be frightfully difficult for them to even attempt to keep abreast of our crazy complex World..." ))}$

"...another cartoonist being taken away...poor devils...it must be frightfully difficult for them to even attempt to keep abreast of our crazy complex World..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I don't get it...they're weird...it's kids who leave home when they can't stand it all anymore... not parents..." ))}$

"...I don't get it...they're weird...it's kids who leave home when they can't stand it all anymore... not parents..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...aerodynamics...you've got to keep the rear end pressing right down on the road... and that whale-tail spoiler makes sure the back tires really hug the old blacktop..." ))}$

"...aerodynamics...you've got to keep the rear end pressing right down on the road... and that whale-tail spoiler makes sure the back tires really hug the old blacktop..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold gets really nervous when Ronald Reagan is on TV...it's the way he comes on like a kindly father, all reasonable and warm and half-smiling, when he's talking about something horrible and cataclysmic..." ))}$

"...Harold gets really nervous when Ronald Reagan is on TV...it's the way he comes on like a kindly father, all reasonable and warm and half-smiling, when he's talking about something horrible and cataclysmic..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...phew...I'm all scratched out...today I scratched and won two dollars, twenty litres of gas, a weekend for two in Hamilton and a chance on a Korean car... I can't keep up this pace..." ))}$

"...phew...I'm all scratched out...today I scratched and won two dollars, twenty litres of gas, a weekend for two in Hamilton and a chance on a Korean car... I can't keep up this pace..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...a prime example of these minor nagging irritations is our horticulturist's apparent inability to come up with a long cucumber-like tomato... one you could cut into, say forty slices, all of equal diameter..." ))}$

"...a prime example of these minor nagging irritations is our horticulturist's apparent inability to come up with a long cucumber-like tomato... one you could cut into, say forty slices, all of equal diameter..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I guess it's inevitable...but I understood cottage industries were growing as a welcome human down-home relief from the cold hardware world of technology..." ))}$

"...I guess it's inevitable...but I understood cottage industries were growing as a welcome human down-home relief from the cold hardware world of technology..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...excuse me...I wonder if you could lower your right arm just a fraction... we're trying to get a bit of sun...okay...?" ))}$

"...excuse me...I wonder if you could lower your right arm just a fraction... we're trying to get a bit of sun...okay...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's not a question of whether the new postman is male or female...I'm just saying I think our OLD postman brought us a much better class of mail... more good stuff, that's all..." ))}$

"...it's not a question of whether the new postman is male or female...I'm just saying I think our OLD postman brought us a much better class of mail... more good stuff, that's all..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...but that's exactly why we didn't bring the radio...I don't want to hear Turner and Mulroney telling us about this great land of ours... I want to be out here IN it..." ))}$

"...but that's exactly why we didn't bring the radio...I don't want to hear Turner and Mulroney telling us about this great land of ours... I want to be out here IN it..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...you're right, lady, a very confusing world...who would have thought we'd see artists and poets fighting over the relative worth of pictures and words..." ))}$

"...you're right, lady, a very confusing world...who would have thought we'd see artists and poets fighting over the relative worth of pictures and words..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Haroldson, there's a small riding out in Alberta, Chapeau, south of Red Deer... our women have taken it over completely... get out there and see if you can get a token man on one of the committees or something... give them some direction..." ))}$

"...Haroldson, there's a small riding out in Alberta, Chapeau, south of Red Deer... our women have taken it over completely... get out there and see if you can get a token man on one of the committees or something... give them some direction..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...yeah, this is the very heart of the uncommitted belt...some of them never even make it to the polls..." ))}$

"...yeah, this is the very heart of the uncommitted belt...some of them never even make it to the polls..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...remarkable, the complete range of jargon we've fed into him, but he still doesn't make much sense... at least not in time for this election..." ))}$

"...remarkable, the complete range of jargon we've fed into him, but he still doesn't make much sense... at least not in time for this election..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's piling up, Martha...I'm still tired from the Olympics...I'm trying to get ready for the election....I've got the kids and the CNE and school to get ready for...and I've got my own clothes to get ready for my new job and daycare and aerobics and french lessons starting soon...and I've got all these peaches Harold's mother brought us to process...I'm afraid I'm just not going to be ready fo ))}$

"...it's piling up, Martha...I'm still tired from the Olympics...I'm trying to get ready for the election....I've got the kids and the CNE and school to get ready for...and I've got my own clothes to get ready for my new job and daycare and aerobics and french lessons starting soon...and I've got all these peaches Harold's mother brought us to process...I'm afraid I'm just not going to be ready fo

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...as a garment I wouldn't give you fifty cents for it...but evidently a Liberal candidate kissed the hem of it just before the election and now she's wearing it everywhere..." ))}$

"...as a garment I wouldn't give you fifty cents for it...but evidently a Liberal candidate kissed the hem of it just before the election and now she's wearing it everywhere..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...the part I like about elections is when it's over and it goes all quiet and you can sit back for a couple of months waiting for them to do something..." ))}$

"...the part I like about elections is when it's over and it goes all quiet and you can sit back for a couple of months waiting for them to do something..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...the green eye-shadow...the green eye-shadow you sold me yesterday...it worked...it worked...!" ))}$

"...the green eye-shadow...the green eye-shadow you sold me yesterday...it worked...it worked...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...how about a new name for the party...Progressive Liberal...or something like that...?" ))}$

"...how about a new name for the party...Progressive Liberal...or something like that...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I'm looking for Martha Haroldson...appendix...they said she'd be on Tier Seven West, Row Nine, Bed Nineteen... maybe it was Tier Seven East... okay, I'll try that..." ))}$

"...I'm looking for Martha Haroldson...appendix...they said she'd be on Tier Seven West, Row Nine, Bed Nineteen... maybe it was Tier Seven East... okay, I'll try that..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I knew Mulroney had something up his sleeve...they're talking about a new government lottery where forty monthly winners, of any age group, go on the Old Age Pension for life... they expect it will pay off the deficit in no time..." ))}$

"...I knew Mulroney had something up his sleeve...they're talking about a new government lottery where forty monthly winners, of any age group, go on the Old Age Pension for life... they expect it will pay off the deficit in no time..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no, I'm learning it so when I grow up I'll be able to play in restaurants real loud and nobody'll be able to hear what anybody's talking about..." ))}$

"...no, I'm learning it so when I grow up I'll be able to play in restaurants real loud and nobody'll be able to hear what anybody's talking about..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...alright, girls, let's walk down the block again...three-abreast this time, fast and no smiling... I love to watch them cringe..." ))}$

"...alright, girls, let's walk down the block again...three-abreast this time, fast and no smiling... I love to watch them cringe..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...yes it's new this year...sort of a shrine for the autographing sessions... the authors seem to like it better than being stuck away in a corner somewhere..." ))}$

"...yes it's new this year...sort of a shrine for the autographing sessions... the authors seem to like it better than being stuck away in a corner somewhere..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's quite common, Mrs. Haroldson, most people over sixty experience some loss of memory... in your case it's not really too serious... forget it..." ))}$

"...it's quite common, Mrs. Haroldson, most people over sixty experience some loss of memory... in your case it's not really too serious... forget it..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...'Happy days are here again' buttons...'Dramatic upturn' buttons...each has a simulated silver lining..." ))}$

"...'Happy days are here again' buttons...'Dramatic upturn' buttons...each has a simulated silver lining..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...do you have any of the next kind of dolls that everybody will want after Cabbage Patch dolls, because I'd like the first kid (girl) on our block to have one..." ))}$

"...do you have any of the next kind of dolls that everybody will want after Cabbage Patch dolls, because I'd like the first kid (girl) on our block to have one..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...excuse me...could anyone help me...where am I...?" ))}$

"...excuse me...could anyone help me...where am I...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...there it goes again...this machine has gone really weird...past this point all that appears is something about some shepherds following an incredibly bright star somewhere in the Middle East..." ))}$

"...there it goes again...this machine has gone really weird...past this point all that appears is something about some shepherds following an incredibly bright star somewhere in the Middle East..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...y'know, Harold, I think you'd have to say this is the best Christmas we've had so far this recession..." ))}$

"...y'know, Harold, I think you'd have to say this is the best Christmas we've had so far this recession..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...gee, Mom...Ricky got this real neat toy for Christmas and he won't let any of us help him play with it... could you speak to his Mother...?" ))}$

"...gee, Mom...Ricky got this real neat toy for Christmas and he won't let any of us help him play with it... could you speak to his Mother...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...listen to this, Harold...a prominent physiotherapist says, if you're over 25, fitness is really not all that good for you and may lead to..." ))}$

"...listen to this, Harold...a prominent physiotherapist says, if you're over 25, fitness is really not all that good for you and may lead to..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I had trouble keeping up with it all last year, so Harold got this for me... we figure 1985 is going to be another pretty exciting year..." ))}$

"...I had trouble keeping up with it all last year, so Harold got this for me... we figure 1985 is going to be another pretty exciting year..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I went through my mid-life crisis ten years ago...now I feel another coming on... how many mid-life crises is a man allowed...?" ))}$

"...I went through my mid-life crisis ten years ago...now I feel another coming on... how many mid-life crises is a man allowed...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...customer wanting to know what this number 0301985674919010201180340001985674934125 on his bill means... I thought it looked sort of funny so I checked it and it's wrong... it should be 03019656749190102011803400019856749341 zero 5..." ))}$

"...customer wanting to know what this number 0301985674919010201180340001985674934125 on his bill means... I thought it looked sort of funny so I checked it and it's wrong... it should be 03019656749190102011803400019856749341 zero 5..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...that's one of our new Smoking Kiosks...about the only places left downtown you can smoke anymore..." ))}$

"...that's one of our new Smoking Kiosks...about the only places left downtown you can smoke anymore..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...alright, here's the component of the terminal flush-return we're going to build for Universal Pump... it connects to this assembly, parts of which are now being fabricated in Mexico, Taiwan, Brazil, Thailand and Israel... okay...?" ))}$

"...alright, here's the component of the terminal flush-return we're going to build for Universal Pump... it connects to this assembly, parts of which are now being fabricated in Mexico, Taiwan, Brazil, Thailand and Israel... okay...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...so okay, Harold, it's a big game...and you watched a big one last Friday and the really big crucial one last Tuesday... all I'm asking is, don't they have any medium or small games...?" ))}$

"...so okay, Harold, it's a big game...and you watched a big one last Friday and the really big crucial one last Tuesday... all I'm asking is, don't they have any medium or small games...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...now I need you to fill out these forms for the new Spousal Tax which you will pay as long as you remain married... in the unlikely event of divorce, the Spousal Tax Fund will pay alimony and support to whichever of you needs it..." ))}$

"...now I need you to fill out these forms for the new Spousal Tax which you will pay as long as you remain married... in the unlikely event of divorce, the Spousal Tax Fund will pay alimony and support to whichever of you needs it..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...look, Harold...packages of transparent Forbidden signs you can put up anywhere on anything to stop people doing things..." ))}$

"...look, Harold...packages of transparent Forbidden signs you can put up anywhere on anything to stop people doing things..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...what happened...Leafs win another game...?" ))}$

"...what happened...Leafs win another game...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...hey you guys, I'm tired of playing United States and Russia...can't we play some other war...?" ))}$

"...hey you guys, I'm tired of playing United States and Russia...can't we play some other war...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...THIS is the painting...the whole room is the painting...you are IN the painting... I am the painting, you are the painting... we're all part of the big painting... the WHOLE WORLD is the...!" ))}$

"...THIS is the painting...the whole room is the painting...you are IN the painting... I am the painting, you are the painting... we're all part of the big painting... the WHOLE WORLD is the...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Miss Haroldson, there's no 'SALE' sign on this rack...what are you trying to do, confuse the customer...?" ))}$

"...Miss Haroldson, there's no 'SALE' sign on this rack...what are you trying to do, confuse the customer...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...slow, these days...ain't seen but three people runnin' or walkin' or wheelin' across Canada in the last two weeks..." ))}$

"...slow, these days...ain't seen but three people runnin' or walkin' or wheelin' across Canada in the last two weeks..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...you remember I had trouble reconciling Hotpoint with refrigerators and Frigidaire with stoves... then they started off Vancouver Canucks in the Easter Division of the NHL... well yesterday I saw an ad for WonderBra pantyhose..." ))}$

"...you remember I had trouble reconciling Hotpoint with refrigerators and Frigidaire with stoves... then they started off Vancouver Canucks in the Easter Division of the NHL... well yesterday I saw an ad for WonderBra pantyhose..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...alright now...move over and let Harold stand in front of it...." ))}$

"...alright now...move over and let Harold stand in front of it...."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("we're trying to isolate and more fully understand that part of the brain which drives us on constantly seeking to isolate and more fully understand parts of the..." ))}$

"we're trying to isolate and more fully understand that part of the brain which drives us on constantly seeking to isolate and more fully understand parts of the..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...three things I can tell you about old age...one, you itch all over...two, you can blurt out anything you want to say, nobody listens to you anyhow... and three, uh... the third one is, uh... by golly, I can't remember what that was now..." ))}$

"...three things I can tell you about old age...one, you itch all over...two, you can blurt out anything you want to say, nobody listens to you anyhow... and three, uh... the third one is, uh... by golly, I can't remember what that was now..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...could you help me...I think I've been partially overcome by Polychlorsilanethrin Carcintetrapyrine Byphenylxanethene..." ))}$

"...could you help me...I think I've been partially overcome by Polychlorsilanethrin Carcintetrapyrine Byphenylxanethene..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...according to a recent poll, 1.7% of Canadians are satisfied with the way things are going... that compares with 1.5% last year and 1.3% in 1983... it's too early, though, to speculate whether the increase constitutes a trend..." ))}$

"...according to a recent poll, 1.7% of Canadians are satisfied with the way things are going... that compares with 1.5% last year and 1.3% in 1983... it's too early, though, to speculate whether the increase constitutes a trend..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...nothing much...what are you watchin? Come on, Harold, I asked you first... alright, if you want to be that way...look, I'll call you back next lot of commercials, okay...?" ))}$

"...nothing much...what are you watchin? Come on, Harold, I asked you first... alright, if you want to be that way...look, I'll call you back next lot of commercials, okay...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...those Haroldsons...great neighbors, straight, dependable, nice kids, voted Conservative... then he buys this weird vehicle... we don't have much to do with them anymore..." ))}$

"...those Haroldsons...great neighbors, straight, dependable, nice kids, voted Conservative... then he buys this weird vehicle... we don't have much to do with them anymore..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I am not a Yuppie...yes you are...well, you're one too...no I'm not... yes you are... am not either... are so too... am not... are too..." ))}$

"...I am not a Yuppie...yes you are...well, you're one too...no I'm not... yes you are... am not either... are so too... am not... are too..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...oh my goodness, no, I haven't the slightest idea what Star Wars is all about and I don't think they know either... but I think the sooner they get it up there the sooner we'll all be able to relax a bit... I'm all for it..." ))}$

"...oh my goodness, no, I haven't the slightest idea what Star Wars is all about and I don't think they know either... but I think the sooner they get it up there the sooner we'll all be able to relax a bit... I'm all for it..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I don't know what it is, Harold...maybe we should get some..." ))}$

"...I don't know what it is, Harold...maybe we should get some..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...plays left-wing for the Leafs..." ))}$

"...plays left-wing for the Leafs..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold's been suffering from spring fever since April...the doctor says it's a new strain brought here from the West Coast and there's no cure for it..." ))}$

"...Harold's been suffering from spring fever since April...the doctor says it's a new strain brought here from the West Coast and there's no cure for it..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...you're new here, Miss Haroldson, and I think we're been remiss in not providing you with a copy of our Acceptable Phrase Manual..." ))}$

"...you're new here, Miss Haroldson, and I think we're been remiss in not providing you with a copy of our Acceptable Phrase Manual..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...but it's so hilarious...the number of times I've driven past this place and I thought it was for mothers to bring their children... I didn't realize it was just for mothers...!" ))}$

"...but it's so hilarious...the number of times I've driven past this place and I thought it was for mothers to bring their children... I didn't realize it was just for mothers...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I said, 'IT'S QUIET IN HERE..!'" ))}$

"...I said, 'IT'S QUIET IN HERE..!'"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I know...and it's so beautifully worded...I think I wept a little too, when I first read it..." ))}$

"...I know...and it's so beautifully worded...I think I wept a little too, when I first read it..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...do you ever get the feeling you're sitting right in the middle of a lightly deliniated cartoon with a very ambiguous caption...?" ))}$

"...do you ever get the feeling you're sitting right in the middle of a lightly deliniated cartoon with a very ambiguous caption...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...there's that lady in the black leather coat again...comes in everyday to watch for signs of us crumbling... she makes me nervous..." ))}$

"...there's that lady in the black leather coat again...comes in everyday to watch for signs of us crumbling... she makes me nervous..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...hold it, Harold, Fred and Irene are closed...let's drive over and visit Russ and Joan... I'm dying for a coffee and they may be open..." ))}$

"...hold it, Harold, Fred and Irene are closed...let's drive over and visit Russ and Joan... I'm dying for a coffee and they may be open..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...today we're auditioning groups to record that pale, weak, barely audible music you hear in elevators and airport washrooms... you know the stuff..." ))}$

"...today we're auditioning groups to record that pale, weak, barely audible music you hear in elevators and airport washrooms... you know the stuff..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...excuse me, young man, I think I'm lost...I must have made a wrong turn somewhere and I..." ))}$

"...excuse me, young man, I think I'm lost...I must have made a wrong turn somewhere and I..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...is this all there is to life...just moving piles of stuff from one place to another... is there no higher purpose...?" ))}$

"...is this all there is to life...just moving piles of stuff from one place to another... is there no higher purpose...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I know we're not aging Hippies...and we're too old to be aging YUPPIES... so I guess we've missed out on this 'group-aging' thing altogether..." ))}$

"...I know we're not aging Hippies...and we're too old to be aging YUPPIES... so I guess we've missed out on this 'group-aging' thing altogether..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I gave him his bill and he cried out, 'hey I don't believe this...it's under two hundred dollars!'...then he collapsed..." ))}$

"...I gave him his bill and he cried out, 'hey I don't believe this...it's under two hundred dollars!'...then he collapsed..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Martha, are there two S's in Progress...?" ))}$

"...Martha, are there two S's in Progress...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...they're putting subtitles on a lot of Hollywood movies now...so you can understand what they're mumbling about..." ))}$

"...they're putting subtitles on a lot of Hollywood movies now...so you can understand what they're mumbling about..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...there's no use, Harold...it was nice of you to bring me up here for a while...it's beautiful... BUT I'VE GOT TO GET BACK TO WHERE THE MERCHANDISE IS...!" ))}$

"...there's no use, Harold...it was nice of you to bring me up here for a while...it's beautiful... BUT I'VE GOT TO GET BACK TO WHERE THE MERCHANDISE IS...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no kidding, Martha...I'm literally afraid to walk through parts of toyland this year..." ))}$

"...no kidding, Martha...I'm literally afraid to walk through parts of toyland this year..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode(Untitled: Royal Imperial Dominion Bank and Food Bank ))}$

Untitled: Royal Imperial Dominion Bank and Food Bank

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...this year Harold's made a really impressive list of New Year's resolutions and he's feeding them into the computor... whatever good that will do..." ))}$

"...this year Harold's made a really impressive list of New Year's resolutions and he's feeding them into the computor... whatever good that will do..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...yeah, we keep things moving right along...taking out the Holiday Pine scent and putting in the pre-Spring Hyacinth concentrate..." ))}$

"...yeah, we keep things moving right along...taking out the Holiday Pine scent and putting in the pre-Spring Hyacinth concentrate..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...the new fish Harold got for Christmas were swimming around so fast they made him nervous... so now he puts in three boxes of Lime Jello when he changes their water... slows them down a bit..." ))}$

"...the new fish Harold got for Christmas were swimming around so fast they made him nervous... so now he puts in three boxes of Lime Jello when he changes their water... slows them down a bit..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...another group of exchange students from the United States...all eager to learn about our culture... fashions, sports, entertainment, things like that..." ))}$

"...another group of exchange students from the United States...all eager to learn about our culture... fashions, sports, entertainment, things like that..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("I think I'm developing a conscience or something...I'm feeling much worse about attending affairs like this than I did last year..." ))}$

"I think I'm developing a conscience or something...I'm feeling much worse about attending affairs like this than I did last year..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, do you have to go on with this Canadian Culture Series...I'M SICK AND TIRED OF CANADIAN CULTURE...!" ))}$

"...Harold, do you have to go on with this Canadian Culture Series...I'M SICK AND TIRED OF CANADIAN CULTURE...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...hey, look, Harold...wow...our very first All-Canadian Pain Reliever...isn't that exciting...?%" ))}$

"...hey, look, Harold...wow...our very first All-Canadian Pain Reliever...isn't that exciting...?%"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Dad, tell me again what it was like when you were a Hippie and twenty of you lived in one big old house and you all shared everything and loved each other and had lots of fun..." ))}$

"...Dad, tell me again what it was like when you were a Hippie and twenty of you lived in one big old house and you all shared everything and loved each other and had lots of fun..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I like coming down here in the Financial District at night...I can pretend I'm on another planet..." ))}$

"...I like coming down here in the Financial District at night...I can pretend I'm on another planet..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I know, Martha, I know...listen, I've got two kitchen-aids from Christmas I haven't opened yet... I mean, where would I put them...?" ))}$

"...I know, Martha, I know...listen, I've got two kitchen-aids from Christmas I haven't opened yet... I mean, where would I put them...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...they're showing pictures of a million people gathered for something or other in Manilla... funny, they look just exactly like the million people we saw gathered for something or other last week in Egypt..." ))}$

"...they're showing pictures of a million people gathered for something or other in Manilla... funny, they look just exactly like the million people we saw gathered for something or other last week in Egypt..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I call it Spring Break...something about this time of year makes them want to open the unopenable and get a breath of real fresh air... second today, so far..." ))}$

"...I call it Spring Break...something about this time of year makes them want to open the unopenable and get a breath of real fresh air... second today, so far..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, you're the most suspicious person I've ever known...I know the CBC is cutting back, but they wouldn't do RE-RUNS of the WEATHER PICTURE...!" ))}$

"...Harold, you're the most suspicious person I've ever known...I know the CBC is cutting back, but they wouldn't do RE-RUNS of the WEATHER PICTURE...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it all started last Christmas...I gave Harold this book on building on building birdhouses and he's..." ))}$

"...it all started last Christmas...I gave Harold this book on building on building birdhouses and he's..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I don't know what I'm wearing tonight...I'm afraid to look..." ))}$

"...I don't know what I'm wearing tonight...I'm afraid to look..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it isn't only manual labour which is being replaced by machines...here we have a new generation of vice-presidents we're putting through evaluation..." ))}$

"...it isn't only manual labour which is being replaced by machines...here we have a new generation of vice-presidents we're putting through evaluation..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...yeah, Martha...yeah...yeah...yeah...right...yeah...you better believe it... yeah...yeah...yeah...really... yeah...for sure... yeah...yeah...yeah...yes, I know... yeah...uh-huh...uh-huh...yeah...no kidding... no...no...wow...you're not kidding... yeah...no way...yeah...right... holy smoke...yeah...for sure...yeah..." ))}$

"...yeah, Martha...yeah...yeah...yeah...right...yeah...you better believe it... yeah...yeah...yeah...really... yeah...for sure... yeah...yeah...yeah...yes, I know... yeah...uh-huh...uh-huh...yeah...no kidding... no...no...wow...you're not kidding... yeah...no way...yeah...right... holy smoke...yeah...for sure...yeah..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...sure...I mail quite a few letters every week...some of us haven't altogether lost faith in Canadian Institutions..." ))}$

"...sure...I mail quite a few letters every week...some of us haven't altogether lost faith in Canadian Institutions..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold, I'm afraid...I think something dreadful may have happened...the computer says not to watch the National and the Journal tonight..." ))}$

"...Harold, I'm afraid...I think something dreadful may have happened...the computer says not to watch the National and the Journal tonight..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...the people right across the street from us...they're weird...nobody on the block likes them... look at their front lawn... no flamingos..." ))}$

"...the people right across the street from us...they're weird...nobody on the block likes them... look at their front lawn... no flamingos..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's amazing...this is the first book I've thoroughly enjoyed where the author doesn't think exactly as I do..." ))}$

"...it's amazing...this is the first book I've thoroughly enjoyed where the author doesn't think exactly as I do..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...a horrible thought just struck me, Harold...perhaps there'll be a backlash from these dreadful free-trade talks and we'll not be able to get these sweet-glazed baby terrapin from Louisiana any more...!" ))}$

"...a horrible thought just struck me, Harold...perhaps there'll be a backlash from these dreadful free-trade talks and we'll not be able to get these sweet-glazed baby terrapin from Louisiana any more...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I've read about here...paints watercolours right at the lake-edge... lets the little wave lets wash right over her brush strokes, diffusing and blending them and creating a very charming and unusual effect..." ))}$

"...I've read about here...paints watercolours right at the lake-edge... lets the little wave lets wash right over her brush strokes, diffusing and blending them and creating a very charming and unusual effect..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...we hope you're all enjoying that great Nagagami Lake air this morning, tangy trace of forest-fire smoke and all... which incidently is well below the maximum allowable for compressed out-of-town air... this afternoon we're bringing you a special treat... dry western Bighorn Mountain iar, 1983, a good yar in that part of Wyoming..." ))}$

"...we hope you're all enjoying that great Nagagami Lake air this morning, tangy trace of forest-fire smoke and all... which incidently is well below the maximum allowable for compressed out-of-town air... this afternoon we're bringing you a special treat... dry western Bighorn Mountain iar, 1983, a good yar in that part of Wyoming..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I'm not complaining, Harold...I'm just saying wouldn't it be nice to get onto one of those lovely curved country roads with no other cars around... you know, like they show on the TV commercials..." ))}$

"...I'm not complaining, Harold...I'm just saying wouldn't it be nice to get onto one of those lovely curved country roads with no other cars around... you know, like they show on the TV commercials..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...yeah, remember how it used to be in summer...browsing in hot stuffy bookstores... I'm surprised they didn't think of this years ago..." ))}$

"...yeah, remember how it used to be in summer...browsing in hot stuffy bookstores... I'm surprised they didn't think of this years ago..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...they've put up this new kind of traffic sign and I didn't know what it meant, but I thought I should do something... so I did this..." ))}$

"...they've put up this new kind of traffic sign and I didn't know what it meant, but I thought I should do something... so I did this..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...yeah, we went to them both...Expo was wonderful, but I like the West Edmonton Mall better... it has SHOPPING...!" ))}$

"...yeah, we went to them both...Expo was wonderful, but I like the West Edmonton Mall better... it has SHOPPING...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's a computor fan-fold print-out...he's predicting the world will end January 17, 1987..." ))}$

"...it's a computor fan-fold print-out...he's predicting the world will end January 17, 1987..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...you're kidding...yeah, well they'll work it out somehow... yeah...listen, Martha, I'll let you go now... I think I smell something burning... yeah...yeah, you too... say hello to Joan and Russ for me... yeah, okay... okay then... bye-bye now..." ))}$

"...you're kidding...yeah, well they'll work it out somehow... yeah...listen, Martha, I'll let you go now... I think I smell something burning... yeah...yeah, you too... say hello to Joan and Russ for me... yeah, okay... okay then... bye-bye now..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I don't know, one day we just decided to opt out of the merchandise mainstream altogether... so we had three big garage sales and we haven't been to a shopping centre for months..." ))}$

"...I don't know, one day we just decided to opt out of the merchandise mainstream altogether... so we had three big garage sales and we haven't been to a shopping centre for months..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...another bunch of smokers being taken up to the big compound north or Moosonee... poor devils..." ))}$

"...another bunch of smokers being taken up to the big compound north or Moosonee... poor devils..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold's a late-comer to the popular nature paintings trend...he's finding it difficult to choose subjects which haven't already been done to death... you know, eagles, whales, elk, mountain goats, things like that..." ))}$

"...Harold's a late-comer to the popular nature paintings trend...he's finding it difficult to choose subjects which haven't already been done to death... you know, eagles, whales, elk, mountain goats, things like that..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...au contraire...even a small 'a' apolitical person is allowed a few favorites... I think Brian Mulroney is cute... I like the way he walks without moving his arms..." ))}$

"...au contraire...even a small 'a' apolitical person is allowed a few favorites... I think Brian Mulroney is cute... I like the way he walks without moving his arms..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...but we already have a coffee table..." ))}$

"...but we already have a coffee table..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...there you are, Harold...bronze...the fiery bronze speed-cap...not too heavy, eh... maybe this will convince them we're fast, eh...eh...?" ))}$

"...there you are, Harold...bronze...the fiery bronze speed-cap...not too heavy, eh... maybe this will convince them we're fast, eh...eh...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...you hadn't noticed that? My XTZ90, made in Singapore, is exactly the same as your ZTX500, made in Brazil... maybe we're closer to 'World Motors' than we think..." ))}$

"...you hadn't noticed that? My XTZ90, made in Singapore, is exactly the same as your ZTX500, made in Brazil... maybe we're closer to 'World Motors' than we think..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...look, Harold, the House of Commons...look at all the little politicians, all gesturing... they've even got their mouths open... it's just like real..." ))}$

"...look, Harold, the House of Commons...look at all the little politicians, all gesturing... they've even got their mouths open... it's just like real..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...look, they're both wearing running shoes...she's got the new pastel Sofshoc pivotal-pronation Pacers with the omnilast heel stabilizers and he's wearing those smart black Panther Podiators..." ))}$

"...look, they're both wearing running shoes...she's got the new pastel Sofshoc pivotal-pronation Pacers with the omnilast heel stabilizers and he's wearing those smart black Panther Podiators..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...more and more Harold gets this loud, incessant hissing in his ears, but he's not worried about it... he's sure it's a jumble of messages from outer space and he's hoping to separate and decode or deciper (sic) some of them for the benefit of mankind..." ))}$

"...more and more Harold gets this loud, incessant hissing in his ears, but he's not worried about it... he's sure it's a jumble of messages from outer space and he's hoping to separate and decode or deciper (sic) some of them for the benefit of mankind..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...yeah, Martha, I was in a hurry and overconfident...I thought arachides were kidney beans and I grabbed the wrong can... I can't use peanuts in the chili... do you have a spare tin of haricots rouges...?" ))}$

"...yeah, Martha, I was in a hurry and overconfident...I thought arachides were kidney beans and I grabbed the wrong can... I can't use peanuts in the chili... do you have a spare tin of haricots rouges...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...please speak clearly into the microphone which will electronically display the number of words used in your question... first 5 words free... next 15 words for 2 dollars or proportion thereof... succeeding words at 27 cents each... maximum charge 5 dollars..." ))}$

"...please speak clearly into the microphone which will electronically display the number of words used in your question... first 5 words free... next 15 words for 2 dollars or proportion thereof... succeeding words at 27 cents each... maximum charge 5 dollars..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...so as we've found in our study groups, the exact amount and composition of the many polluting agents in our atmosphere is much too complex for easy analysis... and with the calm assurance that scientists the world over are at present working on the problem we will close this session by recommending that, until we find an appropriate solution, everyone go on breathing as usual..." ))}$

"...so as we've found in our study groups, the exact amount and composition of the many polluting agents in our atmosphere is much too complex for easy analysis... and with the calm assurance that scientists the world over are at present working on the problem we will close this session by recommending that, until we find an appropriate solution, everyone go on breathing as usual..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it used to go 'thump, thump, thu-thump, thump, thummmp-thump', but ever since I took that trip out to the West Coast it's been going 'thump, thump, brrrump, breep, thump-thump, thump, brump, breep... like that..." ))}$

"...it used to go 'thump, thump, thu-thump, thump, thummmp-thump', but ever since I took that trip out to the West Coast it's been going 'thump, thump, brrrump, breep, thump-thump, thump, brump, breep... like that..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I just had a terrible dream...we lived on a five billion year old planet named Erth and we destroyed it in one hundred years and all living creatures died... it was a nightmare...!" ))}$

"...I just had a terrible dream...we lived on a five billion year old planet named Erth and we destroyed it in one hundred years and all living creatures died... it was a nightmare...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...well, I'll admit I am afraid of the Americans...look at it this way, there's two hundred million of them and they're all armed...!" ))}$

"...well, I'll admit I am afraid of the Americans...look at it this way, there's two hundred million of them and they're all armed...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...good morning...I have this neighbor who always beats me having something blooming in the Spring and I was wondering if there's something I could plant now and, you know... really do it to her..." ))}$

"...good morning...I have this neighbor who always beats me having something blooming in the Spring and I was wondering if there's something I could plant now and, you know... really do it to her..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...excuse me, have you seen my wife? She came in here about two hours ago and I've been waiting out in the Mall and I got a bit lonely so I though I'd..." ))}$

"...excuse me, have you seen my wife? She came in here about two hours ago and I've been waiting out in the Mall and I got a bit lonely so I though I'd..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Harold and I get along perfectly together...we're really well matched...we complement each other, y'know... he's taller than I am and I'm smarter than he is..." ))}$

"...Harold and I get along perfectly together...we're really well matched...we complement each other, y'know... he's taller than I am and I'm smarter than he is..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...no more smoke-filled rooms...just lime Perrier, cauliflower yogurt and Tofudent gum... I think it was more exciting in the old days..." ))}$

"...no more smoke-filled rooms...just lime Perrier, cauliflower yogurt and Tofudent gum... I think it was more exciting in the old days..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...Doctor, lately I've been having difficulty keeping up with things... like, my mind seems to go sort of numb... I've been wondering, is there such a thing as rheumatism or arthritis of the brain...?" ))}$

"...Doctor, lately I've been having difficulty keeping up with things... like, my mind seems to go sort of numb... I've been wondering, is there such a thing as rheumatism or arthritis of the brain...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...mild, isn't it...?" ))}$

"...mild, isn't it...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...we've got to reduce our liquid equity earnings ratio... by splitting our midterm spousal transfer withdrawal RRIFs and bypassing short term mutual GDRS warrants accrual, we simply arrive in a safe, highly liquid, lock up earnings reimbursement stance... thus reducing our GIC maturity futures tax... okay...?" ))}$

"...we've got to reduce our liquid equity earnings ratio... by splitting our midterm spousal transfer withdrawal RRIFs and bypassing short term mutual GDRS warrants accrual, we simply arrive in a safe, highly liquid, lock up earnings reimbursement stance... thus reducing our GIC maturity futures tax... okay...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I wonder if you couldn't issue cards to us regular readers entitling us to, say, two hours reading per visit for, say, five dollars per month... thus increasing our enjoyment and dispelling our terrible guilt..." ))}$

"...I wonder if you couldn't issue cards to us regular readers entitling us to, say, two hours reading per visit for, say, five dollars per month... thus increasing our enjoyment and dispelling our terrible guilt..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...would you like to feel my biceps...?" ))}$

"...would you like to feel my biceps...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("I liked the prayer you gave but didn't say who it was for... but we all knew who you meant... believe me, those kind really need it, the way things are today..." ))}$

"I liked the prayer you gave but didn't say who it was for... but we all knew who you meant... believe me, those kind really need it, the way things are today..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it's a difficult spring for Harold...his metamorphosis from the Leafs cocoon to the beautiful, iridescent Blue Jays butterfly seems to be taking forever..." ))}$

"...it's a difficult spring for Harold...his metamorphosis from the Leafs cocoon to the beautiful, iridescent Blue Jays butterfly seems to be taking forever..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I can't keep up any more, Harold... it's all going too fast... they're discarding microwaves already... and there's an old computer..." ))}$

"...I can't keep up any more, Harold... it's all going too fast... they're discarding microwaves already... and there's an old computer..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...the ultra right wing people are talking about privatizing the Progressive Conservative party... how can they do that... I thought it already was..." ))}$

"...the ultra right wing people are talking about privatizing the Progressive Conservative party... how can they do that... I thought it already was..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...golly, see how it's speeding up those steps...awesome... believe me, home delivery on foot will soon be a thing of the past... and wait'll they see the enclosed cab model for winter...!" ))}$

"...golly, see how it's speeding up those steps...awesome... believe me, home delivery on foot will soon be a thing of the past... and wait'll they see the enclosed cab model for winter...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...I left my briefcase on the bus and I'm lost without my notes... I can't remember, is Canprov taking over Transcan and Nordev or is it Nordev taking over Silcan and Candome... and who is Tormont taking over...?" ))}$

"...I left my briefcase on the bus and I'm lost without my notes... I can't remember, is Canprov taking over Transcan and Nordev or is it Nordev taking over Silcan and Candome... and who is Tormont taking over...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...now this is art I can understand...he's painting real people...!" ))}$

"...now this is art I can understand...he's painting real people...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...pressure-moulded Mahogany and fiberglass laminate with high-silicon ceramic motor... body made in New Guinea, engine from Brunei, assembled in Penang... they've got the Koreans worried..." ))}$

"...pressure-moulded Mahogany and fiberglass laminate with high-silicon ceramic motor... body made in New Guinea, engine from Brunei, assembled in Penang... they've got the Koreans worried..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...okay... we'll meet back here in two hours... whoever becomes conscience-stricken and spends less than twenty thousand buys lunch...okay...?" ))}$

"...okay... we'll meet back here in two hours... whoever becomes conscience-stricken and spends less than twenty thousand buys lunch...okay...?"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...here we have the Anchor person students picking up the finer points of shuffling their papers at the end of a newscast... it's an anachronism, but still it has a certain graceful validity..." ))}$

"...here we have the Anchor person students picking up the finer points of shuffling their papers at the end of a newscast... it's an anachronism, but still it has a certain graceful validity..."

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...there goes old Haroldson in his new Adidas turbo GT 507...I guess the fitness thing is really over...!" ))}$

"...there goes old Haroldson in his new Adidas turbo GT 507...I guess the fitness thing is really over...!"

${fix_str(utf8_encode("...it used to be beautiful...a wonderful place to come to...before it became a park.." ))}$

"...it used to be beautiful...a wonderful place to come to...before it became a park.."