The Wingham Advance-Times, 1984-10-10, Page 321'
Page 18 -Crossroads -Oct. 10, 1984
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50 ... WOW Detroit 6 ... CKNX ViringhaM
" 0 ... Global 10 ... CFPL London
7 ... WKBW Doitalo 11 ... CHCH Hamilton
13 ... CKCO Kitchener
17 ... TSH
87 ... Clly TV Teronlo
Wed., Oct. 17
AFTERNOON
12:00 News 6, 7D, 4D, 5D, 7,
5
Cartoons 8
Beaver 3
Zorro 10.
Flintstones 13
Ryan's Hope 57
12:25 Agri -News 13
12:30 The Young and
Restless 7D, 4D, 11
.0„1 News 10, 8, 3
Wheel of Fortune 13
Parenting 5
Loving 57, 7
1:00 Citylife 57
All My Children 8, 10,
7,5,3
Let's Make a Deal 6
Days of Our Lives 5D
The Don Harron Show
13
1:30 As the World Turns 6,
7D, 4D
Days of Our Lives 11
City Lights 57
2:00 Dallas 5
Parenting 3
One Day At A Time 57
The New You 8
You're Beautiful 10
One Life to Live 7
Another World 5D, 13
2:30 Capitol 7D, 4D
Do It For Yourself 3
You're Beautiful 8
It's Your Move'6
Soapbox 11
Quincy 57
Parenting 10
3:00 General Hospital 13, 7
Coronation Street 5
Do It For Yourself 8,
10
Santa Barbara 11, 5D
Fitness Break 3
The Guiding Light 6,
7D,4D
3:30 20 Minute Workout 57
Too Close For Com:
fort 8
'Video Hits 3 •
Three's A Crbwd 10 •
All In The Family 5
4:00 Afterschool Spee1Lil:
"Out Of Step" 7
One Life To Live 1,3
Video Hits 8,110
Toronto Rocks 57
Little House on the
Prairie 11
Charlie'W`Angels 7D,
4D, 6
Jeffersons 5D f
Do It For Yourself 5
Beverly Hillbillies 3
4:30 Barney Miller 5D
Jeffersons 3, 10
Going Great 5
MASH 8
5:00 Young People's
Special: "Umbrella
Jack" 7
Hart to Hart 13
Video Hits 5
Rituals 11
Family Feud 7D, 4D
Scooby Doo 6
The Price Is Right 8,
57, 10 •
Three's Company 3
News 5D
5:30 News 3, 7D, 4D, 6
Three's Company 5
Taxi 11
EVENING
6:00News 6, 11, 10, 8, 7, 5,
13
Citypulse 57
Star Trek 3
6:30 News. 7, 7D, 4D, 5D
7:00 MASH 57
Wheel of Fortune 7, 6
Joker's Wild 5D
Entertainment
Tonight 11, 7D, 4D
Family Feud 13
One Day At A Time 8,
10
It's Your Move 3
Ontario 200 5
7:30 MASH 57
Circus 13
. Charl'es In Charge 5
Three's A Crowd 3
Three's Company .8,
10 •
Family Feud'?
Warren. Knight of Belgrave, ' centre,
guessed within a few cents. how much
money was in 'the Standard Trust money
jar at last month's International. Plowing
Match and Machinery . Show near Teviot-
dale. There was $347.17 in the jar and
Mr. Knight guessed $347.13. He is
flanked by Standard Trust represen-
tatives Peter 5 Shephard and Gerry
Kavanagh. •
Standard Trust
237 Josephine St.,
Wingham. 357-2022
Don Cherry's
Grapevine 11
Wheel of Fortune 5D
PM Magazine Detroit
7j], 4D
Pizzazz 6
8:00 TBA 7D, 4D
Double Trouble SD
. Real People 6
Nature of Things 8, 3,
10, 5
Fall Guy 7, 13
Hockey (Hartford at
Toronto) 11
Movie "Doctor's
Story" 57
8:30 Jennifer Slept Here
5D
9:00 Facts of Life 5D
Movies "TBA" 7D, 4D
Marketplace 8, 3, 10, 5
Dynasty 6, 7
The Cosby Show 13
9:30 Family Brown 13
Man Alive 8, 3, 10, 5
TBA 5D
10:00 St. Elsewhere 5D
National 5, 3, 8, 10
Hotel 7, 13
Knots Landing 6
Citypulse Tonight 57
10:20 Journal 5, 3, 8, 10
11:00 News 6, 71), 4D, 5D,
11, 8, 3, 1,0, 7, 13
National Update 5
SCTV 57
11:05 Newsfinal5
11:20 Ontario Report 13
11:30 Barney Miller 5
Family Brown 11
Entertainment
Tonight 3, 8, 10
Sportsline 6
Tonight Show 5D
' ' Taxi 71), 4D -
Nightline 7
Movife "A Walk In
The Spring Rain" 57
12;00 Benny Hill 6
Dallas 10
The Best Of Saturday
Night 7D; 4D
Movies "The Corn Is
Green" 5; "Oil" 8;
"Dead Man's Eyes"
3; "Prisoner Of Zen-
' da' 13
Hawaii Five -O 11
Mery Griffin 7
12:30 Love Boat 5D •
.Rockford Files 7D, 4D
Welcome Back, Kot -
ter 6
1,0 Hawaii Five -O 11
Chico and the Man 6
Eye On Hollywood 7
1:30 Kung Fu 6
• News 7
Late Night 5D
Entertainment
Tonight 70, 4D'
1:35 Muchmusic 57
2:00 Maude 7D, 4D
Highlights 5
Flipper 11
Nightwatch 13
2:30. Flipper 11
Movie "TBA" 5D
Eight,is Enough 7D',
4D
3:00 Muchmusic 57
3030 Classic Country 7D,
4D
4:00 Nightwatch 7D, 4D
4:30 Good Times 5D •
5:00 Tic Tac Dough 5D
Pesos used in China
By the end of the 16th cen-
tury the Mexican .peso was
in general use in southern
China as . a resultof tea and
silk traded through. Manila.
U§,e of Mexican coins in the
Far East continued for cen-
turies, and in the mid -19th
century there was a period
when there were more Mexi-
can pesos in China than in
Me:•ico.
Bill Smiley
.As (tars -
pass us by
Nismarseiroogliw
I was going to say,
"There's nothing more bor-
ing than old people talking
about the 'good old days'
when they were young."
Then I realized that I was ,.
out in left field, with nobody
at bat, the pitcher chewing
tobacco and spitting juice,
the catcher fumbling around
trying to adjust his athletic
protector, as they now call a
metal jockstrap.
There are many things
more boring. Little children
who want one more horsey
ride when your spine feels
fractured in eight places
from the 10 previous jaunts.
Teenagers babbling end-
lessly about rock stars, boy-
friends, girlfriends, and the
money they need to keep up
with their friends. "How
come we only have a 21 inch
TV? I'm 16; why can't I stay
out till 3 a.m. if I want to?
'I'm the only girl in the class
who doesn't have construc-
tion workers boots!"
University students, , per-
haps the most boring crea-
tures in our society. After the
initial chirps of recognition:
"Oh, Mr. Smiley, how are
you? Hos's it going?" And
then 40 minutes of straight,
self-centred description of
their university courses or
their jobs, their professors,
their disenchantment with
their courses, their unspoken
admission that they can't
hack it, as you knew they
couldn't in the first place.
I manage to brush them off
after about eight minutes
"with a cheery, "So long,
Sam, great to hear you're
doing ;so well, and best of
luck. ^I have to. go to an orgy
for senior citizens that starts
in Our minutes, - with the
pornographic movie." It's
great to leave them there
with their mouths hanging
open.
Next worse, in the boring
department, are young
couples who have produced
one or two infants, and talk
as though they'd swum the
Atlantic, or climbed Mount
Everest. "Let me tell you
what, Timmy (or Ki)nmy)
said the other day. He was
sawing wood in the nursery
school, and his saw slipped,
and he pointed at his saw,
and he said, 'Don't you dare
do that', and the teacher told
me, and she said it was the
most hilarious thing she'd
ever seen, and blah blah
blah, and ..."
Boring. B -o -r -i -n -g. We can
all top that type of story. My
daughter, age 7, Grade 2,
just getting over the Santa
Claus bit, came home one
day and told my wife she
knew what a certain familiar
four-letter word that she'd
seen scrawled on the side-
walk meant.
At the time, rather absent-
mindedly, with Dr. , Spock
lurking in the background,
she enquired, "And what
does it mean, dear?".The re-
sponse was, "When men and
ladies lie down on top of each
other and go to the bath-
room." That was the end of
any birds and bees instruc-
tion.
Next in a descending line
off boring conversationalists
are middle-aged grandpar-
ents. The women, young
enough to still elicit a whistle
on a dark night, the men old
enough to suck in their
paunches when a bikini
walks by, they act as though
they had invented grandchil-
dren. They whine exchanged
whimpers about ' the baby-
sitting they have to do. They
brag' that their grandchil-
dren are the worst little
devils in the world. Boring.
' And finally, we get to the
elderly. Certainly some of
them are ' boring, but they
are the ones who have been
bores all their' lives.
But the others, the salty
ones, even though slowed by
the body's increasing frailty,
retain their saltiness, and
even improve on it, because
they don't give a god damn
anymore. They can say what
they like and do what they
like. And they do.
I've met or talked to three
men in their late 80s recent-
ly. My father-in-law, 89,
seemed rather frail when we
arrived for a visit, at 3 p.m.
At 11 that night we were still
arguing religion and politics,
at top form.
I've told you about old
Campbell, the 85-er who
dowses wells and is set to go
to Paraguay. Talked to my
great-uncle, riddled with
arthritis, and his voice and
welcome were as warm and
crackling as a fireplace
freshly lit.
This whole column was
inspired by a clipping my
sister sent me about 88 -year-
old Lawrence Consitt off .
Perth, Ontario.
Lawrence was present
when the last man was
hanged in Perth. His com-
ment: "It was strange." The
man had turned to the crowd
and smiled just before his
death. He had murdered his
wife. Today he'd be given a
man -slaughter and six
years.
Lawrence started playing
piano 79 years ago, at
dances, at the silent pictures
theatre. He got five dollars a
night for a dance. The talkies
knocked him out of a job in
1930. But he kept on playing
ragtime and jazz wherever
' there was an opening.
I listened to him improvise
for the silent ' movies. I
danced to his piano at coun-
try dances, with his nieces
and great-nieces.
He always had a crock.
Tokk the pledge in 1925. It
lasted 13 months. Got Sick on
a ship to France in 1918, and
was too late to be killed.
He never married; "But I
drank a lot of whiskey." He's
in one of those Sunset
Havens now, but when they
ask him when he'll be back
from a day in Perth, he says,
"it depends on who.I meet."
That's boring? . Hang on,
Lawrence. You gave great
pleasure to many people. I
hope I can stay as salty as
you. J
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