@ www theotherpress.ca Humour ee | — ! cl | ed \ yy = | i n — Lt A ul ‘, L F \ f AG \ td) by Brian Zaikowski | Don't worry man.! Everything is going | to be just fine! Just grab onto this! dementeddenizens.com CJunenous treo: Tent poles By Jenn Markham, Contributor After drying out the tent when we come back from camping, my least favourite job is always getting the tent back in the bag. One time, after a few attempts I went to dad and told him I couldn’t do it. He must have seen an opportunity to teach me about life. For the next half hour, I watched dad grunt and sweat as he manipulated the tent in the bag. He was spouting words of wisdom as if he was reading them from a self-help book. “You'll never succeed if you don’t try...” “Tf at first you don’t succeed, try again...” “Failing is never trying...” And when he finally did it he looked at me, feeling quite pleased with himself. He said, “See!” “Oh yeah, and what about the poles?” We started to laugh. “Another lesson here Jay: never take on a battle you can’t win.” Continued on pg.25 eee Israel adopts new defence policy Christy Clark announces new funding for pant suits and sassy, short hair cuts Ny “2 Brian Burke fires coach, hopes of Maple Leafs making playoffs