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Bob Ripley 🇨🇦

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Be kind. Work hard. Smile often. Be honest. Travel when possible. Stay curious.

Joined November 2024

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Mrs. Betty Bowers mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Jan 2
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Bob Ripley 🇨🇦 handle.invalid · Apr 17, 2025
Since it’s Holy Week I continued the traditional annual viewing of Life of Brian last night. Here’s my column about it (currently available on Prime). www.bobripley.ca/articles/thi...
Think For Yourselves: Brian Cohen

Whether it is my deep Anglican roots or former Methodist vocation, I warmed up quickly to the controversial Life of Brian, released in 1979 . Life of Brian in case you don’t know, is the tale of an ac...

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Bob Ripley 🇨🇦 handle.invalid · Mar 24, 2025
More conversation between Mike and Mark! x.com/markjcarney/...
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Bob Ripley 🇨🇦 handle.invalid · Mar 23, 2025
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Elbows up, Canada.

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Bob Ripley 🇨🇦 handle.invalid · Mar 8, 2025

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Bob Ripley 🇨🇦 handle.invalid · Mar 7, 2025
Elbows up Canada!

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Bob Ripley 🇨🇦 handle.invalid · Mar 5, 2025
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We Are Canadian

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Bob Ripley 🇨🇦 handle.invalid · Mar 4, 2025
Ever wonder why this is “Pancake Tuesday”? www.bobripley.ca/articles/ash...
Ashes: An Awkward Imposition

Coming today to a parish hall near you. Pancakes. Fat Tuesday or Shrove Tuesday precedes Ash Wednesday and the infamous forty days of Lent. Forty, a popular biblical number right up there with seven a...

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Tim Dickinson timdickinson.bsky.social · Mar 1, 2025
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Bob Ripley 🇨🇦 handle.invalid · Mar 1, 2025
This could be the photo of the year.

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Ron Filipkowski ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Feb 21, 2025
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Charlie Angus charlieangus104.bsky.social · Feb 13, 2025
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Bob Ripley 🇨🇦 handle.invalid · Feb 14, 2025
Amusing Ourselves to Death

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Charlie Angus charlieangus104.bsky.social · Feb 2, 2025
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Bob Ripley 🇨🇦 handle.invalid · Feb 1, 2025
We stand on guard for thee!

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Bob Ripley 🇨🇦 handle.invalid · Jan 23, 2025
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The White House has gone silent. Again.

Every house, White or otherwise, needs music.

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Bob Ripley 🇨🇦 handle.invalid · Jan 22, 2025

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Charlie Angus charlieangus104.bsky.social · Jan 21, 2025
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Barbara Hershey barbarahershey.bsky.social · Jan 19, 2025
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Bob Ripley 🇨🇦 handle.invalid · Jan 13, 2025
If Moses was Canadian.

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Bob Ripley 🇨🇦 handle.invalid · Jan 10, 2025
After watching the funeral for Jimmy Carter, here’s a column I wrote about the trend to avoid funerals which is, I believe, a mistake. www.bobripley.ca/articles/the...
The Death of the Funeral

I’m in mourning. And it’s not the recent loss of ladies such as Jenny and Mary Ann. I’m mourning the loss of the funeral. Scan local obituaries and you’ll see more and more notices ending with th...

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Charlie Angus charlieangus104.bsky.social · Dec 25, 2024
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Daniel Rolph Author danielrolphauthor.bsky.social · Jan 2, 2025
Charles Bukowski said it best: doubt is the burden of the thoughtful. Confidence, unfortunately, often belongs to the clueless.

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George Takei georgetakei.bsky.social · Dec 29, 2024
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Ron Filipkowski ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Dec 28, 2024
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Bob Ripley 🇨🇦 handle.invalid · Dec 26, 2024
Posit Christmas interview.

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Bob Ripley 🇨🇦 handle.invalid · Dec 23, 2024
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All Hail the King of Instruments

Experience the Pipe Organ this Christmas.

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Bob Ripley 🇨🇦 handle.invalid · Dec 18, 2024

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Bob Ripley 🇨🇦 handle.invalid · Dec 13, 2024
Happy 99th birthday to the effervescent Dick Van Dyke!

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Bob Ripley 🇨🇦 handle.invalid · Dec 4, 2024
For no particular reason, it’s Santa (me) with my daughter who’s now 47!

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Bob Ripley 🇨🇦 handle.invalid · Dec 1, 2024
@miafarrow.bsky.social I loved seeing you and Patti in The Roommate! Hope you’re back in form after COVID.

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Bob Ripley 🇨🇦 handle.invalid · Dec 1, 2024
People ask me if I run outside in the cold. The answer is “of course, if you’re dressed for it.” We were this morning!

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The Tennessee Holler thetnholler.bsky.social · Dec 1, 2024
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Bob Ripley 🇨🇦 handle.invalid · Dec 1, 2024
So glad to still hear and read the musings Garrison Keillor even if he isn’t on Blue Sky. Garrison Keillor’s column. open.substack.com/pub/garrison...
So what are we to do now?

The Column: 11.29.24

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Bob Ripley 🇨🇦 handle.invalid · Nov 29, 2024
… and to think that her name was Ripley!

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George Takei georgetakei.bsky.social · Nov 28, 2024
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Bob Ripley 🇨🇦 handle.invalid · Nov 28, 2024
Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends!

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Bob Ripley 🇨🇦 handle.invalid · Nov 28, 2024
It’s Electric Guitar Day!

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Annastasia handle.invalid · Nov 27, 2024
I just leave this here.....

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