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Natural Weirdness Shines with Carolyn’s Puns
MEANINGLESS PLATTER DUDES: Language transformed on a platter of Fun This fun collection of puns and word play by Carolyn Bishop is just what the doctor ordered to help take your mind off the back to school/work/Canadian winter stress that hits us all as we slave our way through the Fall and into the colder months. Praise has been pouring forth for Carolyn’s Meaningless Platter Dudes from several worldly word experts. Some were so inspired that they too decided to take a stab at a little word play in their reviews, like James...
Read Full BlogOur party cookies
People at our launch party seemed to really like the iguana-shaped cookies (and the square ones we made when we got tired of stamping out iguanas). If you’re curious, here’s the recipe. We added green food coloring to half the batches, and red and blue (to make purple) to the other half. The quantity was more than our standard Kitchen-Aid mixer could handle — we ended up making half-sized batches. But they were easy to make, cooked quickly, and tasted...
Read Full BlogGoogle Alerts searches for “Iguana Books”
Ok, maybe we’re vain. We have a Google Alert set up so we can see when Iguana gets mentioned online. Today there was only one hit, and it made us laugh. The relevant paragraphs: “The front passenger-side window was smashed out, the front driver’s-side quarter panel was scratched and $25 was stolen out of a 2008 Pontiac G8 while it was parked at the Blue Iguana Bar, 3456 Fort St., between 11 p.m. Oct. 23 and 2:15 a.m. Oct. 24.” and “A purse with a black wallet, a driver’s license, a Kroger Plus Card, six books of...
Read Full BlogPlease sign our moose petition
There’s a hot debate on at the moment about Canada’s national animal. An Iguana is a lizard that doesn’t even live in Canada, so you know you can trust the Iguana viewpoint on this issue to be objective. Canada’s national animal is currently the beaver. Beavers are rodents with goofy teeth. If you hear the word “beaver,” is your first thought of Canada and its nobleness? No, you thought of something inappropriate, didn’t you? Senator Nicole Eaton has proposed replacing the beaver with the polar bear as...
Read Full BlogHappy Reptile Awareness Day
On this auspicious day, I thought I’d address a burning issue: Why did we call the company “Iguana Books”? See, my last name is Ioannou, which is Greek. It’s pronounced “you=ar=noo” or some approximation of that. I grew up in a very-not-Greek part of Sydney, Australia. There were three kids in my high-school class whose last name was Cameron. Good name, Cameron. Easy to pronounce. Very Australian tongues that were used to pronouncing only very British-ish names had trouble wrapping themselves around...
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