I used to do a bit like this on-air. Get listeners to phone in and give a thumbs up or down on any topic they wanted. I'll start with one of each, you can do just one, or both.


Beef: Motorcycles with loud exhausts! What the heck gives you the right to assult me with this God-awful noise? I'm sitting enjoying a sunny day on the patio,and along comes what can only be described as a moving earthquake, proven by the fact that the warning alert sounds on my car alarm. While I'm at it beef to the cops who won't bother enforcing anti-noise by-laws, except to come and bug you that your birds are too noisy.

Bouquet: Volunteers. Always blows me away how some folks can be so dedicated to their cause. Case in point. I went to a baseball game Sunday. Local junior team. Just American college players mostly, playing for free, just to keep in shape and pad the resume when not playing for schools, and looking for the "big break". There was a "crowd" of all of 20 fans. I can't claim to be a huge supporter myself, but it was a perfect day, and walking distance to the stadium. There they are the half dozen volunteers catering to the massive crowd. Consessions, announcer, gate keeper and so on. Just doing it for the love of their cause. So to those who volunteer at homless shelters, minor sports leagues, pet shelters, service groups, hospital auxilliaries...BIG BOUQUETS.

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I got a nice sunburn for my troubles. It was a perfect day for ball though.

Beef: People who bring a dog to a parade with 1000s of people milling about and DON"T CLEAN UP AFTER IT!!! ICK!! Nothing worse than steping in fresh dog doo ... or trying to clean it off a youngster who has fallen in it on the sidewalk!!! CURB YOUR DOG!!! Better yet ... leave it HOME!!!



Bouquet: Hospice workers who really care about the families who are hurting so fiercely as they watch their loved one end his/her days.

ooh- my turn!!

Beef: No-good, lazy, selfish, irresponsible deadbeat parents who think it's ok to pop in once every few years then drop off the face of the earth again as if that's a "normal" and acceptable way to parent a child!!

Bouquet: Moms- that one word says it all

Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms out there!

chicken (beef is too good to be used in a derogatory fashion) waitstaff who ignore you and then are sweetness and light when they bring the tab to try to get a big tip.


boquet- a raspberry daquiri with hazel nuts as garnish...enough said on that one.

BEEF! The idiot neighbour who had the stereo turned up to 11 this morning at 3am! Monday morning fer crying out loud!

BEEF - Truckers who jake brake!!!



BOUQUET - Local gas station that has fresh coffee 24/7!!!

BEEF: The goober neighbors next door (with 6 kids) who continue to walk through my yard, pick my flowers, and leave their trash.

BOUQUET: My other neighbors who yell at the idiots who don't pick up their dog poop in my yard and who help no matter what!

eeeps @ the evil neighbors Berlie


Beef: fairweather friends (sorry on a kick today about one of them)



Boquet: Friends who are loyal, honest, and true and stand by your side because they love you.

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Beef: fairweather friends (sorry on a kick today about one of them)

Boquet: Friends who are loyal, honest, and true and stand by your side because they love you.
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Got both kinds IMPs ... one thinks the road only goes one way (meaning I visit her, she doesn't visit me!)


Beef: The guy who races past you on the road, just to be sitting at the same red light you get to up the road

Bouquet: The guy who stopped to help change a tire on the highway.

Beef: Plastic product packages (chips, candy, dry beans.......). I'd just like to go back to the days of paper packages. You could actually buy a candy bar at the store and eat it on the way home because you didn't need surgical instruments to open the wrapper.

Bouquet: Stores and websites who put their prices right up front so I'll know how interested I am in their products. (I figure if their prices embarrass them, they'll probably embarrass me too.)

Beef: The crappy weather we've had. We're only a few weeks away from summer and we haven't managed to string together more the 2 days of nice weather.

Bouquet: The crappy weather. At least I haven't had to get on my landlord about the broken A/C so soon after the water meter blew and half flooded my pad.

Crap! Thats actually another Beef.

BEEF: Pusinesses that don't list their hours...

BOUQUET: Businesses that give you a website that you can ACTUALLY use!

Beef: Computers that say "Disk full" when it isn't!

Bouquet: IMPy

awww CQ are you trying to convince me to be nice to you today?

beef: parrots rendered with limited or no background information

Boquet: when they find a good home with parronts who love them!

It would make a pleasant change...

Beef: Not having any work to do while awaiting my next manuscript

Bouquet: Being able to spend more time here

Beef: People who tell you what they think you want to hear

Boquet: People who will tell you what you need to know.

Beef: Companies that start calling you about your monthly bill BEFORE you even get it in the mail!


Bouquet: Electic linesmen who work long hours in horrible weather to keep/get us our electricity after a storm.