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Origins Columns

• Miss Hoopty and Delilah Part Ways
  Miss Hoopty succumbs to her activist tendencies.
• March Break
  Miss Hoopty and Delilah head south.
  (See the new Origins cartoon!)
• Hockey Night in Canada
  Miss Hoopty and Delilah go to a hockey game.
• More Shocking than Awing
  Miss Hoopty blows a fuse.
• Deking for Dignity
  Miss Hoopty narrowly escapes embarrassment.
• Ski Bunnies
  Miss Hoopty and Delilah go downhill skiing.
• Holiday Spirit
  Miss Hoopty and Delilah have a conversation with Santa Claus.
• Dining Out
  Miss Hoopty and Delilah indulge in some Canadian culinary delights.
• Camping Out
  Miss Hoopty and Delilah go whitewater rafting and survive — each other’s company.
• Sugaring Off
  Miss Hoopty and Delilah head for the sugar shack and discover that nothing crosses cultural barriers like syrup on a stick.
• Introducing Miss Hoopty and Delilah
  Origins has two new divas.
• Carnie Talk
  Origins Guy goes to the carnival.
• Forty-Pounder Fishing
  Origins Guy goes ice fishing.
• The Whole Story
  Origins Guy tells all.
• Instruments of Expression: Bells, Drums, and a Horn
  Origins Guy joins a band.
• With It, Out of It
  Origins Guy tries to be hip.
• Crazy for You
  Origins Guy goes crazy.
• The Clothes Make the Saying
  You can dress Origins Guy up but you can’t take him out.
• A Country Mile, as the Chicken Flies
  Origins Guy uses fowl language on a Sunday drive.
• The Right and Left Stuff
  Origins Guy dexterously gives us the right and left of it.
• High Time for a High Ball?
  Origins Guy is living the high life.
• More Food for Thought
  Origins Guy serves up French origins of popular English dishes.
• Between a Rock and a Hard Place
  Origins Gal clears the rubble while Origins Guy is on vacation.
• Games of Chance
  Origins Guy has an ace up his sleeve.
• He Writes... He Scores!
  Origins Guy tries to educate a sports fan on the finer points of sports talk.
• Food for Thought
  A tasty look at what you eat.
• The Play’s the Thing
  Origins Guy makes his stage debut with expressions from the theatre.
• Ode to Pandora
  Origins Guy has really done it this time! Opening Pandora’s Box?
• The truth about cats and dogs
  A catty perspective on the origins of expressions that refer to cats and dogs.
• You Can’t Get Sicker than Dead
  A heart-stopping look at the origins of expressions dealing with death.
• What’s in a Name?
  A hilarious look at some overused names that keep cropping up in our everyday language.
• Yippe Ti Yi Yay — A Play in Half an Act
  A shoe-stompin' discussion on the origins of wild-west expressions.
• I’ll Hand It to You
  A handful of tales on the origins of "handy" phrases.
• Belly Up to the Bar, Boys
  Beer-guzzling expressions to clink your glass to.
• Honest and for True
  A humorous look at the "Naked Truth".
• Cats, Cons, and Cautions
  A closer look at everyday phrases in the English language.