The Canadian dollar, nicknamed for the image of a loon that it bears, passed its American counterpart on Friday, when it hit a new 31-year high of almost $1.01.
Then I burst out laughing at myself for being such a loon.
Matthew Fox, vice-president of Universal Internatinal Pictures, who was staking his match-research, formed a company for the manufacturing of Bub-A-Loon.
Responses from other mothers to her query about whether they, too, would be irritated ranged from "If you didn't tell her it was supposed to be for dinner, there's no grounds for being annoyed" to "You're a loon".
For the novice, we present a loon-spotter's guide.
The novelist E. L. Doctorow was so inspired by a sign for Loon Lake, in the Adirondacks, that he used the name as a book title.
This is a landmark moment for Loon, and clearly for Sri Lanka.
As Nick Ayer put it, St. Aubyn would be "disinherited for a bunch of loons — for her cat, almost".
It was nearly dark when I began casting, but not too dark for a pair of loons 40 yards away to continue their fishing.
Google plans to use the drones in part for its Project Loon initiative, an attempt to send high-altitude balloons into the sky to connect more of the world to the Internet.
