our little life | Is rounded with a sleep. - Shakespeare

Okay, so a rationalist is a person that appeals to reason as the supreme source of truth and shuns sensory perception. Well, in that sense, I guess I'm more of a positivist. My position is pretty close to David Hume's.

Our revels now are ended. These our actors, | As I foretold you, were all spirits, and | Are melted into air, into thin air; | And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, | The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, | The solemn temples, the great globe itself, - Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, | And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, | Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff | As dreams are madeMemo to mayoral candidates: When there are microphones in the room, be careful what you say.

The few dozen voters who showed up at the Shaw Conference Centre for Tuesday's mayoral forum likely missed the feistiest exchange.

But the news cameras were switched on, so the strange encounter was saved for posterity.

Bob Ligertwood and Carla Frost became involved in a brief exchange Tuesday prior to a all-candidate mayoral forum. (CBC)

Moments before the forum opened, incumbent Don Iveson made his way down the podium table, shaking hands with opponents.

After greeting perennial also-ran Bob Ligertwood, Iveson stopped beside another challenger and asked if she was Carla Frost.

"Yes, I am," Frost responded. "Pleased to meet you."

As Iveson leaned over to shake hands with another candidate, Frost turned in her seat and said: "I'm