|
|
Joined:
April 2004
Posts: 13303
Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | OFC member Dano from Toronto was in town last night and we took the opportunity to get together and share a few beers, a few stories, and strum a few guitars. :cool:
After trying to buy almost every guitar I own (with offers I would expect from JeffW), we finally called it a night. :(
Dano, it was great fun. You pick a mean guitar but when you come back, make your offers with American Dollars and not those lame Canadian ones! ;) |
|
| |
|
Joined:
January 2007
Posts: 7
| Not very nice to call our dollars lame, they are far more colourful and if you notice the USD is going to coloured bills too. Long live the Canadian dollar. .84.24 US and holding. ;-) |
|
| |
|
Joined:
May 2003
Posts: 425
Location: SE Michigan | In Michigan we call that Canadian stuff "metric money" |
|
| |
|
Joined:
November 2003
Posts: 11039
Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Hang in there Dano... our friend Stephen is tighter than a bull's ass.
(now there's a lob) |
|
| |
|
Joined:
September 2006
Posts: 10777
Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Brian T-- Do Canadians come over to Detroit for cheap beer? |
|
| |
|
Joined:
January 2007
Posts: 21
Location: TO, Canada | Our "loonie" is all right, though you need more of them if you want to buy an O. here :-) |
|
| |
|
Joined:
August 2005
Posts: 3736
Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by Old Man Arthur:
Brian T-- Do Canadians come over to Detroit for cheap beer? Q) Why is making love on a river bank like American beer???
A) Coz its f@#@#@g near water.
(Sorry Al and Miles, but it's funny for us foreigners) |
|
| |
|
Joined:
April 2004
Posts: 13303
Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Shoulda know that a post that mentioned Candians in the topic would have them start commin out of the woodwork!
Jeff....thanks for the compliment (I think)! I call it bun on the run :rolleyes: |
|
| |
|
Joined:
August 2005
Posts: 3736
Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by stephent28:
...have them start commin out of the woodwork! I'd prefer to come out of the Lyrachord. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
November 2005
Posts: 4832
Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by Old Man Arthur:
... Do Canadians come over to Detroit for cheap beer? Only to flush out the system and sober up.
As ours is partially a 'petro-dollar' and heavily influenced by the export of raw and home processed goods, it is fairly stable in and of itself. (Actually considered under-valued) It's the instability of the American dollar that effects the fluctuation...
 |
|
| |
|
Joined:
November 2003
Posts: 11039
Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | What's to worry? Aren't Canadians and Lilliputians the same thing? |
|
| |
|
Joined:
March 2002
Posts: 14842
Location: NJ | Careful.
I know a lawyer in Lilliput that'll sue your ass for such a slanderous comment . . . |
|
| |
|
Joined:
November 2005
Posts: 4832
Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | S'nothin' 'member, the last time y'all invaded we took the party back to your place and burned the White House to the ground. Good party though! |
|
| |
|
Joined:
November 2003
Posts: 11039
Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Canadians didn't burn the Whitehouse, that fire was started by Dolly Madison smoking in bed, after a schtoopin' by James. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
January 2007
Posts: 21
Location: TO, Canada | American beer? Le quel est? ;-0 |
|
| |
|
Joined:
November 2004
Posts: 4413
| C'est l'eau de pissoir. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
November 2003
Posts: 11039
Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Wee-wee |
|
| |
|
Joined:
November 2004
Posts: 4413
| Although that Californian Pale Ale was really nice. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
November 2003
Posts: 11039
Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I have a bottle of 'Dirty Bastard Ale' waiting for you. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
March 2005
Posts: 12759
Location: Boise, Idaho | You guys are going to make me tell my Canadian beer story. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
February 2005
Posts: 11840
Location: closely held secret | And you're going to make me tell a lawyer joke. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
November 2005
Posts: 4832
Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by Kass-2077:
American beer? Le quel est? No more than a rumour, really.
Y'notice JeffWs typical American 'reinvention of history' a few pages back? It's the sort of wishful thinking that turns ignorant failures like Custer into national heroes.....And British Empire Loyalists like Benedict Arnold into traitors. Kind of explains a lot of their modern history too.
:rolleyes: |
|
| |
|
Joined:
March 2002
Posts: 14842
Location: NJ | The only respect that I have for Canada is that it's the home of Terence & Phillip . . .
(. . . and maybe MolsonGolden) |
|
| |
|
Joined:
August 2006
Posts: 2804
Location: ranson,wva | never had any Canadian beer. is it all light colored and looks like piss water like most american beers?? |
|
| |
|
Joined:
January 2004
Posts: 627
Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | Hey, stopping making fun of our biggest state. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
September 2006
Posts: 713
Location: Alberta, Canada | Originally posted by Tommy M.:
Hey, stopping making fun of our biggest state. The State of Contentment!!!
or
The State of Mass Confusion!!!
;) :) :) |
|
| |
|
Joined:
November 2003
Posts: 11039
Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Fillhixx,
Isn't time you just lighten-up. You've been kinda snotty ever since we turned you guys back at the Battle of Vimy Ridge. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
October 2005
Posts: 5331
Location: Cicero, NY | It was probably more HOW we did it then actually turning them back, Jeff. Telling them that, based on the current exchange rate, they couldn't afford to fight was just wrong. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
November 2003
Posts: 11039
Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | tossed a hockey puck behind them.... |
|
| |
|
Joined:
October 2005
Posts: 5331
Location: Cicero, NY | and tellin' 'em not to come back without the beer... |
|
| |
|
Joined:
January 2007
Posts: 7
| 3 words:
bud goooood bud
Anyone from BC? |
|
| |
|
Joined:
November 2005
Posts: 4832
Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Never heard of the place... nope, we don't even have electricity in the basement. I dunno, what smell?
............................................
Jeff; you pull my chain, I pull yours.
You don't like it, don't hang it out.
 |
|
| |
|
Joined:
September 2006
Posts: 10777
Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by fillhixx: As ours is partially a 'petro-dollar' and heavily influenced by the export of raw and home processed goods, it is fairly stable in and of itself. (Actually considered under-valued ) It's the instability of the American dollar that effects the fluctuation...
[/QB]
There was movement to move the price of oil from USD to Euros, and the US freaked-out. The US Dollar is worth nothing. I explain to my younger friends that I made more REAL money in '79 when I worked for $2.65/hr than I do now at $10/hr. In '79, one hours labor, I could buy a six-pack, a pack of smokes, and still have a buck left over.
'Nuff Said! |
|
| |
|
Joined:
November 2003
Posts: 11039
Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Was the Vimy Ridge reference over the line? |
|
| |
|
Joined:
February 2005
Posts: 11840
Location: closely held secret | I guess I must have missed the point of the Vimy Ridge reference. Nobody turned Canada back, it was a great victory. It was in fact one of the defining moments of WW1. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
November 2003
Posts: 11039
Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | it was more the revisionist skew on it, that I was going for....
Am I really not as funny as I think I am? |
|
| |
|
Joined:
November 2004
Posts: 4413
| Dunno. How funny do you think you are?
I think you're hilarious, but I'm not necessarily talking about your jokes.
Has the mailman been yet? This is about 10 days. I'm gonna sue someone. Paging Mark In BOise, paging Mark In Boise.... |
|
| |
|
Joined:
November 2003
Posts: 11039
Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | How come i never know if your giving me a compliment or not?
Haven't been to the mailbox in two days, I'll check today... and get you a proper email. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
November 2005
Posts: 4832
Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Okay, maybe I got wound a little tight....was still trying to be humourous...if a little sharp. Sorry 'bout that.
And I guess I'm not as OLD as some of you, I just had to go read about Vimy Ridge. Didn't know it happened in WWI. So Jeff, what was your rank then?
and yes, I think you're funny. But then, I have a pretty psycho sense of humour...so don't trust my judgement. That Canadian Guy my hero and inspiration. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
November 2003
Posts: 11039
Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Wouldn't change you for the world, Fillhixx... stay sharp. You're among the crowd that keeps this place interesting, like Schroeder used to....
I held the rank of Piss Bucket Boy back in WWI. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
November 2005
Posts: 4832
Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Still and all, your mind's pretty sharp for a war antique.... |
|
| |
|
Joined:
August 2006
Posts: 3145
Location: Marlton, NJ | The Canada I know and love...
Beauty, eh? |
|
| |
|
Joined:
February 2006
Posts: 140
| Are the Canadians going to have to show a passport to post threads ? |
|
| |
|
Joined:
August 2006
Posts: 3145
Location: Marlton, NJ | I do wish that we could adopt the Canadian's form of political protest...
Politcal Protest |
|
| |
|
Joined:
November 2005
Posts: 4832
Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | You may not have heard the news reports of that same PM (Jean Cretien) choking a protestor who got too close, or the time his wife chased a drunk out of the official residence in the wee hours of the morning. (that last one embarrassed the RCMP a bit.)
Matrix wrote:
Canadians .. to ... show a passport? Usually if we just bring the beer it's all good to go, eh? |
|
| |
|
Joined:
August 2006
Posts: 3145
Location: Marlton, NJ | I was up in Ottawa when the PM (or someone in govt) got milk thrown on them while he was onstage. That would make for an interesting milk commercial. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
March 2005
Posts: 12759
Location: Boise, Idaho | Originally posted by schroeder:
Has the mailman been yet? This is about 10 days. I'm gonna sue someone. Paging Mark In BOise, paging Mark In Boise.... Send a retainer, sufficient to cover the cost of the OFC guitar, and we'll talk. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
November 2005
Posts: 4832
Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by CrimsonLake:
...got milk thrown on them ... Yeah, you can do that here and not get shot. Punched out, maybe. But not shot.
(subject to revision as we all go slowly to hell in a handbasket....or am I just getting old?) |
|
| |
|
Joined:
January 2006
Posts: 387
Location: Whitecourt, Ab | In my opinion, aside from political issues and social programs the biggest difference between Canadians and Americans is the way we talk eh.
When my wife and I were in Vegas a cab driver asked us,"What part of Canada y'all from?" which totally blew her away that we have a definite accent. That and when people found out we were from Canada, asking us if we new Sue Smith in Toronto, or Jim McLeod in Vancouver... |
|
| |
|
Joined:
June 2006
Posts: 659
Location: Hiram, Georgia | Been to Cold Lake... |
|
| |
|
Joined:
January 2006
Posts: 387
Location: Whitecourt, Ab | Awesome fishing there, Phil. Or are (were) you with the armed forces? |
|
| |
|
Joined:
November 2005
Posts: 4832
Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by rededdie: Canadians come is as many varied flavours as Americans Ed.
F'rinstance, Albertans are basically Texan-popsicles. Lovely folks but they still have a thing called 'the nonsmoking section' which is one table with no ashtray. (Legendary Canadian humourist Dave Broadfoot says, "It's like having a nonpeeing section in the pool!")
The only reason someone would live in Toronto is because they can't 'make it' in New York. (IMNSHO)
And out here in British California well,...that about says it all!
The only groups we have that are unique to Canada are the Quebecois (no comment), those wonderful weird Newfies, and a famous subcult made famous by Don Harron that reputedly lives around Parry Sound Ontario. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
November 2003
Posts: 11039
Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I've been "Screeched-In"... The fellas at Marystown Shipyard. Took me most of '96 to get over that night.... |
|
| |
|
Joined:
October 2005
Posts: 5331
Location: Cicero, NY | Personally I love to head North for a weekend or more. Used to camp out in the Kingston/Newport area in the summers and loved every minute of it. Come to think of it, road my first cow up there too... |
|
| |
|
Joined:
June 2006
Posts: 659
Location: Hiram, Georgia | I was there on OFFICIAL MILITARY BUSINESS, lol, but I did get a chance to take in the countryside... most beautiful streams you ever want to see. Gotta watch out for the bear and moose tho! |
|
| |
|
Joined:
November 2003
Posts: 11039
Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | and apparently, half-pissed Yanks riding dairy cows. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
November 2005
Posts: 4832
Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by Weaser P:
road my first cow up there too... Most of the boys don't brag about it though, same as Mopeds..... :rolleyes: |
|
| |
|
Joined:
October 2005
Posts: 5331
Location: Cicero, NY | Sincere apologies, gents. Didn't mean to brag at all but it's not often you get to..well, you know what?...what happens in the barn, stays in the barn. |
|
| |
Invaded by the Canadians