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Location: Alberta, Canada | Originally posted by Tommy M.:
Hey, stopping making fun of our biggest state. The State of Contentment!!!
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The State of Mass Confusion!!!
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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. |
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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. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | tossed a hockey puck behind them.... |
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Location: Cicero, NY | and tellin' 'em not to come back without the beer... |
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bud goooood bud
Anyone from BC? |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Never heard of the place... nope, we don't even have electricity in the basement. I dunno, what smell?
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Jeff; you pull my chain, I pull yours.
You don't like it, don't hang it out.
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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...
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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! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Was the Vimy Ridge reference over the line? |
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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. |
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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? |
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| 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.... |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Still and all, your mind's pretty sharp for a war antique.... |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | The Canada I know and love...
Beauty, eh? |
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| Are the Canadians going to have to show a passport to post threads ? |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | I do wish that we could adopt the Canadian's form of political protest...
Politcal Protest |
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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? |
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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. |
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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. |
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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?) |
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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... |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | Been to Cold Lake... |
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Invaded by the Canadians
