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Uncle Pete
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Instead the city is posting "No Skinny dipping" signs in all the potholes. : ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
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Lothlorien
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Originally posted by Uncle Pete:
Instead the city is posting "No Skinny dipping" signs in all the potholes. :
Surely it is still a bit cold for that still?
We can send you some heat if you like. Over 40 deg C in outer suburbs and just under that at my place, much closer to the city. With high humidity. Summer's last hurrah, I hope.
[ 25. February 2016, 21:03: Message edited by: Lothlorien ]
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Piglet
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If you're sending that lot over, Loth, make sure it bypasses me and goes straight to Pete.
40°? With humidity??? ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
**shudder**
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Lothlorien
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It is still muggy but cooler, a bit under 30. February is always humid but this seems worse than usual, although someone seems to say that every year.
I set the aircon to 25 and it was still more pleasant in my room last night with the humidity removed than outside in my hall. The temperature was supposedly the same. I even pulled the sheet over my back this morning.
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Uncle Pete
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Originally posted by Lothlorien:
It is still muggy but cooler, a bit under 30. February is always humid but this seems worse than usual, although someone seems to say that every year.
I set the aircon to 25 and it was still more pleasant in my room last night with the humidity removed than outside in my hall. The temperature was supposedly the same. I even pulled the sheet over my back this morning.
Are you taking lessons from your very annoying co-host??
![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Uncle Pete:
Are you taking lessons from your very annoying co-host??
You talkin' 'bout me?? ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif)
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Uncle Pete
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You are as pure as the driven snow, o honoured one. I was referring to the other, very annoying, host.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Uncle Pete:
You are as pure as the driven snow, o honoured one ...
You haven't seen the snow around these parts after a few weeks ... ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Sober Preacher's Kid
Presbymethegationalist
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Dear Meg:
I'm coming to Edmonton on April 8th and would like to have a Shipmeet. If you would be so kind as to check your PM's.
SPK.
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Welease Woderwick
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quote:
Originally posted by Uncle Pete:
You are as pure as the driven snow, o honoured one. I was referring to the other, very annoying, host.
Who can he mean?
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Og: Thread Killer
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Until the Annex and Christie Pits sees snow, the local CBC radio doesn't think its been winter yet.
So winter finally got here yesterday, we've now been told.
Mind you, not like we up in the inner suburbs have gotten that much. People were complaining about ankle deep snow and I just had to laugh.
On a side note, when it takes the average low wage earner over an hour to get to work in good weather, I'm happy we have had a mild winter. A lot of people were seeing parents they wouldn't normally see for most of winter.
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John Holding
Coffee and Cognac
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I would congratulate a certain NCR-based shipmate on an, as yet undisclosable, honour to be received -- but that person's post box is full so I cannot.
You know who you are.
John
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Sober Preacher's Kid
Presbymethegationalist
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So what is this honour? It appears it was not a Senatorship, but surely the Order of Canada is still open?
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John Holding
Coffee and Cognac
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I'm sure the recipient will let it be known in the fullness of time, but it's not related to the Order of Canada at all. And, as you say, not a senate seat.
I'd love to tell you, really, but it's not my news.
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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Another friggin' "winter storm"! My housekeeper has just cancelled her visit tomorrow. Who wants to bet that if I go to my phone there will be a text cancelling our meeting tonight, for the second time in a row?
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Uncle Pete
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Well, I got an email cancelling tonight. Although since the govmint has been sent home at noon, supposedly, it must be worse out there than it seems.
Still ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif)
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Augustine the Aleut
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With respect to the John Holding/SPK exchange, I am able now to note that I have just received permission to accept a Spanish decoration although sadly I may not use the title in Canada (although an unkind friend of mine, an aficionada of Trailer Park, says that I would be confused with Don the demented cousin of Bubbles). One of my Spanish friends assures me that the rosette on my hoody will get me a good table in a restaurant, but that I will have to address the waiter with egalitarian Trotskyite bonhomie.
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Sober Preacher's Kid
Presbymethegationalist
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A Hidalgo then, I take it.
If the order is of a chivalric nature, are we to be treated to the spectacle of you practising your jousting technique on Parliament Hill?
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Augustine the Aleut
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Originally posted by Sober Preacher's Kid:
A Hidalgo then, I take it.
If the order is of a chivalric nature, are we to be treated to the spectacle of you practising your jousting technique on Parliament Hill?
Lancing practice on senior officials is likely to do more good for Canada at this stage.
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Piglet
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Congratulations, Don A-the-A! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
eta: do I have to curtsey while replying to your posts now?
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Augustine the Aleut
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Originally posted by Piglet:
Congratulations, Don A-the-A!
eta: do I have to curtsey while replying to your posts now?
Depends on your gender identification/assignment.
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Sober Preacher's Kid
Presbymethegationalist
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Originally posted by Augustine the Aleut:
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Originally posted by Sober Preacher's Kid:
A Hidalgo then, I take it.
If the order is of a chivalric nature, are we to be treated to the spectacle of you practising your jousting technique on Parliament Hill?
Lancing practice on senior officials is likely to do more good for Canada at this stage.
You can start with a certain Departmental HR Office of my acquaintance.
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Augustine the Aleut
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Originally posted by Sober Preacher's Kid:
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Originally posted by Augustine the Aleut:
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Originally posted by Sober Preacher's Kid:
A Hidalgo then, I take it.
If the order is of a chivalric nature, are we to be treated to the spectacle of you practising your jousting technique on Parliament Hill?
Lancing practice on senior officials is likely to do more good for Canada at this stage.
You can start with a certain Departmental HR Office of my acquaintance.
I have a special lance, named Petard, which is tipped with a potion from the Amazon basin. We'll see what we can do.
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Piglet
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Depending on what the potion's supposed to do, I might join the queue for borrowing it.
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Sober Preacher's Kid
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Speed things up would be nice. That office wouldn't voom if you put 50,000 volts through it.
A kick in the can for its various oversights would be nice.
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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By the waters of Babylon I sat down and wept.
There shall be weeping and wailing in the Outer darkness.
Is this the straw the broke the camel's back?
Not only is Rona sold to Lowe's, but most importantly, St. Hubert, a plucky little chicken chain, has been swallowed up by the Cara Conglomerate and Swiss Chalet. Is this the final resolution of the daggers-drawn fight between the two dipping sauces?
Only time will tell. If you see on-line petitions abounding, this will be the reason.
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lily pad
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The business reporter (I think that's who it was) on CBC this morning quipped that she hoped the outcome would be Swiss Chalet fries with St. Hubert dipping sauce.
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Uncle Pete
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BLASPHEMER
St Hubert fanatics claim that Swiss Chalet dipping sauce is the devil's urine. (Personally, it is one of the things that keep me firmly on the Swiss Chalet side). The Quebeckers and the Ottavians who have been brainwashed differ vociferously. One even claimed that there would be rioting in the streets if they mucked with it.
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Piglet
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I've yet to discover the delights of St. Hubert (I'm fairly sure they don't extend this far to the mystic East), but I'm not a great fan of dipping sauces anyway. On the rare occasions when we go to a Swiss Chalet, I'm more likely to have a steak or pasta, and if I do have chicken I tend to ignore the sauce.
IMHO the only sauce needed for chips is either tomato ketchup or (when in Belgium) mayonnaise.
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Here in la belle province, St. Hubert is seen as being ours, and that's a big deal here.
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Originally posted by Hail Mary:
Here in la belle province, St. Hubert is seen as being ours, and that's a big deal here.
That comment reminds me of when Rona bought out Revelstoke, but in reverse. Quebec company buying B.C. But then Rona is getting sold to American chain Lowes.
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Hail Mary
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That's a good comparison. In the meantime, I'm going to stock up on a few cans of St. Hubert poutine gravy, for sentimental value.
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I seem to be a couple days late in making my escape to the desert.
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Og: Thread Killer
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So, anybody east of BC seen spring yet?
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Hail Mary
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It snowed here in Montreal yesterday and today. Something about April being the cruelest month.
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We had spring all winter on the prairies. It snowed 2 days ago and today I was out in shorts. Spring looks like a continuation.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Og: Thread Killer:
So, anybody east of BC seen spring yet?
We saw it last week, but it buggered off. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
Either that or, like in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, it gave summer and autumn a miss and went straight back into winter.
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Og: Thread Killer
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So I hear there's a job opening in Ottawa going?
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We woke up to winter then the sun came out this afternoon and almost all of the snow has melted. Crazy weather!
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Piglet
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That pretty much happened here on Wednesday, Lilypad - they were forecasting loads of snow, but it never really came to much, and disappeared pretty damn quick.
I may not be saying the same this time next year; D. and I are heading west*. He's been appointed organist of Fredericton Cathedral, so we'll have to get used to quite a bit more snow than we get here. No time frame as yet - we've got a house to sell - but any advice you folks can offer will be gratefully appreciated.
* well, from here, everywhere is west ...
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Caissa
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I wish Mulcair had done the honourable thing and resigned after the election. Yesterday was embarassing for both him and the Party.
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Og: Thread Killer
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There's a lot of denial going on in the federal NDP and Conservative ranks. I keep hearing variations on "The Libs duped the people."
This reminds me so much of what has gone on in Ontario since 2003. And what seems to go on in the States. The idea that people might disagree politically seems to be beyond the understanding of some.
Sad
Donald Trump stole that particular rhetorical flourish. I'd like to steal it back.
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Sober Preacher's Kid
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I was on the floor. There will be more fallout from this than just Mulcair's sacking. This will not be pretty.
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Caissa
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The next two years of examining the leap manifesto should be interesting. I think it will be quite modified if it ever gets adopted and reaches the level of the Regina Manifesto.
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Classic Hegelian dialectic. By the time the CCF were in power in Sask they'd put the Regina Manifesto to practical tesr. They chose a few points which were politically sale-able to the province, and formed most of the provincial gov'ts for the next 50 years.
Their recent loss in Sask represents a failure to present anything other than 'against Brad Wall'.
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Sober Preacher's Kid
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Originally posted by Caissa:
The next two years of examining the leap manifesto should be interesting. I think it will be quite modified if it ever gets adopted and reaches the level of the Regina Manifesto.
![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
That thing is DOA. The NDP is the provincial government in Alberta, and Alberta needs a pipeline. It has significant opposition, and if you think riding associations are actually going to study the manifesto, I have a bridge to sell you.
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Maybe study should have been put in quotation marks. I think cooler heads will prevail over the next 2 years.
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I'd like to see a comparison of the Stephan Dion "Green Shift" pre-Ignatieff with the Leap Manifesto.
For what it's worth, I enjoy it when they call these things "manifesto", reminds me of communists partying.
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Supreme Court extends rights to Métis and non-status Indians. Link. This is big news.
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From a rope, in a jail, in an English town....But you can hear Gabriel and Riel even yet-
They are whispering “You can win what once was lost”**.
- they did today.
(Connie Kaldor, Maria's Place - Batoche)
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