OT - Mindless Rant - Page 6

fogwanna · #51 July 31st, 2001, 06:15 AM

OK, I live in Washington (state not DC thank god). Everyone I know calls it by name. Not soda, not pop, but Coke or Pepsi or 7up ect... We have Dr Pepper and Mr Pib. So why not call it what it is. This is true of both the eastern and western side of the state.

Spokane Washington is 1 degree north of Toronto (or is that 2), I think it's 1. Lived in Memphis for a while and don't remember what it was called there. Must have been a mis-spent youth, memory loss and all that. Anyway you would be surprised how many people there thought Oregon was on the Canadian border so I guess that makes Washington part of the 'Great White North'.
Just to get things really wound up I want to ask a question just for my northern friends in thier igloos, "If americans eat canadian bacon, what do canadians eat?" And yes I do have friends in Canada, my daughter is spending the summer in Toronto.

Puke · #52 July 31st, 2001, 08:19 AM

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Originally posted by Quikngruvn:
Soda! S-O-D-A Soda! So- So- So- So- Soda! (With apologies to the Kinks.)

Quikngruvn

trying to say that i cant type?

tesco samoa · #53 July 31st, 2001, 02:26 PM

On the pop/soda issue all I have to say is whoop ***. Now that is a soda. 4 times stronger than jolt.

Canadians when eating the lovely Canadian Bacon like to call it backbacon. As opposed to the other bacon which is just long strips of fat with some pig attached on every other piece.

Since I live near Lake Ontario, my day goes like this. Get up at 3 AM ( Metric time ) and clean the igloo. Get the bob sleigh team ready and hunt some wild pig so I can make back bacon. Drink 10 bottles of Canadian and cook back bacon. Complain about america as I travel to the AMC, MCdonalds, Walmart, Gap (________, Place chain store here).
Release that I have not had my timbit fill for the day and spend the rest of the day at a coffee shop eating timbits and drinking coffee. Then it is back to the igloo.

All in all it is a nice day.

CaptSpoogy · #54 July 31st, 2001, 03:37 PM

Fogwana - That's cool. My wife is from Washington state too, Whidbey Island in Puget Sound. Except I coverted her to a Canadian and we live in Toronto now...

CaptSpoogy · #55 July 31st, 2001, 03:45 PM

Fogwana - That's cool. My wife is from Washington state too, Whidbey Island in Puget Sound. Except I coverted her to a Canadian and we live in Toronto now...

Also, Toronto is on the same latitude as Southern Oregon/Northern California...

Quikngruvn · #56 July 31st, 2001, 07:53 PM

Puke: nope, I just decided to break into song and rip off the Kinks ("Lola") or Weird Al ("Yoda"), depending on your generation. I think everyone already knows you can't type.

Tesco: What, no hockey games on a perma-frozen lake? And what about polar bear hunting? And you call yourself a Canadian....

Quikngruvn

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Puke · #57 July 31st, 2001, 08:56 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Quikngruvn:
Puke: nope, I just decided to break into song and rip off the Kinks ("Lola") or Weird Al ("Yoda"), depending on your generation. I think everyone already knows you can't type.

ah, the timing of it was so close to my punctuating remark about "soada." You should have taken credit for it anyhow, it was clever.

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AJC · #58 August 1st, 2001, 03:31 AM

PAUL SHELL (mayor of seattle)one of the damn fools in the Seattle government who brought the ever popular, world renown, garuanteed to trash your city- WTO to seattle and then turned around a few months later while everyone still loved him so.. (not).. and bought a tree for the new seattle library, at a whim, for 35,000$....

Instar · #59 August 1st, 2001, 06:30 AM

"Metric time "
GYAAAAAAAH!
Man it drove me NUTS just looking at a danged Metric clock, some loony person had one and I was so just wacky about it
Im all for metric measures and stuff (12 inches to a foot and all that crap is crap) but METRIC TIME????? What the???
Confusing to me, 20 hour days? 10 hour days? eh?

Atrocities · #60 August 1st, 2001, 06:48 AM

Tic toc, tic toc, tic toc.... The mouse ran up the clock..

Ever get that feeling the minutes become hours and hours days when your at work, and want to get home?

I have a kitten, its name is Gizmo. He is an orange tabby, and loves to lay upon my Subwhoofer when I am listening to MP3's. The other day, we got another orange tabby, this one for my girl friend. Now we have two kittens. Have you ever tried to sleep a peaceful night with TWO kittens? Dosen't happen.

Ok, those are two of mindless rants for today. More are sure to follow.

[This message has been edited by Atrocities (edited 01 August 2001).]