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Badger
Skeptic Friend
Canada
257 Posts |
 Posted - 01/01/2002 : 10:16:03
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Hi, guys!
I've been lurking here for a few months, and decided to come out from the shadows.
You've got a great place going here! I hope I can keep up to you all.
Happy New Year, all!
Ed
Just because we're hypnotized, that don't mean we can't dance. - Tonio K.
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Snake
SFN Addict
USA
2511 Posts |
Posted - 01/01/2002 : 10:40:00 [Permalink]
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You've got a great place going here! I hope I can keep up to you all.
Happy New Year, all!
Ed
Hi Ed,
Don't worry, it's all just opinions and everyone is entitled to one. Canadians are very nice and smart people. Beautiful country up there!
 nlm
Rap Crap is to music what Paint by Numbers is to art. |
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
5310 Posts |
Posted - 01/01/2002 : 11:51:18 [Permalink]
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Hi. Welcome. Remember to have fun here. Who is Tonio K.?
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Hi, guys!
I've been lurking here for a few months, and decided to come out from the shadows.
You've got a great place going here! I hope I can keep up to you all.
Happy New Year, all!
Ed
Just because we're hypnotized, that don't mean we can't dance. - Tonio K.
Not one human life should be expended in this reckless violence called a "war against terrorism." - Howard Zinn |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 01/01/2002 : 15:12:57 [Permalink]
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Howdy Ed,
The more the merrier. Great to see ya here!
Regards,
f
The more I learn about people, the better I like rattlesnakes. |
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rickm
Skeptic Friend
Canada
109 Posts |
Posted - 01/01/2002 : 17:20:35 [Permalink]
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Hi Badger
Nice to have another Canuck join. I am at the other end of the Country, one hour away from our nation's capital.
"Let me off the plane,I am no missionary, I don't even believe in Jebus..... Oh Jebus please help me." Homer J. Simpson
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Snake
SFN Addict
USA
2511 Posts |
Posted - 01/01/2002 : 18:11:17 [Permalink]
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Hi Badger
Nice to have another Canuck join. I am at the other end of the Country, one hour away from our nation's capital.
Oh, so I just looked at your profile because Rick mentioned where you are...I just sent a card to an on line friend in Alberta. I've never met her in person but we know each other from a pet chat room. She's always telling me how she hates the cold there.
And hey! I'm kind of 1/2 Canadian....my mother was born there. So THERE!!!
Rap Crap is to music what Paint by Numbers is to art. |
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Espritch
Skeptic Friend
USA
284 Posts |
Posted - 01/01/2002 : 19:30:15 [Permalink]
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Canadians are very nice and smart people.
I guess Canadians are nice enough, but I have a hard time refering to anyone who willingly chooses to live that close to the artic circle as smart. Ok, I admit that being a North Carolina native, I may be a bit biased. We get half an inch of snow on the ground and the whole state grinds to a halt while we stand around perplexed thinking, "What the heck is this? Does God think we're Canadians or something?" 
Anyway, welcome to the board.
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rickm
Skeptic Friend
Canada
109 Posts |
Posted - 01/01/2002 : 20:25:26 [Permalink]
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I guess Canadians are nice enough, but I have a hard time refering to anyone who willingly chooses to live that close to the artic circle as smart. Ok, I admit that being a North Carolina native, I may be a bit biased. We get half an inch of snow on the ground and the whole state grinds to a halt while we stand around perplexed thinking, "What the heck is this? Does God think we're Canadians or something?"
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It was not by choice, but by design.
I find it funny how some Americans have no idea about Canada. On a chat board one day I had a girl in Kentucky convinced I lived in an igloo.
There is a Canadian production on t.v. called This Hour Has Twenty Two Minutes, they have a feature on it called We Asked Americans, I have laughed my ass off watching this. In one episode they interviewed people at, I believe Harvard, I may be wrong though, they said that because of global warming Canada had to build a dome over the parliament buildings as they were made of ice. This dome was erected to prevent them from melting. The people would then on camera congratulate Canada on building their new dome.
Canadians however are not that bright either, I once asked a co worker how many provinces there were in Canada and he responded I'm not sure if it's twenty or twenty two. I laughed there are only six.
Canadians are more Americanized Due to television and movies, and the major fact that U.S. has, if not the largest influence in world affairs, they are certainly one of the main ones.
Yes I am aware that Canada has ten provinces. And three territories, despite the fact that Quebec may eventually decide to seperate. (Highly unlikely)
No disrespect meant EH!
"Let me off the plane,I am no missionary, I don't even believe in Jebus..... Oh Jebus please help me." Homer J. Simpson
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NubiWan
Skeptic Friend
USA
424 Posts |
Posted - 01/01/2002 : 20:27:37 [Permalink]
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Welcome aboard, Badger. Being a 'Canuck' might well pose a problem for yas in the "I hope I can keep up to you all," area at that. (",..you all." Must be from southern Canada?!?) Me advice is a couple of straight shots, should do the trick, or a mild concussion might do, if yer a non-partaker...
"If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities." -Voltaire
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Trish
SFN Addict
USA
2102 Posts |
Posted - 01/01/2002 : 23:08:10 [Permalink]
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Well, having worked with and for Canadians...they're actually not a bad lot of people.  Unfortunately, my company never did as promised and sent me to Canada for a couple weeks. Would have liked to go exploring on the expense account.
Welcome Badger.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. -Mark Twain |
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ssivakami
New Member
India
13 Posts |
Posted - 01/01/2002 : 23:20:51 [Permalink]
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Hi, guys!
I've been lurking here for a few months, and decided to come out from the shadows.
You've got a great place going here! I hope I can keep up to you all.
Happy New Year, all!
Ed
Welcome aboard Ed (I'm new here myself!).
A very Happy New Year to all of you as well !
- Sivakami.
We are a scientific civilization. That means a civilization in which knowledge and its integrity are crucial.
Science is only a latin word for knowledge .... knowledge is our destiny.
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Zandermann
Skeptic Friend
USA
431 Posts |
Posted - 01/01/2002 : 23:23:35 [Permalink]
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| welcome to the funhouse, Badger......looking forward to insightful posts...anything you can tell us about life in Alberta would be great. |
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PhDreamer
SFN Regular
USA
925 Posts |
Posted - 01/02/2002 : 13:48:00 [Permalink]
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It took me a while, but...
Badgers? We don't need no stinkin' badgers!
Welcome!
Adventure? Excitement? A Jedi craves not these things. - Silent Bob |
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Donnie B.
Skeptic Friend
417 Posts |
Posted - 01/02/2002 : 17:09:22 [Permalink]
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Badgers? We don't need no stinkin' badgers!
Oh, lord... Where's the emoticon for a long, loud groan?
By the way, the reference above is not accurate... just as Bogart never actually said "Play it again, Sam".
To wit:
"Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!"
(I have an audio clip to prove it!)
-- Donnie B.
Oops! Almost forgot -- welcome, Badges... I mean, Badger!
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Garrette
SFN Regular
USA
562 Posts |
Posted - 01/03/2002 : 04:42:36 [Permalink]
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Badgers? We don't need no stinkin' badgers!
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Oh, lord... Where's the emoticon for a long, loud groan?
By the way, the reference above is not accurate... just as Bogart never actually said "Play it again, Sam".
To wit:
"Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!"
(I have an audio clip to prove it!)
-- Donnie B.
Philistine. It is not the truth about which we care, but an amenable version of it.
How the heck are we supposed to remember that long quotation when in our cups?
Oh, yeah: Welcome, Badger.
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Donnie B.
Skeptic Friend
417 Posts |
Posted - 01/03/2002 : 08:51:33 [Permalink]
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Philistine. It is not the truth about which we care, but an amenable version of it.
I deny it. No shepherd boy has ever slung a stone at me!
I'm surprised you didn't use the obvious out: that you were quoting not the original line in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, but the misquote in Blazing Saddles.
-- Donnie B.
Brian: "No, no! You have to think for yourselves!" Crowd: "Yes! We have to think for ourselves!" |
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